The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-13
THEIR BAGGAGE SEIZED,
a Topeka Theatrical Company In TrOu-
BILE in st. Louis.

a Topeka Theatrical Company in Trou-
BILE in st. Louis.
Sundays ST. Louis Post Dispatch con-
tains the following:
The sin Old Tennessee" company play
ing at Hagan's is in Missouri and incl
dentally in the soup at this writing. 10
baggage of the thirty two per ormers,
male and female, has been seized for
board bill, and there is weeping and
wailing in Ethiopia.
The company is composed mostly of
colored people who sing plantation songs
do wing dances and break-dowus, and
put up very clever performance Ern-
est Hogan is the star. He is colored and
his wife is white. With thirty others
they boarded at the house of Callie Rob-
inson, colored, 1911 Chestnut Thomas
]. Culligan, the agent of Lester III. Craw-
ford and James E Moors, proprietor of
the show, contracted to pay $3.50 per
week each for the board and lodging of
the thirty two performers The cash was
to be paid at the expiration of each
week.
The company arrived last Sunday a
week, having a week of open dates be-
fore openin at Hagan's. After boarding
the company nine days without receiving
any money, Mrs. Robinson refused to
dish up any more hash, and worse still
swore out an attachment in Justice
! Spaulding's court for the baggage of
each member
! Constable Ben Brady served the pro-
cesses and he had all kinds of a time.
Ernest Hogan announced his intention of
playing an engagement on the slab at
the morgue in the role of a corpse be-
! fore any one should take his trunk.
Brady calmly told him stage heroics did
not go with him. Then he proceeded to
levy on the trunk and the colored gen
tleman with an Irish name meekly
yielded to the law. The women vented
their Indignation in tears and denounc.
ing the constable as a mean thing.
All the same he got thirty-two pieces
Of baggage, trunks and valises, and car
RED them to the hall of justice, making
it look like baggage room.
Hogan failing in his morgue bluff
resorted to strategy. He rendered SO for
his and his wife's board and wanted their
Individual baggage released. But John
A. Hyde, Mr.. Robinson's attorney, re-
sisted this move on the ground that the
suit was against the company, and the
cases against individuals could not be
separated. 1t is also claimed that as
Hogan's name appears first on the list OF
defendants, except those of the proprie-
tors and Manager Culligan. that he is
primarily liable for all the costs.
The bill aggregates $14450, and the
cases are set for trial May ~. The COM
pany is booked for Kansas City next
week, but if they go they will have to
leave their baggage containing all
their clothes, except what they are
wearing, behind unless the bill
lis paid If they remain, it will be under
expense with nothing coming in 1t is
| supposed they will leave, and probably
arrangements will be made to release
the baggage. Ia the meantime a Mrs
Moore, living on North Twelfth street
is boarding the company under a guar
antee of payment
The company's baggage was previous
ly attached by the Great Western Pub
fishing company for a printing bill, but
the baggage of the members could not
be held for debt of the management
In board bill it is different, the Law
giving hotel keeper a claim on thu
baggage, whether the bill is contracted
by the Individual or a corporation TO
them