Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-21

Haven; Mr.. Leavenworth and Miss Hills |
Of New Haven. The patronesses were |
Mrs. Cornwall of Paterson, N. j.; Mrs. |
Huxford of New Haven; Mrs. Warner,
Northampton, Mass.
Most Of the ladies whose names were
given yesterday were at the prom.
Among the visitors were Mrs. Denny
and daughter of New York city.
The throng at the armory was immense,
one of the largest ever seen at any junior
prom. The big building was amply heated
and the joyous throng felt no Inconvenience
from the rapidly nearing zero weather
without. The festivities lasted until we'll
after o'clock.
| ANOTHER SOCIAL EVENT.
A luncheon was given yesterday at Trae-
gers hotel by Mr.. D. s. Ellsworth, '92
| s., to his friends. The ladies' souvenirs
| were Yale spoons, and the gentlemen's
lead pencils of silver. The following were
present: The Misses Ives, Higginson, CHS
holm, Hay, Wilder, Green, Cooke, Butler,
Mrs. Magee, Mrs. Chapman, Messrs. Ives,
Beeson, Chisholm, Johnston, Magee, Ellis
worth, Roby, Warning, Grouse.
| A WOMAN IN BLACK
Who Secured Board in Ultra Fash.
ionable Houses in Hartford and
Steals Jewelry-Her Latest Exploits
in That C1ty-Supposed Now to bt
in This City.
Officer Sullivan of Hartford was in thii
city yesterday afternoon endeavoring tt
locate the whereabouts of a supposed
notorious confidence woman who has beer
victimizing the fashionable boarding
houses of the Capital city. He was una
BILE to find tho party for whom he was il
search and after leaving full descrip
ton with the local authorities returned t,
!, Hartford.
The woman who is said to have a mum
Der of aliases, the latest of which is Mrs
Stella Langdon, about two weeks ag
secured board at one of the ultra fashiona
BILE boarding houses of Hartford claiming
it is stated, that she was wealth
lady from California. From tim
to time articles of value, jewelry, etc.
etc., mysteriously disappeared from tn
boarders in the house, but no one though
.. of the California lady being implicated il
: the matter. Late Tuesday afternoon
diamond scarf pin was stolen from one Q
the boarders, and later in the evening Mrs.
I l
: would soon return. Since this time no on
? about the house has seen her. 1t is SUI
. posed that she had accomplices on the ou
): side, as she is known to have packed he
= grip and, it is thought, threw it out of til
window, as she did not take it with he
> when she left the house, nor has it bee
:; | seen in her room since.
y The called Mrs. Langdon is describe
. as being refined appearing woman
. about forty-6ve years of age and alway
, dresses in black. Immediately after he
y disappearance the matter was placed
!. the hands of the Hartford police, WI
traced her to the depot, where she
known to have purchased ticket for tn
, city. The local police have now bee
w. furnished with full description of IL
:, woman, as it is believed she has come
:. - this city for the purpose of operating he
. schemes here during promenade week.
is Marine Engineers.
n Charles T. Jones, the we'll known eng
N neer of the road roller, will leave f
a Washington, D. c., as delegate from Il
st New Haven Association Of Marine Ems
IF neers, No. SO, to the national associatio
70 ! which has session of one week