Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1911 — TALES OF GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TALES OF GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES

Dies While Posing for Picture Films

NEW YORK. —A moving picture machine set up to make a film of the rescue of a young woman from the waters of a lake In the other day recorded Instead the drowning of the actor-rescuer and the saving of the actress by hetlfglf. The actor drowned was Albert Brighton. The play which ended In t£e tragedy took place at Brady’s pond. Grassmere. The pond has an area of about six acres. Mary Murray, an actress, rowed out twenty-live feet or so from the shore. The young woman, in a fluffy white dress and alone In the boat, was to pick water lilies, and, in reaching too far for one of the flowers, was to upset the boat and be rescued. The picture machine was started, and Miss Murray picked several of the flowers. Then, at a signal from the operator, she leaned far over the

gunwale and stretched her hand to* ward another of the lilies. As she put her weight on the side of the boat it tipped and went over, throwing her Into the water. It was part of the play that the girl should scrdhm for help andtfarbw up her hands to attract the attention of Brighton, who was strolling' along the shore of the pond In immaculate summer flannel. When the girl screamed Brighton threw off his straw hat and his coat and dived Into the water. The young woman in the water continued her acting of the helpless drowning girl. The actor splashed toward her, apparently half swimming and half wading. Then he began to shout for help as if appealing to> those on shore to come to his assistance in rescuing the girl. As he shouted he disappeared and then reappeared and shouted again. The others of the company made no move, thinking that he had taken » notion to Impart an additional appear- 1 anoe of reality to the act. So for; a few seconds the film ran on, but 1 the rescuer sank and did not reappear. Then Miss Murray swam ashore herself and Brighton’s body was afterwards found.