Café Concert
Event Information
Venue(s):
Madame Bell’s Arcade – Grand Music Hall and Shooting Gallery
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
2 July 2018
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
13 Mar 1864, EveningProgram Details
The venue in the article is not named, but it’s listed at the corner of Broadway and Price, with Madame Bell as a performer. Madame Bell was the proprietor of Madame Bell’s Arcade, a music hall and shooting gallery at the corner of Broadway and Prince.
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
"The cafe concert of Mme Bell, at the corner of Prince Street and Broadway, was again, the night before last, the stage for a scene of violence which has become habitual for this wretched den. A gang of individuals who had passed the night drinking got caught up in a quarrel among themselves. and soon the glasses and chairs were splintered, knives came out of pickets, pistol shots added their detonations to the yells of the combatants. Patrick Kinsella, struck in the shoulder by two stabs of a dagger carried by Robert R. Gilbert, fell mortally wounded. Police officers Parsells and Kelly, drawn by the noise, put an end to the uproar and arrested Gilbert, who was pointed out as having used the knife. His brother, named Eugene Gilbert, was also arrested as an accomplice. They are both natives of Middletown (Connecticut), but they have recently returned from the South, where they served in the Confederate army. They deserted, and swore allegiance to the federal government. Since then, they have resided in New York."