New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-14
ACTORS THROAT CUT.
noIICE ARREST NEWSBOY.
corouer Beiepes Louis De LANCE
Victim of Brutal Murder.

lie he LANCE. at one time leading actor with
- raw Templeton. and author OF The Little
Sweet Anne Page and several other
- was found dead yesterday. with his throat
~ his room at Mock's Hotel. No. las West
90 s,-eet Whether he committed suicide or
murdered is pulling detectives Of the West
s7th street stauoh'
,.,ectives Braun and Quinn of the West
=, street station arrested the young man
- they say. was the person last seen with
r,nre before HIS death. His name is Sam
us-rnan q newsboy. seventeen years old OF
y q East Sd street. He was arrested at the
- Of Broadway and aga street, where he
N. pspers. he admits talking with De LANCE
= monday night but denies going into the
-, with him. The porter OF the hotel identi-
s,s him al the station the young man who
-. with De LANCE. He was charged with being
suspicious person
me dead man was found by his brother. Alex
,rser Clark De Lange, an actor known as
Alexander Clark. who has rooms adjoining. His
,,se told him that she heard noises in his broth
er's room.
m opening the door Clark found his brother
wing on the bloody carpet beside the bed, the
.,,.hes Of which were also stained A few feet
s-on the body lay an ivory handled razor COW
80 hours when found.
The police examined the room and body. and
:, frst reported the case a suicide but Coroner
ssnay. who also made an investigation, found
-.eson 10 doubt that theory.
wrs Clark. De Lange's sister-in-law, helped
% corroborate the coroneTs theory by a state
,rsrt m which she said she heard De LANCE and
another man talking loudly in his room about
,.clook yesterday morning and that the former
said oh God, don't do THAR
She SAYS she was alarmed at that, and went
INTO the hall where she saw a thickset. dark
vnung man going rapidly downstairs. He seemed
,-toEioated. AS she heard no more noises from
DLsnges rooms she went to sleep and did not
,.uher husband until several hours later.
Coroner Shrady learned that De LANCE visited
MS wife who plays under the name Of Selma
Nanter al Weber's, early in the evening. Mrs.
De Lange and her son have been staying on
Long Island for the last week De LANCE went
later 10 see The College Widow" at the Grand
Opera House. He returned 10 his hotel in
company with the unknown young man at l
o'clock The porter says the man looked Ike
bartender. They went upstairs and later went
10 the cafe where they drank heavily.
About . 80 o'clock they left the hotel and re-
turned II cab an hour later, when they both
went 70 De Lange's room. The unknown man
IA. tho hotel shortly after but returned again
NAMED only a minute This Information
was furnished the coroner by Stephen Lsgo-
dlHsky. q porter al the hotel.
Alexander Clark examined his brothers eff
fsrs and found that a valuable gold watch and
some money were missing. A waistcoat was
also gone. The porter says that the unidentified
mar carried a bundle under his arm when he
lst the hotel the second time.
Mrs. Louis De LANCE, or Selma Manten,
sFooned when she learned that her husband was
dead and was taken 10 her mothers home in a
historical condition. She could not help the
coroner IL solving the mystery
De LANCE was the dead mans real name al
though he was sometimes called Moss, from
Isssc NJ Moss a Philadelphia stationer who
ssopted him when q child. He was graduated
trr The University Of Pennsylvania as a
dntist but abandoned that profession against
b. wishes Of his adopted father 10 go on the
sage
Dr. O'Hanlor performed an autopsy on the
body last night and found that Moss died from
loss Of blood According TO detectives this ap-
pears 10 Eubstanriete the suicide theory, TOT
Moss could have called for help II ne was slowly
bleeding 10 death. Il was also learned that the
door 10 Noss's room was locked from the INSIDE
e. the time he was found