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Show SAM'L OF POSEN. A Potteaniaa Kill.d Vt hlla Ha Had tha Wall-Known actitr Lail.r Aare.t. San Fuancim.0, Sept. 11. Late last night a policeman was shot in front of the nation house and killed. The prisoner pris-oner the officer had tinder arrest tried to (iscap but was captured. He turned turn-ed out to be M. 15. Curtis, well known as "Sam'! of Posen." Jle denied the shooting of the policeman. Why Curtis Cur-tis was under arrest is not known, but it is thought he was creating: a disturbance disturb-ance while under the inliuence of liquor. Curtis tells the following story of the affair: "I was at the grand opera house last night with my wife to see 15ern-hardt 15ern-hardt in "Camille." I left the theater about 10 o'clock to go to the Xivoli theater with cue of the proprietors. Win. Kreling. We drank together and I left bim to return to the opera bouse for my wife. When I reached the corner of Third and Mission streets, T r..ij sudtlenly tuiabled into the gutter, and after that I rcmomber nothing, only somebody pulling me swt-out. until J found myself in a wagou with handcuffs cn my wrists." When Curtis was' taken to jail last night be appeared to be under the influence in-fluence of liquor, and incoherently told of his doings during the night, protesting protest-ing that he had no weapons aud was innocent ot murder. Detroit, Sept. 11. Comedian "Sam'L of Posen," charged with murdering mur-dering an officer in San Francisco last night, was a Detroit boy, his name is Maurice Itertrand Slrellinger and he was born about fifty years ago. After leaving school he worked in a tobacco store three or four years as a shipping clerk. He went to Chicago afterwards and took to the stage. At tirst he was employed iu a stock company at McVicker's theater. Then he gradusted from the stock companies and played three seasons with Maggie Mitchell and three with Lawrence liarrett, always in comedy roles. With this experience ex-perience and a peculiarly funny play, "Sam'l of Posen," he was justified in embarking upon the stage on his own account. The play was a success, and he made money so rapidly that he was enabled to retire rich four years ago. |