The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-17
GONE TO THE WORkHO
Misfortunes of Lillian Knott, The
Opera Singer.
SHE WAS KNOWN IN BUTTE
An Actress Who Sang With Dorothy
Morton Is Now at Work at
a Wash Tub in Mime
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Many theatergoers in Butte will re-
member Miss Lillian Knott, an opera
singer, who has frequently visited the
city with different organizations, and
will learn with establishment and re-
gret that she has been sent to the work
house in Minneapolis, where, when her
identity was learned by the newspapers.
she was found at work at a washtub.
Miss Knott was last in Butte with the
Dorothy Morton Opera company, and
before with Corinne and Joe Flynn's
''McGinty the Sport" company The
Minneapolis Times tells the following
story of her present pitiful condition
and prior misfortunes:
The woman's ward of the workhouse
this week has rather an unusual pris-
| oner in the person of Lillian NJ. Knott
| (Mrs. Joseph Barnett), at one time Ca
mile D'Arville's understudy in Made
| line, or the Magic Kiss and who later
sang leading roles with Corinne and the
| Duff Opera companies. She was sent to
| the worllhouse the other day to serve a
| 4O-day sentence upon complaint of Min
ME Steele, a colored woman, who was
also sent up for go days the same day
on an old commitment, and who claimed
that Lillian had stolen her jacket.
Miss Knots parents reside at Terre
Haute, Ind, where her father is mana
ger of the Wabash Iron Works. At the
| Milwaukee ticket office a ticket home
| awaits her, which was forwarded to her
| by her father and which arrived the
| day she was sent to the workhouse.
Yesterday. although on the verge of col
| lapse. following a recent attack of
G ia a hh wa &
tub with the other female prisoners at
| the workhouse
Miss Knott states that she was born
| In Marietta, Ohio and loved singing
| from the time she was a child in short
4 dresses. She obtained the best vocal
| instruction to be had and for six years
was student at the Cincinnati Musi-
| cal college, receiving her final instruc-
\ ton in a Boston vocal school, and max
| ing her stage debut with the Duff Opera
company. After that she was under
study. fer D'Arville for two years, and
then was with Corinne's company.
| After that she went out as leading
lady with Joe Flynn's 'McGinty the
Sport and married Joseph Barnett,
musical director of the company. SUD-
sequentiy she sang in Twin City music
halls to secure money enough to take
| her home. Her husband deserted her.
and later she was attacked with typhoid
| other attempt to earn living she wrote
to her father, who promptly forwarded
her money and a ticket home, which
she cannot get until the terrible 40 days
are up.
Miss Knott denies that she stole
Minnie Steeles cloak. She says she had
scarcely clothing enough to keep her
warm, and was walking along the ave
nue. from the Milwaukee depot, when
| she met a colored man whom she had
| known as an attache Of a theater. He
| invited her to come to his house to get
warm. She told the colored woman her
| story, and when she started for the
ticket office again to see if reply had
been received from her father, one of
the colored women offered her the use
OF the jacket, which she gladly accept
ed Then she was arrested on the street
for stealing the cloak.
/ There are several musicians and
singers, now residing in Minneapolis,
who knew Miss Knott and sang with
her in the various comnanies with
! which she was connected. They We're
unaware of her preEicament and are
now seeking to have her released from
the workhouse and sent home to her
fa ther All say she was a singer of
merit and had a brilliant future. Judge
Holt, who sentenced her to the work
inc her release.
Recently Miss Knott has been i'll
with typhoid fever and has desired tc
return to her father. Her mother lives
in a small town in Ohio and her daugh-
ter has bravely supported her since the
parents separated. Her father has mar
ried again. and is connected with the
Wabash Iron and Steel company, ont
of the trust iron plants"
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