Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-02
ACTOR SEIZED MY
PURSE AND 5000,
CHARGES WOMAN
Leading Man at Local Theater Is
Locked Up, Accused of
Grand Larceny
FIND MONEY IN WIFE'S WAIST
Police Bombarded with Shake
Spearean Lines When They
Arrest lack Golden
FIND MONEY IN WIFE'S WAIST

A CCUSED of snatching purse con-
I'd tanning $2100 in gold from an aged
a woman in her apartments at the
Alexandria hotel within sight and sound
of hundreds of guests and attendants
Saturday, Jack Golden, actor, who
played Mace Greenleaf's part in. "Frou
Frou" at the Nielsen theater last
week, was arrested with his wife
by Detective Carroll yesterday shortly
after they had purchased tickets
to Chicago from the agent at the
Arcade depot. Two thousand dollars
was found pinned inside the womans
waist. Golden told the police that
Sheridan was his right name, and that
years ago he had figured prominently
in the ring under the name of Jack
Donovan. He was charged with grand
larceny.
Mrs. S. A. Brooks, an aged and
wealthy widow, prominent in philan-
thropic work, staying at the AleXan-
dria hotel, is the woman who notified
the police that she had been robbed
by Golden, or Sheridan.
The actor and his wife created a
scene at the police station shortly after
through his hair, and in denunciation
of the detectives quoted lines from
Shakespeare, while his wife, a comely
and buxom blonde, tainted and recov
cred at intervals The couple had no
money outside of the sum they admit
having taken from the Santa Barbara
woman. Golden recently played on the
Pantagis circuit in one-act comedy
called professional Jealousy" and
has appeared at the Princess theater,
San Francisco in prominent roles. He
has been on the stage seventeen years.
CALLS 1T A LOAN
Golden does not deny having taken
the money, but claims it was a loan
and says he slipped a receipt under
Mrs. Brooks door. The alleged theft
took place late Saturday night after
Golden and his wife had made propo-
sition to the widow that she finance
volved In opening a moving picture
show in Sacramento.
Golden. had known Mrs. Brooks sew
eral weeks, having heard of her charf-
table acts. AS he and his wife were
hard up, he visited her daily with
money-making propositions, until the
moving picture show appealed to her
and she finally agreed to loan him the
money, with the consideration that he
p
con 'ract agreeing to her terms. Golden
called at her apartments for the money,
which she offered him in the form of
a check He objected to indorsing the
paper and requested to have the money
turned over to him in cash.
Mrs. Brooks cashed the check and
returned to the room in the hotel with
the $21OO in gold in her purse. "Where
is tie contract?" she asked him.
Golden, according to her statements.
paid no attention to her remark, but
rudely snatched the purse from her
grasp and fled from the room with
his wife. Stunned. the old lady sank
into chair and did not recover suf-
ficiently to notify the police until an
hour had slipped by.
In the meantime Golden had pur-
chased his wife several bits of finery,
paid his hotel bill at the Sherman
hotel, Fourth and Spring streets, and,
according to the police. was making
a hasty getaway to Chicago when
they caught him.
HE NEEDED THE MONEY
"This is merely mistake in what
Mrs. Brooks calls a contract" said
Golden in his cell at the city prison
yesterday. II am an actor | admit
took the money, but l needed it. We
have had hard season and hardly
any salary. l have played the roles
of Hamlet and Othello, and have made
good in the best companies playing
out of New York"
Golden, when interviewed by news
paper men, spoke glowingly of his
accomplishments on the stage and in
the prize ring. He showed them scars
on his hands and face and neck, which
he said he received while fighting
when a younger man through the
east and in England. The sporting
ANIMALS, however, fail to mention him.
Mrs. Golden is almost PROSTATE at
the city Jail. Her one thought seems
to be for her two children in Chicago.
"We've had a hard season." she
said Poor pay, sometimes none. 1
want to see my babies if 1 get out
of here. We did not intend to rob
Mrs. Brooks. We wanted to see the
babies first and then start in on the
moving picture business
Mrs. Brooks after arranging for the
prosecution, will leave for her home
in Santa Barbara.