Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-03-01
FFLlNTOWN JUNlATA COUNTY, PENNA, MARCH l. 1871 I

Cincinnati, Louisville, and all the greal
cities Of the West. BY him had son
who is at present living in New York
After a short and happy married career
my husband died, leaving me some prop
erty. On this 1 lived comfortably a
widow for some years. In 1859 l &C.
companied party of friends to Long
Branch. With US were Bishop Smith
of Iowa, Father Dougherty, Bishop
Hughes, the Editor of the Dsbuqu Dem
ocvat, and eeveral. o.her distinguished
persons. We stayed attht United States
Hotel. and there mixed fil the best go.
eiety.z Comptroller GonEelly and his
daughter. Mrs. Hutchings, were among
our accquaintances. 1t was under these
auspices that IIbecame acquainted with
nv second husband, Mr. Miller. He
was lawyer and partner Of Hon. Pat
rick Callaghau. We were married that
fall, and lived in elegant style in Twenty
eight street, near Fourth avenue. My
husband took to speculating. His brok-
ers were Jerome & Kellogg. He made
50 much money that he bought splen-
did country house. in Ryerson street,
near Bedford avenue. While living
there he determined to buy the How
land farm, well known estate in Cay
usa county. We took $4,000 with us.
aud went there in 1868. The negotia
tions were incomplete. when he received
intelligence that bis stocks were failing
and that more money vas needed by
his brokers, He sent down the $40 900,
but it was too late. and we found our
selves ruined That same December,
two days before Christmas, my husband
died, heart, broken and shipwrecked.-
For some years after his decease sup
ported myself by contributing to news
papers aud magazines, under nom de
plume. Then came the first mysterious
plunge into crime ---..... .... p
Over two years ago, 1 met, in the Fifth
Avenue hotel, a magnificent woman,
whose accomplishments were extraordi-
narily numerous. She was a widow and
she was very beautiful She commanded
an entrance into the very best society,"
She seemed overburdened with money.
and dressed sumptuously. l was at
once fascinated by her. There was
something mysterious about her, though
could not discover what it was. One
lay she told me her secret. She was
'ashionable thief. Her family was ex-
,ellent. Some of them are in office now,
md are Immensely rich. She herself
vas the mistress of famous politician
She could go anywhere, and wherever
he went she stole all the valuables she
.ould. She told me hers was not singu-
ar case. and I discovered it afterwards.
found, from the receiver, that numbers
# fashionable ladies who live beyond
heir means, and whom nobody would
Inspect of the shadow Of dishonesty, are
accomplished thieves, stealing from their
riends whenever they have chance.
At this stage our reporter asked for the
'ame of this exquisite criminal. Mrs.
'liIler declined TO give it, saying. II
LIQUID be ruined if l told. All my
lances would be lost and nobody would
clieve me Iprofted by her instructions,
nd in three months We stole and dispos-
d of about Sl2 900 worth of jewelry,
AIKEN in hotels and other places. l used
enerally to negotiate the sale Of the
lunder, and the unknown nearly always
,ade the raid among her fashionable
At last, after the rob-
cry of Mrs. Surrogate Hutchings,
ighteer months ago, some one gave US
way" and we were all arrested except |
he woman whose name decline to give.
lrs Lynch, 'the fence was discharg-
d, and l restored all the stolen proper
y, giving checks for the value of such
s were missing. I was kept in the
ombs and cautioned to be silent as to
he part of the Unknown in our affairs.
We were arrested on Sunday, and the
ext Wednesday the Unknown left for
Europe OH board the Cuba. was prom
,ed my release, but was brought one
ay into the Court of General Sessions,
nd then into the presence of half doz-
II officials, and told that owing to popu-
,r feeling, it was impossible to discharge
,e, but that my sentence should be NOM
,al. 1t was one year in the Penitenti-
~ o. -.'tt
I"In two months was pardoned for
ood conduct. l then went to live with
~ grandmother in the Seventeenth
ard. She is rich woman, residing in
er own house. For some time l lived |
oneslly and soberly. l had never at
ny time an inclination to steal for a
wing. 1t always came to me like an
npulse. The case of Mrs. Bishops jew
rly is 80 extraordinary that you wi,
ardly believe it. Some parts of my
ory, though. will be substantiated by |
illnesses. b. -....f- ..- -...-.. .i...
Il went to the Westminster Hotel to
all on a friend, who was absent, but