The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-01

TIE EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF AN ApVEN'
TuRsss AND BLAcKMAIiER.
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New York Timcs-I
Two suits for libel, IN each OF which the
damages are laid at 100000. have been be-
can in the Supreme Court OF Kings county
bv Howard s. Ingersoll, cousin OF Colo
mel Robert 1ngersoll, against the Sun Print
ING and Publishing Association and the
New York Illustrated Times. Sinclair
Touscy, president Of the American News
Company, and Isaac England, publisher OF
the Illustrated Times at the time OF the
alleged libel, are the defendants In the Sec
ond suit. In the Sun OF December 10,
1880, was published an article with the fol-
lowing heading:
Whipped on Barclay Strcet-Miss Free
mans Story OF Way She Resorted to the
Lash-Attasking In Public Place the Man
whom She Accuses Of Trying to lrlure
Her-First Binding Him by Throwing
Cayenne Pepper"
The article went on to describe the at
tack on MIR. Iugersoll and the reason for
IL "a given by the girl. She is described as
Alinc May Freeman, a young English
girl, lately landed. In answer TO an adyer-
tisemcnt she entered IngersolPs employ,
according 10 the San story. rs model, ana
be had insulted her. She could not have
him arrested in Brooklyn, she said, be-
cause she had no money, and therefore
she determined to ayenge herself by at
lacking Ingersoll as she had done. IL sub
seuuently appeared that the woman was
ono OF The most accomplished swindlers
who ever took up the practice OF crime as
q profession, and that she had made the as
sault on Dir. Mr.. Ingersoll merely Tor the
purpose Of matchmaking him. lngersoll
had her arrested, and she was sent to
Blackwel's Island for one year and re-
qured TO pay fine OF $3.50, which she
paid.
II is claimed by Ingersoll that the publ
cation i'm the Sun and the copying OF the
article into the Illustrated Times, which also
gave an engraving of the alleged horse-whip-
ping, ruined his business. from which the
year before the publication complained OF
Ingcrsoll claims to baye made profit OF
$4,000. Embodied in Mr.. IngersolPs
complaint are the facts connected with the
woVian's career, which show her to be 4
criminal OF rare accomplishments and ex-
traordinary depravity. She was born in
England, aud her real name is Ellen May
Stanley. She lived with merchant named
Freeman, in London, and forged his
name TO check for $4,000 in 1879.
elopcd with her employer TO Cleveland.
She subsequently Joined man named
Roe, London acquaintance. on Long
Island, and afterward she got situation
in the family Of the president of the New
York Stock Exchange. At the end OF three
days she left mysteriously, and the next
day three men attempted to blackmaii her
late employer. She next went to Mont
clair, N. j., and attempted to blackmail a
gentleman there. She returned TO New
York and bhckmailed leading lawyer,
who gave her $1,000. In February, 1880,
she was married to one Chilly" Morrison.
She continued her Matchmaking business,
the injured husband always turning up
in time to make matters warm. She
next committed bigamy by marrying q
young man in Downing street, and two
weeks later she was arrested on Mr..
IngeSoll's complaint. Before the events
described above had occurred a wo-
man named Mabel Carter turned up
with child at Pittsburgh in March, 1877,
and told an extraordinary story Of having
been shipwrecbed on her way from Bonn
bay to England. On the night Of Septem-
Der 1, 1877, woman was found lying on
the pavement near the residence of Mr..
John Fitzsimmons, on First avenue, Pitts
burgh. She was carried into Mr.. Fitzsim-
mons's house, where she said she was the
daughter OF Judge Waldron, of Boston,
and that she had been chloroformed and
assaulted by three men. She left Mr.. Fitz-
slnmons's house some time afterward.
taking with her Miss Fitzsimmons's cloth
ing aud jewelry. Mabel Carter alias Miss
Wsldron now turns out to be the young
woman who assaulted and attempted to
blackmail Dir. Ingersoll.