Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-03
IN A JERSEY JAIL.
Mrs. Lippincott, Whose Forgeries
Amount to Many Thousands,
ARRESTED AT HER MOTHERS HOME
How the Shrewd Woman Eluded Detectives
for Many Months.
THE PRISONER TELLS HER STORY

PHILADELPHIA, July 2.-Justice has
overtaken Mrs. Julia G. Lippincott. The
shrewd woman whose forgeries, and upon
their discovery her subsequent flight, ere
ated such tremendous sensation in South
Jersey last February, was caught in the drag
net of the law yesterday, and is now safely
lodged in Camden's old-fashioned jail.
J Her capture reflects great credit upon the
| sagacity of Detective James Henry, Of
Camden, who ran the fugitive to earth after
scores of other detectives had given up the
chase, and declared that Mrs. Julia Lippin-
colt had disappeared never to be found. Not
one of the many victims of this clever
woman's cleverer forgeries would have
imagined by their quiet demeanors that the
quiet motherly-looking woman and the
shrewd-looking man who walked through
Broad street station together last night were
playing the roles of captive and captor. But
they were. The woman was Mrs. Lippin
colt, looking but little the worse after four
months chase with the law, and her COM
panion was Officer Henry. the terror of evil
doers in Camden county.
THE DETECTIVES HUNT.
The capture of Mrs. Lippincott was the
end of long period of unceasing work and
sleepless effort on the part of Detective
Henry. When the private detectives Of her
many dupes were securing the country ex-
hausting clues as to her whereabouts, and
other Vidcoqs were raising the wind to get
on her trail, Henry was quietly marking out
his course, and the last line he drew on his
successful map was one that stretched from
D.1A
was arrested by the shrewd Jerseyman in
the Monumental City at high noon yester-
day. y
The 10 o'clock train from the South that
rolled into Broad street station last night
numbered them among its passengers. De-
tective James Tate, of the Central station
Office, met the pair on their arrival here.
He was closeted in an interview with his
brother officer, and half an hour later the
trio were in a carriage on their way to Cam
den. 1t was nearly midnight when the lock
on the Jail door clicked behind Mrs. Lip
pincott, and she laid down upon the plain
prison cot a prisoner for the first time in her
life of nearly 60 years duration.
NOT A FUGITIVE.
She played her sharp game till the last
moment, and her wideawake captor was
more than surprised when he led Mrs. Lip
pincott into the LADIES' restaurant, and
Lawyer r. o. Moon, of the firm of Arundel
& Moon, stepped up to and pleasantly
greeted them. In the intervening time be-
tween her capture and departure for this
city she had written and dispatched tele-
gram to her attorneys. While she partook
of light refreshments Counselor Moon en-
gagged her in conversation, and Detectives
Henry and Tate and a reporter sat at an ad-
joining table. By courtesy of Attorney
Moon and Officer Henry tbe reporter inter
viewed Mrs. Lippincott, who maintains her
self-possession to remarkable degree.
II have not been hiding from justice"
was her answer to a question regarding her
apprehension. "You can see that I am a
willing captive. When the officer found me
this morning was ready to return to Cam
den with him without requisition papers. I
need not have done SO had desired to make
trouble. IF had intended to escape had
ample opportunity to do so this morning.
But here am and ready to prove that am
not such terrible character as the newspa-
pers have painted me.
SHE CHARGES TREACHERY.
"I want to say that there has been treach-
cry" she said suddenly, assif recollecting a
train of thoughts which must have been run
ming through her mind while she was saying
the above.
Eyes. treachery," this with marked en-
phasis. Then Mrs. Lippincott resolved into
silence.
"Where have I been since February?"
she repeated q few moments later in re-
sponse to a query. "Ohl all over. You
know have relatives living all through
Maryland, and have been among them all
the time. / was stopping with my mother
this morning when the officer called and 1
willingly complied with his request to ac-
company him to Camden without a requisi-
ton. This affair has been SO greatly en-
larged that I suppose the public are willing
to believe that am some terrible character.
Do look SOP" and Mrs. Lippincott smiled.
She was dressed in a black figured ging-
ham gown and wore plain black straw hat.
There was not the slightest trace of worri-
ment imprinted on her motherly features.
Though there are II indictments hanging
over her head, Mrs Lippincott submitted
to arrest, thinking that there is only one.
This is an alleged forgery OF the name of
relative of her husbands in Camden, Free
dom Lippincott, who charges her with
swindling him out of several hundred dol
lars.
ARRESTED AT HER MOTHERS,
The warrant upon which Detective Henry
arrested her was one issued from the bench
by Judges Hugg and Garrison at the Nav
term of court upon the application of Free
dom Lippincott. Detective Henry expected
to capture Mrs Lippincott a month ago, but
when he went down to Baltimore after her
she had disappeared, and he returned to wait
for her temperance. The cooperation of
fellow officer at Baltimore was secured and
only yesterday morning telegram told him
that the fugitive was on hand. Four hours
later he was in Baltimore and directly on
the way to the residence of Mrs. Lippincott' s
mother, Mrs. Culnan, who lives in the
suburbs of Baltimore. He knocked at the
door, which was answered by Mrs. Llppin-
colt herself. She did not change muscle
as Henry took the warrant from his pocket
and read it to her.
Without wasting words she sIgnifed her
willingness to come back. They waited
until the heavy tide of travel was over and
came up on an early evening train. Coun-
selor Moon was waiting and completed ar
rangements to defend Mrs. Lippincott
against all charges. "We shall Cooperate
with q Camden attorney" said Lawyer
Moon, "but will have the entire case under
our charge"
LOSSES FROM HER FoRGERIEs.
New jersey was dumfounded when, on
the morning of February 81, the papers
published an account of the disappearance
of Mrs. Lippincott, together with full his
tory of her operations during the years that
she had been a successful business woman
and the partner of her respected husband,
Edwin Lippincott, the proprietor of Haddon
Hall, at Atlantic City, which had grown to
be one OF the most popular resorts on the
coast, due largely to Mrs. Lippincott's busi-
ness tact. The news fell like thunderbolt
in Atlantic City and Philadelphia, where
resided the many victims OF her facile pen,
which spared not friends or relatives in its
search after victims.
One hundred thousand dollars was the
amount fixed as the losses due to her for
geries, and merchants, friends, servants and
institutions all suffered to o greater or less
degree by contact with her. Mr.. Lippincott
discovered his wife's wrong-doing before her
disgrace was made public and she disap-
poared, but though he bravely tried to bear