Life — January 21, 1892 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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7 BA 71/ FRANCIS WILSON TO THE BAR! Witten: you are an old offender. You have “nd been brought before us several times under indictment for similar offences, and invariably have k been found guilty. In the present case it is charged M that by the aid and connivance of a woman named Jansen, and various other persons, you have lured wine tie TA and attracted toa building known as the Broadway ssmunity, Your prineipal associate has added much to the heater a large number of law-abiding citizens. and. ciccess of your plans and will receive a sentence equal to having extracted various sums of money vous” Your other associate, Laura Moore, is less guilty from them. have therespon proceeded to Gai because nature has not endowed her with equal powers. nd burst off their suspender 2 split their sides Neither in voice nor appearance is she very strongly qualified buttons, With this end in view you have (5 the occupation in which we find her. We tind Charles aused te be performed a comic opera — piunkett and William Pruette, as well as the two colored entitled “The Lion Tamer." The s and aiding materially in your acts. In aforesaid opera, it has been proved to addition you have availed yourself of the services, as a chorus, ier and more shapely women adapted to your purpose. Its than are usually employed in that capacit c, Wilson, there are no mitigating circum- our satisfaction, is admirably of « number of younger, pre dialogue is bright’ and funny In your own a remarkable degree, its music stances. ‘To be sure, your voice is nothing like as educated is original and sparkling, and it as your legs, but it seems to suffice to your purposes. You 4 man of brains and you use them freely in your is excellently set and costumed. — are One of its strongest features is crimes against melancholy. That you do not descend to vul- xarity makes you all the more dangerous to the risibles of the ful and less the way in which speech and ple you get together. Any one less grace Ss successful, pei suave would naturally be le You will now stand up while sentence is song are proportioned throughout. Of your accessories before and during the act, one Marie Jansen seems to be the principal offender. She is also well-known to us, and we id before, that you two together are passed upon you. No recommendation to mercy having been made, you are hereby sentenced to repeat what we have the most expert perpetrators own in this: country, and are a constant dance and sing and say clever things for the remainder of menace to the gravity your natural life. And may and glumness of the - your shadow never grow less, Marie Jansen, alias Angelina, is hereby sentenced to perpetual youth and admiration for life, unless she should die sooner. A TEXAS cowboy was taking his first walk on Broadway last Tuesday evening. As he was passing the Broadway Theater he was surrounded by the ticket- speculators who infest’ its door- way, comicbooks.com