New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-18
ATGTSTTS COOK ARRESTED.
TIE ACTOR CHARGED WITH FELoNIotSH

TIE ACTOR CHARGED WITH FEl"'N''1H"i
AssArLrr<i HIS WIFE ,ND Hrg NA!r.
Augustus Cook. a weI-krown actor. thirty years
old NJ No 70 West Oue-hUnired- "A md -second-st
was locked ND I'm the West Ore-hundrodih-St S'a-
ton last night and charged with attempting 10 XIII
his wife and her maid. Mrs. COOK escaped WIN
TWO deep gsshes in her head and the servant got
two cuts in the right hand. MIS-. loon Is Tue
daughter Of William II Hal' \ lumber mer'ndh'
.h, ,t,.as =, No 9sj West Seventy-third-S;.
ure cook and her husband have we,l-inrnished
e,t i, tho apar,ment- house at Amsterdam-aVe. ana
one hundred and-second-st. the daS oeio'' VS.
terday Mrs. Cook came home from the country, ,
aftrr a two months visit. She had her maid ana
h,bv with her At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the other occupants Of the house heard quarre'ihs
in the cook apartment and 1t continued WIN p''et
,,,ornies,ons untl almost o'clock. Just before
thar hour the people In the various Apartments
were startled by the shrieks OF TWO W""e"'
mingled with the hoarse curses OF a man ""''e''
Il, the door of the Cook apartment view open an"
Nrs Cook ran out. Her hair was disheVe"eu an"
blood WAS running down her face In n stream fof
drosa yos soaked with blood. Scream after scream
bo c,,a 40 sho fed down to the first hoor ana ~
tho office OF DR. Smith. At her heels was ,he ser
want girl. her hand covered WITH p'00O ~
red the baby. <.,,.. 4, l,,y
DR. Smith at once scit ont for ms ia'n,
nr Anderson Of No II West Nnety-iour'h-S'
pa,, ,,,ors ',,ve their undivided attention 10 the
injured and faintrg women. Some one hau ,bp ruiI w
thr VEST Observation-Disclosures station whi!s anG It's
ccrecaut Lynrh of the station sent foiloG y, n
man McGlon TO the piaI Ie ehf nn9thIng me- had hap
pened He denied all Knowledge o. ,roycecded amy 10
the station The injured women ut.In ut.It' ~ ,be am
the hospital and The do .sor we're m e"s' not reaured
bTamGs aTG a found sent ms to the home Of HALL Mrs
cook's IN her and at o'clock ne ATlE5u w. his
coach and took his dauehter aer crr nl' humber Of
kilograms to various friends but iats az nSb Win a
vas not released. As he Is cnaieto ~ M "a
felony, it requires the presence oil 'u'6e ~
,be hom. OF Mr. Hall last night an effort was vas
made to see Mrs Cook ana set hsr version ,te ~ re-
quarrel Every inquiry yr1bIe yfI "s or make any state
Mr. cook plays the part OF ys TSeafre e Ills
Mace was taken last niyht by George Heath. who
ordinarily plays the Sergeant OF poiice' Ills p'"N'
In turn was taken by p@eane @ irars manager Of the
.hnn,r" sent n messenger see Cook at the p9-
uce s ZION a. soon ne heard or the nres. b
told him that he d5 npt sut SrtW II WAS not knife lie
said that his wife began 70 haS ia, nnai,r struck
came home to dinner and that snc h iaTy ny nsry
him IN me me heo, Of The mon emit ne picked some
thing from the table-he did not reHeimper
a,s nd ssr,ick her with It in the fuce rre serVant
ana @ 81. a e between them oId he struck htr Oh the
hand. ,,u .go , member of the Iy-
ceuni v ,i,h his wife who was also a member OF the
COMPANY and there was consideraoe aa scahaa: @
lie left the Lycer,mM Mss fS"E Kathryn Kdder in Nine
sans Gene" being selected to play tne part OF Na, IA,
aiaon on account OF his physical likeness TO the
e played ysSsssea ,ss Psrt for Ss Sf S1cSs
compnnv M the tine the piece was hrst put on the
sGme" stage at DAYS last spring.