![]() Treiter survived, but his left arm had to be amputated. Williams then placed himself at the front door and threatened to kill anyone who attempted to leave Steinitz’s house. Williams later broke into Treiter’s bedroom with a double-barrel shotgun and fired both barrels at Treiter while he was in bed. Williams was to stay in Steinitz’s house in Montclair, New Jersey for a few days to help Treiter get his accounts into shape. In November 1892, William Steinitz fired his private secretary, Arthur Williams, and hired a new secretary, Edward Treiter. At the time, Steinitz was playing Chigorin in Havana by cable. In 1891, William Steinitz (1836-1900) was arrested In New York as a Russian spy after someone in the telegraph company thought that his chess moves being sent over telegraph was code. Once inside prison, he taught his fellow inmates how to play chess. In 1879, American chess player and journalist James Mortimer (1833-1911) was arrested for refusing to reveal the author of an allegedly libelous article. He was later arrested in Germany for gambling and in France for forgery. In 1873, he was the first Canadian Chess Championship. In 1875, Albert Ensor (1843-1883) was arrested for counterfeiting in New York. It also turned out that Blackburne’s carriage driver was a French spy. The British government thought they were coded secrets. In 1870, Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924) was arrested in Baden-Baden as a French spy for sending chess moves in the mail. His book, American Chess Nuts, was published in 1868. He was arrested, but died 10 days later, lacking the will to live. He then jumped into a river to drown himself, but the tide was out. Henry as he was known, shot his adopted daughter four times in the head after he proposed marriage when she turned 21, and she rejected him. He was released in May, 1865, and moved to New York and started playing chess. He already fought with distinction on three battles. In 1864, George Mackenzie (1837-1891), a former Captain in the Union army, was arrested for desertion from the Union army. In April 1862, chess player Armand Edward Blackmar (1826-1888), of the Blackmar Gambit and Blackmar-Diemer fame, was arrested, fined, and jailed by Union General Ben Butler (1818-1893) and imprisoned by Union soldiers in New Orleans for publishing “seditious” (Confederate) music, such as the Bonnie Blue Flag (Band of Brothers) and the Dixie War Song. (source: British Chess Magazine, vol 36, 1916) He was released after writing to the king that he was too old, too infirmed, and innocent. A third source says that the lady was the wife of the Marquis de Merin, who was recently condemned to death by guillotineĪlexandre Deschapelles (1780-1847) was arrested for being involved in the French insurrection of June 1832. Another source says the lady was Jacqueline Armand, the fiancée of a duke who was about to be guillotined. (source: Ripley’s Believe It or Not, 1944). Thomas Paine then was released from prison. She again won and asked that her husband’s life be spared. Robespierre challenged her again and promised to grant any wish if she won again. She frequented the Café de la Regence, disguised as a man, where Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794) frequented, and she defeated him in a game of chess. Paine was scheduled to be guillotined, but his fiancée/wife intervened in a strange way. In 1793, Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author of The Rights of Man and Common Sense, was supposedly arrested in Paris for favoring the exile of King Louis XVI rather than his execution. After Middleton’s arrest, the play was censored and was not allowed to be shown again. Its nine performances, from August 5-14, 1624, was the greatest box-office hit and the most talked about dramatic work of early modern London. The play was performed in the Globe Theater in London. On August 30, 1624, playwright Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was arrested in London after producing a play, A Game of Chess, that satirized the proposed marriage of Prince Charles with a Spanish princess. In 1622, Gioacchino Greco (1600-1634) was robbed of all his money (5,000 crowns) that he won in Paris from playing chess while on his way to London.
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