The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-02-11
TOUCHED BY LAToucHE.
New York Ladies' swindied by Mrs.
Howe No. Two.

Howe No. Two.
Another female financier of The same
calibre as the notorious Mrs. Howe.
who successfully swindled Boston's fair
spectators out of over half a million
dollars few years ago. has doomed up
in New York, and like the Boston wo-
man has come to grief. She is Nine.
Marie Latouche, having at various pc.
riods been known as Mrs. Dow and
Mrs. Ware. Before coming to this
city to victimize women of slender
means but ambitious to get rich Mrs.
Latouche had successfully piled her
swindling vocation in several other
cities and had also paid for her nefari.
Gus practices by doing penance behind
prison bars.
During the past fortnight upward Of
q dozen ladies, all more or less promi-
nently connected in society. have com.
planned to Inspector Byrne that they
had been swindled out of large sums OF
money by Mrs. Marie Latouche, who
carried on brokerage business at No.
165 West Twenty-third street The
woman operated with women only, and
by means of fiowery advertisements in
the newspapers she managed to lure
into her net victims who were prom;s-
cd or guaranteed profits of $50 per
month on an investment of $500. II
was precisely the same method that
had been adopted by the banking es-
adjustment of Mrs. Howe in Boston,
the principal processing to make the
investment In such a manner that large
returns were sure to follow.
Although large number OF ladies
claimed to be victims it was difficult for
the Inspector to induce any Of them to
come to the front and 60 TO court as
compliments. some of them fearing
publicity and others not wishing their
husbands to discover their speculative
proclivties. Mrs. Clara johnson, OF
No. 156 East Eighty-fourth street, how
ever, was prevailed upon to accompany
the Inspector to Jefferson Market
Court yesterday when Judge German
issued a warrant for the arrest of the
woman banker or broker. Detective Scr
geants McManus and Lyman succeeded
in arresting the prisoner in her lair
last evening and brought her to Police
Headquarters. Mrs. Latouche. who is
a fine looking woman of about forty,
is tall and stately in: appearance.
When brought into the Inspectors
private Office she stood before him
with an air of defiance and refused to
answer any and all questions as to her
name. age, residence. &c.
A few moments later she was confront
eddy Mrs. johnson and dozen more of
her fair victims, two of the whom. or
gazing at the statue-likefgure of the
woman broke down and wept ny sterile
ally rs between their sobs they told how
theyhad been robbed of all their money
by the brazen-faced swindler. The latter
then also betrayed soma womanly
feelings and asked 10 be taken away.
She was accordingly locked up in one
of the cells down stairs, but three
hours later she sent the following note
to the inspector:
Il am exceedingly sorry and regret
very much my action Mt NV interview
with you. ! will be very glad now to
be brought up stairs when 1 will answer
any question You may desire TO ask
me. NINE. LAToUCHE.
Meanwhile, however, the inspector
had sent for and brought to her quar-.
ters her alleged husband. Royal
Latouche. who has an Office on Pine
street, and who it was ascerta neil, had
been backing his alleged wife in her
financial schemes. Latouche Is tall.
heavily built man of about forty-fye
years. with heavy black mustache.
and has the appearance of shrewd
business man. From him the inspec-
Tor learned much of the woman's
history, which, summarized. il some
what as follows:
Her maiden name was Mary Grass,
Ter father, Jacob Grass. being an old
New Highlander who, though once an
honest farmer. has no more than one
occasion figured in swindling schemes
With his daughter. She first appeared
n Boston in 1870. with man named
Warren whom she claimed to he her
husband They carried on together
schemes sim lar to that she
now charged with, and were arrest
I'd several times, but on each occasion
hey managed to escape punishment.
n 1875 Warren disappeared from Bos-
on, and it is said he died shortly after
yard. A few months later she made
Ter debut as the wife of Mr.. Dow, a
prominent business man i'm Boston,
Who also d ell in that city year or so
subsequently. About that time the
woman purchased one share of capital
took of the Michigan Central Railroad
Company. but she forged the certificate
o represent sixty shares, which she
deposited in one of the banks. A few
lays later she attempted to procure a
oan from the bank en- the forged GER
ificate. but the forgery was detected
n tine. and the fair forger skipped
he town and went to St. John, N. B.
At the latter place she was soon aft
r arrested. together with her
ather--, Jacob Grass. charged with
orging and trying to pass check for,
j, 200. but both managed to escape the
igilance of the authorities. They next
arned up in Chicago. In that city.
owever, after tho lapse of several
7eeks. she was discovered under the
anne of Mary Ware and arrested and
AIKEN back to st. Johns, and tried.
IN that trial. her father. it is said.
armed States evidence against her,
ut tine jury disagreed. and she. be ng |
berated on bail. soon shook the dust |
'om her feet appearing next in this