The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-29
OUT OF ASYLUM AND
MARRIED IN week
Authoress Who Once Sued Theodore
Roosevelt, FIudes Brother and
Weds An Architect

New York; Dec. 2S.--Miss Ida
~iaussen. who has been in and out OF
insane asylums, and who last week
was paroIed in the custody of her
orotner, Matthew, who promised to
care Tor her, is being sought this
time on the request Of her latest
guardian 1t would appear from n
complaint made by Matthew to Dis
trict Attorney Perkins today tina: he
mad enough trouble trying to keen his
sister III check and he wanted "a police
man sent out To get her and put her
back in the confines of Middietown
State Hospital. from which institution
he took her on a writ of ha beas
corpus
The brother, Matthew. rushed into
the district attorneys office this after
noon and reported that he had just
heard that his sister had eiuded her
nurse and married a man whose name
was given as Francis L. Sommer. of
Boston.
Matthew was very much excited
when he called on Mr.. Medalie and he
told a disconnected story. but he
thought that the man mentioned as
being the husband of his sister was a
man she had met while an inmate OF
the Middletown institution.
Mr.. Medalie said after consultatio
with two judges that he could do
nothing for Claussen. and he went
away, promising to report anything
that he might learn concerning his
sister to Justice Tompkins, who had
power under the terms of his release
to again commit her.
Later it was learned that a woman
giving the name of Marie Byrnes
Claussen, thirty-f1ve, of 6is West
Fifty third Street. and Francis Albert
Donna. twenty Eight. an architect, OF
1874 Arch Street, Phila delphia. had
been married at noon today by the
Rev. J. E. Price, pastor of the Wash
ington Heights NJ. K. Church. Both
said it was their first marriage in the
certificate presented. Miss Claussen
said she was born in San Francisco.
Donna said that his fathers name was
Frank, and that his mothers family
name was Kerry.
The witnesses to the marriage were
Maurice Haymans. who came with the
bridal party, and Hannah Organ, maid
in the minister's house,
Mr.. Price. speaking of the marriage
tonight. said that It had been ar
ranged the day before and he saw
nothing in the action OF either OF them
that aroused his suspicious. He de-
scrihed Miss Claussen as being tall,
piump woman. Win HghL mar anu
yivacious. She did some talking.
among other things. declaring that
the minister must marry many couples
within a year. When he said that ne
did. she is quoted as saying:
Well. you make a great many per-
sons happy. and we are coming bsck
10 see yon to show you how happy You
have made us.
Miss Claussen has had considera Bile
uotoriety and was sent 10 a Nattea war
asylum for the criminal insane about
a year ago for writing threatening
letter to Charles Strauss, president OF
1.-THE water board. At the time OF her
! hearing II was shown that she had
sued Theodore Roosevelt for large
sum, declaring that he had inter-
fered with her domestic affairs. She
| taxation and claimed friendship TO
some of the crowned head. Of Europe
She was once confined In private
a sylm and after being in Matteawan
about ten months, managed, over the
| protest of the superintendent, TO ne
! transferred to Middletown.
/ Then it was that she began syste-
matte effort 10 be released. Mental
experts declare that she ia suffering
/ from a form of paranoia that is pro-
/ aressive. and that she is menace TO
the community.
| Miss Claussen is the divorced wife
of DR.. William T Honan, who separ-
ated from her many years ago.