The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-07-06
Killings Recalled BY the
Shooting Of White.
STOKES SLEW JAMES FISK.
Story Of Evelyn Granville, Once a
Famous Casino Beauty, Nan Pat
terson's Sensation.

New York June 2S-The murder of
Stamford White by Harry X. Thaw,
representing as it does the very essence
fof the life of the white lights glow, calls
up the ghosts of other tragedies that
lhave sunken into the deep shadows
which the brightest lights alone can
cast,
Not since the killing of Colonel James
Fisk, Jr., by Edward Stokes over the
beautiful Josie Mansfield, thirty four
years ago, has a tragedy of the land
which is bounded by Thespia on one side
and Bohemia on the other given cause
for peering into the shadows which fall
where the lights are brightest. Yet
since that sensational shooting of 1872,
in which two of New York's nose prom
inent men and beautiful actress fig
ured, the white lights have blinked on
countless tragedies.
As the Fisk-Stokes tragedy has its
Suggestions of similarity with the
White Thaw killing, so has the double
suicide of May Brockin and Frederick
LOvecraft its suggestion of the suicide of
Crissie Carlisle, the beautiful young ac-
tress, and Charles j. Rohs. her fiance.
May Brockin was known to the thea
trical world twelve years ago. She
created the role of Mrs. Paige in the
original production of "Alabama.' The
manager of Palmer's theatre was Fred
Ierick A. Loveeraft and the friendship of
the leading lady and the manager soon
developed into love.
| On Oct. 26 Frederick Lovecraft COM
mitted suicide. Worry over business af-
fairs was said to have unsettled his
mind
A few months later, maid knock
ing at May Brockin's door in San Fran
cisco became suspicious at the silence
within. Bursting in the door she found
the actress dead with a bottle OF ear
bolic acid by her side. She had taken
her life in the same manner as had the
man she loved
The tragedy of Crissie Carlisle is one
of those pathetic stories mortalists love
to point out with many quotations of
''the wages of sim Let the greatest sin
of the beautiful young actress, who was
the toast of the gilded youth in the land
where the white lights twinkle, was
her love of pleasure and the very es-
I sence of that life which makes the great
white way just what it is.
One day an unacceptable body was
found in the underbrush up near Ford
ham. The face was so disfgured by eX-
eide was. Nearby was an empty bot
tie which had contained carbolic acid.
A pocketbook containing three cents and
a photo of Edna May were the only pos
sessions. 1t was the photo of Edna May
that led to the suicides identification.
Crissie Carlisle always carried the ac-
tress' picture. The two girls had been
great friends.
Then the world knew that the dis
Figured woman suicide who had lain UNI
} claimed in the FOrdham mOrgue for
days was the once beautiful Crissie Car
Isle, whose acid stained lips and disco-
ored face had once been the merriest
and the prettiest along Broadway.
| Two weeks after the death of the
young actress who had found life too
wearisome at thirty, the body of man
was found in Riverside park. He had
shot himself and then taken carbolic
acid. Later it was discovered that the
suicide was Charles j. Rohs, a book
keeper at the Waldorf Astoria. He had
been engaged to Crissie Carlisle, with
whom he was deeply in love.
The story of Evelyn Granville, once a
famous Casino beauty, is even more fit
ting for the pen of the moralist than the
tragedy of Crissie Carlisle. Evelyn Gran
tNIlIt tIdNtlcu llc PAIN vi Iedf ulSSlpd-
ton, which began in the brilliant res
taurants of Broadway and on the boards
of the famous Broadway theatres, to the
workhouse.
i Eighteen years ago Evelyn Granville
was one of the most dashing beauties of
New Works theatrical life During her
theatrical success she met Burton Web
ster. bookmaker. Broker Goodwin APP
tpeared on the Webster Granville domes-
Itic scene one day and as result of the
beautiful Evelyn's acquaintance Goodwin
lost his life. Webster claimed that
Goodwin had insulted Evelyn and then
threatened him, so he shot the broker
Webster was sentenced to twenty years
at Sing Sing and the famous Casino girl
sank to the lowest depths of degrada-
ton.
More recent than the Webster Good
win murder was the shooting of Mrs.
Rose by her husband, Henry ]. Rose. ac.
tor and stage manager of the Garrick
theatre Rose went to Sing Sing for