DEATHS ON THE STAGE.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1721, 26 August 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)

DEATHS ON THE STAGE.

An English contemporary records the following: November, 1820. Madame Linsky, at a performance at Arnstadt in the presence of the Boyal family, was fired at by six soldiers (who were instructed to bite off the bullet when biting the cartridge, but which one omitted to do), and for a moment remained standing, but almost immediately sank down, exclaiming, “ Dear husband, I am shot I " She never spoke afterwards, and died on the second day. For a time the reason of her young husband was impaired ; he had recently lost a child, and his unfortunate wife was expecting soon again to become a mother, A similar accident had occurred in Dublin half a dozen years earlier, where a clever juggler had to catch a ball, fired from a pistol, between the teeth, A young gentleman from the company had the wrong pistol handed to him, and when he fired, a bullet crashed through the head of the unfortunate conjurer.

At Milan Theatre an actor named Inmbardi, playing in the Antigone of Alfieii, had to appear as turning his weapon from his father's breast to stab his own, which in the heat of the moment, he so effectually did as to fall on the stage covered with blood and entirely insensible; death ultimately resulted.

At the Theatre of Bsgneres, during the representation of the comedy “La Jeune Hotcsse,” M. Euolle, who played the part of Dumont, was seized with apoplexy at the end of the second act, and expired in a few minutes.