New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-09
PLAYERS Positive of Identification
of Man Who Shot Himself
in Hotel AStOr.
ACTED WITH HIM ON COAST
MARQUIS of Queensberry De-
clares, However, His Brother is
Alive and Well-Hotel Sure
Dead Man Is a Nobleman.

| Aetor on Monday was identified yester-
dav as Lord Sholto Douglas nro'her VI
,be Narnlis of Queensberry. The ldehu-
| eoa.ior was made by Mrs. May Noole'
on actress living ut the Hudson NO
| 249 West 3Sth street. She said sne N'."
him well and had played with nm IN 'iie
! Alcazar Theatre, in san Francisco !"
soon as she saw the body I'm the under-
talip, rooms of A. Eichelbers. at NO
934 Eighth avenue, she exclaimed'
That's Douglas-that's the poor poy'
The body was identified again oy
charles +. Ulrich. an actor, living at
No. SIS West 159th street, as Maurice
Stuart, who also said he had played WIN
the dead man I'm California.
The Marquis of Queensberry' VINO is
I'm Chicago denied last night tnat the
dead man was his brother, Lord Shoi'o
Douglas. The marquis said MS prothe'
was I'm the West and was In good health'
only two days ago. the marquis sald' ne
had raceived a letter from his brother in
which Lord Douglas had spoken OF MS
good health.
0ueensberry refused to say where MS
brother was, further than that ne was
now engaged in some mining WORK III
the Far Northwest. His refusal was
based. he said, upon his disinchnaton
to bring his brother into public attention
again. He received telegram from him
on october %.
While the two identifcations' seemed
To conflict in the different names IN
fact they pieced out the story OF 'he
dead man, and in the opinion OF coroner
Eeinberg. who has the case in charge'
made the identification positive. the
Coroner said last night that with the two
identifcations he had no further DOUBT
that the man was Lord Sholto Douglas.
The Coroner himself had thought ne rec
ognized Lord Shoto when he was first
called i'm to view the body.
Wilfred d. Mills, an actor now playing
AT the Herald Square Theatre, went TO
the morgue last night. About three
wears ago. while fruit farming near Cres-
ton. B. c.. he was introduced 10 Lord
Sbolto Douglas by John Baxter ROW
land. a former British army otlcer. MI
Mills said he had met Lord Sholto only
three or four times I'd at dusk ana mus
could not be absolutely positive about
identification, but was very much IN
o,ired to believe that the body was that
Of Lord Sholto.
The undertakers last night discovered
For the first time an eight-inch dragon
beautifully tattooed on the dead man
,oe, forearm. II was evidently japanese
work.
Coroner Positive CT Identity
"1 ord sholto Douglas came 10 see me
o,,,,,+ seven wears ago. when l had an
oeoo IN Madison avenue" Coroner Fem
berg said last night. LAS retheii'per
r. no talked to me something apout
land deal and also wanted medical al
,ice 7 did not go into the land deal
and did not get the - for my medica
advice. either. l never saw LORD Shol'o
AGAIN but as soon as ] was called IN on
this case I thought l recognized the
body as that of my onetime patent
Now that these two other identificatlons
have been made / have no further
doubt"
Mrs. Mobiles story was one or circum-
stantiaI detail. Il was playing In tho
AIcazar Theatre i'm San Francisco in
1872" she said, "and at the same time
Loretta Adds was a chorus girl there.
I married Leonard J. Grover, the man
ager of the theatre. in 1894, and it was
AT lust about the time of the marriage
that Lord Sholto Douglas came TO San
| Francisco. He married Loretta Adds In
| 1895 and soon after that he was per-
| suaded to go on the stage with her. He
and Loretta appeared In one-act
sketch. and I saw him al the theatre
every night all during that season, 1896.
Loretta was billed as Lady Sholto
Douglas. and they got so much notoriety
that they were billed 10 show all over
the Pacific Coast circuit. He didn't do
much. All he did was 20 walk out on
the stage. and Loretta would introduce
him as Lord sholto Douglas, and then he
would walk off again.
! our company broke up about 1897 or
/ 1898. and then we went up TO British
Columbia on tour. II was at about that
time that | heard that Douglas took his
wife and baby-then had baby then
| TO England While we vere in British
Columbia Douglas came TO the theatre
one night and sent up his card 20 my
| husband. and we both saw him and had
quite talk with him. | understood
that he was ranching in British Column
bia at that time and that he had left
his wife and baby in England.
Il didn't see him again until about
seven years ago. when | met him in Los
Angeles. l understood that he had some
land scheme on then. but | don't know
what il was I didn't see very much OF
! him there. That was the last time saw
him until I saw his body i'm the under
takers to-day He has some streaks Of
gray in his hair now, but there is no
doubt in my mind that IL is Lord Sholto.
| am so sure Of il that If met Sholto
on the street tonight | should faint from
/ fright"
! Mrs. Noble was asked how she came TO
go TO the undertaker's to look at the
body.
Was Suspicious When She Saw Stories.
81 saw the story in the papers, she
said. "and when l saw that there was
some suspicion that it might be poor
sholto went around right away To iden-