The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-21
4 FAN NEPT01ANfAa.
She Does Cincinnati, 81. Louis and Gives
New Orleans 4 Taste Of Her Genius.
She Runs q Flrst-class BOa riding House
| and sslsets Awry" with the Landlord.
beauty ON A Midnight Move.


g,tirer describes, In not the most iatter-
ing style, the romantic career OF
New Orleans lady, known rs
Mrs. Sallie f. Carr. He first
pictures this wonderful woman
as leading the fashion at the Grand Ho-
tel, Cincinnati. where her rich toilet was
noticed everywhere and whose sudden
departure was the occasion Of consider
able gossip, and much moro SO, when 1t
was learned that this gem OF the arlsto-
Gratis had connected with her name the
gentle epithet OF kleptomaniac, and
which many a victimized dry
goods store clearly showed. The1report-
er then traces this woman to st. Louis
where she registered at the Everett
House under the name Of Mrs. Kate
Cummings, and 10 that city she played
her nefarious games along Fourth ana
Fifth streets, but she was finally caught
by a detective who had been placed In
the store to discover who 1t was that
was victimizing the shopkeepers. She
was taken down to the police station,
and when searched the property
was found on her. and on searching
her trunks ut the Everett House stolen
fabrics to the amount OF several hun
dred dollars were found, The police
threw veil over the matter when they
found that she had a brother In the city,
a prominent and influential lawyer, and
consented to accept her version OF the
affair-that she was n kleptomaniac -
and on this plea she was allowed to
jump the town. o.,t..
The knight Of the quill next describes
this woman as being the daughter OF
naughty Virginia istock; born and
brought up amid wealth and luxury, she
married wealthy retired merchant
who became her devoted slave. As the
wife Of Col. John NJ Carr she moved in
the highest circles OF New Orleans so
| ciety. In that soft Southern sky no star
was more brilliant than was Sallie i.
Carr. .# tt
Men followed in her train and wor-
shipped at her footstool, but woe to the
victim on whom her fascinating glances
| fell with favor. Her control over men
was that of a queen, and subject once
gained yielded to her the control Of his
whole being. He was drawn into a
maelstrom OF intoxicatiOn and fascina-
ton until whirled into black abyss OF
4 disaster and despair. She controlled
men by the power OF mighty and
subtle intellect and wit, and these alone.
Her passion was not love, but gambling.
Her victims fell beneath her greed of
gain. At her command, and often with
her money, they bucked against the
tiger" till all was lost. ....
She is next described as making a
gambling tour through the watering
places Of the East. She would stake
thousands on the throw of n single card.
She was wonderfully lucky and FIRE.
quently won immense sums OF money,
which she used to replenish her
wardrobe. But when next caught
sight Of, this proud Virginia lady lie
lauguishing in the Tombs, having been
arrested in New York city for shoplift.
ing, and would have probably gone tc
Sing to Sing had she not been bailed
out by j. Pinckney Smith, Esq, Of this
city, who had the matter hushed up
| The next place Mrs. Carr is discovered
is in the Crescent City, where she was
discovered one day in the act OF purloin-
ing set Of jewelry. which was on exhi-
bition at the Louisiana State Fair in
1868, belonging to E. A. Tyler. I'M -F
Her wealth and social position sue
ceeded in preventing scandal. Enemies
she had, OF course, but she pursued
them with the vindictiveness Of a flend
On the other hand her generous chart
ties made her adored by thousands. She
played men as she played cards. and a
man in her hands became a piece OF
pasteboard she could bend at will Later
she played for a. S2,OOO,OOO silver mine
and lost. Her own home, heavily mort
gagged, fell at last under foreclosure, and
her husbands princely fortune went
with it. Then she became a wanderer,
and wanderer she is to-day. aiGt D..
Here the Cincinnati reporter loses
sight OF his heroine forever. But the
star that ones shone so bright in the
Southern sky has lost its brilliancy, the
bright sunshine has passed away and
Mrs. Carr finds herself waif upon the
streets OF New Orleans The world
has discarded her. Her husband
after she had squandered his
fortune and being brokenhearted sought
consolation. by divorce, and left his
once beloved wife to travel on her down
ward path so full Of thorns without a
flower. Mrs. Sallie E. Carr, this once
proud daughter Of old Virginia, seeing
that her time had run its course, and
poverty was about entering at Esr door
she again appeared to the world
not as Mrs Sallie E. Carr
the leader Of New York fashions, robed
in her velvet costume and bedecked
with diamonds, but as Mrs. Kate Gum.
mings dressed in simple calico, a
New Orleans boarding house keeper
She tried hard to live by this means,
but her boarders got wind OF her past
career, and they gradually left her
Being driven to despair, and see.
ing that her furniture was about to be
seized, she moved it out OF the house
at the dead of night, and stored it on