Show AN AM ACTOR MURDERED william terriss struck down at london theater HE IS STABBED TO DEATH As he ha stepped from ills his cab to enter the stage door of 0 the adelphi theater the assassin rushed bushed at and plunged a knife into himo him lust just below the heart heartha He artHe ile undo made a second plunge but was disarmed by spectators no motive known for the crime london pelt dic IG 16 Willi william ant terris tenis tho the well know kno n actor w m ho has been playing at tho the theater in this city in the english version of 0 william sial letta jetts drama draina secret sen sc nice ice m as assassinated thim evening as ho he was en beling the stag door of 0 tho the theater by 1 a former super named archer ahm murderer rushed at the actor as ho he was stepping across ross the pavement from ills cab abid stabbed him just below the heart terri fell ell shouting amy my god hes stab ted me dont let him ea ca cap the assa aln withdrew the dagger and made a second plunge at his bin vie lim but ho he was waa seized by th ih tora tom of v m horn hom there lit Is always a crowd about tho the stage to wit witnessed nesse tho the arrival aith artl of the actors actori mr ten was placed on the landing of the stairway just inside the tha theater here he lay groaning loudly once or tn mice ice lie he attempted to pak i but it wits was impossible lie ile quickly succumbed succumb od millie surrounded by the theater astaff tho the murderer vas taken to 10 bow bom S street police station followed by an angry crowd ills his name vas mas given na as archer it 1 Is 11 1 said that lie he and boon been at a sup r at the adelphi theater several years ago and for some days h ho hos 1109 haunted the theater the motive of 0 the crime Is not yet knon A balge lai gc audience had alre almedy wily assembled for tile the evening performance perform ince and tho the manager cattle came to lo the footlights arli and announced thit that th it na as mr M r terris is had bad left with oil an accident no performance would be gl gln glien n tonight it appears that tile the assassin latt evening asked the keeper of 0 the stage entrance as to the u whereabouts hereabouts of oc 1 mr I r berrns and it his Is behavior asla aa then ar a obnoxious that harry nicholls one of the principal colleagues of sir mr ter djos as was obliged to remonstrate and toi to order him to beave th tile promises premises the sceney along the strand at this th hour v hen bell tho elie theater r closed tonight were by thit that time the th special ecil tiona of the evening papers kapf ra ell out and the notts boya boys weng wen 1 houting around the theair exits that mr terriss terries had been murdered at AC IVA the people refused to place any credence in the report but when they found that it was true horror and lit in cl ignation were expressed when arches arrived at the pollee station lie he still held the weapon ea pon apparently parent ly a butcher knife concealed b neath his cape on being charged esith murder lie he la Is reported to have replied iles hes done rae me out of the beneN benevolent this morning and I 1 am out of 0 it for or JIM the murderer was placed pl iced in 16 cell and Is under a special watch for the night the understudy of 0 the deceased actor tells a cullous story 0 of how last night he dreamed that he saw mr terris li on a landing surrounded by a crowd william Tor torrins riis vas born in london october IS 13 1851 ills his father was a kentish county gentleman and hla mother a sister of the celebrated historian hisa hilla tort a a of 0 greece the elie late george georga grote terriss was a nom ile cle plume the real name of the deceased actor being william villiam lewin laxly early in life he took to the stage lea ing it several times toi to embark lit in business bust nees but out success in he tried horse ros rals ing at lexington ky in partnership mith mr tatters when this ven fallad il luil he ha resumed ned the stage in london tills this time ho he settled down to hard nork ork and soon attracted the attention tc of the london public and press presa by his exhibition of capacity and versatility sati lity when henry irving in IM made his memorable memo ento rabla rable revival of 0 romeo and juliet J pei U M the lyceum theater ha invited mr terriss to play then thele began an association continued with the greatest to irving and the gr greatest L adest to denlas for or beven years yeara it was during IrvIng 9 first Amerl mil tour that mr air torries first appeared on the stage in this country alter after leaving the lyceum he played romeo to the juliet of 0 miss mias mary anderson for two hundred nights 14 3 then entered upon a career of 0 a star tar and save for occasional provincial onil and foreign loure had mince reigned supreme nl at the Adelph lA theater the tha leading melodramatic house in london ila he was waa the adoll of 0 the Adelph JIL pit and rill lone irig ago lind eanid ld himself to tho the mame ol of london playgoers play goers rs by his sterling terling qualities ittes as actor and man miss Ill allive Te terlsa rilas who in private life Is mn 11 ra seymour I 1 I 1 licks icks Is hla him daughter tho the murderer gives the name of oc richard arthur prince but ho he wan known at the theater as archer ahli wile wife has been employed ahert as a dresser MOT OT A foreman of a california Cali tornia jury a nesi kesi dent of hawaii riverside cal dee dec 16 john johl IT hillner tile slayer of J S durrah at banning who was convicted today of inan slaughter for muing killing his neighbor lit bi a quarrel over wall water rights right IS 1 likely afi V leacile ana another LILer and ihlia trial because of a peculiar condition of affairs which litch la is that hint george H dul dole frama of the rho jury Is a citizen ot of the haw Ilam ulan eAlan republic dole la is a brother ot of president dole of the republic and although he ha has lived here bere several years ho he has never taken out citizenship papers it Is understood that Mi livers attorneys attorney will ahk abic tor for a new trial on the grounds stated IS HOPEFUL says he ha will never be ba hanged that help Is comline I 1 san francisco dec IS 15 theodore theodora durrant in an alit antem lew jew says puya 11 1 irell novel never be hanged I 1 know that it help e p la is coming once more as it hits has always ille ale I 1 come to me before in ray my extremity I 1 tre mity this tat ement has caused a revival of the often expressed opinion that I 1 when W hen satisfied his last hope was torm eon I 1 he ha would commit it if I 1 I 1 I 1 |