The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-10

In nearly every city which the Mas
cagni opera. company has visited thi,
season either the composer himself, o,
one of the singers or the manager has
| managed to get arrested and Scranto,
was no exception to this general rule
Richrd Heard, of Boston. under whose
direction Mascagn is touring. was TAX
en- into custody early yesterday morn
ing at the Hotel Jermyn on a warrant
issued by Magistrate Millar at the In
stance of Reese Richards. charging hin
with the larceny of 800. Richards acted
as the treasurer for Fred c. Hand, who
was the local manager of the concert
| given by the company in the armory
| on Monday night
The company was about to leave fol-
| Syracuse, N. Y, where they played last
| night, and because of Manager HeardAs
arrest. Mascagni and a number of the
performers who rely on him entirely
| for information regarding train time
missed the early train and were unable
to leave here until 1856 o'clock and
were just able to reach Syracuse in
time to fill their engagement. TO say
that the Italian composer was mad
when he found he had missed his train
would be putting ii mildly
Hearing at $50 p. m.
Heard was held under surveillance in
Magistrate Millar's Office all day and
was not given a hearing until o'clock
in the afternoon. He maintained q toll
erably fair outward composure, but 1t
didn't require two looks to see that he
was just boiling over within.
The charge against Heard grew out
of the settlement between Mr. Hand
and himself after Monday nights con-
cert The agreement between the two
was that Heard was to receive seventy
five per cent of the gross receipts, while
Hand was to receive the remaining
twenty-five per cent. A settlement was
made on a basis of 997 paid admissions
on Monday night by Richards, who
was given by Heard for the money re-
ceived by him.
Richards discovered yesterday morn
ing that he had made Il mistake in COM
putting the amount due Heard. A num-
ber of tickets had been counted as hav-
ing been sold which had merely been
put on sale outside the city and it was
figured out that Heard had been paid
about $9J too much.
n demand was made upon him for
payment and when he refused to con-
slider it he was placed under arrest on
the charge of larceny. He was repre-
sented at the hearing by Attorney c. p.
O'Malley. While Attorney w. n. Leach
looked after Mr.. Hands interests.
No attempt was made by Heard to
deny the receipt of the money In Ques-
ton but Attorney O'Malley pointed out
that it was absurd to bring charge
Of larceny against him. Mr.. Hands
remedy for any injustice done, he said,
lay in the civil courts. The money was
voluntarily paid over by Richards on
his own figures and Heard was in no
way responsible for any mistake which
might have been made.
Held Heard in Bail.
Magistrate Millar looked at matters
differently and held Heard under $500
bail which he managed to secure about
O'Clock. He then took the first train
out Of the, city for Syracuse.
Heard made the claim at the hearing
that there was nearer 1000 people in
the armory than 997 and that there
should have been about $500 more COM
ing to him. This was the reason, he
said, which caused him to refuse to paw
back the money.
Mr.. Hand claims, on the other hand,
that every paid admission was fairly
accounted for and that Heard got every
cent which was honestly due hm-and
Sa5 more