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-And felt the pressure of hia hand T V No more I walk with eyes cast down;I am hia queen, love is my crown.Stwl anti Adventure,TOLD BY A DETECTIVE,BY AX. HfcllBON.1 His a singular fact that in all ages and countries manyof.the moat daring [apd successful criminals have been wo-'men. I repeat that such is the fact; indeed, a simple desire for novelty and excitement, and that unsatisfied longing more or leas inherent in the breast of every one eof ua, to do that which we are prohibited from doing, especially if the charm of secrecy clings about it, leads many women iuto criminal paths.I have met with mauy criminals of the female persuasion, and I am rcmind-ed of “Lady Bunkoiue,’’ the naui'e given a woman who traveled upon her cheek and. lived high until I run her in. Among the many the dashing “Buu-koine” fleeced was a magistrate of X)^—( N. Y. On leaving New York’city recently she went to Albany, where she sought the acquaintance of two women who stand high in the Presbyterian church in that city. Mrs. Bellah—that was the “Lady Bunkoine’s” real name-introduced herself as Mrs.. Baird, and claimed PittBburg as her home. She also claimed that she was personally acquainted with the young lady’s parents in Pittsburg, at which they naturally became interested, and Mrs. Beliali, alias Baird, was highly entertained. Observing an oil paiuting on the parlor wall, the woman exclaimed ;“Why, that is your father.” •’Sureenough.it was ; and this recognition more thun satisfied /the womenAt.,.1) „ I ..... „ nIIsimilar, and .again in St. Paul and Uma-ha.Miss Woolrfdge left her luxurious home in New York city seven years ago, going to Philadelphia. From the latter city she went to Minneapolis, and then to Kansas city and St. Paul. In appearance she is strikingly handsome, tall, and of the brunette type. Added to hOr good looks, her face presents an appearance of intelligence which wins admirers. She is educated, and her contact with the world through her journalistic experience has given her an eaBy grace to confront all emergencies. For instance, I may mention, after I arrested her she insisted on taking me to a fashionable restaurant to supper before making an effort to find a bondsman. Lately, while conversing with her father, the latter said to the writer he had lost sight of his daughter for a year and that he had given her up. Further than this be would say nothing. Before she left New York she moved in the best of. sodety and was a member of the Plymouth church. When 8he first got in trouble her father said she wa6 a kleptomaniac, and undSr this defense he suc^ ceedcd in securing her release mQre.than once. . • . .. .Speaking about klotomania, few points may bo given on the queer things thieves, or kleptomaniacs, take. Let me illustrate: ', . * ■ •A lady gave an afternoon tea during the season.’ She had left a number of stickpins. in her cushion on the dresser, which was in' the same room where the ladies had laid aside their wraps. When tho'cotnpuuy had goue the pins had gone also. Fortunately, the pins were not her best, as she had those on, but they were all gold, and one, in particular, was an enameled pansy../Again a lady had an exquisitely bound copy of a rare book. Oue of her acquaintances was profuse in her expres-\m a temporary box trom ruilauelpma, and the widow, who gave her name as Mrs. Orton, urged the undertaker to meet the corpse, drive it at once to bis rooms, make the Hgbtuiug. change”, and then on with the funeral.The talk deceived the man, despite the fact he could hardly expluin the presence of a $500 funeral patron ijp his immediate neighborhood.There were denser waillngs as the dicker became a bargain, and with a deep, full chested sigh th« tailormade widow slipped the ribbon from her pock-etbook and lifted out from*a nest of coin a bright check for $500. Wouldn’t Mr. Valent kindly take out $250 of it on ac-couut and give her the balance for a mouth, pending the settlement of the estate? .»To abbreviate a little, I will add : Mr. Valen was willing ; but It being Sunday the cash box was a little Bhort. This did not embarrass the widow, who suggested that-he should go to the florist for a $50 wreath of callas and maybe he might cash-tho chhek.was’ the vital' mistake—one of those incidents, those little blunders and mistakes that even the beat of criminals make at times. It was so in the case with the woman—he^little mistake, in a certain sense, assisting in “running down” the “womari in black,” since the' widow had forgdtten that she had ordered' on a previous occasion from this same florist on a check for $50 which had no more commercial value than a-plugged nickel on the market.The florist pronounced the check worthless ; the police were notified, and sbe.wa8 overhauled and identified as the woman who had for a year past been visiting undertakers apd florists and in the majority of instances “touching” them freely. ■7 Vceipnpa* iofow$2MiateonpliaPeanlaat•\. \ mmb*ocbittttuAa*VwC:atl8nen
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Sturgeon Bay Advocate
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Oct 07, 1905
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Dianne P.
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