AN ACTRESS’S ADVENTURE.

Waikato Independent, Volume III, Issue 184, 27 January 1906, Page 7

AN ACTRESS’S ADVENTURE.

Miss Marie Sfcudholine, the actress, tells the story of an advanture she met with some years ago. She writrs : “ When I had been at the Gaiety about nine months I received a type-written letter from a provincial town, the writer of which vowed that he intended to marry me, whether I was willing or not. He said he had ample means, and would insist upon my leaving the stage at once. He made an appointment for me, to meet him at Charing Cross Station, and warned me that if I did not keep the appointment he would take other steps which I would not like. “ Naturally, I regarded this as the letter of a lunatic. I showed it to several friends, who laughed over it with me, and gave no further thought to the matter. Imagine my surprise when, the evening before the day he had fixed for the appointment, I received a long telegram, in which he said that unless I met him I should have cause to regret it. This so frightened me that I sought the advice of my solicitors, who decided that it would be advisable for me to be at Charing Cross. They, of course, accompanied me, and waited close at hand. Sure enough I was accosted by a man apparently about 45 years of age, who insisted that I should accompany him in a cab to St. Martin’s Church, and be married immediately. At a sign from my solicitors, I followed him out of the station, and jumped into the four-wheeler in which we had been driven up to the station, and which had been kept waiting for the purpose. Before he had time to shut the door the two gentlemen with me had entered the carriage, in spite of the protests of my undersirable companion, and we were driven to the nearest police station. You will perhaps appreciate the danger of the situation when I tell you that the individual was found to be carrying a loaded revolver in his pocket. His friends were at once communicated with and he has since died in a private lunatic asylum,”