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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16

exposition of sleep come upon me-
 The tragic death of John Palmer Plausible Jack" as he was familiarity called-is a we'll known legend Of the theatre. it having been said that the part was written for him. as well as' in a great measure, from him. At the time of his death he was filling provin- cial engagement at Liverpool. in the sum- mer of 17sS "The Stranger was being prepared for a performance. with Palmer as the melancholy and misanthropic hero. On the morning of the day fixed for It's production Palmer received intelligence of the death of his second son, youth of much promise, to whom he was great Iy attached. Owing to the fathers na- tural grief and distress, the play was postponed for time. On its subsequent performance his success was so greas that a second representation was called for and occurred on August z, f79S. As Palmer repeated the words. "There Is an- other and a better world, he turned, tottered and fell to the floor of the stage, dying in a few moments.
 Perhaps the most pathetic of all these sad instances is the death of Edmund Kean at the Covent Garden Theatre on March g. 1S33 when he and his son Charles played on the London stage to- gether for the first time and the last time. The play was 'OtneilO, MT. hean tax ing the title role and his son the part of Iago. Worn out by illness. Keane strug gled through his part until he came to the touching farewell speech. As he ut- tered the curiously prophetic words. "Othello's occupadons gone his strength failed him; he sank upon his son's shoulder and whispered. "I am dy- ing-speak them for me- and the curtain fell forever on one of the greatest gem fuses of the British stage, for in three weeks he died
 The gifted Mrs Glover died in 1850. on the night of her benefit, and Maria Lin- ley died at Bath while singing T Know That My Redeemer Liveth."
 The gifted and ill-fated Mime. Malibran was seized with her final illness during the musical festival in Manchester in 1886. On the stage of the Theatre Royal she was singing in "Andronica." Step ping forward a few feet she improvsed series of graces and shakes with such power, resonance and brilliancy as caused the whole audience to involuntarily rise and cheer vehementy. Never was there a greater triumph. When the enthusiasm was at its height Malibran staggered off the stage and fell ssnseless in the wings. She fingered a few weeks and died at the early age of %.
 Tn the United States the most recent of the few deaths which have occurred on the stage is that of Ethel Marlowe. who dropped dead on the stage al the knickerbocker Theatre tn New 1ork on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16

prosecution looked abasAed
 Leading up to the day of the shooting with all sorts of skillful by-plays and constantly dabbing at her fine eyes with a wadded-up lace handkerchief. she de- scribed how she had entered the hotel room, after walk. how her husband had jumped up from the couch on which he was lying locked the door, pulled re- volver out of a bureau drawer. and told her that shed better say her prayers. as he was going to kill her within five min utes.
 ''She closed on him then, she declared, making a grab for the revolver. and i'll the scuffle the weapon was discharged, the bullet. as she was told after her ar rest. having lodged in the muscles of her brutal husbands right shoulder
 Now, she did all this mighty we'll ana I knew when she had finished that she had the prosecution all over the place ana that she had picked up her case ana run away with it. But l also knew per fectly well that she was lying. and lying hard with every movement of her hps. Excellent actress as she was, she wash able to crowd down that give-aWay tone quaver of the individual indust1ously engaged in orally framing up a fairy tale.
 "'The jury returned verdict in her favor without leaving their seats, In spite of the fact that the prosecution put several experts on the stand who tesl- fled that 1t was absolutely impossible for her husband to have got that ball in his right shoulder in the progress of such q scuffle as the woman had described. When she swept out of the room ~eceIv- ing the congratulations of all hands. had a hefty line of thinks as to the ad- vantages of good looks and theatrical education in some contingencies
 Four years later l met this woman, a drink wreck, here in New York She detiantly told me that she had shot her husband in just exactly the manner he had described on the stand and she glo- ried in it. She said that she was only sorry that she hadn't killed him.
 'I reported a case in Philadelphia in which a woman was charged with having caused the death of her husband by se- eretly administering strychnine to him. She had been on the out with his folks, and when he died suddenly they got on to her trail, had his stomach analyzed. and when the analysis revealed qnantltles of strychnine they charged her with the poisoning
 II took her statement when she was arrested and | knew that she had had nothing to do with her husband s death as soon as she opened her mouth. Yet everything was against her when the case came up.
 .'Sh. had been virtually her husband s only comDanion; they had had quarrel some years before that had brought about their saparatinn for a long period; he had, sh.rtly before his death. taken out a large life insurance policy in her favor; neighbors had heard high words between them day or so before his death. and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
JEFFRIES HAS MADE A
 FORTUNE wITH FISTH
Profting by the Example of others
 He Has Held His Money.
Levy York IniIrnal

