New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-14
MAID SUES FOR DAMAGES
ACCUSES COMMISSIONER RUBENS'S WIFE
OF PERSECUTION IN HAVANA
SAYS SHE WAS SENT TO AN ASYLUM FOR
EXAMINATION-A DENIAL BY HER
FORMER EMPLOYER.


ExAMINATIoN-A DENIAL BY HER
FORMER EMPLOYER
An action for damages the extent of 100000
will shortly be begun against Horatio S. Rubens.
member of the Commission work upon the
revision of the law codes of Cuba, by Louisa Hoff-
mann who for some time employed in the
pacty of ladys maid by Mrs Rubens. Miss Hoff-
mann has retained Emanuel E. Friend her
counsel, and the story she tells through affdavits
prepared by him is somewhat unusual one. She
asserts that she was imprisoned in Havana and
confined in lunatic asylum at the instigation
of Mrs. Rubens for other apparent reason that
personal spite. In her affidavits Miss Hoffman,
states that January s last she was an inmate
of the French Home No. Pol West Twenty-fourth-
St, and that in response a message received
from Mrs Rubens, the Lady Superior of the Home
went TO Mrs. Rubens who engaged Miss Hoff-
man subsequently lady's maid. Miss Hoffman,
says she was promised a good home and good
wages but declares that she had not been in the
employ of Mrs. Rubens for than five six
days before she found she could not please her
mistress Withstand her temper" Thereupon
Miss Hoffman, relnquished her place, but
turned the next day upon Mrs. Rubens promising
that matters in the future should be
gull.
Proceeding With her statement. the woman
scribes accompanying Mrs. Rubens to Havana,
where apartments in the Hotel Gngleterre were
gagged. They arrived in Cuba February 10. but
Miss Hoffman, was again compelled to give her
mistress notice of her intention to leave her There
upon Mr.. Rubens promised to assist her back to
New-York and to inform her of the sailing of the
first steamer. II assisted to dress Mrs Rubens
that morning, usual Miss Hoffman, relates
land when l into her she kissed
and said she delighted to me. l also
dressed her at o'clock in the evening, but she
found fault with me- and laid down the brush
and comb and bed" Next morning the
callboy of the hotel informed her that a friend
whom she knew in Havana was sick and wished to
see her. Entering unsuspectngly carriage which
waiting for her at the door of the hotel Miss
Hoffman, states that she driven to police
station, where she was detained several hours in a
CELL and was afterward taken to insane asylum.
where she was told she would have to be examined
as TO her sanity After being confined for
days among the insane inmates she says she
liberated because IT decided by the doctors
that there was nothing wrong with her mentally.
She adds that when she sought out Mr. Rubens he
gave $50 and first class passage ticket New
York.
SHE CALLS 1T PERSECUTION.
Miss Hoffman, attributes her experiences to re-
vengefu persecution on the part of Mrs Rubens
for leaving her service. and intends to for
100000 damages. Accompanying Miss Hoffmann's
statement is the following letter. which she says
she received from Major Orlando Quicker. medical
inspector of the Department of Charities and Hos
pitfalls, Havana, after her release:
am very sorry that a mistake or a grievons
wrong has been done you. cannot Gneersta n
tent as there are no indications whatever OF In
sanity in your case The ambulance which goes
the German Consul, or to both places If you so
desire All that you viii have to do Is to dlreGt
only. 1t will afford me great pleasure to give you
1t is true your being at the hospital was no fault
of the hospital nor Of the management of the
had been directed, and place you as you were when
saw you l am at my office vf from ms to IL each
Havana, Feb. 49, 1900
MRS RUBENs MAKES A DENIAL
Mrs Rubens is staying at the Langham Hotel
this city When she was there last evening
by a Tribune reporter she denied emphatically that
either she her husband had been in any way
sponsible for the examination which had been made
as TO the insanity OF Miss Hoffman,. She was in
my service but a very short time" Mrs. Rubens
said land It is untrue that l ever exhibited any
hastiness toward her. She was, however, some
what eccentric in her ways, and the trouble she
had in Havana she brought entirely upon herself.
AS OF fact, 1t the people who
duct the Hotel Ingleterre who had her conveyed to
the hospital. They did this in consequence of the
womans queer actions about the hotel They
hat she had voiuntsriiy left my service they sent
her TO be examined BY physicians | had no knowi-
night before it ali occurred / asked her TO brush
ha In Ssr an but edd R NO s she
threw down the brushes in temper and left my
against me absolutely untrue. as can easily
prove. Why, when l was Informed that she had
secure her release at all hazards. This he did and
ne also made all the arrangements for her to re
Mrs; Rubens showed the reporter legally at
in for the OF $40, in addition to her months
Isases Mr. Mr. and Mrs RUbens from all Claims she
might have on them land of all causes of action
whatever"
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