The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-09-08
TRUST NONE OF THEM.
They Will Get All Your Cash.
Some of the Confidence
Women Of Chicago.
Fair Creatures Who Pick Up
Strangers Out Late Nights
and Rob Them of
NaluableS.

Chicago, Sept, 1.-Chicago has
more than two dozen of the most dar.
ing and successful female pickpockets
in the country. They have easily
distanced their brothers in this line of
criminal work. Repeated arrests have
not caused in them any considerable
respect FOR the law. In Nineteen out
of twenty cases these disciples Of
Fagin escape punishment, when ar
rested, through compromising felony
and failure to prosecute, They
return a portion of the money stolen
and the victim drops the case or he
never appears against the prisoner.
Since Minnie Daily, the queen of
Chicagos confidence women, retired
from business Minnie May. alias
Quinn, has become the leader of the
clippers, known in police circles as
pickpockets. She comes from q good
home and respectable parents. Min
ME May has q record of daring ex-
ploits that might be the envy Of any
highwayman Of the sterner sex. Her
passably good-looking face appears as
3743 in the rogues' gallery. Though
only % years old she has occupied a
plank in q cell at least seventy-five
times. Thousands Of dollars have
stuck to her nimble fingers.
MANY TIMES IN JAIL.
Four and forty times has Mary
Heating looked through prison bars.
She is 2206 in the detectives collec-
ton of photographs. She has spent
the last few weeks in retirement. rest
ing from the fatigue of oyerwork. She
is wanted for the theft of S2S5 from a
Detroit man who had too much con-
fidence in her. She was strolling
past the city hall q short time ago
with her victim when a detective sp-
preached the pair and said: THAT
woman is the notorious plckpocket in
the country. "You'd better drop
her."
II guess 1 know my business" re.
ported the smart Detroiter, brisling
up at the insult offered his companion.
An hour later he reported to the
police the loss of all the money he
had. He was obliged to walk home,
while Mary took trip for her health
to the seashore, and is probably now
reveling in the luxury of salt water
bathing. Nora Keaiiug, a sister Of
Mary, is almost if not as good q
"worker" and has a record of some
thirty arrests.
Comparatively speaking, Minnie
Williams, one of the three sisters of
that name who have by the peculiar
condition Of affairs made the acquain-
lance of the police, is one of the best
combination lickpockets and conf
dence workers in the western country.
Her plain features, without any pre-.
tensions to beauty. adorn frame 2371
in the gallery. She is persons ally
known to every policeman and detec.
tive on the south and west sides.
Mlnnie's life during the last FIVE years
has been a succession Of downs and ups
down in a police station cell aud up |
before the police magistrate. Not
withdrawing all this she has by care
full and prudent economy man sged to
accumulate at her calling, enough
money to purchase handsome home
On the west side.
JUST FROM THE COUNTRY.
She works the unsuspecting strang-
er under the guise of an innocent
girl lately arrived in Chic 'go.
Her tales Of woe are as many and as
varied as the hues of a rainbow and
as strikingly original. Minnie is not
spending the summer ia Chicago for
her health and hopes to reap rich
harvest during the Worlds Fair. Mt
long since a bookm4 ker WIS relieved
of burden in the shape of an $500
roll of bills by her, but when the case
came before the grand jury abe was
discharged, "tecause," as one of the
wise men said, ga man must be
chump who will let a woman rob
him." But he did not know Minnie.
Among the recent additions to the
large assortment in the rogues'
gallery there was added an excellent
picture of Jennie Monroe, whose ar
rest on more than one occasion has
saved some stranger the loss Of his
wealth. She is known as a crook |
with no particular speciality, prefer
.;rr IN mako oamo IF whstever falls