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nsixtfchoraa.boDlt;1sr.adlieiU10orrou.nlaSURE ENOUGHAnd it Happened, So the Story Says, In Pearl, Pike County . —An AmateurTheatrical Performance Savored of;; dourtship Tragedy in Beal Life., Whloh andAt Pearl in Piko County, oh Christ-.* jnas night the home, talent' of that litfclo village ; produced a four-act comedy entitled, ‘‘Santa .Clhns? Daughter.u ^Tfaey drew a crowded rhouse and made an excellent showing, so tlic correspondent from' there to the Pittsfield Times says: .tii? the first act Santa Clatia promised Kittle*;. his daughter, Miss Maud Davis, he would bring her a.man, and in the second. aofc he produces the article in the shape pf a raw Irishman, who had 3iisfc arrived from his native land. . They fell . desperately in love with each otheh in tUo third, act they-wore to.-, have been married in r?yai style, bu^heh the curtain rose all of the characters of the play' were present savo Ph'ddy, and in his place stood Mr. F. M. Th urman of Bed ford. Bov. Orr ■ of • Roodhouse then pro ceeded to unite %lm and Miss Maud Davis in matrimoAy, but. just as he asked whether “anyone objected, in rushed Paddy, who objected on the ground that Miss Davis, as '‘Kittle,” bad been lt;ehg|Jged to him for six weeks and that hef would hang himself sure, if she did mot have him. He was put outr of course, on the ground of drunkenness%hd ’ the wedding cere-fhony , tinished after the approved style, _Mr. Jos.H‘Th'urraan and Miss Eva Stewart sfcryihg as bridesmaid and groomsman.’- • /;Aijt four disclosed the form of Paddy O’Rouke hanging as completely as any shirltT could perform it andwould have had the • same}, result had not Mias Eva Stewart performed the act of heroine and rushed in and severed the rope just before the fatal moment.The.fact of the marriage being a reality and the objection thereto and the act of hanging was not known to anyone, previous to their enactment except Mr. and ; Mrs.. Thurman and her. sister, Miss Julia Davis, Mr.L an dess and Miss Stewart and Elder Orr. Imagination cannot picture the efftct it produced upon the audience.
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Quincy Journal

Quincy, Illinois, US

Fri, Jan 15, 1897

Page 6

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