Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1915 — PLAY THRILLS; BOY STRICKEN [ARTICLE]

PLAY THRILLS; BOY STRICKEN

Cuban Has Stroke of Apoplexy While Absorbed in Watching Detective Melodrama. Sherlock Holmes and his exciting adventures proved too much tor U. Kinderland, .eighteen, a Cuban youth who lives at the Hotel Ansonia, relates the New York Sun. At the end of the third act the boy toppled n his seat with an attack of apoplexy and had to be carried to the lobby, where he was revived. Later he was removed to the hotel. It was just at the most exciting moment of the play when the incident occurred. Sherlock Holmes sticks his cigar in a corner of the gas cellar and eludes his captors by causing them to watch the cigar while he escapes through a door at the other side. Kinderland had been observed watching the play with intense excitement, and when the climax came and the detective knocked over a lamp, precipitating utter darkness, he —ern»ah"d.