The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-15

appsars With 0sns Valued g oSAooai
NEw YoRK, Oct 10. -Inspoctor
Byrne's men no looking ffcr q Mra
sYancy,swho issA uoetse1pext auu9Raoy
and swindler. S6S Il aceuSsd by'a al,
mond importing arm s. Chicago. whose
name 6 not menti Died for, OBJ ious 10,
,sons, Of making. herselt aeaxce with Z
quantity Of diamonds belonging q
81 : s d III. past.enltr am there i. con.
starvation on account Of their little
finaueial venture to defraud Uncle Sam
OF Riss just dues. With s1hem 10 tnpli.
Gated . Maiden lane firm 81 this city,
that was interested . agent To carry
ont thsirs scheme tor Importing diar
monds at as little expense q spossible
they engaged Mira Yancy, New York
woman,ffwho changes her name with
the season and who isfeg4rded byscuai
toms officers as . slick one. !" bavina
e(uded their vigilance at every eastern
port She Is I I sprofessaonals .sfree
trader" long known to the authorities
as such, and they. always lay plots for
her, but on rfidty last she made he.
master stroke. ~ .,.
Mrs. Yancy. in personal appearance,
is youthful. DESPITE the silver III hcr
hair. she has figure that would grace
q girl of IL. She dressed iNidow's
weeds and was so speoesst nher
little smuggling schemes thu the
officers began to doubt whether the
pretty waist wss' notsa receptacle 70,
some of the contr band goods = She has
been examined by female searchers and
every thread of clothes she had on care
fully scrutinized, yet she managed ia
get goods into New York safely.
Mrs. Yancy, or whatever her name
may be, is not an American. She came
to New York early in the spring Of
1889. At that time she was ae.
companied by a. diminutive Mon.
golian attendant { connected to
whom by short gold chain
was d demure pelican. AS neither
pelicans nor Mongolians are down on
the tariff list they were allowed to pass.
Since that time the interesting woman
and bird, Zip, have been frequent
passengers between Europe and
New York on various steamers, and
it is alleged that between them
about a million dollars worth of dia-
monds have been imported without
duty. 1t is strange that while the
woman was always suspected, the pei
lean has never been. This is attributed
to the fact that the bird wore as demure
a look as the boy in whose custody it
was -. '7~~
Last Friday, just before the French
steamer landed, the bird was taken by
the boy into the mistress stateroom.
When he was landed he was led from
the steamer looking as if he had been
attacked by virulent form of mumps.
But 1t was overlooked by the Gus
toms officers The three were no.
ticed to bundle into carriages at the
dock, and it is supposed that while on
the way up town the bird was relieved
of its mumps. The mumps consisted
of $50, 600 worth of bright. sparkling
diamonds. TIL diamonds should have
been delivered ~ a firm in Maiden lane,
to be shipped to the other free
trade" firm of diamond merchants in
Chicago. Instead, however, Mrs.
Yancy. with a dozen other attractive
widow names, went somewhere on her
own account. All trace of her has
been lost, and within twelve hours O!
Ter arrival the police of half a hun.
dred cities were notified to look out
for her:
The two diamond importing firms are
in a sorry predicament. They are abus-
ing themselves for having been SO
adroitly swindled, ard are trembling
for the consequences of their expose. In
order to save 100000 they have left
themselves liable to prosecution and
the imposition of fines which may cost
them far more than the loss of the
parcel of sparklers. According to the
terms of the contract between the two
firms it is said the Chicago house ad-
vanced $4,000 on the diamonds, agree.
ing to pay the other $40, 600 on their de-
livery. But the Maiden lane house
can't deliver until it finds Mrs. Yancy.
SLAIN By her COUSIN.
a Brave Gsors,. Girl Shot Dead While
Defending Her Father from an Attack
by Four towards.
MACON, Ga, Oct. 1o-Miss Lizzie
Gossot, II years old, was killed Thurs
day night by her four male cousins
while in defense of her fathers life.
She was engaged to marry one of the
young men who aided in numbering
her: The tragedy occurred near
Unionville. J. c. Gossot, the
father of the murdered girl,
is planter: On an adjoining farm