Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-05

Prom the View York Herald today.
Even among those whose lives are devoted
to charitable works no pity is expressed for the
plight into which the st Stephens Guild"
and the manager or proprietress, Sister Be-
atrice, may have fallen. The proceedings
which are pending in the sixth district court 20
turn the woman out Of the house at No. 3 Liv-
ingston place, which she has occupied for
three years, a. related exclusively In yester-
days Herald have only precpitated matters.
She has been closely watched for some time,
and il the charity organization society could
have obtained proper proof that she was solicit
ing money or goods, according 10 her custom
for several years, she would have been prose-
cuted as q swindler. Various other charitable
societies have been on the lookout for her.
The woman seems TO have been posted and has
been very wary. This is the explanation Of how
IL happened that she got into debt for rent 10
the amount of about S475.
II would be interesting 10 know what has be-
come of the money and other proceeds OF her
begging since she put on the habit Of a sister
OF charity in 1851. That she has realized q
large amount from begging seems certain. and
the most careful inquiry has failed TO show that
she has put her means 10 other than her own
personal use.
PERHAPS AN AccoMPIrcE.
There is an elderly man Of good appearance,
with long gray beard, who is mixed up with
the bogus nun in some way. His actions are
very mysterious, not to say suspicious At
times admittance 20 the house in Livingston
place has been denied 70 every one except this
man, who either goes there by appointment or
Is observed by the lookout and Is more privi-
legged than other callers. Persons who have
hired lodgings from Sister Beatrice say that the
elderly stranger has been locked in the house
for hOura at tipna uhfla IL
there.
Aside from this man and Sister Alice who wss
until recently associated with Sister Beatrice,
the woman does not seem to have had any inti-
mate acquaintance and has studiously avoided
permitting anybody TO pry into her affairs.
The gray uniformed policemen who are sta
toned in the twin stuyvesant parks have in
CURED her enmity, because she thought they
were watching her movements. She has made
several complaints against them TO the park
board, but she has been regarded a rather &C.
centric, to say the least. Police Captain
Clinchy's mail also has been swelled BY fire.
quent communications from her stating imagin-
airy grievances.
owns A FARM.
Policeman Thomas Reid whose beat leads
past her house, is the only guardian Of the
peace TO whom she has not exhibited positive
aversion. He earned her gratitude by fright
ening of mischievous boys who used 10 play
~
Sister Beatrice told him that she owned
farm up in the country. II this is true it may
explain where some Of her money has gone.
A year so ago stores Of all kinds came to the
house by the truck-load and il is said that loads
we're carted away at night. That led 10 the
suspicion that the place was used for storing
stolen goods. That may or may not be true,
but the charity organization has proof that
Sister Beatrice has sold stuff that IL supposed
to have been donated to her for charitable
n1t n ~l,.<l
boarding house at No. 81 cart l4th street
bought apples from her and the SISTER
wanted her TO purchase tea, coffee and other
goods. She has told people that she supplied
cuse for this sort OF thing was that she received
more than she could in her charitable
work
SHARP TRADING.
There is an infrmary in the same block with
''St Stephens guild" and the managers wanted
to increase their accommodations some time
ago. Sister Beatrice is reported to have gone
to one Of the directors and offered 10 give the
infrmary people a ten-years' lease Of No. 9 IL
they would pay 5000 for six years rent in adj
vance and $500 year thereafter. The property
belongs to the Glover estate and under the lease
Of sister Beatrice she had no right TO sublet or
underlet the premises. She covenanted 10 pay
$l.0O0 year. How she expected 20 make such
favorable terms with the infrmary il merely .
matter Of conjecture.
Notwithstanding the terms Of her lease Sister
Beatrice has been letting out lodgings. On at
least three occasions she has gone 10 the sixth
district court to have her dodgers dispossessed.
called at No. Livingston place yesterday
and inquired for Sister Beatrice. A woman
who answered the description Of the sister
assured me that she was out i could get no
information of the sister from nv informant
man who knows the masquerading nun saw
me talking with the woman and told me after
ward that she was none other than Sister
Beatrice. When / asked her name the woman
gave me one OF the many aliases by which the
notorious Mary L. Oliver has been known
BAD RECORD.
Before the famous breach Of promise case Of
the Oliver woman against the late Senator Cam
eron came to trial search was made all over the
United States and Canada for information about
the plaintiff. Enough was found to stamp her
as a wanton character. Under various names
she has gained a vast amount of notoriety.
Her real name, however, is said TO be Mary s.
keever and she WAS the daughter OF n NJ
keever, who was called Gen. keever. She was
born in Ireland about 1886, and at the age Of
twelve landed in New York with her father From
this city they went to Quebec and Montreal,
where they remained but few months. being
in straitened circumstances. Returning 10 New
York Mary went to work in John Osbo-nes
Masonic regalia factory. at No. 80 Madison
street. She worked there for about two years,
and claimed that in ls49 she was betrayed by .
young man named James Plat. She had
child that died. She never was married. al
though she has passed for married woman
almost everywhere.
In -, 1850, Thomas Marshall Oliver, then
fashionable tailor of Raleigh, n. C., came to
this city to purchase goods. and made the ac-
quaintance of the girl at osborne's store. The
following year he moved his tailoring business
from Raleigh, n. c., to Louisville, Ky, and
afterward came to New York again. He was,
as he called himself, grass widower," and
met the girl, then known Mary Ann Nc
Gallery, in disreputable house of which she
was an inmate. In the famous suit which she
brought he said she told him her story.
He took her with him on a visit TO Louisville
and returned with her to this city. The next
year he again met her and sent her to Louis
vile a second time, his nephew following them
q few days later. He says that his object was
to reform her, but he adds, there was no such
thing possible as she was naturally vicious. Az
she professed to be a Roman Catholic she was
sent to q convent in Portland, KY, TO be edu-
Gated and refined. She returned 20 Louis
vile and Oliver next sent her TO Q
Methodist school in Bloomfield, Nelson
county, KY, where she remained for
five months, passing under the name
of Mary Cooper. Oliver asserts that be treated
her as he would his own daughter during this
time and made every effort for her reforma-
ton, but finding his labor and expense useless
he commenced living with her again They
lived together until June l6, 1850, when he dis