Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
A ADANGEROUS WOMAN.
The Narrative Of Secret Ser
 vice Detective.
A Oounterfeiter' Wife who Successfully
 Assumed Numerous Disguisea

A Uounterfelter' Wife who Successfully
 Assumed Numerous Disguisea
 In January, 1868, the Secretary of the Treasury was notified that a new and dangerous counterfeit on Cincinnati National bank had been put afoat in Boston. The Detective Bureau being mo- tified in turn I was detailed on the case and left for Boston the same day. About $2, 900 of the queer had been fioated in one day, and the work had been done by woman. At one place she had pur- chased $500 worth of diamonds; at an- other $25O gold watch; at another dia- mond bracelet. The goods in all cases were such articles as could be sold again for at least half their value.
 Each victimized party described her differently. At the first place she was blonde, plainly dressed. At the next she was brown-haired woman in mourning; at the third she had black hair, was showily dressed, and claimed relationship to well-known family. After day spent in taking notes and making deduc- tions came to the conclusion that there she had assumed disguises. Boston was thoroughly searched for her, and had not yet found clue. when the chief tele- graphed me that she had appeared in Philadelphia, l reached that city to find that she had purchased $1,6OO worth of diamonds at one place and $500 worth at another, paying, of course, in the coun- terfeit bills. The first jeweler described her as a showy woman with gold in her upper front teeth. The second jeweler described her as very plain and demure, and he was sure that she had no gold in her teeth.
 I had set out under the belief that I had only one woman to deal with, and I would not now admit there were two. I looked Philadelphia high and low for fe- males bearing the description, and at the end of four days received another tele- gram from headquarters. She had ap- peared in Pittsburgh, where she had made three different purchases of jewel CTS. I hastened to the Smoky City as soon as possible, and To! the three de- scriptions given were so entirely different that one was almost sure there were three women at work floating off the counter feits. l One jeweler had been mashed on h s customer, and had therefore taken par ticular notice that her eyes were blue, her hair brown, and her height medium. She had gold in her upper front teeth, and was affected in her ways and speech. The second jeweler wasn't mashed, but he was an old detective, and he noticed that she had brown eyes, dark hair, mole on her chin, and plain, white teeth. There was nothing affected about her. The third jeweler could swear that she had black hair, gold in her lower teeth, a slight squint to one eye, and stamm cred bit as she talked.
 l Hunted Pittsburgh for three days, but met with no success. Believing she would next turn up at Indianapolis, started for that city without orders, talk, ing a sleeping car on night train. Ii was woman who had the lower berth
 next to mine, and as looked her over
 made up my mind that she was schoo
 teacher and an old maid. She had rec
 hair dressed plainly, and paid not tht slightest attention to any one. Wher
 the porter came to make her berth h,
 placed rather bulky satchel belonging
 to her on the seat at my feet, and sh' found a temporary seat at the other enc of the car. The jar of the cars jostlct
 the satchel to the floor after bit, and as stopped over to pick it up, fount
 the floor covered with wigs, cosmetics I small brushes, pieces of crayon and falls
 teeth. There were three wigs of differ ,, ent colors, and two upper and two unde
 sets of teeth. In one the gold was in tn , upper; in the other it was in the lower Well, you may believe that with m
 mind full of the mysterious woman an
 her disguise, was not long in concludin
 that had stumbled upon the perso wanted. I replaced the article in the satchel and walked over t T her and made know my errand. Sh Q gave me terrible tongue-la flashing an , called on the passengers for protection :. but when I revealed my identity an
 emptied the contents of the satchel on a seat, she gave in. We got off at ster
 benville, and, when I had her searched n over 4,000 in the commercials ws
 brought to light, but her purchases wei
 not to be found, she having shipped thel
 to confederatcs. She was the wife of th !, notorious "Black Dan," and the pair we, @ the most dangerous couple in Amerie j. at that time. We got her husband in l. week or two, and, while he got SGT y tence of twenty-two years, she got O ia with seven.-Detroit Free Press.
 
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