St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-11
SINS FIND HER OUT.
Other Of the Little Eccen-
tricities OF One Florence
Miami Blood.
She Signed Fraudulent Tele-
grams and Was a Mild
Pipe Fiend.
Otto Gauger Is Found in This
City, But Not in the
Directory.
Retail Clerks Award Prizes
and Add to the Home
stead Defense.

Florence Miami Blood, who figured as
one OF the principals in the Foot divorce
case, has been in st. Paul. but hardly
in the society circle which the Eastern
press claims she shOne in. Her first
visit and meeting with the parents
of the man she duped were under
very peculiar circumstances. About
four years ago the firm of which Ezra
Foot's father is senior member received
a telegram from an Eastern house ask
ing if it was all right to pay $500 to the
party mentioned in previous telegram
sent them and signed Foot, Schulze &
20. An answer was at once sent hot
was placed in the hands of Chief
of Detectives John j. O'Connor,
and search commenced for the person
who had sent the telegram. The dis
patch had been sent from subtitle
graph station Oh Third street. near Sib-
ley. and the operator there said it was
sent by woman. The woman was
later in the day found at the Windsor
hotel and taken 10 police headquarters.
The senior member OF the firm was sent
for and an explanation followed. The
result was that no formal complaint
was made, and the woman was taken
away by representatives of the firm in
hack. When arrested kilograms were
found In the WOmen'S possession which
Indicated that she had a confederate
i'll the city TO which she had sent the
telegram who was to draw the money,
had the message been honOred by the
Eastern firm. Among other articles
found in her room at the Windsor hotel
was a smoking layout" including
pipes. opium and all the necessary par
anb..rnalia ff,nnd in
joint.
The next time the woman fell into
the clutches of the police of this
city was some two years ago last spring,
when she Was arrested in a raid made
on an opium joint at the corner of Sixth
and Cedar streets. The place was
pulled in the morning about ii o'clock,
and the woman. two men and China
man, who kept the place. were arrested.
The woman sent word by messenger
boy. and i'll short time she was re-
leased on S25 bail, and did not show up
at the police court with the other hop
tiendS VINO were pulled.
There seems not a particle of truth IN
the statement from New York that
there was another child, the real issue
of Florence Miami Blood and young
Foot. Silas Foot Yesterday denied this
most emDhatically. In regard to the
New York story printed in yesterdays
GLOBE he said:
1.-The story of how she induced Ezra
to marry her is practically correct. with
the exception that no baby was pro-
duced until after the marriage had been
effected. 1t is true that she came to my
son and told him that she had a child.
and it was in consequence of this that
she prevailed upon MN to marry her,
but the child was not produced until
some time after, when Ezra insisted that
he see it. The story is also true that
Ezra aud his wife and child then came
to st. Paul, but Ezra was not made
member of the firm, nor was he;
elected president of the Duluth,
Red Wing IL Southern railway
He was instead given the
position of bookkeeper in the boot and
shoe store of Foot. SchulZe & Co., which
position he still holds. The story that
his wife was received with open arms
by myself and Mrs. Foot is also i'm
aginary, as is the story that she reigned
as queen of st. Paul society. The young
woman was bright and sharp, but she
was neither young nor pretty, being at
least thirty-flve years old at the time,
ten years older than her husband. Of
course we recognized her, as she was
my sons wife. but that is all. The
young boy Willie was bright little lad
and lovable in every way, but
here again the Imagination has
been allowed to work concerning
the hold he obtained OH my affections.
l was sorry to lose him, and that is ali
there was of it. There is no possibility
OF the decree of divorce being set aside,
or of the young woman making any at
tempt to have it set aside. | know too
we'll what her history previous to her
marriage was, and know her life thor
oughly. Regarding her mothers report
that her daughter had a child, / don't
want to controvert that, for l know
nothing. about IT. But the child she
produced was not her own, and there is
no proof to show that she ever had
child by my son. l have no spite against
the woman, and never had, but she de-
frauded and wronged my son, and set
ha far ritrhf