A SAN FRANCISCO SENSATION.
The following will further explain a San Francisco cable received not long ago :—A party of about 59 friends assembled on New Year's Eve at the house of Sidney MoCoy, a young lawyer, at B*n Francisco, to watch tho old year oafc and fcha new year in. The feature of the evening's entertainment was the production of a short play written by McCoy and performod by amateurs. The plot of the play was the betrayal of a band of Russian Nihilists by one of their number. The Nihilists discover the traitress and oondomu her to death. They decide by lot who shall per. form the execution, and the number fell to the character portrayed by MoCoy. Miss Grace King played the part of the traitress, who is given the choice of being killed or stabbing herself, and ohooses the latter alternative. McCoy handed Miss King a stout dagger that had been in his family for many years. la the play the girl, instead of killing herself, stabs hor assigned executioner, and as Miss King reoeived the knife she reached forward to touch McCoy on the breast with it. At the same instant McCoy btartod towards the girl, when she stumbled end, falling forward with the dagger in her hand, drove it through McCoy's heait. McCoy staggered into the next room, asked for a doctor, and then fell dead. Miss King knew there had beon an accident of some kind, but did not know that McCoy was killed, She was taken home, and afterwards, on the advice of friends, gave herself up to the police. She was taken to the city prison at 3 o'clock in tho morning, and when sho entered the prison shs fainted. In the morning McCoy's two brothers secured her release by giving bonds for £2OCO for her appearance. The girl was then taken home, but is still in a critical condition. Miss King recently suffered from a sprained ankle and had been using crutches to walk with, but had laid them aside to practice the part in the play. As she made a motion to stab McCoy she rested her weight on the weak foot, and it gave way and she fell forward.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1099, 24 March 1893, Page 42
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371A SAN FRANCISCO SENSATION. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1099, 24 March 1893, Page 42
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