Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-10-18
MARY ANDERSON.
What Her Stepfather Says Of Hickey's
Relations with the Young Actress.
Chicago Tribune.l


Chicago Tribune.l
d. Hamilton Griffin is the stepfather
of the young tragedienne, and the re-
porters gave him a pretty lively whirl
yesterday. He is portly in figure, and,
what with the heat of the day and the
lively manner in which he jumped
from one part of the town to the other
in order to evade the limbs of the sun
down organs, by dinner time he was in
tolerably exhausted condition, and
scarcely equal to an interview. The
doctor is a jOvial soul. and, besides, is
reported to be Kentucky gentleman
in everything that the term implies.
When the Tribune man caught him
he was fondlihg something like base
ball club-an instrument which he re-
Gently found very effective, and which
he is said to have adopted in place of
the usual armory carried by the aver
age Kentucky native.
DO you suppose, doctor, said the
writer, delicately opening the CONVEX
sation, and watching the movements
Of the club, do you suppose that
Hickey ever felt tenderly toward your
daughter? Do you suppose he was in
love with herr"
No, sab; no, sab; emphatically mol"
You knew him tolerably well?"
I did"
And travelled with him2"
"Yes, sab; would smoke a cigar
with him, sab; I've gone out in boat
with him, sab; our cruise has been
daily recorded in the Dramatic News,
sab; I've always thought him good
sort of fellah; we've had oysters,
clam bakes togethah, and we've done
the propah capah at Manhattan Beach;
but, by CAD, sab, he never made love
to my daughtah." "
He never told you he was in love
with her, doctor2"
mo, sab; if he had dared, by CAD,
sab, that would have been the end OF
Hickey. He'd have gone up as high
as the Confederacy, sah," and he
! tlourished the club ominously.
Has she any beaux, doctor? 1 sup
pose she has"
"Nevah heard of such a thing
nevah heard of it, sab, said the doc.
tor; shes no time for such demnition
nonsense, she's devoted, body and SOU
and soul and body, to her art-to hel
art, sab; she's welded to the drama
it's live match, so to speak, and she
would listen to soft talk from no one
from no one, sab. "
The writer remarked that Cincinna
ii appeared to be rather a hot plac,
for Hickey. At first it was witt
John p. Smith
" Not Hickey; that was my affair
sab, and I'm only sorry that | didn'
give him more. However, gave Mr.
Smith beautifully ornamented eye
finely frescoed, sab finely frescoed
and I'll tell you this, if you eval
want a soft thing, as the vulgah cal
it, I'd recommend you to John p
Smith, sab. He's the softest snal
I've evan had, and I've been fighting
since | was fifteen, sab"
The doctor was asked if he had re-
ceived any wounds in the encounter
with John P.
A mere scratch, my dear boy. Ht
clawed at my face as a cat would-as q
cat would, sab. I'm only sorry, said
the doctor, regretfully, THAT l hadn't
my coat off, sab, If l had beer
stripped, sab, John p. would have
been material for a sausage factory
sah-for sausage factory, in double
quick time. Everybody knows John
| P. He's filled to the throat with
brag, sah Archie Gordon 49, you
know Archie-well, sab, he once pol
ished him off in quick time"
And the cause"
" The cause was because he insulted
me, sab insulted me while dining in
a restaurant, and | determined to get
satisfaction out Of him-satisfaction,
sab"
DO you know anything of the
woman who was shot?"
Nothing"
"0rof Hickey relations with her2''
Nothing
How did you leave Hickey on
Sunday night-What was his condi
tion?"
Resting easily-resting easily, sab,
and from my professional experience,
should say he would recover-re-
cover, sab, "
The doctor proceeded to give an
account of tho shooting, which ac-
count comedies with that already pub
lished, and he expressed his regret at
the publicity given his daughter
name.