The San Francisco call., 1903-01-10
WANTS HUSBAND
BEHIND THE BARS
Maud Amber Gets War
rant for Spouse's
Arrest.
Says That Puerl Wilkerson
Threatened to Take
Her Life.


Maude Amber, leading lady at Fisch-
ers Theater has invoked the aid Of the
courts 10 protect her from violence she
fears ar the hands Of her husband. Puerl
Ynkerson. She swOre 10 a warrant
charging him with having threatened
her life before Judge Fritz last evening,
and until late into the night a score Of
policemen were searching the town 10
take him into custody
Jealousy a beautiful actress. a pretty
chorus girl. an irate husband. a timid
actor and an explaining manager are the
principals I'm this real life drama, which
is making things hum dangerously in and
around Fischer's Theater. Miss Amber
has sought the protection Of the police
from her husband because he is sparring
around TO secure control Of a diamond
ring De claims TO have loaned her. and in
this sparr.ng she Processes 20 see grave
danger lurking.
Manager sam Friedlander is out with
stIaVe expIarations. and winnie Blake.
The handsome and Well-prop0ruoned
leading man. took for a time to the tail
tirnbcrs back in The Berkeley hills
Miss Amber and her husband are in
v,lved iu the thrCes Of matrimonial
eCuabblc. Somebody told Blake that ne
was the cause Of II aH and that WIKI
crson was cunning for him. He forthwith
made The highest pinnacle or the Coast
racse las objective point only TO return
when he got the tip that the danger
point had passed
Puerl Nukcrson has been out on the
read as the manager Of the "F1ddle-Dee-
Dee" road show lie and Maude Amber
have been husband and wife for sixteen
wears Miss AmbeTs friends explain
that she was very Young when she mar
ried him The couple were as happy as a
uafr Of clans al high tide until Wilker-
son went away recently as manager OF
tle "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" road show
There was a rather enhancing, good
lcol-fnz weII-eGllcated chorus girl in the
road show. and the company did not play
many stands before Miss Amber received
a letter from one Of her friends IN the
company which aroused her ire
The show was on the road q few weeks
longer and when MilkerSOn returned TO
the CITY be had a stormy session with his
wife By way of appeasing her wrath
he gave her a diamond ring, and all was
again happy. WilkersOn promised TO dis
charge the chorus girl over whom there
had been so much talk. and the incident
vas supposed 10 be closed But II was
not. The company had not been out long
when Miss Amber found out that her
rival was still with the show, and she
wrote TO her husband and told him to dis
charge her forthwith or there would be
all sorts OF hair flying around.
Vgillzerson wrote back that he could not
discharge the girl. as she was valuable
member Of the company Miss Amber
COf naughty and wrote to her husband,
saving that chorus girls were never too
valuable TO be discharged.
To make matters worse, the very self
same chorus girl came back to the city A
few days ago and purchasing stage
box at Fischer's sat and grinned at Miss
Amber-positively grinned at her.
Miss Amber's rage then knew no
bounds She sent for Manager Friedland-
er and requested that the hated rival be
sI-mmarilv removed from the box. This
Marager FriedlanGer could not do, and
Miss Amber then served notice on the
management that if the young woman
was allowed 10 purchase seats in the
theater again she would take off her COS
tune, don her street attire and leave the
thearer forever and a day And that is
the low down of the row at Fischer's.
Miss Amber's friends are sorry that
anybody else namely Winfield Blake, has
been drawn into IT, for they claim it
works an unjust injury TO Miss Amber's
r. reputatIon Miss Amber threatens to sue
foT divorce. and she has evidently made
az her mind TO do IL. for in addition TO
saying 80 she thoroughly demonstrated
her anger by returning a beautiful $3.50
ECalskin coat her husband gave her for a
Christmas present.
Puen Wilkerson made the following
statement Cf LIS side Of the theatrical
matrimonial controversy yesterday morn
ms
There is nothing In that story that was
cunning Tor Blake / have nothing against
nim and da not hold him in any way re-
sro-ssIh-e for the trouble that has ooctsrr-s
II Is some one higher up than ne is. There
s1t any use ID mentioning names. but then
] don't care-Frledlander Is the man who has
Decn poisoning nay wife's mind against me
Hes Jeallus ~ nay work
i'l tell gou how it all got hack
from spokane Wednesday and went 70 Ffscher's
o. rec my U8fe. ! met her when she was com
Ing OF The stage and said. Maudv [ want
sou To- come over t. Techaus with me after
the show "a talk over few things she
Ealu Fl con Z want TO talk with YOU What &
81 you want? ] told her I wanted some /
honey. and she said Il haven't got anv
money -hat belongs 10 YOU Then / asked ha,
ior a stx-carat diamond ring that had loaned
aer. and she cleared out
went out TO the Office and Trie5lsndar /
same running out with a card He said.
"Mies AmbeTs lawyer viii see YOU told
alm ] didn't want 70 see any LAWYERS and
then De asked me II 7 carried gun.
lola nm always aid, and pulled II out
and gave IL 10 him. Pretty soon the LAWYER
man named Humphrey. came running ont
and said Your wife is going 10 get q divorce
from you replied that she could get All
he divorces she liked. but that I wanted nv I
sN-carat diamond ring and my money He
told me ] wouldn't get either
That is all there was TO IL. I never had
any idea about shooting any One-Blale least
y all Last night fThursday) my friend
and went out 10 the Chutes Tor a