New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-27
z. j. HENLEY'S ARREST.
1T PROVED AN ANNOYING MISTAKE.
THE MAGISTRATE DISCHARGES HIM AND THEN
TRIES TO ACCOUNT FOR THE ISSUING OF

| THE MAGISTRATE DISCHARGES HIM AND THEN
TRIES TO ACCOUNT FOR THE ISSUING OF
THE WARRANT.
| There Is a conventional way OF beginning news
| paper account OF any incident duplicating theatre
or an actor 1t Is thought eminenty proper on all
such occasions 10 say that "the gossips OF the
Rialto had something to talk about yesterday, or
that little talked of on the Rialto yesterday
but. etc These statements are usually AZ
tached to stories OF little affairs which the Ratio.
a matter OF fact. knew nothing about Yet IL
was true yesterday that the skipping OF n per-
Torrance at Waliack's Theatre on Monday night
was referred to few times among theatricai
people, and was regarded as a matter OF some
interest
So much did II excite discussion and curiosity
that almost everybody connected with theatre III
town who could get away from that theatre last
, night appeared at Walacks some time III 'he
course OF the evening to see II MISS MA,
Mather and her company were reahs p'"s,ne
"Cymbel'ne' and II T. J. Henley were rea''! ".''"e
the part OF Iachimo. They really WERE """ "'
really was.
For as they know who read yesterdays papers
II was because OF the arrest Of Mr.. Henley 'ha'
the opening Of the engagement had 10 pe Po'
poned and the audience dismissed OH .o"'"
night Everybody at the theatres "ii''o" on"
all the others, thought it was shame '''"' :" w
rant for a mans arrest had to be issued an au-
tho theatre lust for a debt Of $50. for "licn ''o
creditor had a voucher. and which wou'o ha.o
been paid by a responsible manager as SUI" "s ,,
actor who owed /, should earn that compa'"'''
trlning amount on the stage :.
Whom Mr. HofYman n Martin the creditor weh' "
tho manager with Mr. Henleys order on MISS Ma."e'
wh,, did he not pay the so that 1t called lot IAN"
I, ont NJ his first salary and save the perio'
ancoo WHY did a Magistrate issue Warrant ~
q most annoying arrest In case 'na' app -,
., h ruro,v a civil one? why did the omcer III
s,st on serving II before the play began ,' -.
OF obging say 800 persons oy "a'''"s ~,
n,av was over? Perhaps some OF these ques'o"'
p''' - a.,,,art in the light OF final develop
on.. ,bar they would have been at the '''"e
uhon the mischief was done, but they "e'e "''
asked with force ,,.horoa Mr.
W,o,s,r,te Deuel. was compelled to discharge MI
Henley AT the jefferson MNrket Court $500.
A, Emo san,a time the Magistrate was mace AVA
TIA, mia action in issuing warrant !" -
nropery OF a criminal character had eN'".'
.a,d ,rd,gnation and surprise. All the frienns OF
Mr. Henlcv and many other people saih~is al
was something worse than piuhue'' !, -.
clarcd to he most astonishing mat =" ',"e
would permi. himself to be used to wreah p PRIV,
vengeance in dispute about s'o' 'ne o"'.'
which should have been decided by CIV" p'o-
ceeding. ...or,,,. of,ernoon
MAGISTRATE Deuel. said 10 newspaper men '"". s
did not know. when nc issued inc 49, =,
Mr. Henley was well-known ACTOR anu 49,,
nav a. Wallack's. He issued the warrant lie '''''
because Mrs TToffman-Martin mace s"o'. '
mon. tina, she believed Mr. Henley was ABOUT 10
leave the city. -, ,,o, ho vas
asked ., ~
NO" he replied; "the woman represented 10 nv
on as ! have said. her sworr statement '"'' 49,
Henley had obtained the $50 from her by frauu tha'
hat
apnear in the entertainment she was getting up
and that he had said. after receiving the "o"e9'
thai he would on
In reply to a question as TO why nc ala not 'e'.
the policeman to serve the warrant at the end oil
the performance ard thus not cause the audience
50 much ANNOYANCE. Mr.. Deuel. said that he did not
know that Their. going to he any performance.
lie did not know whether Mr.. Henley was acting or
not.
"supposing." Mr. deuel. was asked that per-
son like Mrs. Martin had made the same COM
plant against a clergyman or prominent citizen
would YOU not have told the policeman not TO serve
the warrant unit! morning so as to avoid the
I'm that case. knowing the character of the per
son complained of; should issue summons inS ,h,
"onlv as Mrs Martin. l didn't know anything
en in court y b l9 0oc Sef sistion s
untiI after ' midnight on Monday night before
magistrate could be found to accept DAHL Az last
Magistrate Flammer appeared ana accepted odH
from Samuel Martin. who gave as security mouse
I'm East Fourteenth-st.. which he valued at s2U,uJ
MIR Henley waited with his lawyer In the court ior
Mrs Martin to and set her side OF the case
before Magistrate Deuel.. and after long delay
she appea red. Under examine ton she admitted
about all that Mr.. Henley had asserted on ms SIDE
and az the latter was ready to pay the money he
discharged ,s 1900. -,
Miss Mather's affairs do not, indeed. appear 10
have been running smoothly since she began he'
nrcn,rat ions for "Cymbeline' AT Wallacks. re
boris were flying all about yesterday OF diamond
tiara ,haf Miss Mather supposed to nave lost
Il Is not unusual for actresses TO lose Almonds
b,, This time there press agent about to
spread abroad the details The unangling OF the
Threads OF the story far az they could be I'M,
tangled. seemed TO indicate that Miss Mather had
losi a diamond tiara in cab. ana that n Mrs H.
J. Thompson. Of Boston. had lost enc just ike 1t
I'm q cab on the same night.
Hoy " II Thompson. who was engaged 10 play
In Miss Mather's company. but finally did not play,
got mixed I'D in tho case. II was impossible TO tell.
I'm; his name constantly appeared in II. and no.
hodv could find out whence or why. In the end II
wa. declared good authority that Mrs. II. j.
THOMPSON OF Boston. had recovered her tiara and
II was declared. equally good authorit.. thai
Miss Nather had never lost ANY tiara. Anybody
with "A taste for solving mysteries can try his hand
OF IT, Possibly the frequent application Of the old
formula "the boy led will help 10 resolve a good
deaf OF il into its clements