The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-03
CISSY Was TIRED OF HIN
BAND AND CANCEL" TRIED
SUICIDE AT DULUTH
Romance Has Gone Out Of "a Marital
Union That Was Begun in St.
Paul When Cissy Jefferson Play
ed AT the Grand.

Paul When Cissy Jefferson Play
ed at the Grand.
One Of the marriages of last season
in st. Paul has come to grief already.
The young scion of a distinguished
Southern family, Clifford E. Clopton,
manager of the farce comedy, TOO Much
Money" is languishfng behind the bars
of the mems ward at police headquarters,
says the Duluth Sunday News, asso-
ciated with drunks and vags, and all be-
cause he used the wrong side of a sharp
razor in an attempt to take his own
life.
Clopton arrived here yesterday morn
ing from Chicago, to try to persuade his
wife, who is doing a turn at the Pavilion
under the name of Cissy Jefferson, to re-
turn home with him. She refused and
Clopton returned to his room at the St.
James hotel, determined to take his own
life. His nerve failed His hand wa
vered. He tainted The deadly razor
slipped from his grasp and he still lives
AS soon as Clopton arrived in the city
he went to the Pavilion, where he met
his wife. She received him graciously,
but was deaf to all his appeals to re-
turn nome with him.
eff you don't go with me-" he finally
exclaimed, II will cut my throat"
'All right" was the rejoinder "Cut 1t
if you want to- I don't care I wouldn't
cut my throat for you or anybody else"
Making up his mind that his mission
to the hilltop was of no avail, Clopton
went to the ST. James hotel, where he
registered and obtained a room. He
then sent a note to his wife. He again
told her, in the note, that he was
about to cut his throat She gave the
boy reply, and the youngster returned
to the hotel with It, He was Mortified on
entering Clopton's room to see him lying
stretched out on the bed, apparently
dead.
But he had used the back Of the razor
In his excitement
81 made up my mind that the stuff was
off and determined to die he continued
don't want this to get in the paper how
ever. because it will cause me to be dis
inherited am one Of five heirs TO
$4,000 estate in Alabama
Clopton is said to be a son Of the late
Judge Clopton of Alabama, who was one
of the best known men in the South
Judge ClOpton left a large estate at the
time of his death, but Clifford is said to
have obtained his share
Mrs. Clopton or Cissy jefferson. as she
Is known at the Pavilion, is a pretty
young woman. She has a trim figure, a
clear, though dark complexion, black, hair
and swapping black eyes. She did not
seem to be much worked up over the oc-
currence when seen last night.
81 told him 1 wouldn't live with him.
and he said he would cut his throat if I
DIDN'T ] told him to go ahead and do
it If he wanted to be so foolish l sun
pose he expected me to fall down on nv
knees and implOre him not to do it. but I
don't do that kind of business except for
so much per week. I left him because he
drank am earning my own living in
the same manner l was when I married
him. We were married in May, in Chi
cago' and two weeks later came here.
Yes, he comes of a fine family in the
South" she said in answer to a question.
but don't think he has any money com
ing to him from his fathers estate. His
stepmother is a sister of Mrs. Jefferson
Davis. l hope he will go away from here
and leave me alone when he gets out. 7
don't want anything to do with him"
Letters We're found on Clopton's person
by the police which show him to be man
ager of the farce comedy, ':Too Much
Money and that he has booked his com
pany for the next season to show at p
number Of places in Kansas and Colora-
do, beginning at Leavenworth in Septem-
Der.