New York Journal.
 That boxing Is profitable game for the successful boxer there can be no doubt. 5udg@, ing from the fat bank accounts possessed bE the big heayy-weights and some of the small istic stars.
 Although many of the modern champions have acquired thousands of dollars by the uss fortunate as the present champion heavy weight. Jeffries. in putting away fortuns
 It is estimated that the big boIIermaker is worth at least s co. 900 in his own name. Ha but has added to his prize fight winnings by lucky deals In oil fields at his home in Los Angeles .,. and in g. the stock Iarket;
 ing about the success of Jeffries as boxer. said that he had seen the big fellows bank account for Ss2. 900. Unlike other great fighters that their money in punches, Jeffries has showed the sense to put 1t away, and he announces that he is now Independent
 Jeffries five years ago practically un- kno~n, working away on rivets in a big boiler factory for a paltry salary But the then in his muscles. which afterward enabled him to capture the championship as we'll as the money that goes with such an honor. James J. Corbett although out of pugilism. is still earning big money as a monoiogua artist and has goodly sum invested in gilt edged securities. He enjoys all the pleasures of life that money can secure for man.
 Terry McGoyern is another wise one. but the little featheTweight has been busy making money that he really hasn't had time to dig into his bank account to any extent. Up to his defeat by Young Corbett he went along the line of aspirant featherweights and always came out with the big end of the purse.
 Of the many great fighters that were knocked out by their own success and the plentiful of money George pixon the col- ored demon. and John L. Sullivan are prob ably the most conspicuous. They in ex- treme classes of pugilfsm. but in the same class the financially embarrassed.
 Ordinarily this would not be strange, but when 1t Is considered what these tkTo ex- champions have gone through it should and evidently has proved a good lesson for those who follow.
 Dixon made and lost several fortunes as we'll the championship, and today he does not own a dollar. and Is ready 10 take on an op- ponent for whatever there is in 1t.
 Sullivan's money-spending feat has prob ably never been equalled. He Is said to have gone through least milton dollars He has been good fellow to all and even at this stage he cannot hold the few dollars that to him for support.
 Tt is all right 10 be a good feilow,s said Jeffres, but see that you are good fellow to yourself hrst.'
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that his voice had the lying quaver in 1t right from the beginning Of his state ment. - and as vastly chagrined the prosecutlon' but 1 knew that he was lying, neVertne- less. He undertook to prove an ahoi 1os for himself.
 Tn corroboration of this. the married sister testified that her brother had been at her apartment from o'clock in the afternoon until 10 o'clock at night taking dinner with her and keeping her company in the absence of her hnspaRd ad that tel,tsIs ms false ring in her voice that convinced me of this despite her fine talk, frank face and her obvious respectabilitX.
 The court adjourned for luncheon at the end of her testimony. l took luncheon with the attorney for the prosecution.
 Well. what do you think of this case? he asked me when We sat down. I guess we don't land him. eh;
 Hes guilty, I replied, brifily. He was lying, and so was his sister
 The attorney for the prosecution look ed me over out of the slits of hls eyes, but 1 didn't say any more' When court reconvened he asked for an adjournment until the next day. and the judge granted
 "Ou the following morning he had in court the janitor of the apartment house in which the prisoners sister lived. The ianitor testified that the prisoners s sister had not been in her fiat from noon until late at night on the day of the sandclub- ping.
 While the janitor was on the stand a detective walked into the courtroom Wltii the loot from the tewelry shop. He had found 1t in a search of the prisoners slS- ters' apartment that morning.
 That settled the case. Of course. The prisoners sister broke down and con- fessed that she had been endeaVorlng to shield her brother.
 over ten years ago in Chicago re- ported the trial of an actress. who was accused of having shot her husband Wno was also her manager. She was an ob- scure star and scintillated with one night-stand road company of the Ten Nights in a Barroom variety
 "She was indicted for assault with in- tent to kill Her husband told his story. He had no witnesses. but I knew that the man was telling the truth, as ] took the notes. despite the fact that he had a shifty eye and a hang-dog air about him. His voice had the on-the-level ring.
 "'The woman was strikingly handsome and A mighty smooth proposition. l nev- CT saw her act. but she must have been pretty good at that work, to judge from Ter acting on the stand ,-.,-.
 "She got them all going right away from the minute she opened her mouth She told how she had stood Tour long : years of abuse on the part or her hus- tk4d. and she wept honest-and-trdly sa- line tears, and lots of them, during this mart of her narrative The jurors. most of them elderly men, glared Vengefully at her husband and the attorney Tor the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
BETRAYED BY VOICES
L1-Rs UNABLE TO DECEIVE THE
 STENoGRAPHER'S EAR.
The Ring in the Tone of Witness Who is Not Telling the Truth Theory Proved to Be
 True.
New York Sun

