The morning call., 1894-06-28
SHE is SHADOWED
Detectives Watching Miss
Brandon.
:
ALSO ON ELLIOTT'S TRAIL,
Arrests to Follow Attempts to
-: Leave.
: sTOcKWELL TO ARRIVE TO-DAY.
= Realistic Denouements Expected at
=. the Mariposa's Pier This
= Afternoon.

- Lynx eyed detectives are shadowing
Miss Ethel Brandon and Arthur Elliott
Sheuld they attempt to board the steamer
Mariposa. which sails for Australia this
afternoon, they will be arrested at the in
stance of j. l. Macks, the collector, who
holds the assigned claims of the unpaid
actors of Miss Brandon's late company.
For several days past keen-eyed sleuths
have been camping on the trail of both.
One has kept his weather eye glued on st.
Mary's Hospital, and others have their
optics clear for any movements of Mr..
Elliott. These detectives have positive
knowledge that Elliott wants to go to Aus
tralia. Wednesday morning they saw him
enter the Office of the Oceanic Steamship
Company and heard him inquire as TO the
possibility of securing passage. for two,
on the Mariposa.
All this knowledge and the doubt con-
cerning Miss Brandcn's sickness. has put
the. theatrical colony on the qu vive,
which has been considerably heightened
by the expectancy of the arrival of L. r.
StockWell, Miss Brandon's husband, Oh
this mornings train. The information
of his departure from New York is
contained in a letter received in this
would leave last Saturday for the coast,
and proposed, when he got here. to make
determined fight against his wife's appli-
cation for divorce. His arrival, therefore.
just in time to be at the Mariposa'5 side
should his wife conclude TO embark for
Australia. is considered particularly and
fortuitously dramatic by the resident
talent. They expect a scene at the pier.
Miss Brandon. the unpaid actors have
some hopes of getting their money. The
celebrated diamonds, which cut such
big figure in the complaint for divorce.
have been taken out of pawn and are sup
posed to be in the possession of Miss
Brandon. THAT'S where over $500 of the
benefit money has gone" the unpaid say.
and they contend that the money would
have been better invested in food for those
TO whom il was owing than in glittering
stones. They will attach them if they can.
Az the hospital Miss Brandon is still de-
MED to visitors, although it is announced
that she is suffering no bad effects from
the sudden visit of Keirns and Thrum on
Tuesday. A strong disclaimer is made
that she intends going to Australia on the
Mariposa or any other steamer, or that
Miss Bacon was very anxious to know
if it was true that Actor Stockwell was to
arrive in the city this morning. and last
night she piled reporter for THE CALL
with many questions on that point.
''Do you really know that he is to be here
tomorrow? Oh, you only read it in a let
ter that he was to have left New Y ork last
Saturday. You don't know that he is on
fba frain Nv 5na
to know If IT'S true!
HAS Miss Brandon anything more to
say of the elopement? No. nothing more
than I told you yesterday. There's noth-
ing in Tits positively ridiculous. She
really can't be taken out of here for long
time to come.
81 haven't seen Mr.. Elliott to-day and
don't know where he is"
Meanwhile the actor-mauager is keeping
himself pretty shady. His usual haunts
are stunned and only now and then do
old-time acQuaintances get a lifting
glimpse Of him as he hurries along the
street. A good deal of his time during the
day has been passed at the hospital and it
is supposed he keeps close to his room in
the Florence on Ellis and Powell streets
az nights. Miss Bacon, the constant COM
psnion of Miss Brandon, says he lives at
the Florence. Thomas Keirns, one of the
unpaid actors corroborates the story and
says he called on him in room 80, yet in
quiry made there yesterday was met by
the reply that he roomed there no longer.
Elliott has been a widower for about a
year. His wife was Louise Pomeroy.
divorced from "Brick" Pomeroy, the er-
ratio, red-headed editor, and was the first
-hO
ability after an experience in the divorce
court She was taken to Australia by AL
Havman and starred for a number of
years. Here Elliot met and married her.
and the two came to San Francisco, where
they played leads at the Alcazar until Mrs.
Elliott died about year ago.
Since ne first met Miss Brandon, men,
bers of the stranded company say he has
been madly infatuated with her, In fact.
so much SO that he entirely ignores an
engagement with Miss Lottie Tittell the
actress, previously made. Whether or not
Miss Brandon recprocates this feeling
they are not prepared to state.
Mrs. Sarah Stevens, the well-known
actress, is one of the remaining members
of the stranded company who has been
delayed for obvious financial reasons in
getting back to San Francisco, and several
others are said to be in Oregon in an al
most destitute condition. Mrs. Stevens is
now playing at MoroscO's and is very in.
dignant at the treatment she received.
The breaking up of the company left her
almost penniless, and it was only through
the generosity of friends that she was en-.
abled to reach here at all. She is one OF
those who is led to believe that Miss Bran.
don is not nearly SO i'll as she has been
buIetined.
At the time Miss Brandon was taken Il