The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1890-06-12


when his case was tried in the Police
Court letter was produced of the
most gushing character in which he
swears that the woman who was the
cause of this fearful tragedy Was the
only woman he ever loved, and whom
he had engaged as his private secre-
tary at salary of FIVE thousand dol
lars year. Miss Hopkinson claims
that the relationship between herself
and Judge Mas.erson was merely Of a
business character, but when a man
with wife and family gives a woman
a hundred thousand dollars worth of
bonds, the consideration being one
dollar on certain other valuable con-
siderations. ..and in addition to this en-
cages her az his private secretary at a
salary Of tive thousand dollars year,
he and his next friend will have to par
don US if we fail to swallow a story
which may go down in New Mexico,
but will not go down in New York. For
the present the sad drama is ended.
The heartbroken wife lies in the re.
ceiving vault at Woodlawn. The Pr-
vate Secretary retires to her country
home, astonished that wicked world
should suspect her purity, and the
erring Judge, almost demented, is
spirited into secusion by his friends,
and is to be shipped off to Europe by
the earliest steamer.
When James ID Fish, the partner
in crime of Ferdinand Ward, WAS in-
dicted, almost his last act before his
| bnal incarceration was to visit beau
tiful young actress who was dying in
New Jersey, and who had just been
corhnei of son. To the amazement
Of everyone Mr.. Fish declared that
Sally Reber was his wife. The social
shock was terrific. He was supposed
to be millionaire banker. She was a
member of the Opera Bouffe He vas
nearly sixty and she was barely TWEEN
ty. He belonged to the most sristo-
cratic circle in New York, and she was
second rate opera singer. He at
tended her funeral with every sign of
grief. and strange as it may seem the
infant was at once adopted and cared
for by Mr.. Fish's family till a short
time ago, when by the clemency Of
the Governor he was released from
States Prison. During Fish's trial a
most estinahls young lady of Sag Har-
Dor. on Long Island, exhibited the
most intense anxiety as to the resul,
and finally Mortified her friends by de.
claring that she was James d. Fish q
wife. His conviction and incarcera.
ton seemed to drive her to madness,
and 1t was finely found necessary to
put her under restraint. After a time
she seemed to recover, and her friends
were in hopes that her fatal delusion
had passed; but after Flsh's pardon
she insisted on going to see him, and
violent measures had to be taken to
prevent her. The sad feature of this
case is that the young lady In her nor
NAL condition is a most lovabls person,
and with her family, which is one of
the very best in the town, enjoys uni.
versal respect and esteem. Her poor
old father was one Of the late A. T.
Stewards most trusted sgents, is near
ly heart broken over his daughter 8
misfortune, which is bringing HE gray
hairs IN sorrow to the grave
George Hamilton Pell, who with
Clausen aud Wallack assisted in loot.
ing the Sixth Avenue Bank of six
hundred and twenty thousand dollars,
came to grief this week, being con-
victed of grand larceny in robbing the
Lennox Hill Bank of thirty-one thou
sand dollars in bonds. 1t was a terri
fc surprise to Pell; he had got through
30 many tight places and had tested
the power of Doodle 30 often that he
thought it was irresistible. On Friday
his hopes turned like the Dead Sea- s
fruit, TO ashes. He is good for ten
years at least. An appeal may perhaps
prolnng his misery, but his fate is GER
tain. This is the first wholesome ex-
ample of this kind of bank theft
Banks are seldom robbed now with the
jimmy, the sledge, the wedge, the dia.
moud. compound powder, or dynamite;
these obsolete methods are old and
vulgar, besides all the great professors
of the old-fashioned art are either dead
or in States Prison. Jimmy Hope and
Billie Porter are bygons memories.
Red Leary is dead, and Little Hor-
ace pines away in foreign prison,