Under the Gaslight

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Under the Gaslight is melodramatic play by Augustin Daly (1838–1899)[1]

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Daly's first successful play, best known for the scene where a person is tied to railroad tracks as a train approaches, only to be saved from death at the last possible moment. First performed at the Worrell Sisters' New York Theatre in New York, starting on August 12, 1867

1876: Performed by the Disney Roebuck Company in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 9 September with as Betsy Baker (Morton) and Little Don Giovanni (Byron).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Gaslight