The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-27

els VINO don't know a. good show when
eleg see II Perhaps by the time Mr..
tToiuen comes this way again the salt
1,ahe puDlc vii have risen to the stan
lara required TO appreciate "Old led
J 1IOuts- Bat heaven forbidi
! The following win be of unusual in
/ terest 70 salt Lakers. It is Clipped fron,
ene Aioany journal and Gated Wash
I ihgton. ID. O.. Maude Aear,,s f,isx-ed
/ here last week. During her IN. - Inc
! she made arrangements to contest for
1he-ial on a war claim now pending
her snare OF the claim amounting ~
sLO'9eo- senate Dill No. ISIS is entitled
an act 70 confer Jurisdiction upon the
OoutL OF CLAIMS 70 hear and adFudioafa
/ the claim of the personal renTasanf.,-
( yves OF William kiskadden. deceased -
MISS ADAMS name is property Naude
hlSkadden. ard she was horn i'm Obio
when IN itseif win help the passage of
. .le OIL hhe William Kiskadden men
Lioiled ln the claim is the father Of
dudSe William IEiskadden of Ohio
Juuse hlskadcen put in the bin for the
piopeIty destroyed and according 70
me OIL, ne rs the only one who can c,,i
.Sc any amount which may be agreed
upon by the court.
Now Miss Adams claims that bar
| IdIhet. James kiskadden a brother of
! me william kiskadden. deceased men
tIOuea IN the Dill. was Jointly interested
~ me transportation business during
sl'e ciEii war and that cOnse>. uentIy she
IS entitled 70 one-haIf of the amount
winch may be paid on the claim.
Before Ralph E CUMMINGS was ar
lhe head Of his own company. in those
u lyS Waich belong in the career of
every actor, ne Was = Staz.r villain
He was speaking of his exneT,snres ~,
other night. . 1Ae
Il look back on that period of NV
TIC with remorse.' said NJ. CI1n,r7ino-s
1 nave record for crime which have
reason TO think has never been beaten.
DUIlnS nv SIX years of vflIainv killed
no less thar. 5000 men. women s,,S
children, and stole exactly. 81 .3gS Oh %
IN caSh, 70 say nothing of stocks and
bouds- wills, priceless gems. estates.
scid mines and trifles of that sort. For
sIA years l continued my mad career of
crime The police were Dr,yverIass to
check It, Six nights in the week and AT
Two maunees, 1 made strenuous and
etal1ently successful efforts to exhaust
the penal code. did everything
wicked Dut bite people, not that nv
piooa- IhlfSIy nature revolted at this
FORM OF felony, but because plav-
wrights for some reason, object TO yiI--
ing the stage william opportunity for
mayhem Ny lines consisted chiefly
OF Aha. 'Revenge. "A time will
come, must dissemble' etc. and 7
- AAAlGu lily LeelQ DN constantly
gritting them
once we ran three railway dramas
II succession In the first the railroad
s.4lployee was poisoned at the switch:
Inen 1 maliciously and fiendishIv threw
Two tralnioads of innocent people into
a rocky gorge 1900 feet deep. The
nero, the ugh, got left at the first STA
ton back and the slaughter went for
naught- be arrived with some police /
men IN time to capture me. The next
" eek the Syitchmau was sandbagged
ana placed under a trestie. which I had
previously weakened All hands were
again ground to atoms except the hero:
ne was not on board In the last play
the SWEchman was Drained with a
Sledge hammer, and the head-end col
llsIon which followed his absence from
ms post or duty rendered the locomo-
uNes unht for service pending repairs
ara yet L was not wholly bad /
More than once, after flashing the life 1
out OF Uncle Tom, 1 have disappeared /
behind the scenes to feed little Eva on 4
theWins gum and candy while listen /
lnS TO the dying means of the slave.
1 have been shot. stabbed drowned. I
crushed. thrown over precipices and 1
.ynched. have jumped from a fourth
story window. once the hero chased /
me uD d tree and would have shot me
had not the property man forgotten
TO load the pistol. : couldn't come ont /
'-N~ " AtA-oNA opDiliiAS the play J
SO guess ! must have starved to (
Ieath that time This was probably the
most ignOminiOuS and uncomfortable
Of ali my varied demises. Another
drawback to my fun enjoyment of my
criminal career was the open hatred
With which L inspired the gallery boys
can't quite understand why the gal
cry hates The william with such genuine
ervor. He mas to Kill people. wreck
rains. roo widows, prosecute orphans
pr they won't have the play at any
price.
Finally I made up my mind TO re-
Orm. concluded Mr.. Cummings. and
'esigncd my position Then followed !
weeks of idieness. for managers would /
.ngage me for no other line of work. {
finally. however. secured an engage
nent with the late w. J. Scanlon as
eading juvenile. Since then l have
lever played Vallain."