Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-08
A PASSION FOR DRY GOODS
frankie Currie, of Lincoln Gets Into
Serious Trouble.
AsHBY & MlLLspAueH TAKEN IN.
She Uses Judge Mason's Namc-Tho
Culprit Offers to settlc-An In
tercsting Interview-Fitz-
gcraId's Donation.
LINCOLN BuREAu OF The OMAHA Ber, I
1929 Il STREET, ,
LINCOLN. July z.

LINCOLN. July a
frankie Currie, young girl who has been
living In Lincoln for several months past
was arrested last night for uttcring forged
papcr, and committed to tho county Jail al
midnight II seems that on the 18th of June
frankie entered Ashby 81 Millspaugh's dry
goods store and represented that she was
Miss Savage, Judge Masons housekeeper,
and that she had been sent by Mrs. Ham
mond, tho judges daughter, TO buy some
goods on credit for her as they intended to
start for Colorado in few days. Knowing
Masons prejudice against the purchase of
goods on credit, the firm denied Miss
Savage's request, and instructed her to get
an order from him for the goods
she wanted Shortly afterward she
again appeared and presented a note,
neatly and iutslligeutly written, OF which
the following is copy:
Messrs, Ashby 81 Millspaugh;-1 will SEQ
that YOU get paid for anything that Miss Saw
age gets me. Send the bill to Miss Savage
and she will settle everything on my account.
/ had not known that pa did not want n bill
sent to him for us girls 50 will see that you
lose nothing, Very respectfully,
Mrs. kirby HAMMOND,
1889 l. Street, City.
This guarantee satisfied the firm, and dur
ing the succeeding seventeen days she car
ried from the store over 5000 worth of goods.
She came often and discussed Mason's we'll
known peculiarities and other matters with
such familiarity that the firm entertained no
suspicious, and was wholly disarmed. But
payday came, and with it the announcement.
1t was soon thereafter learned that there was
no such inmate as Miss Savage at Judge
Mason's home; that there had been such
person there, but that she was now in Omaha;
that Mrs. Hammond did not contemplate
making a visit to Colorado, aud that the note
purporting to be from her was very
clever forgery: 1t did not take
unr
tho case to the police, and Officer Malone
was detailed to look up the matter and ii
possible to effect the arrest of the mys-
terious shopper. All this happened yester-
day morning. From the description of the
girl given by Ashby and Milspaugh, MIR.
Hammond identified the girl as frankie
Currie, who had worked in the family home
a year or so before Dillgent search on the
home of q. M. Andrus, at the corner of
Eleventh and Nj streets. When first ac-
cused she sloutly denied her guilt, but weak
ened when Malone produced n pair of hand
cuffs, and promised to restore all of the
goods if the matter was kept from the pub
lie. This dodge would not work, how
ever, and the girl was taken
revealed the fact that great piles of them
were stored about the Andrus house. 1t is
understood that her confidence games ex-
tends to other firms, and that her pillaginp
will aggregate over S40U. Frankie tells
many conflicting stories, representing that
she is a neice of John Fitzgerald to some and
denying it to others. While not comely nor
and evidently a fair education. She will
have her preliminary examination before
Judge Houston tomorrow, when she will
doubtless answer to the charge of forgery.