The Indianapolis journal., 1888-07-22

Experience Of woman Who systematically
Robbed Her Employers.

Chicago Mail. =, 4,
Mrs Jennie Crane. the now famous "pock-
marked woman for whom the police looked
for q year. but who finally fell into their hands
through an accident still occupies cell at the
Armory During the last few days she has been
visited by scores of housewives, many of whom
have identified her as the woman who despoiled
their homes under the euise Of q domestic
..It makes me feel bad" said Mrs. Crane to-
day to o reporter. Ito see how the people have
wronged treat me when they come IN here. Out
of the many who have identified me. as well as
the property of theirs which | took, only one or
two have been harsh or insulting. III they were
all abusive it would not make me feel so bad ss
their kindness does STILL l suppose they will
appear against me ia court. How wish L had
been arrested when / first started out TO do
wrong. was successful SO long. ana now tnese
is so much against me-
'How did you happen TO adopt sucn method
of making money!
81 don't know can't imagine what made
me do it. / think committed the first theft on
impulse and il was so easy and successful that
tried il again. would not say that was leo
into it by any one 1 never had any associa'
tions with criminals. About year ago my
husband and quit housekeeping and l nso
nothing to do, and you know the ola saving
about Satan finding work for idle hands IL was
SO easy TO answer an advertisement for domes'
tic and get the place. Then it was easy TO ma
pretext for leaving. generally told them 1
was going after my trunk. and l always man
aged to take something OF value away with me-
/ never stayed over night at any house, and
often left within an hour or two
'How many houses did you visit IN that
wayr
II have no idea. kept no account of them
or of the names of the families. number or
people have come in here and identified me, or
have found some of their goods among the lot
at my house. whose faces / could not remember
at all. All the time was doing this walked
the streets without any fear or uneasiness. In
the first place. ] never realized the magnitude
of nv ofenses; never stopped to think about
it. Every time I went from my home to the
butcher-shop, going as women do. bare-headed,
Ipassed the Desplaines-street police station.
never thought the police had description of me
which had been furnished them In the form OF
q private circular. nor did ever think tnat any
complaint had been made to the police
''Are you kleptomaniacP
II don't think so. Wouldn't that disease
and believe they call it disease-have devel-
oped earierl l was thirty-fve years old when
began. something over a year ago.
Glow about your accomplicel'
"Who she is the police will never learn from
me. Wouldn't it be mean for me to tell on her
and have her brought in herel I'll never do il.
i'll restore everything took. az far possible.
tell every thing, and do the utmost in my power
to atone for my own sins, but I'll never tell on
her"
WAS she in this business before you werel'
"She was. She has relatives in the peniten-
tiary. too"
Mrs Crane said she would never go to the
penitentiary. intimating that she would take o
change OF venue to the next world first.