St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-05

before the very ewes OF her accusers. So
.c!everlv did the woman plead her case that
Ii was decided not to arrest her then, and
the policeman was dismissed. When noon
time came Louise was missing. About
o'clock in the afternoon a gentleman drove
up to the house in a hanson and asked
whether young French woman had beeu
recently employed there. He was informed
that such a person had been there, but she
had disappeared In the conversation that
followed the
MYSTERIOUS RoBBERTES
were spoken Of ''Ah." said the gentle
man with strong French accent, THAT Is
she. l beg to inform you, madam, that
you have been harbOring one OF the boldest
and most successful thieves known to the
police of Paris, and possibly now to the
police of America. Her real name is Marie
La Fargo. She is known as the carrier
pigeon thief and has been charged twice
with attempted murder" The gentleman.
who was French police official, then gave
the startled family detailed account OF
the young woman's remarkable career. She
was an Alsatian by birth, but had been
brought up and educated in Paris. AT the
age of Is she had been betrayed by Louis
Pale. anOted thief, and had thereafter cast
her lot with some of the desperate crlml-
mails in France. When only II she in
weighed an elderly Englishman into a
den at Ravre, chloroformed him.
and robbed him of 9200. She disguised
herself in boys clothes and escaped.
year later she was arrested in the Bank
Universalle, Paris, in the very act OF steal
ing 10 900 francs. On the way to jail she
induced her captor to enter cafe that she
might quench her thirst with a glass OF
wine. She was very pretty and vulup-
tuouS and the man yielded. Marie asked
permission to go to retiring-rOom. and, in
some manner which was never explained,
escaped. She disappeared from Paris and
was next heard of at Monaco, where she
drugged a well-knOwn English gambler
and robbed him of considerable sum OF
money. She did not flee, but depending
upon her pleasing tongue and rare personal
charms, actually compromised with her
victim, who fell
MADLY IN LOVE
with her, and afterwards became her will
ing accomplice in numerous robberies. She
was next heard of in London, where she
became a lady's maid in fashionable fam
lily on GroSvenOr street, GrOSvenOr square.
1t was there that she first gained the name
of the ''carrler pigeon thief" The most
ScluS uloappCdlCu W.
noses of the owners. 1t was discovered
that the girl. who brought three pigeons
with her, concealed the articles under the
birds wings and liberated them. and they
flew to loft of a questionable resort in
Pear Hill street, in the Seven DialS. From
London she returned to Paris again in such
perfect disguise that she was not recog-
nized by the police. Her fort then became
the robbery of old men. Edward Acker,
an Englishman, had her arrested in Paris
in 1878 on the charge of attempted robbery.
The evidence was insufficient to convict,
and she was acquitted. After the trial
Marie attacked her accuser with dirk,
and when captured for this one OF her nu-
merOuS lovers came forward and took the
crime on his own shoulders. As the i'll
tended victim did not see who struck the
blow he could not secure the woman'S con-
viction. She fled from Paris to st. Peters
burg annd there attracted the attention of
a young Russian, who lavished large sums
of money on her. She stole his diamonds
eventually and went to Berlin. Thence
she went to London and created a scandal
by her intimacy with an American sea cap
tain, who failed to keep his appointments
with his employers because of his infatua-
ton. When she deserted him to go to
Baden-Baden he killed himself. In the
fall of 1884 the woman of many adventures
sailed for America. Through some free
masonry in roguery she drifted into DuffyS
den on the Bowery, New York, and there
became acquainted with Napoleon La Noun
tain, afellow-countryman. La Mountain IS
known as particularly clever craftsman.
He served time in Joliet, and while serv-
ing in the Chicago county Jail made his
escape.
THE woMAN's CoQUETRY
caused serious rupture between La Noun
tain and French Louis" and fight was
the outcome. in which French Louis
was badly worsted. In the early part of
1885 Marie made narrow escape from
being captured by Inspector Byrnes' men
while disposing of some jewelry at
Williams fence" On Sixth avenue. near
Twenty fifth street, but she shrewdly
throw the blame on Charlotte Dougherty,
the mistress of Little Horace" Levan,
and escaped. Vengeance was sworn
attacked in dive on Hester street by An
ME Davis, alias ''Jew Annie" and badly
beaten. Then she went to Chicago and
created sensation by actually garroting a
man on West Madison street. She was
not captured, and, dropping her desperate
character, she became ''lady'S maid"
again and went to St. Lous, where she
narrowly missed capture after rObbing an
old gentleman of his watch while she sat
on his knee in his own parlor. From st.
Louis she journeyed to Hamilton. Ont, and
put up in great style at the HotelRoyal. Al
thOugh.in Canada but a few days, she nearly
ruined a prominent lawyer. This is Marie's
first appearance in Philadelphia. 1t is not
known who her accomplice is. but it is be-
lieved to be 1.-THE Whitehead Kidd" John
Battrick, well-known confidence man,
and the especial pal in his days of liberty of
Hungry Jo." who so successfully posed
as the son of A. T. DrnXel V s C.