New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-23
INSA NIFTY OF AN ACIOR.
EDWARD ARNoTTs STRANGE CONDUCT


Drc1 AIRING THAT He Is PURSUED BY BLAChM
Iobn Stevens the manager, author anu aott 1911
:; lie office over the Windsor Theatre yesEHT ,,
WITH huge revolver loaded IN every vi the room
his side As a TRIBUNE reporter enIei linn with the
VI Stevens started up and covered nm ~, onIv
MI baTreI of the bull dog" Oh its onaS
%onw he calculated frantcally wpnns and he sank
thought it was that internal Arnott, any Mt Ste
;nto his chair again Haven't you heard %l nv life
VEINS continued, that ran narrow o, all know
Iaet Tuesday night Well. I'll tell you az Innyn
An actor named Ned ATnOtt whom Ia rU,oeils AGO
for some years, came to me about umU knew |
and begged me TO give HIM III and so had to re-
he was given to drinking TO excess anu 81 however
Fnee him He begged and prayed SO hliu, ,'isc IN
flat gave him chance ON ms soiein ,yhen he
felt land On saturday last when handed MN f
his part | gave him at the SAINT tii har.ai and
500 On Tuesday he apPea[e oha az lie told me
ronfdentialy that he had been pun 81; u fbeotrc
Lackmailers and that there were tWo III 'm bisnered
/ NJ that moment, Don't you near lHclii' ,dijdon
be There they 90, hiss hiss, Mss, JueU W ~ once
me, Then | knew that he was crazy, ',du far
though without telling him. maze iu L n Tuesday
some one else to play the part. Ncl oh of fhe
| WAS i'm my room asleep during me cary P - comm0-
| evening. About eleven o'clock heiu u,' - a nor
ron II appeared that Arnott had been loohiS MI Ia
mo nj that evening and was found Ill MS toV am
loaded revolver uttering thfe3S "s"laI le the dan
not a timd man and at first did not leLo f e feel
| Ger | had escaped; but now must Co di 90 lo |
that the man should not have been ITO link 0f my
do not mind much about myself p ~. f her man
thnotrp and my four companies beTe1J ol it "a
ager" and Mr. Stevens seemed moNeo "i''''
FrG,n Theodore Schmager the clerk OF Hartiin
Hotel it was learned that AInott' 4lVDl NV ,.yera1
for Mr. Stevens and sending up 10 III nj LIotted ont
fines registered himself but carefully plot'o" ~
ir If the room nut opposite his name say
iur that he was being blacklnaued anu u,', lie
his prosecutors to know where ms room m''' Ono
r 1 ~ c. =, link and then went to his ROOM OiIo
of fine servants heard him shouting out " o oJ "t
dow and told the clerk, who went up Min, ont
. V time Arnott wished to be called INC cifS
saw loaded revolver lying on the taDle "iu and
: q pI L,s ra,voIycr away This the last seen
of him i'm that neighbOrhOod though OH w L,,,d
no unnt 81 MESSENGER down for an apocryphal ou'I
Az haf-past eleven on Tucsdaynlgnt' OF Az
an Lour after the trouble at Hartman sd !"
: manager of the Union Square Theatre, was
!, | outside the Morton House SmoKIhg' 'l,,,,,,
" Vr"ntt rushed mn TO him and poured out Noiuhl,
Z of random talk. lie was quiet ana selI-co'tt ,e
first aud Mr. Collier suspected Ill., f,il ,r, q,
i reason or other" said ArnOtt ile IT'S iao ON,
o me and am afraid they will XII me DeloIo ,1,,5
They are set by Il man nilheu N,St,'ot 'iisua,
10 whom have treated like brother lh'S Ni WI
n EnryiIIc arcusatiops through the kcy-hoIe oil ny
. door. There may be one or t"o' anu Wv nd
a tgn I'm NOT sure that there are not tl0u ~
J. They've lust succeeded IN running me WIN 1Ii,
Is stevens Gv getting the hotel where nae, ."%,
IL a room and creating Disturbance IA Vim is m,
which they said had threatened JONI VIZ S, 30
oniy friend Won't you 60 down ana sec o'c'''i
and set things straight! ID, III .+ ,;I If fl;
e. Mr. Collier promised to 40 tlls anu sJ t il.
r. visitor Who apart from his delusion seemed 70 y,
a have nationally enough. That was the I'S' nv g.
b. of Arnott and up to last night AihoII aV Nv"
ch oucnted any of his usual hiuhlS AlnoiV = ,rtI
on known in tie profession. An Lng'lman 10y ntll
rs and according to his own statement once al o'c,
no i'm the Euglisn army inc came 20 inns cou4i'IN 81
~ anal ,-ears 70 As n member OF Walldct3 c0mpah
oi and made his first success IN The snauSnlHu
la lc aftoTward joined the Union SinatI o0ni Ii,,
he and left there to become lnthUoI ol h"t" H.
toms company Some years ago he married = y. T.
No. Isle but ms married life was unhappy H,liS :"
in ranse of his habits OF dissipation ana re" VIZ
m AGO his wife applied for Il divorce. lie mas p''
not drinking hard lately and MS acquantanc'2 y,
he his attempt at sudden relornaii3
he his Weakened brain. The Walter burton he le.std'
ew 10 in his conversation with Mt Conner j. Il MN
lie actor at present in Ncw-York who denies having
nt s"v ,yay ANNOYED or followed the unfortunate ma