The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-04-20
A LIGHT FINGERED ARlSTOCRAT.
The Natural Wickedness of the Beau
tiful Daughter Of an Old Virginia
Family.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says: Habi-
tues of the Grand hotel may remember
among the guests there last fall tall, ell
egant woman, about thirty-tive years Of
age, whose striking face and figure and
rich toilet made her noticeable every
where, and whose sudden departure was
the occaaion of gossip. Dame Rumor
connected her aristocratic name with the
gentle epithet of kleptomaniac, and GER
tainly her repeated visits to fashionable
dry goods stores, which found themselves
heavy losers, gave some ground to the
supposition. A short time after her flight
she appeared at st, Louis, where she reg
istered at the Everett house under the
name of Miss Kate Cummings. In the
glamour of wealth of aristocratic lineage
that surrounded her, she met with moth
ing but servility and obeisance every
where in her visits to the dry goods pal
aces. No suspicion attached to her when
it was discovered that number OF stores
we're daily suffering the loss of valuable
articles. No suspicion attached to her
when detective from the police depart
ment was placed in secure position
where he could observe everything for
the purpose of catching the thief And
the detective could barely believe his
eyes when at Scrugg, Vandervoort q Bar
ney's few days later, he saw a piece OF
lace pocketed by this woman. This prop
erty was found upon her, and search OF
her trunks showed a stock of stolen goods
The police threw vail over the matter
when they found she had brother in
the city who was prominent and iniu-
ential lawyer, and consented to accept
her version of the affair as streak Of
kleptomania, with which she had been
afflicted from her childhood. In her ex-
tremity she pawned her diamonds and
other valuables, and with the proceeds
she was able to purchase bonds from
shyster attorneys in league with the po-
lice, who let her Jump the town."
This woman is the daughter of naughty
Virginia stock. Born and raised up amid
wealth and luxury, she married veal
thy retired New Orleans merchant, AS
the wife of Col. John NJ. Carr, she moved
in the highest circle of New Orleans So
ciety. Her passion was not love, but
gambling Once year she made a trip
to her home in Virginia, but she took ad-
vantage of the occasion to go on gamb-
ling tour through the watering places of
the east. She was wonderfully lucky,
and frequently won immense sums
These were lavished on the most costly
laces, silks and jewelry. These, again,
on the other hand, she would pawn when
fortune went against her, and more than
once she was compelled to resort to steal
ing to replenish her exchequer In the
fall of 1866 she was arrested in New York
for shoplifting and thrown into the
toombs A we'll known New Orleans
merchant, A. Pinckney Smith, happened
to be in New York at the time, bailed
her out, and the matter quieted. In the
fall of 1868, during the progress of the
Louisiana State Fair at New Orleans, she
was detected purloining jewelry on ex-
hibition belonging to E. A. Tyler, jew
eler of that city. Her wealth and social
position succeeded in preventing scandal.
Her own home, heavily mortgaged, fell
at last under foreclosure, and her hus-
bands princely fortune with it, Then
she became wanderer.