New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-26
FORGING ORDERS FOR DRESSES.
THE WEAKNESS OF A HANDSOME WOMAN.
ARRESTED AT SARATOGA ON THE EVE OF A BALL


ARRESTED AT SARATOGA on THE EVE OF BALL
DETECTIVES CLEVER RUsE
AM Jackson. superiptendent tor James McCreery
g. Co. dry-goods merchants, at No. Sol Broadway;
went to Police Headquarters on FRIDAY anu
showed to Inspector Byrness the following oruer,
written on tine note paper By a woman, anu sen0
by mail from Saratoga on Wednesdays
Please send Immediately real fancy dress In any OF
tine leading shades USs Friday
something suitable Tor evening nSt sdRo tns
10 Very Tous De o nSe Nos. II ard
New:York send TO Mrs DE iSnse f0e' i'''''
The hand writing, Mr.. Jackson said, was similar
to that of several forged orders which bad been sent
tn the firm in the last fourteen months. On june
a. 1882 the firm RECEIVED an order 1 Mr. bept
T. Wbyand at No. 81 West Fiftieth-st. The SILK
was delivered and bill was sent tn Mr.. Whyland.
Lord & TAYLOR, LIE Boutillier Brothers. Benjamin
Altman and other dry-goods merchants III the cry
had been swindled by the same woman VINO mao
made fraudulent use OF Mr. Wnylands na,ne ;
Twice in the following December tue firm iost
goods by sending them to the woman Oh forged
orders She used the name of Mrs DE Jonge on one s
Mrs. sheldon Shaw, of No. !, 748 Broadway.
Inspector Byrnes thought that the woman could
be ed on oharse OF i0rgery ana nj rho
Mclaughlin went to No. II Duane,st ana saw
Charles i. Zentgraf, member OF the hrm OF LOUIS
D. Jonge IL Co.. who is also son-in-law OF Mrs
De Jonqe, and Mr.. Zentgraf went with the deIec-
live b-fore Police Justice Herman and made an
affidavit to the effect that the signature OF MIS-.
McCreery & Co. was a forgery. justice
Herman thereupon issued warrant Tor tne arrest
of the unknown woman VINO mad coinmll'ou .ne
forgery a nd gave II the detective A dress, sucn
az was described In the forged order. was pacru lu
a box and addressed to Mrs. l.. DE J0nge, Foiey
House. Saratoga Springs, n. w. at the store OF
an express book ana went 10 oara, s;
arriving here at o p. IN. When he presented hinl-
self at the Foley House in the guise nt an express
messenger, the detective had no difncuity III nnl-
lug The woman who called herself Mrs. De JOnge'
5 e was handsome woman age about t"ehiS-slA
dressed e. penSively, and sh5 was IN the compahS
of several LADIES and geG tlemen VINO were in!onu-
ing to accompany her TO a ball at the Grand Unlon
Hotel. As soon as the box was handed 10 her sne
read the address and signed The name, MIS-. L.
De Jonge OIL the express-bO"k. Then she began
10 upbrad the supposed express agent f0I the deay
ID delivering the dress McLousaiin maze an OK
cuse 10 get her out OF hearing OF the otner persons
in her rooms and then he showed her the
warrant ana informed her that she was prisoner
The woman understood the sItuationIn an instan',
and she displayed extraordinary nerve under tue
trying circumstances. She dismissed hrr guests
without creating suspicion, 81 atng nat she iau re-
ceIyeu a message calling her to New-fork on urgent
business. Then she panied the detective on
tn midnight Tram from Saratoga and was locked up
at Ponce iea quarters III TINS cltN ,at ~ a. IL,
DAY. Justice Herman at,erward remanded nero nc
police at tue Central Office until TO-DAY. Sic gave
her name as Mrs. Caroline q. Davis. Late Yes ernay
al teI noon sine made a confession OF her CUNT auh
told her history, with tears OF repentance. she
said tuat she was born in Albany, ~. T..
where her father, Alexander Greer,
was a tobacco merchant When Ar.
Greer died. few years ago, she said. he owned
property worth about Two millions She was
married " hen only eighteen years old, 10 X r.
Davis from whom she aftrrward separated III
April she obtained "A divorce from her husband ana
was gwen The custody of her only chid, a glri
seven years Old, VINO Is now living with her graud-
mOtner at M. % len-Brorck-si Albany Me.
DAVIS said that ala her relatives we're wealthy aud
tnat she was amply provided for at her mother
house IL Albany. Sue could not explain why she
Lad obtained goods By forged orders. IL had
L.come a passion with her TO dress we'll. she SAID,
and she had sent the orders without thinklng OF
the cOnseuucuccB