Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-03-21
Netc York Mail and Express.

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the salvation of the family. She had q
scheme which caught every one. Her plan
of operation was to secure house in the
most fashionable quarter OF the city and
by hook or crook get acquainted with the
wealthy people about her. Every second
evening abe would give reception to
which were invited only the bon-ton. She
was perfect lady from al outside point Of
view, and as for talk she could beat the
best female orator Of the land. She got
the money to maintain this house and her
position from the well.supplied pocket Of
her husband Bat she paid it all back in
end, for che would stick each trsdesmsn
and prominent person in the neighborhood
on few hundred.dollar bills before she got
tired and skipped.
The old man never visited his wife
while she was at work. Only herself and
little son heated the iron. The frat time
the boy came 10 the notice of the police
was when he was arrested, at the age OF II,
for pocket picking On Broadway. His in
uocent.looking countensnce saved him the
Judge refusing to
BELIEVE He WOULD COMMIT CRIME.
Soon afterward his father was arrested
while trying to pass a 500 counterfeit bill
on the Shoe and Leather Bank on mer-
chant OF Elizabeth. He got ten years in
Trenton prison. never learned what be-
came of him. although | expect he will be
picked up ut the old business some Of these
day. after the father was sent sent away
his wife and son took up quarters in Phils'
delphia. One day. soon after, and in Chief
Woods time, she was caught passing bad
money in Jersey City, She would not con-
fess as to who was assisting her or where
she got the money though the evidence
was sufficiently strong to convict. Like
snake she wriggled herself out of jail, how.
ever. She did it in this wise: She said to
Chief Wood one dsy that if he would return
several counterfeit bills which he had taken
from her Immediately AFTER har capture,
she would arrange 50 that he might catch
a dozen persons who we're engaged in the
unlawful pursuit.. He took her word, but,
before releasing her, secretly marked the
bills on the corner. She discovered his
plan after breathing fresh air. tore off the
corners passed the bills aud Left for parts
Unknown. A. yea sfterwerd she was cnp.
tured in the northern part o. the State, and
sentenced to five years in the Albany
penitentiGry.
by some unknown arrangement the con
was taken in charge by two professional
thieves known to the police as Jane bu2ser
and Kate German, alias Red. headed Kate,
alias Miss Lesry. They kept him alive
until his mother got out and then she took
charge of him. 1t only required few
years patient work TO make him an adept
ct tie ccunter,ei ,ipp Trade. We never had
sn idea be was making bad money until
the little fellow whom had assisted while
in distress by chance gave me a clew.
Mother and son went to Chicago, where
they were forgotten, BY re ct leaat It
vas on Sunday morning, long after they
left, and while ] was in o cigar store on
South Fifth avenue, that my little friend
came in and placed much soi!ed letter
IN my hands He said he had found 1t in
Anity now West Third street, and that he
brought it to me TO read to him. The let
Ter was from the female counterfeiter to her
son, and was addressed to the -e9i3e2:e Of
Mss .esry, 10. % AmrtY street 1t was
dated Cincinnati, and the mother asked
| her son.
TO SEND on SOME MONEY.
II be had none on hand, it said, he was
to lose no time bit get st work making
some She could get away with piles, she
said if he would only hurry up. Well that
really put the detectives 10 work, and they
soon found out that the son used to pay
fortnightly visits to this city and that he
had a regular money mill in Amity street.
Il was during one of these visits that che
wrote 10 Kim. Colonel L. G. whitley,
then Chief ofticer OF the United States
Secret Service Department, soon after went
on and arrested the two | call il down
right chance that ever got that letter, for
-: :, 20 -.l'.;"s n,ioht stiIl ha nraying
ppon the community we're it not that the
how p;ched it m from the sidewalk where
it probably had been dropped.
Another strange cleg which tortu'
pstely stumbled over" continued the de-
tec,ive after few minutes pause, was in
the summer Of 1875, when | WAS stationed
in the fifteenth precinct. 4 man named
Thomas Blrdsell, who had been quite sue
csssful in the Wholesale shoe business IN
early life, was passing through the Wash
ipgton square park at an hour when the
morslist is in slumber. He was giant IN
stature, in the prime Of life, and, though
he did imbibs an alarming quantity o.
stimulanrs at times, he was one OF those
fellows who could partske necessarily and
still maintain bis eqpsnimity and proves
This particular morning he felt unusually
animated, aud his gait homeWsrd was sur
prisinglF fast. He had reached the corner
Of Fourth and Sullivan streets, when sud
denly o masked man sprang from behinC
q tree sui dealt him an awful blow on th'
head with q portion of cobble stone tbs
WAS neatly seRed mp in buckskin. Sub
sequent investigation by the police develop
ed the latter fact. Birdsell endeavored
after being struck, to grosp his sssailani
out the blow had been too severe, and b
dropped unconscious TO the sidewalk.
THE MASKED NAN
rifed his person Of ell jswelry, which en-
braced handsome gold watch snd chain
diamond ring and studs and S2l0in money
Several months psssed and the detective
of the ward and three special patrolmel
had given up all idea Of finding the high
wsymsn, when one morning shortly befor
/ 10 O'Clock l found myself walking sloD
Sixth avenue in the neighbofhood 9
( Greenwich avenue. Directly in front G
( me, and walking in the same direction Il
ward Wsverley place, was 9 young ma
Who was dressed in the finest of clothing
1 probably would not have noticed hiI
were it not that his face was strRDgel
savage Ike in its character. Of course v
Q daily encounter numberless such person
i. but that fellows visage once seen coul
n nsVsr he torcotten. The fellow was iuI