The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-05-10
MONEY NO OBJECT
NAN PATTERSON REFUSES
BIG SALARY TO GO. ON
THE STAGE.

Offered $500 Week-Lawyer
Goes to the Tombs and Guar
antees the Girl an Engage
ment for Thirty Weeks.
New York, May IA lawyer
was introduced to Nan Patterson in
the tombs today by her lawyer,
Daniel O'Reilly.
Miss Patterson" said this call.
| er, "I have client who stands
ready to deposit $4,000 in cash as
a guarantees to fulfill 30.week con-
tract to put you into vaudeville in
a new sketch. He will hand you
! 81, 900 advance and start you on a
salary Of $500 a week in three
weeks. I'll sign the papers now
this minute"
The girl clutched at the bars of
the prison door and held on tight,
as if she was afraid of falling.
"Nol It's hard to believe you"
said she. "You sort ofstunned me
at first. I am through with the
stage. I've seen enough of it.. A
friend sent his card today. On it
was written: I knew you when
you were baby, and I wish to see
you again.
Maybe that has something todo
with nay determination not to go on
the stoge-maybe not; but I wa
so glad some one remembered me
as baby. I was SO glad that I
wouldn't, couldn't let that man see
me as I am.
81 don't want all that money. /
a m not going to sign any contracts.
Pm going home to my mother, and
begin all over again, be a baby, for
ljust as long as lean"
"Forty-fye thousand dollars is a
Hot of money" /" suggested the law
i yer for the theatrical Arm.
Not enough tobuy what / want. "
i she Answered. s " AIT Ii, go aa aae
and see my mother. Pm not going
to sign any contracts.
| New York, May THE Baror.
ess Caroline Won Rogue, mother OF
Florence Mayhrick, arrived on the
steamship Il Touraine to day and
left for Washington to give her tes.
timony in her suit against D. w,
Armstrong and others to recover
, possession of certain lands. The
baroness is broken in health. Only
twice during the seven days voy.
r age from Havre did she leave hel
). cabin.
r Mrs. Maybrick was at the pier tt
: greet her mother. 1t was the frs
time they had met since Mrs. May
Q brick left France after being re
: leased from prison. The baroness
q was deeply interested in the Mar
d Patterson case.
i "The English papers are full o
o it," she said. "They make mucl
+ fun of American laws. They criti
y else the opera bouffe mannef il
which the poor girl was tried ant
o ridicule the methods employed her
q in all murder cases."
pl Mrs. Maybrick took, hr motbe
), to hotel for the night and toda
o they left for the capital. They viii
g confer with their attorneys ther
IL and on Tuesday go to Richmond
It wheresthe baroness has filed her &C
ton against Armstrong.
l. Cincinnati, May 2.-James J
u Jeffries, champion heavyweight pug
,r Hist. will retire flom the prize rim
b and from the stage and go int
D. business with his brother Jack i
ID California, accordingto statemen
g made by him today to the Times
le Star. He will leave the stage O
d May Is, arrangements having bee
n made to cancel all engagements a
IS ter that date.
d Jefries takes this action at th
l. request of his wife. In addition
4. he says that pugilism does not pay
IS Immediately after his preser
y weeks engagement in Cincinnati
v the role of Davy Crockett, Jefrie
ID will go to Chicago and fill an er
GO gagement of one week there. Th
u will be his last public appearance
he He made the following statemsr
in to Times-Star representative:
~ Il may possibly take trip I
ID Europe with my wife, after which
le am going into the mining busine!
IL with my brother Jack, and I sha
re hereafter devote my time to it. II
ut principal reason for my retirir
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