The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-18
REVENGE SAYS PRINCE.
II VAS KILL TERRIsS OR DIE
HIMSELF IN THE STREET.
Declares That the s1urderna Actor Had
~siackmnii tilm for Tos Years and Kept
mis-, out OF EsnRioS mcut-Denin by ihc
Adeiph's SsnuREer-who Prince was.

Biaekmniied tiin for Ton wears ana Kept
MS, Out or H'nRioSm cut-Depini BY the
Adeiphi's MnunEor-who Prinoo was.
Special Cable Dsspatch 10 TIE Sun.
LONDON. Dec. 17.-Prince. tho murderer Of
William Torriss, tho actor, was arralgned in the
Bow Street Police Court this morning and re.
manded until Wednesday next. He is a medium.
sized man of sallow complexion. lie wore n
long cloak reaching nearly to his heels.
The policeman who arrested Prince and took
him to the police station testified that on tho
way to the station house tho prisoner said:
'"Torriss kept me out of employment for ten
yoars. j had either to die in the street or have
revenge"
Another witness described tho attack upon
Torriss by Prince at the theatre. Tho prison.
er's blows with tho knife. no said, were struck
with great rapidity while Tcrriss was STOPPING
70 u1lock tho stage door.
Tho courtroom was crowded with spectators,
who Kissed the prisoner rs no was brought in.
The resentment among tho spectators grew
stronger as the proceedings went on and be-
came manifest in loud hooting and eroaning
when the murderer was removed from tho dock
by tho court attendants and hustled toward the
cells.
The demeanor OF Prince while in the dock was
one of WEAKNESS and indifference. He fro
quently interrupted the proceedings with
trihing corrections.
II did not say all right = he declared. "whon
tho charge against mo was read at the police
station. I simply nodded my head. / did not
say that I had done this for revenge, but that he
(Terriss) had blackmailcd me for ten years."
Asked to explain how he had been black
mailed, the prisoner said:
"He prevented mo from getting assistance
from the Actors Benev olent Fund"
When the prisoner produced the blood
stained knife at the police station last even
tng he said:
eff no is dead. he had duo warming"
The Secretary of the Actors Benevolent
Fund says that Prince has been relieved fire.
quently by tho fund since 1892. Instead Of
In November that Terriss wrote TO the Score
tary Of the fund recommending Prince for re-
y resembling the conventional stage villain in
A Miid dTsss a and S SlPP3sa5sRRste' i Ta,asy Se l iSofeS
. consequsnce Of Mr.. TeTriss's death. -
said to a representative Of The Sun this morn.
ing that as far as he knew tho name of tho muir
His proper name, he says, is Prince. He is
unmarried and Is not a well;known actor;
,. The question les : t sS,t Gs Princes rim sn IDENTITY IDENTIFY n may yy,t 10 5 r.,
mother, Mrs. Archer of Dundee. whore the
murderer was born and where he Is fairly we'll
AIo"h. HE run hhuuO 10 uiiic III
the name OF Prince having been assumed pro-
fessionally. He left home on the last occasion
four months ago. and went to London, whence
he frequently wrote despondingly, being unable
20 get employment.
Mrs. Archer. who is an old woman, is griev-
ously affected by the position of her son, of
whose cleverness she has q high idea, but she
admitted that he has n very strange disposition.
She says that he Is very determined, and that
she had heard him threaten to do for an official
Of tho Dundee Theatre.
Other Dundee acquaintances OF the murderer
say that he is vain. He was stagestruck from
his boyhood, but his ability was poor. He never
had other than minor parts. Before he left
Dundee, four months ago, he had been employed
as a laborer in an engineering shop for some
months.