Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-06
THAT PACKAGE CASE.
MISS DANsEL SAYS THERE WAS ANOTHER
WOMAN IN THE AFFAIR."
And She Was Only Innocsntly Acting as the Tool
of the Guilty Pariy-Her Efforts to Dis
cover the Whereabouts Of the Woman.
Interview With Miss Dangel.

Interview With Miss Dangsl.
There has been considerable interest
manifested in the swindling game at
tempted to be perpetrated on Saturday
in which the well-known dressmaker,
Miss Louisa NJ. Dangel, figured so
prominently. Many who know her
seem 10th to believe that she is guilty,
and the defendant herself claims she
was taken wholly by surprise without
being able to make satisfactory expls'
nation which she claims she could have
done.
Yesterday afternoon, desiring to get
a statement from Miss Dangel, a REGIS
TER reporter went to the place where
she is boarding on Market street, nearly
opposite the south end of the Second
ward market house. She has her sew
ing apartments on the third floor, In
connection with her chamber, and has
as room-mates two other ladies, Misses
Della and Lizzie Brown. The presence
of the reporter was made known to her
and she came down into the parlor to
see what was wanted. She appeared
remarkably composed for one charged
with such an offence, and did not seem
as much concerned as the people out
side.
81 suppose you have read the papers,
and know all that has been said in
print" observed the reporter.
mo, haven't read any OF the papers,
but different parties have told me some
of the things that were published, and
they certainly do me great Injustice.
The facts must have been greatly exag-
gerated, as some people seem to have
gotten the idea that | had room up
here stocked with goods which 1 have
been obtaining for long time under
false pretenses. Now, the truth is
have but a small line of goods here,
such as are only needed in my dress
making business from week to week, and
all of them were obtained through the
most legitimate means. l never in
my life got anything from stores or 2GS
where else under false pretencss. l
think there are enough people in this
city, and prominent people. too, who
will testify as to my-conduct and char
acter. There have been one or two
merchants here to examine the things
in my ro5m, but don't learn that they
found a single thing"
"How about that Saturday proceed
ing?" asked the reporter.
"Well," said Miss Dangel, that, l
understand, has been very much mis-
represented. If the officers the mo-
ment they arrested me had told what
they wanted me for, think l could
have given q satisfactory explanation
and cleared up what seemed TO be a
mystery, but they gave me no opportu-
nifty 1t happened in this way. l start
ed out in the morning to call
upon DR.. Reed on Twelfth street, but
as he was not in l concluded to take
little walk, the weather being so in
viting. I walked up Twelfth street,
turned down Eoff to Fifteenth street, and
then up Fifteenth to Jacob. As l was
walking down Jacob street to Six
teenth street a lady whom l had never
seen before accosted me and asked me
II 1 would do a favor. She was a
handsome woman, well dressed, and, l
should Judge, about 80 years OF age.
| said perhaps the favor depended some
what upon what it was. She then pro-
ceeded to tell me that one Of her feet
hurt her very badly and she couldn't
walk any further, and,asked me If l
would 90 down to the Elm Grove
motor Office and get package there
marked for Mrs. Jones.
As a simple mark Of courtesy In good
faith, and being impressed with the
looks of the lady, l consented and
walked down Sixteenth street to the
motor office, and inquired for the bum
die, where was arrested"
"In what way did you propose clear
ing up the mystery at that timer" ask
ed the reporter.
"Why, if the officers had only given
me a chance to make an explanation
right there and then l should have told
them that the real person in the trans
action was waiting for the bundle at
the corner of Jacob and Sixteenth
street. The officer would have found
her there, had they gone atonce, and 1t
ought to have been enough to
clear me. As it was l was taken
to the Custom House before l
could make an explanation,
and fully half hour elapsed before the
officer started to find the woman near
Young's drug store. Very naturally
the woman, If engaged in that swindling
business, would not have waited that
long, as my long absence would lead her
TO suspect that something was wrong.
So OF course the officer did not ind her,
and here l am in this sorry plight, all
on account of her."
"How did you happen to give the
name of wel-known milliner as your
own when you were asked at the motor
station?" asked the reporter.
"That l know was wrong, " said Miss
Dangel 81 ought not TO have done 1t,
and I don't know how l came to do 1t.
think perhaps I was excited and it was
on my tongue before l thought. The
hardest part OF the affair will be for me
to find proof on my side, as the whole
thing happened in such peculiar way.
There seems to have been no one
around when met the strange woman.
I have been working hard to-day to dis
cover her whereabouts, but can obtain
no clue. l called at YounR's
drug store, but no one there seems to
have noticed the woman, although
someone over in the bakery opposite
saw two women standing near the cor
ner before reached that point. l only
wish I had been lucky enough TO have
found the Doctor in when / called; then
I would never have taken that little