Evening journal., 1893-09-13
ATTACKED BY A SERVANT
eERTlE SELENE, AN ACTRESS,
POUNDED BY A coLORED VlRAGO.

She Was Late for Breakfast and Also In
Arrears and Amelia Refused TO serve
Her-Exodus From Mrs. CRAFTS Board
ing House Likely.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-Their is
serious trouble in the imposing four
story brown stone house No. 2O2 West
Thirty eig hth street, where Mrs. Della
Graft boards and lodges dozen OF more
soubrettes. ingenues, heavy leads and
emotiOnals Of the forces of the Casino,
the Broadway and half the other theatres
in the city.
If reports are true Mrs. Crafts actress
boarders are preparing for grand
exc dus, all on account Of thrilling cpl
sode at the breakfast table Sunday
morning, whsn Miss Gertie selene. one
of the shining lights Of last seasons
Country Circus" company, was kicked
ana clawed into insensibility by Amelia
| Radclih. 8 colored servant.
What makes Miss Selene's cause
common one is the belief that Mrs.
Graf sanctioned the action Of her mus
cular servant. Miss Selene being SO
'shy" on three months board bill and
having the temerity to demand late
breakfast.
Miss Selene should have paid her
board last Saturday, but after drawing
money for that purpose from the Ger
man Savings Bank she visited friends in
Jersey City, returning early Sunday
morning Breakfast was over when she
entered the diningroom and asked the
servant, Amelia, for "just a cold bite
Amelia, who is six feet one inch in
heighth and is Mrs. Crafts right bower in
collecting bills and eiecting delinouents.
refused to serve the hungry young
woman.
You are shy on your board bill. 3"
she said, land you can't feed after
hours in this house. No giddy gushing
works here-you hear me, growled
Amelia, at the same time Jerking the
chair from under the astonished actress.
"lnsolentr gasped Miss Selene.
why, you wretched black creature,
you should be sent back to the cotton
fields ant" -
Amelia waited to hear no more.
Locking the dining room door she
pounced upon the terrified soubrette
Miss Selene fell under a terrible right
hand punch on the ear which was fol
lowed by a shower of kicks from
Amelia's ample feet encased in heavy
Shoes
The unfortunate actress yelled muir
der, and her fellow boarders rushed to
the rescue They made an attack uDon
the locked doos, and finally Amelia had
to abandon the assault. Among those
who assisted in caring for the badly
damaged soubrette were Miss Emily
Stowe, of the Straight Tip Company F.;
Miss Ida Lester, OF De Wolf Hopper's
forces, and Miss Gussie Sanford, one Of
the sprightly members of the Tin
Soldier caste.
1t is asserted by several Of the ladies
that throughout the scene Mrs. Graft
the landlady, stood guard at the kitchen
door, preventing interference by the
cooks who were in sympathy with the
shrieking soubFette
Miss Selene, with her plump right
cheek swollen to twice its normal size
and accompanied by half dozen indig
nant actresses, appeared before Justice
I Koch yesterday, in the jefferson Market
Police Court and made an affidavit, OF
, winch warrant was issued for Amelia
arrest
Amelia pleaded not guilty to a chargl
Z OF assault aud was held in $500 bail 70
trial, her employer promptly furnisbinl
bond upon which she was released &
resume muscular supervision of tn
Graf hostelry.