Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-20

fish Actor to Secure Q LivinS-Singing on the Street Disguised as an Old Man. NEW YORK, July 19.-Last evening Officer
 Thompson arrested an apparently old man
 who was singing in Madison Square Park
 and attracted large crowd. He soon dis
 covered that the singer was in reality a
 young man wearing false white hair and
 beard. When the large crowd which
 had been listening to the singer saw
 that he had fooled them, and that
 he was 8 strong and healthy looking Eng
 ishman, their rage knew no bounds. Cries
 of ''Hang him." Mob him! Tar and Feather
 Him! were heard on every side and were it
 not for the timely arrival of another police
 man serious trouble might have occurred
 The two officers hurried the singer off to the station house. He was arraigned
 in the Police Court this morning and told the
 following story: My name is Henry M
 Fairweather. I am an Englishman and for
 sixteen years was an overseer in the London
 postoffice. left the postoffice few years
 ago on account of i'll health I am an actor
 and elocutionist by profession. I have
 played in all the best theatres in London as
 Dick Deadeye, as the captain and admiral
 in Pinafore. I have often played in the
 Olympic Theatre in London. During the last
 eight years I have been choirmaster in St.
 Paul's Cathedral in London. I was also in
 the piano business in Thurlow Place, Lon
 don. I recently failed in business and
 the choir of St. Paul's presented me with
 purse of e13 with which to come
 to the United States, where I hoped to
 make some engagements at good theaters.
 left my wife and four children in London to
 settle up my affairs, and started for Amer
 ica in the steerage of the Sardinia. On June
 3Oth I landed at Quebec, after having en-
 dured all the discomforts of a steerage pass
 age in crowded steamer. I then went to
 Montreal, and, accompanied by MT. Sparrow,
 manager of the Theater Royal in that city,
 my pocket just $1O and about twenty
 letters of recommendation to prominent
 men in this city. I put up at the Astor
 Place Hotel and started out to form acquain-
 ances in the metropolis. I met with disap- pointment on every hand, and finally called
 nothing for me, but sent me to St. Georges society. This was my last hope, but there too I was doomed to disappointment. The so- clety would not assist me. This was yester-
 day afternoon. I had been living at restau- rants for fifteen cents per day for two weeks
 and then was penniless. was too proud to sing on the streets without 8 disguise. could never ask for penny, but thought if I disguised myself to represent an aged man and then sang some nice songs upon the street some person might drop few pen nies in my hat. went to my room in the Astor Place Hotel, and removing my clothing I donned the old garments you now see upon my person. then made tip my face to look like an old man and tied on the beard and wig which you now see before you in the hands of the officer. I ventured out and soon found my way to Madison Square Park. I began to sing and made my voice tremble as much as possible. I asked no one for penny, but accepted with thanks the few pennies which were dropped into my hat. I
 had not sung long when the officer arrested me. I would not have done this had not been starving.
 The prisoner told this story with tears and apparently much affected. He said he
 had eaten nothing since yesterday morning and then only a crust Officer Hugh McAvoy went to the hotel and soon returned with
 steak, coffee and other provisions, which the prisoner ate eagerly. Justice Bixby sen | fenced Fairweather to Blackwelrs Island for six months. When he heard the sentence he broke down and sobbed bitterly.
 Fatally Shot by Woman.
 NEW YORK, July 19-At the close of the performance at Harry Miners theatre on the Bowery to night woman named Elizabeth Coleman, who lives at 92 Catharine street, entered the vestibule and deliberately shot l the assistant treasurer of the company, George w. Cole, in the abdomen, .inficting 8 prob- ! ably fatal wound. The woman then walked
 to the Eldridge street police station and gave 1 herself up. The wounded man was taken to
 the hospital, but refused to give any reason | for the deed. The woman also refused to
 make any statement regarding the shooting. l Cheap Rates to Chicago.
 | NEW YORK, July 19.-The cutting of rail
 road passenger rates still continues Tick
 cts were sold to Chicago to-day for $s. 50 and
 the scalpers say they will come down still fur | therif the New York Central & Hudson River
 railroad and Pennsylvania railroad reduce l their rates another cent