FRITZ IN TROUBLE.
Tho following account of the confinement of J. K. Emmet (Fritz) in an asylum, is given by an American journal: “During his last tour, Joe Emmet has more than once fallen back into his old habits, but has as often straightened up, and it was hoped that ho would be able to finish his season and settle down at Albany, N.Y., where he has just purchased a homo. Unfortunately, his arrival in New York was the signal for the commencement of a debauch, which at last assumed such an alarming aspect that Mrs Emmet was compelled to apply for a warrant for her husband’s arrest, in order that ho might bo put in some place where ho could not injure even himself or others. When arrested poor Joe was in such a dreadful condition that he had to be dosed with bromide of potassium. The proceedings in Court were quietly conducted, Emmet begging with much apprehension and nervousness that he might not be sent to the Tombs. He was told that it would be for his own good to be placed in confinement, and on tho 17th of June, Joe Emmet, clever, rich, but the victim of drink, was sent to the inebriate asylum at Flatbusb, N.Y. His now home in Albany meanwhile stands nntenanted, a striking example of the sad effect of an inveterate love for liquor.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2051, 20 September 1880, Page 3
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231FRITZ IN TROUBLE. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2051, 20 September 1880, Page 3
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