The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-18
| SHOWER OF BREAKFASTS
DISHES AND Ar. DOWN a HOTEL
MAVHATTAN AIRSHRFT.

Mr. Thomas. Whs ordered One and Tsseu
Psrgsa AND Ordered AnSther. Dada't
Need EIiheP ISslley1e 06serNlAg ssIHa
Hes 50 Ea@aa=Amaa Rre@ Parts,
Albert n. Thomas was removed from
his room In the Hotel Manhattan To the
psychopathic ward Of Bellevue Hospital
last night after he had kept the manage
msnt and half the bellhops In the hotel
on tsnteThOoks for day. A. the hOapital
he aaid that he waa q poet. that he had
only been in the country three weeks
and that he planned 70 90 back 10 Paris
on Tuesday.
Dressed in clothes Of London tailor
ing. Thomas appeared at the dssk % the
Hotel Manhattan at Il:S0 o'clock on Sat
urday night without haggaGe. He paid
for a room on the twelfth floor and went
thither Immediately. Fairy yesterday
morning a telephone call came from
Thomas's room: he wanted cigarettes
in hurry. Hardly had the bellboy taken
the cigarettes Ia his room when he tele-
phOnsd downstairs for more. and there
too he wanted In hurry. Another bell
boy made q speed record from the lobby
TO the twelfth floor.
That messenger was still in tranait
when q phone call came for telegraph
blanks. The blanks went up to the Eng
lishman's room Immediately. Then he
ordered two breakfasts served in his
room. He gave each order by telephone.
and the second order came before the
first had been filed and served. When
the two walters. each with a tray. went
TO Thomas's door the guest opened IL
cautiously and surveyed them for q long
time before admitting them. They saw
that he had the door barricaded with
chairs and a table on the inside.
Hardly had the waitrers turned theiP
backs when a tremendous jangIe Of diahes
sounded from the bottom Of an Airshaft
upon which one Of the windows % the
Englishman's room opened. Manager
Shanks had . white faced waiter run Ia
him to tell him that two breakfasts lay
At the bottom Of the court and that two
silver breakfast sets. which had come
down twelve stories. were twisted and
battered relics. while scrambled eggs and
coffee smeared the cement bottom Of the
AirshAft.
After that the hotel manager vent up
20 interview the eccentric guest. bat he
was not admitted. From a room on the
opposite side OF the airshaft the manager
could see Thomas pacing back and forth
across the carpet gestictlating and smok-
ing. shanks brought Or. Symonds. the
hotel physician. 10 take a look. The
doctor could not persuade Thomas 90
open the door Of his room. so after q long
/ wait a policeman vas notified and he had
an ambulance come from Flower Hos
! piial.
DIR. Hanton. the ambulance surgeon.
sucCe~ded IN getting into Thomas room
/ lie told the man that he would have 60 60
20 the psychopathic ward for observation.
and when Thomas demurred DR. HRnton
said u was a case Of going quietly or In a
straitiackri Then Thomas went
Az the hospital he SAID that he had
been horn In Paris. though his father was
English. aud that Paris was his home
| He gave as the name of a friend in New
| York that u Miss HenneSsey. whose ad-
dress he said wis az Fifth avenue DIR
Fleming. who was in charge Of the psyche
pathic ward last night. said that he he
licved Thomas was suffering from cocaine