Show 1 COULDN'T KEEP CUNNING S 'S Scientific Jail Breaker Escapes Escapes Escapes Es Es- capes From Packing Case CaseS at Orpheum Theatre t. t S I I Cunning is cunning The pIa play on onS S I the word may b be pardoned because no pun Is Intended The phra phrase e la Is u used ed In a double sense Cunning is cunning as a stage c artist and he Is 15 t cunning as a worker on his audience i I This was demonstrated last evening t. t when after atter being nailed in a bo box hox just enough to contain him Int in t It S twenty c t n minutes s' s ho made his ap- ap S r from the thc front of the house S r cd as a n policeman accompanied by br a member of or the force Coree c As ho reached the tho steps leading to thc stage ta e In policeman's costume of oft t helmet uniform and a huge huse mustache le 4 hm h lie cried In a lou loud voice This must stop It has gone far Car enough h That I man In the hi lW box may be suffocated suffocate 1 S hut But the he audience knew his voice and andu r u tL mighty might yell yeU went up from the crowd clowd tho the biggest that over packed the i Orpheum theatre in night The work of or the evening began beganY Y when Cunning called on tho the committee commit commit- 4 I f tee tee- oC at the Z C. C CM C M. M I. I packers who ha had f S'S asked ar him if IC he could get out of a aJ J i f box tho they would provide He told them S he v uld and sot t last evening for fol tho the i. i j lent When he called Jle for Cor the men who L t had hud dared him tp come forward S of that Institution Alter After little preliminary responded a 55 Cunning stepped Flopped Into the box It was wasS Il S about thirty Inches high and lon long 1 h and twenty four wide It was a heavy tl A u ease C such mch as It Is used mcd to carry carn clothIng cloth- cloth Ing reinforced by br steel bands hands a and d I I wooden cleats Before getting gelling In the S box lox Cunning requested that in naIlIng nailIng nail nail- f. f Ing the JId ld hl on It be done dono quickly He lie lieL l l. then stepped In the tho box hox stooped the themen ti men muon grabbed hammers hammersand and amid a handful of or eight penny nails nalls an and began their 1 work Probably fifty nails were driven in inthe i f the box hox from the top 01 the sides fildes and 1 nt It right angles through the lie cleats The Thc curtain was then lowered and Cunning Cun Cun- 0 1 r ping ning was left to his fate c In ju Just r twenty minutes he reap reap- from flom the tho front of the tho house T and stepped upon the platform The TheS S committee examined the tho box hox carefully and con conscientiously Not a nail was 4 ik- ik moved moored not a board splintered It was 1 Ir In the same eon condition as when It left et i tho the hands of or the he committee after arter ho he t. t wa was nailed In St The rho evenings evening's I entertainment f O as furnished by hy Cunning ma may he be sumI summarized sum sum- I In a n. remark made by hy a lady ladyS S 1 who saw It He lie got gol In and h he hd got sot gotS S 55 out But how I j It must have been gratifying to Q Cunning ng and to th the tho management to 1 S seO the the crowd clOwd that turned out oLit for the thet I attraction At S o'clock there thore t was a line extendIng from the box boxI I office fifty feet up State street At a afew at v. v t few minutes past 3 S there was not a aI aI I vacant seat scat left In the house and f S by hy 9 o'clock the crowd In th the tho rear v r or of the auditorium made marlc Ingress s and ancl 1 t egress almost Impo impossible But Bul every one was wan mystified every everyone ono one was delighted and ancl r every cry one was wasa wasI I a friend of Cunning because he had I earned carnel tho the right to the name minnie he ho boars bears and because ho po o did ld what he hc S. S S adv advertised he would do |