Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
ADOLPH SEGAL,
INSANE, TO BE
PUT IN ASYLUM
Commitment Issued and
Former Financier Will Be
Taken to Norristown To-
morrow.
Meteoric Career Ended by Men,
tai Breakdown Which Began
Six Years Ago and Precipi-
tated His Downfall.

tdLeQ tbs DOWnIdI'.
Adolph Segal has been pronounced in
zane by two physicians The man whose
operations brought about the failure o
the Real Estate Trust Company dozer
years ago. and the suicide of its presl'
dent. Frank X. Nipple, and indictment
against the Sugar Trust will be taken tt
the State Hospital for the Insane at Nor
ristown tomorrow morning.
Commitment papers have been Issued
by Magistrate Joseph Call at his office
1l2S West Girard avenue.
The final details of the action that will
place Adolph Segal away from the world
forever are being arranged this after
noon by Berl Segal, only son of the
former financior. und now employed at the
Hotel Majestic. which his father built and
once owned.
Eerl Segal and Dr. William II. Bum,
B2s North I'D street. who has been the
Segal family physician for 70 years, are
responsible for Adolph Segal's commit
nlent.
The reason given for sending the man
to the Norristown asylum is that the
finances of the Segal family are at too
low an ebb to permit hls being cared
FOR at q private sanatorium.
Within two blocks Of the hotel in
" hich he Installed $4,000 piano and
spent 100000 for elaborate decorations,
.Adolph Segal is being elected from the
No
of keeping him there is too great. Even
Kirkbride is beyond the means OF the
Segal family.
This was the statement of Dr. William
H. Bunu. who is intimately acquainted
with the Segal's family affairs Segal
was adjUdged a bankrupt last July.
ECONOMY NECESSARY.
"lr i impossible to keep him at St.
Joseph's any longer" said Doctor Bum.
'The expenses there since July. when Mr..
segal grew critically Ill, have been a
severe drain ON the resources Of his
wife and son, and something had to be
done. a place had to be found where he
could be cared for al less expense.
I'VE found that kirkbvdes was out Of
thc question. \ room there would have
been $50 a week, and that was beyond
The means at our command
But at Norristowu Mr.. Segal will have
The best attention and comfortable quar-
tars for e. a week. Vt first he will he
placed In a general ward while special
lists examine him When they have de-
NergnMed the state Of his mind he Will
be placed in a pleasant room with only
one other occupant. and the charge viii.
be so reasonable that there will be 10
difficulty meeting it.
r-,GIrF 10 LEAVE HOSPITAL
Doctor Bum told how Segal was kept
ouIasccnt while his son was arranging 10
have him taken from st. Josephs Hos
ptal To Norristown.
Mr.. Segal asked us what we wanted
the papers for" said Or. Bum. "Hs
had heard us discussing them, and finally
we told them that We wer" working for
his release from st. Josephs ana that
the papers were the ones necessary be-
fore we could get him out, lie took to
4he idea Immediately and asked frequent
ly how We were getting along with the
papers
''Ouly the other day. when he was par
ticularly anxious to revisit the Ma aiastic
nnd get out in the country he compile ined
because we were too slow. Tll 90 crazy
If YOU don't get those papers soon and
rake me out Of here he declared.
Doctor Bum certified 70 Segals insan-
itv at Magistrate Calls office on Tuesday
afternoon Or. Pierre y. Bergeron, of the
hospital staff. made a similar certfcat.ou
10 the same effect late yesterday after
Mr. segd will be taken from st..
Josephs 10 %orristpwU In AN automobile
owned by a friend Of Berl SegaI, The
rtart will be made as early az possible,
and Doctor RuHn hopes to reach Norris
town before noon. Doctor Bum, who has
long been friend Of the ruined fuauCier.
and BeTl S-gal. the son, VIII make the
trip 70 NOTristowH.
Segal thinks lie "a being taken for a
Jlae into the country, and that he will 60
a. a sanitGrium for a few weeks.
PATHETIC END Of CAREER.
The end Of Adolph segaHs meteoric
career has been as sudden as its start.
III health has crept upon him step by
Lreu with his financial ruin. His col
lapse. financially and mentally. has been
as rapid as his rise. AdOlph SeFai. tile
souug soap boiler. became AdOlph Segal.
the millionaire, the daring financier who
startled the Industrial world with his
exploits Now at the age Of 81 years,
when white is showing in his oue-time
glossy black hair and his fortune and
financial wiZardry are gone, even his
mind has failed him.
The law requires that one week before
the gOmml tment oil "a patent 10 the state
Hospital for the Insane two Bysielans
who have been practiclng five years in
tie state shall certify 10 insanity, and
this formalty has been complied with.
Doctor Bergeron said today that Mr..
Segal never will recover
MENTALLY UNSOUND FOR G YEARS
segaI has been mentally unbalanced
for the last six years in the opinion OF
Doctor Bergerun. and the physician says
he believes the financial collapse of the
man was due 20 this condition, He think,
the symptoms of an unbalanced miEJ
Ayere not sufficiently pronounced q
grouse the suspicious OF his family
Adolph Sagal always verged on the er
ratio, and when he did what would b.
called foolhardy in another man It wa!
looked upon only as another evidence o
lis financial genius-if ne won.
The croWning blow 10 Segal came las
Jlly when he was thrown into bank
yuptey and lost the Majestic Hotel. BE
fore that he had suffered innumerable re
verses and had starak2 hnanelers b,
some swift. unthoughfS COUP that mad
lin rich again. B1tsthe loss Of ia