The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-15
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Mabel Carter,S Career.

There are very few OF our readers who
will not remember the advent Of d
woman nthiscity named Mabel Carter.
who. created considerable of stir by
writing up the horrors of the Pittsburgh
Pest House eIinasensationallstyle. q Sub
sequently she figured in religious circles
here, but eventually turned out to be-
long to. the order of frauds. She seems
to have had most eventful experience,
and last week was sentenced to six
months hard labor in England Mabel
carter was q woman Of many aliases.
ESheI first came to this country about
seven years ago. eand located in. Rhilar
tdelphia. She then bore the name of
Nine. Evahgelihe Trenifidi, and aab.
peared in religious circles asking for
sympathy. Aid of any .groSser sort
would have seemed an, insult to q, being
of woes so refined. She was descend
ant of one of theioldest families of En-l
sgiish gentry. She had offended them,
BY marriage with d 'dissolrte Italian
Marquis, who had died and left her peh-,
fniless and homeless with, one child, now
a boy Of six. But aid 81 the grosser
sort in the waydof invitations,' costly
gifts and money; was urged upon her.,
which she accepted in an innocent,
ehildishwaya 2She was nothingI but "a
sgrown-up child, Gray old financiers,
Presbyterian doctors Of DIVINITY, the
Sons Of St George. Episcopaliang hishg
ops were ia turn her friends and guard
ians., Nobody looked very curfously
I into her antecedents. il Her brown hair.
curled in rings about so sensitive a face,
her eyes were SO soft and appealing
hersyoiceglo&as Gordelia sastfnck SUCH
2 pathetic minor that nobody cared to
look behintl them. ~ - 9iaI- W IaessN 9
Presently it was noticed however.
that one Society and clique aof hamani-
tarians after another dropped the tens
der-eyed Eyapgeline or thrust her on
into other thands1o She began to osshim-Ei
mer and shift Der character before the
eyes of the good Philad e1phians ike :
Protean artists on the lburiesqued stages
/ Now she had just been fdfgiYen BY; her
naughty relatives and inherited an
Elijah bethan inansiono in Kent swith1
10000 per anpnm, and. went about
taking leave Of her kind friends with
q Grape bordered kerchef to her eyes.
In few adays later She. app earsds on
the PLATFORM beside Messrs. Moody and
,Sankey, the. accredited correspondent
Of we'll knewn london iotirnals FOnes
week she was arrested on, a charge, of.
theft, and the next she was escorted by
"a gaard 0f eminent Congressnaen To afiiei
elevated rdais in the Centennial grounds,
and seated beside the President and the
Emperor be Bfazils while The Exposition
was opened. She next appeared in
Washington as the gnestof acommittee
OF Senator'S snd, foreign diplomatist and.
read in public at their instance q study
Of the EifeS Sof Sumner0dA few weeks
later she was again in custody foratealsa
ing, and contrived almost to strangle
herself with a veil lkAotted stigliBfytl
around her threat Nine, Treniidi
then disappeared from Philadelphia,
and Mabel Carter entered missionary
meeting in Pittsbtirgh, walked lshyIy up
to the phlpit,t caught q venerable old
clergyman by both hands and claimed
recognition as fellow worker with hiflI
years before for thesouls of the heathen
in Shanghai. He rubbed his spectacles,
did recognize her, and the devoHt Mabel
was handed tenderly around from one
pious old lady TO another as " Religions
prodigy during that wiptersn q Agains the
police interfered, and the SANITY Young
missionary lvanfshen to- ireapGeaf al a.
fninistering angel in Pleyna and dfhreugh. j
the. Turco-R Russian war, back i'd En-
gland as a second Florence nightingale,
and now sentenced as Mabel Wilber- 1
force. alias Jones, tafterI d, trial (which 4
attracted attention throughout. all En-
gland, to nine months hard labor III
Jail. i Patsbnrslk f2.fessfels,i E,adsildDa d