Atchison Daily Globe
Kansas, USA
8 May 1888
Dr. Robert Morse, a Presbyterian minister of Washington D.C., in the
delivery of a lecture at Hiawatha on "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde" Saturday night, was so overcome by the power of his
impersonation of Mr. Hyde, that he could not proceed with the
lecture and the audience was dismissed. A correspondent says of the
circumstances: "In changing from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde,
he quickly disordered his flowing locks, crooked every bone in his
body, held his breath until his face was red and
distorted, and then limped about the pulpit, snarling and snapping
like a wild beast. He will attempt to give the lecture
again on Tuesday night."
