Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-17
.VJRDER OF An ACTOR
.,s,sslN PLUNGED A KNIFE INTO HIM


london, Dec. %" ma"
lV,Ns ,,,.,, actor who has been playing
me Adclphia theater in TINS ei,y IN
Nv r.aa,,sb version of William Nal
pe Ina Secret Service, was as
~ .otsd this evening as he was en-
ilss," ,,c stage dior of the theater by
N',D s,,or super named Archer. The
tO, ,arer rushed at the actor as he
nU's scanning acrossFthe pavement from
va an and stabbed him just below the
-, Trriss fell shouting, MY GOD!
~ ~ stabbed me. Don't let him es-
ape" enc aoseer
made n second plunge at his VIC
..s hnt he was seized by the specta-
u'.9 Of whom there is always crowd
Nam, the stage entrance to witness
81 arrival of the ACTORS.
Viz Terriss was PLACED on the LANDING
. The stairway just Inside the theater'
there he lay, grooming loudly once
sta,ire he attempted to speak. but 1t
'imnossible. He quickly sue
s wa while surrounded byithe thea
nv murderer was taken to Bow
.,.1st notice station followed by an
~ etowd His name was given as
,r'her 1t is said that he had been
Aaspner' at the Adelphi theater sew
',oi years ago, and for SOME days he
sss haunted the theater. The motive
X the crime is not yet known
'. large audience had already assem-
MA for the evening performance, and
hs maneeer came to the footllghts and
sorounced that as MIR. Terrriss had
nj with an accident no performance
rould be given tonight.
II appears that the assassin last
,yeping asked the keeper of the stage
,ntlance as to the whereabouts of Mr..
Teriss and his behavior was then so
obnoxious that Harry Nichols. one of
NE principal colleagues of Mr.. Ter
rss was obliged to demonstrate and to
order him to leave the premises.
The scenes along the. Strand at the
hour when the theater closed tonight
we're remarkable. BY that time the
ioeclal cditionsf of the evening papers
we're out, and the newsboys We're
SCOUTING around the theater exits that
Mr. Terriss had been murdered. At
FIST the people refused to place any
osdence in the report, but when they
found that 1t was true horror and in
lgnation We're expressed.
When Archer arrived at the police
station, he still held the weapon, APP
Tarently a butcher knife, concealed be-
Ieath his cape. on being charged with
murder he Is reported to have replied
He's done me out of the benevolent
this morning, and / am out of 1t for
life The murderer was placed in a
ell and is under special watch for
the night an
The understudy Of the deceased
actor tells a curious story OF how last
hght he dreamed that he saw Mr.. Ter
1 4 crowd. syH'.1N Y
William Terriss was born IN London
October Is. 1851 PHis father was a
Ktntish county gentleman and mother
I sister Of the celebrated historian of
Greece, the late George Grote. Terriss
vas a m-de-plurhe, the real name of
,he deceased actor, b iing William
Twin Early In life he took to the
lage' leaving II SEVERAL times to en-
tak in business. but always without
a' fsyna IN ls@ av hn Eish srsssraislng
sd BE- 'n s'i ss s. sssl@a 3 ssaS
Wi ava sno,, .t,lden ~ 70 nara
Il the London puh2 KIM press nv his his
exhibition of capsn of kd versotiIitv We
When Henry Irvhth II 1850 made .iI.' his
honorable revivalI St*Romeo and Ju-
~ at the Lyceuni Heater he invited
w Terriss to play Mercutio. Then
ssan an. associatioD (which continued
I'm the greatest Irpfit to Irving and
ue greatest eclat Terrlss for seven
isais, II was during Irvlng's first
1 american tour that Mr.. Terriss first
1 alItarod on the stage in this country.
,Mter leaving the Lyceum he played
4 s9meo to the Juliet of Miss Mary An
aIson for two hundred nights. He
meh entered upon career of d star.
sa save for occasional provincial and
mielsn tours. had since reigned SUI
4 lsme at the Adelphin theater, the
ngallng melodramatic house in London.
as was the idol of the, Adelphia nit,
ga long ago endeared himself to the
Tats OF London playgoers by his ster-
XXI Qualities as actor and man. Miss
u.A'lne Terriss, who in private life is
@ m, seymour Hicks, Is his daughter.
me murderer gives the name of
lizard Arthur Prince. hut he was
rs~n at tho thenter as Archer. His
49, e ras been employed there as a