The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-03
FROM CHICAGO.
The Details OF the Booth Assault
Some Of the Stevens Murder
Case Revelations, Etc.
CHICAGO. April 2sth. 1s79,

fore us during the week Just gone, such
a sitting and intensely interesting pam.
Drama, that we find difficulty to fill the
hour with anything like calm rejection.
Our city is disturbed; a great many
things have happened to sadden many
Of its inhabitants, and what concerns
many, will generally influence the
mass.
The last and perhaps most important
occurrence was the dastardly attempt
to assassiuate the greatest tragedian of
his day. The telegraph and associated
press have no doubt furnished informa-
tion Of this and the particulars, but a
few words seem in place in this come
tion as setting forth, the views of an
eye witness.
The play was Richard H., which
even the eminent actor cannot make
popular, but which this would-be mur-
derer seems to have fixed upon as the
one which would place him in the best
light for the murderous attempt.
Edwin Booth was sitting alone on
the stage while a calcium light from a
window shone upon him and made a
fair mark.
This was the scene: He was in prison
as the weak and unhappy king, sitting
at a table with his head resting on his
hands, and looking around on his au-
dience and was just uttering the
words:
And [ am about to compare my
dungeon to the world"
When a shot from the first balcony
was heard. Those who heard 1t looked
around, and a man was seen re-loading
a pistol which before time enough
elapsed TO prevent him was again lev
elled and discharged and in the direc-
tion of Booth.
A great cry was at once raised and
the actor stepping forward pointed out
the person who did the firing and he
was Immediately seized and pinioned
and prevented from discharging his
piece a third time which he was at
tempting to do.
Mr.. Booth was perfectly calm and self
possessed and only excused himself
to the audience to go to his wife who
was in the theatre at the time,
and who had tainted. He then return
ed and the play was resumed and I'm
ished.
This is perhaps the most notable
episode which will ever occur in the
the great actors life, and the people,
not only of u city, but of every city
and country where he is known will
rejoice in the possession still of SO emf
nent an actor and a gentleman who has
labored SO hard to promote the first in
terests of his art.
The death of Mr.. Booth would have
been a national calamity, and not n
heart here with perhaps a single ex-
ception) but feels that it is glad no
bloody drama was enacted that would
rob the legitimate stage of its brightest
ornament, and his family of a kind nus
band and father.
The daughter of Mr.. McVicker, our
veteran theater manager, is the wife
Of Edwin Booth, and this circumstance
on account of the attachment our peo-
pie have for the former may make the
rejoicing all the more heartfelt that
her husband did not fall by a crazy as
sassin.
Mark Grey has no doubt by this time
II he is capable of realizing his situa-
ton at all, sees that it is very serious,
and regrets his luckless endeavors.
Mr.. Booth, with rare generosity, has
visited the prisoner ip person, and look
ing upon him with confederation,
offered to do him any kindness that
is in his power.
The celebrated Stevens trial which is
creating such a great amount of sensa-
ton both at home and abroad is at last
ended and the final appeal has been
made in behalf of the wretched murder
er. In tn e annals of all time no more
CHASTITY details have been unrolled than
characterized this trial, and when the
sentenced Is finally passed upon the
child-wife murderer, and the public
mind has had time to reflect upon the
crimson revelations that have stood
revealed against some of the principal
actors, there will be a moral lesson
given which will show that all these
hideous details have not been brought
forth in vain.
o, society is corrupt morals are per-
verified! Wolves have been walking our
streets openly with humble meins and
sleeps eyes, but hereafter a few of
them at least stand labelled, and virtue
will not pass them by without a shud-
der.
Only a few of the prurient ones have
been discovered during this dreadful
trial and rooted out from refined soil,
but these few have sufficed tt impress a
great truth upon our thinking men and
thinking women, and they may bs tile
means of averting in the future a great
portion of the social evil which now ia
fects society.
This interesting drama ends with
the prisoner being sentenced to four
teen years in the p~enitentiary, and the
attempt of the wretched mother of the
murdered woman to shoot the degraded
william whose escape from the gallows