The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-17
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From Our 0tcn Correspondent


Not That Woman, but Another Woman.
Yesterday had occasion to mention the name
OF woman who for months past had been en-
ploying in and around New York the arts of
syren, for the sake of making q comfortable
and pleasant living. / now discover, to my
horror, that it was not that woman, but another
woman and that the other woman is dvisibe
into three distinct personalities representative
OF three distinct degrees of crime.
1t has come to Hight that the real name of the
woman whose death yesterday mentioned is
Mrs. Rebecca G. Jones, and that she was known
as the Williamsburg Adventures. The three
personalities who appear, upon sitting the story
TO the bottom, may be specified as follows
First. There was this Mrs. Jones, who oappears
TO have been merely vulgar sort of swindler,
possessing no great attractions of person, mind,
or manner, and employing no arts that were
much above those of mediocrity.
Second. There is a Mrs Patterson, whose real
Dame is Smith, and who possesses considerable
good looks and good deal of gtace of manner,
and rather piquant art of improvisng and
leading her hearer to believe what she tells him.
She is a little over thirty years old, we'll
formed but not very well Informed. Whatever
means she uses to deceive with are those with
which nature alone has provided her. She has
no culture and no accomplishments. Still, her
natural flow of language is great, and her
natural cunning enables her to make use of this
gift usually to her own advantage. She is far
from being irst-class swindler, however. She
does not adhere to one line of falsehood she
does not possess the unspeakable advantage Of
possessing an invisible accomplice; she reck-
lessly encumbers herself with luggage which,
when a crisis comes, she is compelled to aban-
don and sacrifice, unless she remains and sacri-
fees herself; and she does not tell O perfectly
straight story, and Is easily ''cornered" by any,
one resolved to fathom the fraud. Each of
these women, smart though she is, is intellectually
interior to
Number three, whose favorite alias is ais
Mrs. Patterson, but who is known as Mrs War
ner as well. Mrs. Patterson-W Warner is one
the most accomplished frauds that ever lived
She has most of those natural and artificial grace
that Ego down" alike with women as well q
men. She has, behind the scenes, an accomplics
who never for moment comes in sight, bu
who apparently keeps her accurately posted with
respect to every movement made by detectives
to her disadvantage. She is we'll educated, con-
verses charrningly, has an air of innocence,
respectability and frankness, not to say Chris
tian virtue. She adheres az solutely to one line
of operations and sticks to it through thick and
thin, no matter what the obstacles may be. She
moves from place to place encountered with no
useless baggage. When the moment for fight
arrives, no time is lost in pining over cherished
articles that must be sacrificed. Her self
possession is wonderful Her stories are told
with such confidence and adrotness that to trip
her up in one of them in an impossibility. In
her you have confidence woman in whom
swindling amounts to genius, and the enormity
of whose sin you lose sight of in your admiration
of the artistic perfectness by which that sin is
rendered OF use to her. And so 1 drop the conf
dence woman question for the present
Crowbars and Cold Potatoes.
The case of MIR. and Mrs. Babington came up
yesterday in one of our courts, and presents
several points that are peculiar enough to de-
serve mentioning. Mrs Darlington is the plain
tiff and Mr.. Darlington the defendant. The
plaintiff brings the action to obtain a decree of
separation and separate maintenance. They
have been married about fifteen years, and con-
tnued living together until the fall of 1868,
when Mrs. Babipgton LETT her husband because
of his cruel treatment of her. His cruel treat
ment took the form OF getting drunk, and, while
he was in that condition, of subjecting her to
rain of crowbars and cold potatoes. Why
marital violence should have assumed this
particular form is not satisfactorily set forth in
the complaint. Perhaps Mr.. B. objected to
potatoes with the skins off, and in that case If
Mrs. B. had devoted the same attention to keep
ing her eye ''peeled" that she did to keeping
the potatoes so, it would have been better for
her in the end Mr.. B., on his side, AYERS that
it was Mrs. Darlington, and not he, who got
drunk; that she called him all sorts of abusive
and indecent names; that as mild endeavor to
frighten her off, he once picked up a crpwbar,
which, dropping out of his hand rolled over ON
the floor aud touched her ankles and that he on
one occasion threw at her one potato when she
had been abusing some young ladies who were
visiting the family, and who, she insisted, should
get from the table "and get" Man and Wife"
is the same old story being told in all degrees
of life. In this case the parties seem to occupy
respectable position in society, and to have
been very comfortably off so far as money is
concerned. Perhaps, indeed, that is what's the
matter.
MfsceIIaB cons Mention.
The division of the city into three police dis
tricts is talked Of The peculiarly significant
death of Superintendent Jourdan has suggested
the propriety of this division, since the duties
that have hitherto devolved upon the Chief of
Police are too arduous for one man to perform
without injury to his brain and body.
Miss Meta has been "put out" of the Sales
womens Early Closing Association The rea-
son for her being put out is that she perempto-
rily refused to hand to the association, until it
sheuld be more permanently and securely es-
tablished, such money as, through her personal
exertion, she has collected from Mayor Hail.
Commissioner Tweed Sheriff O'Brien, and
County Clerk Loew.
Fisks body-guard has been busy receiving
three antique military delegations from New
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