A CRAZY BRIDEGROOM.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 50, 17 May 1884, Page 5

A CRAZY BRIDEGROOM.

Nkw York, March 25.— A low whistle with a peculiar twist in its last note was heard by officer Monagan, as he leaned against a lamp-post on the corner of First Avonue and Seventeenth-street, at half-past three o'clock yesterday morning. The officer had his coat buttoned up to his chin to protect himself against the cold wind that was blowing the clouds across the sky. " That's the roundsman. He'll be here in a minute," said the officer to a friend by his side. Instead of the roundsman a young man sauntered up to the officer, whistling as lie advanced. The stranger was of a light, delicate cast of countenance, with a blonde mustache He was fashionably attired in a black cutaway coat, with a bunch of roses at the top buttonhole. He wore a coloured silk cravat, Derby hat, and his striped trousers turned up at the bottom over his flowered carpet slippers. " You had better go home, young man," said the officer. "It's too late for you to be out." "I want to go homo," was the reply, " and I want you to get me a hack and take me home. I live at No. 324, Ea&t Twenty-fourth-street." "Where have you boen?" the officer asked, and the young man said : " I was married at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, and just before going to bed I went down to get a glass of beer. I intend to start for Germany with my wife to morrow, and so I thought I had better put my valuables away. At the corner of Fourteenth-street I met an officer, and gave him 500dols. in gold, a gold watch, my chain, and all the jewellery I possessed." The officer concluded that the styling stranger was insane, and took him to the precinct police station-house. Sergeant Fanning was at the desk, and this officer asked the young man his name and trade. " I am Dr. Alexander Viper," ho replied, " and live at No. 324, East Twenty-fourth-street. lam one of the best physicians in the country, and have all the firemen and police sergeants of the city under my control." Sergeant Fanning sent officer Jennings to the address given, and sent the doctor to a back room. At four o'clock in the morning officer .Jennings pounded on fhe lloor of the protty brick front house on Twcnty-fourtfi-strcot. A window was raised and a female voice asked the officer's business. " Aro you Dr. Piper's wife," asked the officer. No answer was given, but a few minutes ater a young woman carrying a lamp in her hand came to the door in her nightgown. The woman was a brunette with perfect features, which were then overcast by a look of anxiety. She was asked if she was Dr. Piper's wife. "Yes," she answered, "and tell me where he is. He left me but a short while ago and has not returned." The officer told tho woman to dress, and she must go with him to the station-house, and after a short interval she re-appeared, dressed in a Henrietta cloak, a dark dress, and a brown hat with nodding plumes. Before going out, she called tho officer and the reporter into tho parlour and told her story. The floor was littered with roses and greens, and the walls wero decorated with flowers. "My name was Amelia Detrich. We were married hero in this room," she said, "at four o'clock on Sunday aftornoon. I had known Dr. Piper a long while, and he was to take me to Germany. All through the afternoon our friends called to see us, and remained until late in the night. When we went to our room he took his boots off and put on slippers. Then -he told me to retire, as he wished to get a glass of beer before going to bed. He went out, and has not returned. Dr. Piper is well off, and has very wealthy relations in Germany. While here he was perfectly sane, and is, I am suro, now." The lady and officer went to the station. Dr. Piper saw her enter the station from the inner room. He rushed towards her and flung his arms around her neok, crying "Mella! Mella !" She wept on his shoulder when she saw that her husband had really lost his reason, and begged the sergeant to let her take him. The officer said he could not until after a medical examination had been made. The girl fell on her knees, and in accents of bitterest woe prayed the officer in German to let her husband go with her. " I will take him to a private hospital tomorrow," said she, " and he will stay there until he is well." Her husband looked around in a dazed sort of way, and when he understood that he could not go with his wife he also wept. Officer Jennings, who had been on the corner of Fourteenth-street, said that the story the young man told about giving his valuables to an officer should be looked into, especially as he was on the corner of Sixteenth-street, and had seen the young man come up the street. The sergeant questioned Piper closely on this story, but couldn't make him change his tale. The officers were of the opinion that he intended doing as he says he had done, but had given his money to some footpad. When it was time for the young woman to leave, she cried so much that Sergeant Fanning allowed her to stay in the reception-room over night. Justico Patterson, in the morning, remanded Piper for medical attention. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital and put in the insane pavilion.