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Show Jintll a drmpery would b thrown ftr It. Thn Lfytte would b dlcovrMl In th Don't pi (.. A almllar trick wu done with nors. tn animal tnat pr-lhd pr-lhd with Ita maater. who triad to aava It. Tha Dally Mail aaya that Lafayatta waa born In Loa Angelea. Thta lattar atate-mant. atate-mant. howvrar, la at variance with ta atory puhliahed In Variety In a apectal eahia from London. Tha article In Variety Va-riety la aa followa: " London. May 1. Diitinc a perform -anoa at the Empire Palace theatre at Edinburgh laet night the hooaa waa completely com-pletely deatroyed by Are. and eeveral ar-tlata ar-tlata and etaare handa loat their Uvea. Owlna to the prompt lowering of the fire Death ol "The Great Lafayette" in Theatre Fire Rmfhds SaTt Lakers of Famous Bow and Arrow Swindle curtain, the names did not extend to the auditorium. Today eleven bodies were recovered, among them that of the Great Lafayette and two member of his company playing tnere. They are Alice Dale e-nn Joe Coater. Among the others wsre two members of the orchestra. orches-tra. . "The Great Lafayette waa a German t Hebrew, born at Munich about 1171. and , named Slegmund Newberger. Hla father aerved with distinction In ths ervll wsr - and obtained an offleer'e rmnk In the union forces. When the war waa over the father, --although an American cttl-sen, cttl-sen, returned to hla home town, and later died there. One brother, who lives now In Parle, aurvlvee the deceased. Some time ego Lafayette legally adopted hla stage name, Hla wealth la eetlmated at around 9100, see. Although of big money earning capacity. be was a liberal speeder. His aalary la the Enstlah halls waa 92000 weekly, n tremendous amount for that oOuntrv. Last Beet msod. Rig Qof. About ten daya ago Lafayette'e dog Beauty, to which he waa greatly attached, at-tached, died on the other aide. Lafayette Lafay-ette held more affection for the animal a than for any riving thing, cabling- over here at the time. 'My beet friend died today.' "It waa about four years ago that the ahowman. (for Lafayette mvui a showman rather than an artist or an aetor) left ' the United States for England. At first Expert Got Up Big Pool to Bet He Could Shoot Better Than a 'Rifleman. 'Rifle-man. But Po ke Pre- " vented Fake Match. a The trade death of "The Oreal Lafayette," Lafay-ette," two membeea of hla oompany and eeveral othera In the burnt nf the Palace Pal-ace thratre at Edinburgh, Hoofland, oa the nlht of May haa brought to the mlnde of a number of Rait Lake people' one of the ireateet "film flam" (amea that wna eve. ai tempted In the weet end one which led to the arreet o4 at leaat a half dosen pereona. antonf them "Lafayette." "La-fayette." oa the charge of coneptrary. It waa tha old etory of a euro thtflg bet with the surlier on tha long end. It waa alung tn the early part of May, 1(194, .that a "gentleman" arrived In Salt Lak dry He met a Halt Jaker to whom he unfolded a etory of Arranging "THE OREAT LArATETTB." meeting with failure, his showmanahlp finally brought tha Britons aroMnd until they marveled at hla work upon the stage, recognising that' In Lafavetta they were aeetrui new type (to th4m) of a muah hall artist. With the tide turned In hla favor, T. O. made money fast. Ha -occupied a maneton la London for some time. The Interior was furnished magtilflrwntly and waa a town alajht to thoa who had entree. "For many yea re tha Geeat Lafayette traveled with hie own ehow In the Vnltod fltatee, prartlcally Tlvlne; the entire en-tire performance hlmaelf. His last; manager man-ager on an American tour was Jamee C. Matthews, now a vaudeville aent tn Chtcaam At the conclusion of thst road trip Lafayette gave mora attention to vaudeville, appearing la the various first claaa theetree over here, until deciding to visit England. Previously ha had played In vaudevll) at the ending of the regular road eeaeon, usually In thoaa daya topping the Mil upon a percentage. It waa tn this way that Lafayette turned tha errrle under Percy O. Will lam V management man-agement from a failure Into tha auccesa which founded Mr. Wtulame preeent Colonial. Co-lonial. "Though Lafayette had hla little pa-cullarltlee, pa-cullarltlee, with pronounced llkee and dislikes, he waa a eound man. one of tbe beet showmen - who ever stood la two ahoea, and a firm friend. for a great novel exhibition at Belts lr A ft si some negntlaitona It was found that ( he coat of the proposed exhibit would be too much. The stranger. La fayette, ihen told Glhhe that he was an expert with the bow and arrow and that he wou'd Mke to arrange a match with some expert rifleman. In a few testa he demonstrated his ability with the bow and arrow All that he wanted waa to have the man "behind