THE FRANCES ROSS COMPANY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5124, 4 September 1895, Page 3

THE FRANCES ROSS COMPANY.

1 QUEEN'S EVIDENCE, At the Theatre Royal, Mastorton, to-night, the above talented Com. pany will appear in tho sensational drama, " Queen's Evidence." The following is a resume of the plot of this celebrated piece;— The first act opens in Gilbert Medland'e homo. Gilbert Medland and Matthew Thornton were fellow clerks in i , a railway booking oice i tbe latter tig engaged to a young and beautigirl, who rejected him in favour of the former, who marries the girl, Thornton, as an associate of Jew Isaacs, had been passing bad coin, and having succeeded in placing some of the spurious money in Medland's possession, tho guilt rested on him, Returning to his home, Medland hears Thornton trying to induce his wifo to elope with him. Medlaud raises his gun to fire, the wife boing rendered blind by tho charge, The ' child is stolen by Isaacs, and Medland >flies. The child is adopted by the County Squire, and during the interval of six years which' elapses, Medland has . inherited wealth, and Thornton, by an aet of bravery, became engaged to the squire's daughter. Just at the time Medland returns under a now, de plume, as owner of the adjoining estate, and complications at once aviso in Sii ■ . Frederick's household. Thornton if proved to be the worthless scoundrel . marries, and deserts Sir Fred; ■fflftok's daughter Ada. His frionc Jew Isaacs tarns Queen's evidence and Med)and's wife having beet recovered and her sight restored, tin curtain falls oyer it happy re.unioi of husband, wife and child. Thi piece is full of stirring incidents notably the discovery of the lette: which incriminates Thornton; hii attempt to drown Mrs Medland j thi V murder of Sir Frederick, and thi reconciliation of motheraud child.