The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-18
GUS COOK SLABS HIS WIFE.
THE ACTOR ALSO WOUNDS 4 SERVANT
VINO TRIED TO PROJECT HER.

Mrs. Cook. who lie the Actors Second win.
was = Pupil In the L1ceum school or ActinE
when They first Met-Their Marriage FOL
lowed His divorce from the First Nrr. Cook.
Augustus Cook. an actor. who plays the part
Of the Conmissurv Of Police in "The Circus
Girl" at Days Theatre. did not appear last
night. He was reported sick at the theatre
shortly before the curtain rose. and an under
study took his place.
The cause of his non.appearance was that he
had been locked up in tho West Tooth street
police station on q charge of ~stabbing his wife
and their servant. He could not be bailed, as
the charge. being u felony. required the presence
OF q magistrate to bail him. Cook lives at 10
West lO2d street with his wife. who was Evelyn
Hall. daughter of William II. Hall, u builder. OF
265 West Seventy.third street. She Is % years
old.
Cook got home yesterday afternoon, wild with
drink, and quarrelled with his wife. In his
drunken rage he picked up a knife and chased
her around the house. When Lizzie Brown, the
servant. tried to wrcst the knife from him he
stabbed her in the right hand. He then stabbed
his wife in tho back Of the head.
Tho screaming of the women attracted q
crowd In front OF tho house. and Policeman
McGloin OF the West Tooth street station
finally camo along. Meanwhile, DR.. A. X.
Smith. who lives in Cooks house. FASTENED to
the assistance OF the women and succeeded in
disarming Cook. Policeman McGloin put Cook
under arrest and called an ambulance from the
Manhattan Hospital.
Mrs. Cook, as soon as she had recovered her
self. sent for DR., Anderson Of "a West Ninety
second street. her physician, and when the anu
bulance surgeon arrived he was not allowed to
enter the house. Cook was taken to the police
station. Whom asked why he had stabbed his
wife he shook his head and said:
II guess i must have been crazy"
He was locked UP. Mrs. Cook, 1t was said, was
not seriously wounded. the stab wound. although
three inches in length, being superficial. she
went to her fathers house. as soon rs 1t was
by one OF the doctors. Her hurt was merely
superficial also.
Cooks part in The Circus Girl" is not Q,
Napoleon in Kathryn Kidder's company in
Madame Sans Gene"
Cook met his present wife when she became
. pupil in the Lyceum school Of Acting in
s sSs. I tFSs. ggS SDii, wa. in a 'h aarl school beli e.
and was we'll supplied with money by her
tanned lavishly. and gave frequent suppers at
the Hoffman House to her dramatic friends.
Cook was at that time the husband of Madge
Carr. who was playing with Roland Reeds com
ems company, in which he was a low comedian.
He was tutor In the Lyceum School when his
acquaintance with Miss Hall began, She fell in
love with him and wrote many loving letters to
him. one OF which his wife got.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cook Quarrclled, and Cook
threatened to get a divorce, and marry Miss
lied divorce, and also brought an action against
Miss Hall for damages for alienation Of Cooks
married Miss Hall.
It was said last night that the present Mrs.
Cook had disputes with her husband, because vi
his attentions to other women.