the gun" shoot at Aiumm hair ewtnging with a little weight at the end of It and he would shoot at it with a bow and arrow. He f roved that he could hit the hair by a Ittle trick of turning? the arrow aide weya Juat about tha time that Lt would reach the hair. . , Eiflc Expert ArrlTwi. He demonstrated rWhat he coutd do to the sailaractlnn of thoee who witnessed his private demonstration. All that waa needed waa someone to take the rifle and of It. During the latter'part of July. 184. there arrived In Halt Lake City one AI Purey. a Ilea AI Wood. He had heard that ihere eras a .man In Halt Lake City who claimed to ne an expert wih the bow and arrow. He said he waa an expert ex-pert with the Hfle and waa ready to back ! all kind a of money thai he could shoot I better and etreighter with a rifle than any man that ever shot an arrow from a bow. Bv some at ra nge a nd mystic telepathy aystem tha bow and arrow artist ar-tist tearaed of the presence of the rifle artist In the clry and Immediately gnt limits of Rait Lake City. Two, e treats wsre made on the night of August J and early tn the morning of August Is. IrM The men wer arraigned In the police po-lice rari two days later and hi default of 13000 hall were sent to the territorial prison for safekeeping, the feeling against them being so high that this waa considered con-sidered the aafe method. There were numerous hearings, hut the Vict I me refused to come .forward and proaecute. with tha result that tha prte-onera prte-onera were finally disc barged. IeAfajana'i Riaw la World., Among those who are said 4o have been the victims of the clever little game were some of Halt Lake'a beet knoern men. The bets consisted of cash, checks, dla-mood dla-mood a. wmtchee and whatever the 'vtc-tlme" 'vtc-tlme" could get that waa worth anything and would go Into the general pot oa "the aura thing." Later the biageet part of tha "pot" waa returned to its owners on showing: that they were the owners of It. After the discharge of the eJIered eoe-splratora eoe-splratora they left this city. Furey Is said to have been In thla city but a few VKnnths ago. bait the others have given aft Lake City a wide berth. Within a few veare after the Bait Lake City. Incident 1efayett commenced td rise lo the wor'd. He toured tha larger dttea of the eaat as a head liner In vaudeville vaude-ville and later went to Europe, where he made a Ma hit. Commenting on hla death the Dally Mall of London, after ouey arranging aura thing beta for his friends. Within a few days mora than fsoOe had been roe ted on the bow and arrow artist, with the understanding that It had all been coverM by Furey and hla friends. It later developed that not one dollar of tne money had been covered, but that the whole game waa to beat the Belt Ldtke men whu had put up their money. Cblof of Poliea PrmntM Fifca. V ' Tha match waa to have heen held at raider's perk, now Wsndaiwee. but eumeone grew suaplrfous that not- all was right and the night before the match was to have taken place Arthur Pratt, then chief of police, now warden of the I'tah state prison, ordered that every one of the ganaT that could be found be aiaced ender erreet. One of the first men to he arrested waa U. P. Welle, "the I srtlstic tsilor." who waa the e Mewed stakeholder for the gang. Hla arreet as followed a nhort time later by thet of Furey. aliaa Wood. Within the neat few hours several other members of the alleged gang. Including Charles Steele, JieJin Eddy. Cob Wuinhn and C. W. fvi era arreeted. tro or three of them at a' tha aiHoreOue raaori iuat ouwataa th r ' giving: details of the Are. said that he waa very reticent regarding hla paat; that ha waa an expert with a bow and arrow. The article then went oa to describe de-scribe his big house in bond on with a oolor acheme - for every room, with ecenee painted- In every panel. with lighting effecta for 'each. It told of his love for hie dog. hla sliver trimmed auto mobile with epecial lighting effects, of bow he had bought a plot of ground and a granite abaft for the grave of the dog;, but the cemetery offtcera would not per mil a doc to be burled In oos.secrat.od ground. MM of Hla Great Tricks. The article tn the Mall goea on to aay that he had eUty pereona In hi ct and would allow none of the regular stage hands roorvd while It wajeaotng on. One of hla favorite Illusions waa to get one of hla company to apparently Mack hla Uafayette si face In full view of the audience; au-dience; then the euppoaed aaaiatant would wheel round and fare the audience, audi-ence, and It would be leafs yet te. He would change a half doaen limes In this feehiea with different member of hla eompaay. His big act was with the Hon whk-h alao perished. The Hon would be tmapinsj aod roans arouad ibe cg |