IN THE "TOMBS."

Patea Mail, 28 September 1880, Page 3

IN THE "TOMBS."

The 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 he would be able to finish bis season and settle down at Albany, New York, where he has just purchased a home. 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 he might be put iu some place where he could not injure cither 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 June 17, Joe Emmet, clever, rich, but the victim to drink, was sent to the inebriate asylum at Flatbush, New York. His new home in Albany meanwhile stands untenauted, a striking example of the sad effects of an inveterate love for liquor.”