CRIME AND THE THE A TRIVAL PROFESSION.
Tn.E. industrious London correspondent of one the .Edinburgh newspapers; .com that Mr. Barry Sullivan, during; the oiurse of his dramatic career, bus committed 17,000 murders, or lias been killed in: battle; slain in a duel, poisoned, or fatally stabbed 9000 times; Mr. Heury Irving's record is not<iuite.so;fuli of blood : but our great tragedian has taken 10.000 lives, aud on 7000 occasions has been violently.done to death in the full glare of.the footlights. Mrs. Bancroft has bet-n foully betrayed or abducted 3200 times ; Mr Henry Neville has .3100* times been ruined in consequence of the treachery of; his friends Miss Ada Cavandish has* been betrayed, deserted, or abducted oGOO times, and is still suffering similar misfortunes; Mr. Charles Warner has 2000 times besn killed, by ardent liquors, and nas nearly as ofteu perished bv-accidents ou aea and land ;. Mrs. Kendal .has been .2000 deserted or betrayed, and has besides been basely treated 1100 times ; Mr; Kendall, bus OOOtimes fallenrdoad suddenly; aud Mr. John Clayton—to his. hoaour. be nobly b friended: ISOO miserable and - deserted' woman and subsequently married about halt of them, As tor Mr. Charles Wyndhani;, ■ i:u bn» been divorced from S!b00 wives and is i,.iv.-;in America, where: lie is continuing his i iagracoful and heartless conduct to crowdtd ■iiuuse's.—St. James's Uszettt.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6966, 15 March 1884, Page 10 (Supplement)
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