TRAGIC DEATH OF THE STAGE.
The drama, " Si Slocum," telegraphs a New-York correspondent, requires a hns band to shoot an apple from his wife's head.. On Thanksgiving day, during a performance in Cincinnati, Frank Frayne's rifle broke at the instant of firing, and, the muzzle dropping, the bullet entered Annie >Yon Behrens' forehead, fhe heroine ( dying :on the stage. Frayne has conducted similar exhibitions throughout the United States for several years, and had met with only-one previous accident, and ' that of\a slight character. Ou this occa sion Frayne fired in his usual manner, . muEale backward over his shoulder, sight' iaff in a mirror. Frayne's wife filled the . - r6le "till she died. Yonlßehrens, who was *'•' young and tery beautiful, was betrothed ..;. to Frayne, who is almost mad with grief. —English paper.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4403, 13 February 1883, Page 3
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131TRAGIC DEATH OF THE STAGE. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4403, 13 February 1883, Page 3
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