New York Sun
 Any shorthand man who has been doing court reporting for d long time can tell almost infallbly by his sense of hearing, whether prisoner or d Wlt- ness is telling the truth. said a court stenogra pher who has grown gray Tn making and transcribing pothooks Tn CIVIL and criminal cases. It comes from ex- perience combined with the abnormal de VoIopment of the sense of hearing when all first rate court and parliamentary stt taogra phers possess.
 ..You know how abnormally the remain ing senses of blind folk are deVelopeu' particularly their sense of hearing Well it's the same way with the court snort hand man, after he's hammered away at that sort of work for a good many years
 His ears become as sensitive to the slightest infections and fntonatlons or the human voice as a phonograph roller' the tone of man or woman who's lying in court that the stenographer catches when the shrewdest judges. lawyers or jurors quite fail to catch it.
 "NVhPn he's got his head bent over his notebook he feels the jarring false note In ihe voice of the liar every time, no nllttcr how plausible and convincing the testimony in itself may sound. So ire u,iently have l tested this idea in the mast fifteen years or so that l have come tn accept it as certain, when that almost .indisting guishable false tremolo is absent from the tone of a witness voice, that tba witness is telling the truth.
 "A few years ago l reported the trial of T young Harlem chap who was ac- cused of having sandclubbed a Third Avenue ieweler in his store, and of loot inc inc establishment The young fellow w. eood-looklng. intelligent, with face as frank as an eight-day clock and an easy, candid winning manner.
 ri looked the young chap over before tb, trial began. and l decided that the accusation against him was outrageous. When the witnesses testified that t1ey' | seen him coming out of the store strained my ears to catch the false in! in. there. - r,sn was permitted to go on the stand in r.s own behalf. l was astonished to ind
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
STAGE TRAGEDIES
SOME PARTICULARLY PATHETIC
 CASES RECALLED.
First Instance on Record in l73o Peg Wellington Stricken While Playing Rosalind-Plausibie
 Jack Palmer's Death.

