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Declaring that the city falsely notified him that his wife was dead, and saddled him with the expense of a funeral, for a strange woman, Ignacio Valente has filed a bill for $250 against the city.
About six weeks ago Valente quarreled with his wife over the way she cooked macaroni. As a result of the quarrel the wife left home saying she would rather die than return.
When Valente's rage had cooled, he became worried about his wife and began searching for her, reporting her missing to the police.
He gave a careful description and was soon notified that a woman matching that was at the morgue. He identified the clothing of the dead woman as belonging to his wife, but when showed the body, he said it had been changed. The morgue keeper told him that they all change after death.
He had the body brought to his home and in response to an old request by his wife, got out the wedding dress worn by Mrs. Valente, and had the strange woman attired in it.
The funeral was held and Mr. Valente footed the bills.
Notice of the event was published in the papers and the real Mrs. Valente read it and made a quick dash for home. Mr. Valente arrived home and discovered the real Mrs. Valente rummaging about for her wedding dress.
" What has become of it ? " She demanded
" Why, I buried you in it 3 days ago," a surprised Valente replied.
They made peace after he promised to buy her a new wedding dress just like the old one.
Now he demands the city pay him $100 for the funeral which he spent for the wrong woman, $40 for wages lost through grief and $110 for the bridal costume he had placed on the corpse.
Nicholas Friedberg, a peddler, living at No. 111 North Nineteenth street, is a patient in the observation ward of the City Hospital, suffering from a peculiar delusion.
He believes that he is Wilkes Booth and that everybody wearing a beard whom he sees is President Lincoln.
The people with whom he lives say that for more than a week this delusion has had possession of him. He would rant around the house, winding up the pantomime by rushing into the street and attempting to stab the first person he met with a piece of gas pipe.
Several of the neighbors resented the stabbing and complained to the police. Yesterday he was taken to the hospital by his friends.
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