Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1902 — ’Twas A Good Ad Anyhow. [ARTICLE]

’Twas A Good Ad Anyhow.

In the New York correspondence of a Chicago paper, of a few days ago, appeared the following paragraph which Rensselaer people will read with interest: Edna May Spooner, one of the members of the Spooner stock company, playing at the Park Theater, in Brooklyn, received a letter written in red ink this morning threatening her life. The letter is as follows: “I will kill you on the corner of Fulton and Washington streets next Saturday night. I would not care if you have 100 detectives, and if your husband, Augustus Phillips, is such a smart man as he is in the play let him interfere and I will kill him, too. and as you are such a crack shot why don’t you bring a revolver with you? I will kill you like Czolgosz killed McKinley. I won’t kill Wilson, 'as he is your best actor, or either Cecil, as she is the best girl that ever lived.” Mrs. Spooner referred the letter to Captain Reynolds of the Detective bureau, and tonight a dozen detectives were on duty from the Park Theater to the corner of pulton and Washington streets, but the letter writer failed to appear. Mrs. Spooner thinks a crank sent it. Several of Guss’ admiring friends here, taking cognizance of the contents of the letter, which contained not only an intimation that he might soon be violently invited to transfer his theatrical talents to a celestial theater, but also the intimation that he had been and gone and got married and let nobody know it, they thought the time propitious for replying to some of his numerous telegrams during our tumultuous foot ball troubles, last fall. Therefore they concocted a long dispatch in which he was congratulated for the above quoted paragraph, if it was an advertising scheme; and if it was genuine, conmending his soul to the mercy of providence. So far no reply has come from Guss.