It is not often that real tragedy m the way of actual death, takes place on the stage, yet there have been some particularly pathetic cases. just now brought more forcibly to mind by the tragic taking off of young actress at the Lyceum Theatre in Birmingham, who last week as she went on the stage to sing "Dolly Grey" the refrain of which is Good by, Dolly. l must leave you. though if breaks my heart to go," fell forward on to the footlights dead.
 In looking over stage history 1t is found that the first instance on record or death actually upon the stage occurred in t735 when an actor named William Bond, who took the part of Lusignan in Vol taire's "Zaire," expired in full view or the audience His acting of the old Christian was superb. and in the second act, on discovering his long, lost chil- dren, he tainted away. The audience, thinking 1t to be a magnificent piece of acting, redoubled their applause and the house rang with cries of Bravo! Bravo! He remained in that state so long. how ever. that both actors and spectators be- came uneasy. He was raised from the floor and with difficulty uttered the next lines of his part. which, prophetically 1t would seem, chanced to bo My son! My daughter! Lost in embracing you. would now die. lest this should prove a dream and died with the last gasp of the lines
 Charming Peg Wellington received her death summons while playing Rosalind in AS You Like it." being stricken with paralysis. though she fingered for three years before her final exit from the worlds stage. A few years after the satirical Samuel Foote. like the popular Peggy, was seiz- ed with paralysis while on the stage Harley. the comedian was playing Bot tom when he was seized by the same deadening disease and died in a few hours. his last words being Il have an
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so omit was as tight a circumstantial cfaln as eyer l saw woven. and l was a good deal worried about the case.
 Well on the second day of the trial, two Philadelphia druggists. who had ap- parently been so sound asleep that they hadn't heard anything about the case came forward and swore that the dead man had been in the habit of taking to their certain knowledge. and that they had often sold him the stuff on prescrip- tions. Right on top of this d few more Philadelphans woke up and came to the front with testimony to the effect that the deceased had talked gloomily to them of his business affairs and had mentioned suicide as his only way out of the slough.
 "That knocked the underpinnlng from the case against the accused wife of the dead man, and when it went 10 the jury verdict was returned for her.
 Most experienced parliamentary re- pol ters, too. develop this faculty of being able te pin the liar to the stick, tigur- atively speaking, by the sound or ms vc!ce l and the head official reporter or the Legislature of Western State who visited me. while ago. were comparing notes on this subject, and he told me an illustrate experience that came his way couple of years before.
 "The newspapers of the State had cperly charged clique of legislators oi Icing implicated Tn q bribery job, ana when UnSSe dCCuSdtlOnS bttAiiiC piS'tS hot the king pin of the accused lot arose one day to a question of privilege and started in on an eaborata and eloquent attempt to clear his skirts and those 1t his pals in with him on the deal.
 " He was all the money the way ne went about it. my friend the oficlal reporter told me. and I don't believe l ever saw the You-wrong- business worked with better effect. The great big wet tears rolled down his cheeks as he told how he had been outraged and abused by the State press. and when he got right well hit up so to speak. on this line, he was in pretty fair way to win out even the opposition, so telling were his ords and manner.
 But I knew as I scrbbled up my notebook that he was lying like an S9- cent watch He was about one-sixteenth of note off the key and had the shaky. out-of-tune ring in his tones that us fellows become familiar with.
 " When he sat down, however. he seemed to be all to the good so far as sauaring himself and his chums was con cerned, but on the very next morning one of the papers that had been foremost in making the bribery accusations came out with unanswerable documentary proof that this eloquent individual was a bribe- taker and a liar. He resigned his seat in an alleged huff, and ducked prosecu- tiOn.'"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
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November Is. 1sss while playing prem. inent part in The Christian" in Viola Aliens company. She belonged to an eld theatrical family and was only g years old at the time of her death.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16

The estimated population of Havana for De- cember last was 27l 363, of whom 72,492 were coloTed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16
SHOES.

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The daily sentinel., 1902-05-14
Attempted Assault.

Clement Snow, young hired man em-
ployed by r. q. Peak. who resides on
the old j. A. Lay ton ranch on Orchard
mesa, was arrested this morning on
warrant sworn out by Mr.. Peak, father
OF child 5 years old, charging him with
attempted rape upon the person OF the
child.
Suspicion was aroused yesterday from
the actions ct the child and Uhen the
little one was questioned for information
she gave the details OF the disgusting at
tempt. DR.. e. F. Eldridge was called
last evening and made An examination
but found no disastrous injuries result
ing from tho attempted assault.
SNOW has been looked upon as good
workman and no idea was entertained
that he would attempt such dastardly
work. he was placed under arrest BY
the shsriffs of1ce and brought to the
county jail.
The daily sentinel., 1902-05-14

The Sunday school convention OF Mesa
county held its opening session at Fruita
last night. There WAS a fairly good at
tendance for the opening meeting, but
the number was more than doubled at
the meetings today. A large number OF
people from this city went down, many
of them taking their lunch, in accord
ance with the suggestion Of the arrange
ment committee for general basket
dinner as a social feature. The last
meeting Of the convention will oe held
this evening.
The daily sentinel., 1902-05-14

There will be a social and roll call Of
all members OF the First Christian
church Tuesday evening, may 20. at the
church op the corner OF White avenue
and 9th. street All members and their
immediate friends are invited. A good
time is anticipated.