New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-02

THE VARIED CAREER IN CRIME OF TWO yrm.rs
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THE vARIED CAREER IN CRIME or TWO rr~.,~
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Complaints are frequent from the great retail drv.
goods stores in Sxthaye and Of her shopping streets
OF the depredations of pckpockets and shopilters
and as precautionary measure Inspector Byrnes bae
some OF bis men on duty at those places all the time
detectives Handy Williamson, and Ferris we're ON
tnat cuty Yesterday morning when they saw Mary
BELL age hfty-eight of No. 366 Greenwich-st, who
has figured in the Rogues Gallery since 1870, as No.
136, and Ellen Danigan. age thirty-eight also Of
No. 366 Greenwich-st., whose number in the gallery
lie 1924 walking down sixth-ave and entering var
ious stores. These are two Of the best known
female pickpockets and sbophfters in the city The
detectives Swallowed them until they entered the store
OF b. Altman q Co., at Nineteenth-st, and Sixth-aye
When they LETT the shop they we're arreesed and
taken to Police Headquarters On being searched
roll OF beaded cloth yaIued at $50 found on the
person Of Ellen Dangan. 1t was identified by Mr.
Hearn OF James A. Hearn & Son., of No. 80 West
Fourteenth-st as having been taken frora his store
No stolen goods were found the person of the Bell
woman.
Ellen Dapigan first known to the police rs an
expert panel thief in the days when the panel game
hourshed in this city, Her first arrest and conviction
however. was for shopftng and her portrait was
added to the Rogues Gallery December 13, 1875,
under the OF Ellen Matthews. At the expiration
who shot and killed Jimmy Elliot in Chicago about two
years ago. The couple lived together until the
shooting of Elliott when Ellen left Dunn and married
known in police circles as Mahoney, alias
Jack Sheppard from his skill in getting ont Of
prisons into which his many misdesds constantly
getting him. Ellen's matrimonial ventures we're not
happy however, tor shortly after her marriage with
Mahoney the police caught him and he now langushcs
in the Eastern Penitentary in Philadelphia. Ellen
was fine looking young woman and i was not long
before she secured another mate in Billy Danigan,
who has often been brought into contact with the
authorities While plying his trade as pickpocket, in
which he could have given points to the " Artful
Dodger" If the many stories current about him in
police circles may be believed His portrait is num-
bered 34S in the Rogues Gallery and he has done
time in most the penal institutions in this part Of
the country. The married Lie OF Mr. and Mrs Danigan
not happy and shortly after their marriage they
engaged i'll family which resulted in broken
nose for the woman. Although known as an expert
pickpocket, shoplifter and confidence woman Mrs.
DanigaD has heen lucky in euding arrest and conyc
ton. When arrested her three marriage certificates
found on her person.
Mary Bill was first convicted in 1870 of shopfting
and since that time her life has been filed with the
usual ups and downs Of shopfter, about halt OF her
time being spent in prison. Her last conviction
about three gears ago. She sentenced to two and
one-half years in the State Prison for picking mans
pocket at the Wilett Street Methodist Episcopal
Church. he two will be arraigned at the
Jefferson Market Police Court this morning.