Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-19
THE THEATER ROW.
Simmons, the Actor and Delaney, the
 Worker Fined,

Delaney, Martin Meyers and Joseph Lynch charged with assaulting Earle C. Simmons of Polls own stock com pany. Even little girls crept i'll at the door and everybody who could stayed during the entire case. Prosecutor Meigs heard so many variations of the case during the past few days that he decided to even things up by having Simmons arrested also The complaints were changed to breach of the peace. Attorney Cassidy defend ed Simmons and Attorney Minor ap- peared for Delaney. Meyers and Lynch. The facts in the case were substantially as were told in the Dem ocrat the day after the occurrence. A good deal of newspaper slush has been published about this matter from which it was evident that Simmons press agent has been taking good care of him, while he incidentally roast ed the stage hands
 The witnesses for the state were Thomas Lynch. stage hand. Maur- ice Fitzgerald, scene shifter. Grace Hayward, leading lady at Jacques, Willard Dashiell. stage manager of the company. and MT Birch, a mem Der of the company. Their story was to the effect that Simmons is model young fellow and they never heard him say a naughty word. Miss Hay ward, particularly. seemed to take great real of interest in him. judging from her own statement. for on the night of the TOW she induced him to go home with her so that she would bind up his wounds. She also antici- pated trouble and warned him. Fitz- gerald and Lynch said the row began with Simmons threatening Meyers, and calling Delaney son of an Irish Mick.
 Dashiell heard Delaney say Have you got enough:" and then the fight ing ceased. Simmons was dressed at that time as the Count of Monte Cristo." and was going to his dressing room. When going down the stairs to his room he turned and would have gone up on the stage. apparently t resume the TOW. had not Dashiell told him to wash up.
 Dr Moriarty testified that Simmons wounds did not amount to anything. Simmons own story was to the effect that the difficulty arose over a prop erty" document. a paper which as Monte Cristo' he uses in the last act. It was the duty of the property man Meyers. to furnish him with this doc ument which Monte" gives to anoth- CT character in the play. Thus it leaves his possession. Meyers story on that point was that it was his duty to furnish the document on Monday at the first performance and Simmons should take care of 1t the rest of the week. However Simmons got into dispute with Meyers about the paper and Delaney. who was acting stage manager that week in the absence of the regular manager. John Fizger- aId. overheard the hot words and ad- vised Meyers to not let Simmons strike him Whereupon Simmons threatened Delaney and called him son Of an Irish Mick. Simmons statemer about this was that he said to De laney. T would not fight with such low character of 8 Mick as you Simmons was quite stagey on the stand and once or twice Attorney Mi nor felt called upon to remind him that he was not in the theater and the court did not want any rehearsal Mr Minor referred 10 him as this idol
 Delaney. as was told in the first publication of the row in the Demo crat. admitted striking Simmons, but insisted that Simmons brought the blows on himself by his insolence and overbearing ways. Lynch. he said. was up in the flies and Meyers was
 .tz .< 10 fer the final curtain Simmons, on hls way to his dressing room. met De- lanev. and the argument that they had before the curtain went up was re- stunned The first blow was attempted bv Simmons. but Delaney was 100 oIlick and tumbled him. simmons was not kicked and no one touched him but Delaney. Simmons tried 10 show that he had been kicked in the face and hip while he was on the floor of the stage. but Dr Morisrty would not say the injuries were caus- cd by 8 kick.
 Tn the course of the arguments At- ,orney Cassidy said the reputation Of the city was endangered by the pres once of men like the accused stage hands. and Attorney Minor said in re- nIv that the reputation of the city
 ras more in danger from the presence of men ike simmons than of men who were born here and lived here ail their lives. This struck the popular ear m inc public seats and an uproar result cd.
 Judre Rurpee then discharged Ney- CTS and Lynch. finding they were not or tbe scene of the trouble He i'm noses fine of s25 and costs on De i,,ev and S5 and costs cn Simmons. T5s crowd seemed to like the imposi- .fo, of fine on the actor for there was much guffawing when the sen tence was pronounced
 po.b eases were appealed. Jean Iscoues gave bail of sl"o for Delaney. Inn, refused to give bail for simmons Tn tact if seemed as f Simmons would have ,o -o 10 the iug. for it was some fine before he secured. s bondsTnan- Deter psuhv was finally induced 10 ri~s bonds for him |,
 atter securing hail Simmons anf bts s,-o~nav left the room and walked through the alley way between harri- con avenue and Center street \ crowd os H.-la girls and boys followed mem The girls were holdsr than The ppFs s11 some of them had the sudaeIty 70 tell simmons they were soTrT he hao u0, been fined more
 Thomas Smith was fined Sla ana cos-s for fntoxicstion- John sullivan . --irter. s1G a- the alternative of me co,,n.v iail. it being bis second oiierse within a short time. John Ryan vent o, rampage st his hone last Hizht .-.. t.-ote sU the erpeksrT and con