Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1889-01-06
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Tho Oldest professional sneak .hief
In the country has again been arrested.
And she Is 4 woman. S%ixty-ninc
years ago she began tho criminal
career which she still pursucs and yet,
ttrango TO say, she bears upon her
features but little traces OF the lifo she
led Or the -four scoro years that have
passed V her head more thun forty
huve been passed. in prison. During
that time all the sunshine that camo
to her was what struggled through tho
prison bars. Her friends were tho
companions with whom crinlo had
brought her i'm contact Honest people
she had scarcely ever known. In
decd, II almost must have seemed to
her that she hud no place whatever in
the great free world outside. a Curl
u and n sud sight slio presented as
u sat huddled up in u corner OF
tho pen in tho Tombs police court
Her clothes wcro comparatively
beneath which tho purcst Of locks OF
silver gray showed out. Her face was
pallid, md, dressed differently and
surrounded by brighter circumstances,
sho might have passed us an old lady
OF most respectable ancestry. She had
no Haunting airs, exhibited no out
ward semblance Of COVERING, gave no
furtive chances that indicated the soul
Of tho criminal looking out through
tho eyes. The place seemed natural
FOR her. Well, perhaps ii might, for
many and many n time she had been
there before. Others who looked upon
her might pity her. She did not seem
to realize why they should do SO. She
was merely going back again to the
only homo she had ever remembered.
Mary Fitzgerald is her nainc The
war Of 1912 took from her her father,
and when she was ~ her mother died.
She became q waif on the world, drift
ing hitler and thitlIer in search of her
food and Of q roof TO shelter her.
Many q time she could find neither,
and want, possibly moro than any
evil inclination, made her q thief.
She joined one OF those gangs Of little
criminals who at TIC time made the
wharves and tho river fronts their
homes rs we'll as their headquarters.
Tho fields and woods that then stood
where fashionable up town now en-
lists would have afforded those urchins
better quarters, though ones not so
safe. Mary vas only IL years of ago
when she first was brought before tho
courts, and had TO bc held up in tho
arms Of the sergeant so that tho Judge
could see her and hear tho little story
she had to tell. She had TO excuse to
offer then. Indeed through her whole
career she has never had. Stealing
has seemed to he as natural to her as
living. the only variation in her con-
duet before tho authorities being
that she would occasionally claim
identity with some other we'll known
criminal. On one occasion some iif-
teen or sixteen years ago sllo insisted
with tho utmost gravity that slie
WAS Sarah Alexander, tho notorious
"Frcnch Sally" who had made so
many little storekccPers IL her
visits to their establishments. One Of
the ~pcculiaritics Of this trial was that
the judge who presided had only a
short time before sentenced the origi-
nel Sarah Alexander md informed
Mary Of the fact. Her persistence in
this matter was the only bit of char
actcr she had cver exhibited, and she
was then deemed worthy of q place in
the famous rogues' gallery at police
headquarters. She prepared for the
event us we'll as she could, and 10 this
day the picture bears evidence Of her
anxiety 10 look Us well rs possible. A
broad smile suffuscs her face, and il
had not the slightest trace of that al
most involuntary If not willful un-
willingness TO DO photographed, that
marks the pictures Of nearly oil the
other criminals
Mary's last stny out Of prison was
one of tho longest she had ever mado
live montlis-and the police were
beginning 10 hope that at least tho
sunset OF her lifo might DO in tho
honest air Of the open world, but they
were doomed TO disappointment. SlIo
was arrested by Detective Sergeant
Woodbridge for picking tho pockets Of
Beatrice Mczzano in an auction room
on Catharino street. Tho detective
was present md saw the interesting
performance. He arrested Mary, and
was marching along with her, when
Thomas 'Whulen, n resident Of Cherry
street, who is alleged TO be tho wo-
mans accomplicc, assaulted tho detec-
tive. In the mcleo Mary escaped, but
only TO fall into tho hands Of an Of
ficer Of tho Fourth precinct. Both
wero eventually arrested, and Mary
will, i'll all probability, end her life
within prison walls. New York Press.
Tho Growth Of CnilaTon.
Tho rule Of growth is that a child
should increase two pounds in weight
for every inch in height between threo
and four feet, aud two and q hulf
pounds for every inch between four
md Two feet A remarkable fact is
that the boys at tho public schools and
young men at tho universities, and
entering tho public service, hero called
tho upper classes, average nbout three
inches taller, and from six pounds to
twenty pounds heavier, than boys in
tho board schools and young apron.
tices and workmcn. Two cause may
DO assigned for this: first, hcrcdity;
and secondly. favorable surroundings.
Deficient and improper food, town air,
laborious work ut early ages, all stunt
the growth. Every ono knows how a
change from close town 10 FREQ coun-
try life, with plenty of exercise, stimu-
lates growth. a good rule for pro.
dieting future height is that IL Rvo feet
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