Show SATIRICAL STRAIN OF HUMOR william winter wrote of edwin booth peculiarities as he H had observed them at times time booths humor was wa satira eat when leaving a church in ID roeton boston after the funeral of the eminent essayist idylet and critic edwin percy whipple obsequies which he had attended in company with lawrence barrett and at that blends suggestion and during alch abich he had been annoyed as well as an amused by the convulsive facial contortions of 0 the officiating lating clergyman he h remarked to barrett 1 I knew mr whipple but I 1 never expected I 1 should shoud be so sorry to attend his funeral when a stage struck lunatic named ld carlt ar dray gray attempted to murder him in n chicago at a performance of king richard IT II april 2 1879 at mevi kers theater firing at him twice with a pistol from a place in the second balcony booth calmly advanced to the front of the stage and pointing at the madman directed that he be seized and then after a brief absence from the scene to reassure his wife composedly finished his performance later ho ho caused one of t the he bullets to be extracted from a piece of s scenery where it had lodged and had it mounted as a charm tor for his watch chain inscribed bed to edwin booth from maroc mark I 1 gray that sinister relic he customarily wore william winter in colliers weekly |