Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06

the extraordinary statements | have made
There was an audible sigh of relief, the
stranger prepared and drank another whisky
and seller. The guests looked at each other
as those awakening from dream; a sickly
smile was observable here and there, but no
one said word. And the stranger resumed :;
First, | am not maniac, nor detective
but an actor. | am at present giving imper
sonatons on the vaudeville stage at keith's
We have very good bill this week, and l hope
you will all try to get around and see it
Now, as to my allegations. l shall retract
none of them, but give you what may per
hapS be an interesting example when they are
called by another name.
" In regard to the murder and cannibalism
of Mr.. Chapwood and Mr.. Graves, l will simply
put it to them if they did not dine on roast
beef last evening, or upon some other sort of
flesh; and II their unfortunate victim did not
have its throat cut. just as | said, by hired
assassins, otherwise known as butchers, out
side the city?
Mr.. Garner really does do that with which
l charged him, although the dope in his case is
merely this same Scotch, to the excellency of
which | can attest.
Mr.. McFarland's arson is real enough, al
though the property he destroys by COM
bustion, and which he loves to sit and watch
as it burns, consists in his own good cigars and
those of his friends; and | will not take back
what | said either. that his pleasure in this
crime is in proportion to the value of the prop
erty burnt.
mr.. Banbridge, l happen to know. is an
amateur author. | will not give his nom de
plume away, but | have had the pleasure Of
reading two or three of his sketches and they
are ingenious. The name he FORCES is that of
the fictitious person who lends him his pen
name.
Now, as to the terrible charge which laid
at the door of our host, to wit That he often
visits the house of certain lady, whom he
would decline certainly to make his wife, that
he publicly embraces and attectlonately kisses
her, and that too IN the presence of one of his
daughters, and that he has lodged her for DAYS
at a time under his roof. | am quite sure that
he himself will deny item of the allegation,
when say that the lady in question is one of
his daughters
Even as to my statement that one of you
IS going to die, think was wholly within the
bounds OF truth. | might have said with equal
truth that you all will die, only the observation
was more dramatic when brought it down to
a single individual | did not say when this
death was to occur
g may add in conclusion, gentlemen, that
1t was mad freak of the moment that induced
me to come here as | have. l was passing the
place to my hotel, when | was arrested by the
chance remark of your host. Upon the i'm
pulse of the moment l accepted. 1t was like
wise the inspiration of the occasion that sent
me off in the fantastic direction l have taken
with you. | bid you good night
Not so fast; not so fast - cried Bainbridge
springing up and grasping the actors hand.
BY ginger! You are trump! Say, l was
scared pea green. But it's all right; it's all
right! We're game Ell, boys? Wen take our
medicine, no2'
'Sure!' was the general response.
And I'll tell you. Mr.. Desforges, we are
going to see that show of yours! Look out for
six Of us. Well take all the lower boxes, and
bring the ladies'
night or SO later, Desforges, at the con-
clusion of his act, was the recipient of monster
bunch of flowers. accompanied by card, upon
which was written:
From the criminals"