The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-05-05
KATE FALLoN's REVENGE
An Unsuspected Libeftine In the Tells Of the
siren-A Wicked Woman in Bank Vault
Terrible Fate Of the Cashier

An Unsuspected Libeftine In the Tells Of the
siren-A Wicked Woman in Bank Vault
Terribie Fate Of the Cashier.
On the afternoon of July 10, 1889, q
well-dressed young man OF about twenty
/ five arrived in charge of an officer at the
Allegheny Penitentiary. Even il he had
not been heavily ironed, the deadly pal.
lor 0f his lace, and his whole bearing,
which plainly showed that he was q
; prey to the most boundless despair.
would have indicated sufficiently that
he had been sentenced to u long term of
Imprisonment in that penal Institution,
which, on account Of its peculiar man-
agement and system, was intensely
dreaded by evil-doers OF all descflp-
, lions.
In the office OF the penitentiary the
wretched prisoner was unshackled, and
he was clad In suit OF coarse blue
Leans. Then the clerk at the desk asked
nlm what his iull name was.
Edward j. Warren" he answered.
|, "Your former occupationW
II was cashier OF the Erie City Bank,"
he replied, in faltering voice.
A few more questions were put to him,
anu then a keeper puta black mood over
his head. Selling Warren's hand, the
keeper led him through long corridor,
uuu db ld5b SitGT6u Sludll Cell WlIu uIill.
There he took the hood from his head,
and before the convict was able to turn
around, the keeper mad slipped out Of
The cell, and locked the heavy iron door.
For several minutes Warren remained
in silence on the spot where the keeper
had left him, as if riveted to the floor.
Then he looked around him with be-
wildefed air-at the small couch with
the thin mattress and the old blanket
at the bare stone walls-at the black
: iron door.
"And here" he cried, in a tone Of
heartrending despair, ~ am entoinbed
mattress, burying his face in his hands,
and for long time sobbed conVulsively
in an agony ofgrief.
Edward j. Warren was indeed life
convict. He had been tried for arson
and larceny, and been convicted of both
upon evidence which everybody had
{ thought conclusiye-every body but one,
and that was his old father, james War
ren, a farmer of but little education, but
t endowed with considerable snrewdness.
He had refused from the very first to be-
, lieve in his youngest son s-his Idol
guilt. For that son he had spent for
: years every cent he had been able to
save. He had given him an excellent
education, and as the youth was fine
looking and naturally bright, he had no
difficulty, after he had lett college, in
! procuring him q situation as assista
!, book-keeper in the Erie City Bank.
Edward Warren was then only nine-
teen. He conducted himself so satisfac-
tOrily that he gained the complete conf
dence OF his employers, who in course of
lime appointed MIN cashier of the bank.
Those who did not know HIM very inti-
mately considered him model young
man. But he had one serious fauit-ne
was too fond Of WorGG. While outward
ly very pattern oil Virtue, he would Sc
cretly visit frail women of the most
licentious character, and spend great
deal of money upon them. But he re-
ceived comparatively large salary, and
never touched the funds that were in-
trusted to MIN. So we'll, too, did he
cover up his amorous escaDades that not
even his intimate acquaintance enter
tanned the slightest suspicion concern
ing them. Still the retribution OF his
secret misconduct was to come ultimate
u ly, and when it came, that retributien
was terrible one.
On the 14Lh OF December, 1888, about
noon, when Warren was alone in the
bank, a lad came in and asked for change
tor fifty-dollar bill. Warren looked at
the bill, and then handed the lad the
change. A second glance, however, con-
vinced the cashier that the fifty-dollar
bill was counterfeit. he hurried after
the lad, who began to run, and overlook
him. The lad was arrested, and having
refused to CONFESS where he got the coun-
; terfelt bill, on conviction was sentenced
to seven years. solitary confinement.
He gave his name as Martin English.
No one in Erie knew him. lie was evil
, IDENTIFY a very bad young fellow, and
, everybody said "Served him right"
Engiish's real name was Charles Fallon.
He was from Pittsburg, where his sister,
Kate Fallon, Was notorious cypriah.
Kate was living with Tom Towniey, a
counterfeiter, and her brother Charlie, a
logged, shrewd lad, was used to circu-
late the spurious bills.
!, Bad and frail as Kate was, her broth
er's conviction affected her deeply, and,
being very vindictiye creature, she de-
termined to revenge her brother upon
/ the bank cashier who had brought about
Charles arrest and conviction.
Accidentally she had heard from an
bther cyprian, who had formerly piled
her hefarious trade at Erie, and who had
been intimate with Edward Warren,
that the latter was lieentious, and could
what their character was. This informa-
tion the convicps sister was de termi ned
TO turn to account. She went TO Erie
and rented small frame house, contain
1 ing only two rooms. Addressing note
to Edward Warren, she was visited by
him the second evening after she hau
taken her abode in Erie. She was rather
prepossessing, and she easily succeeded
In fascinating the too susceptible bank
cashier.
In the course OF the next few weeks
she frequently visited him in his own
room in the upper story of the bank
building, which was plain, two-stofy
brick house. One night she expressed a
desire to see the vault of the bank, and
he went down, unlocked the vault, and
showed it to her. Next evening she was
4 with him again. At her request he went
for a bottle OF wine, ana, while they
were drinking it she managed to throw
4 a sleeping powder into his glass. He
drank the wine and Il few minutes after
fell asleep. She took the keys OF the
bank and vault from him, and was soon
in the presence OF the banks funds. She
1 picked up some fifty thousand dollars in
bills or one hundred, tiity, and twenty
dollars, and leaving the doors unlocked,
she returned TO her paramour.
Warren was Still fast asleep. She put