The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1893-10-07
"MOLLIE MOTT" FREE AGAIN.
The Woman Who Loaded Dyer Seaman
Revolyers Has Returned to Chicago.

The Woman VINO Loaded Dyer seaman y
RevoIyers Has Returned to Chicago.
"Guod-bv. Molie. Be sure and keep
put of trouble, and don't get sent back
here again. Be good girl, now, won't
ROM"
ooh, never YOU mind. I'm all right,
ana don't think shall bother you again;
sood-by :" said affirm, nCal-looking little
woman-dresacd in plain blacll-as she
waved her hand and threw a kiss to-
ward the matTon Of the Joliet prison,
and. with a merry laugh, lightly tripped
down the walk to the railroad station.
Mollie was a burglars Wife. She first
came prominently before the public
and commenced her criminal career
when She married Burt Taylor, 4
noted craCksman. One day Detective
Grove made her a burglars widow by
shooting her husband, who was with
gang of burglars caught III the act OF
:ohbing Mandel Bros. store. "MollIe'
was then only IS years old. She next
married Pete" O. Brien, an acknuwl-
edged sandbagger, and while he held
ny unsUspecting pedestrians Noble
would search them.
The little woman in black was none
other than "MolIie Mott" alias Mary
'~ItlltdH. GlldS nan a hOECli pllitl
names that were frequently entered on
the criminal docket uf the various pO-
lice courts in the days when 'Muthe
Mott" Was counted "the WiCkcdest
woman in Chicago" Molie, saws a
Joliet, ILL.,, dispatch, had completed her
third prison term "A seven years sen
tence-fOr shooting and attempting To-
Kill Police officer Nolan ut Chicago at
the time Nolan was attempting to arrest
the noted thief. Dyer Seaman. Who i
now serving a ten-vVar term on the
same charge. There is nothing in
"Mollie Motifs appearance that would
Indicate her thirst for policemen :
blood, or mark her az one of the worst
criminals of her class.
While serving her second term at
Joliet Pete q Bricn took up with an
other woman. Mollin SWore Vengeance
against him, and upon her release made
an attempt to kill him. 1t WAS not long
before she found rungrnial partner
one worthy of her courage in tine per
son of Dyer Seaman, burglar and
desperate of the "Chick' McMulicu
style.
ON the night of the crime she had
quarrelcd with Seaman, and il is SUP
posed he struck her over the head.
Policeman Nolan heard the noise and
entered their rooms 1T Twenty
and Dearborn streets. Seaman Shot the
officer 4 half dozen times, leaving hiu
for dead, with broken arm. two bull
lets III his neck and one in his left side
After the shooting Seaman and the
woman escaped to Il room which they
barricadcd and detied the police. Shot
after shot was fired at the officers
through the door, and as fast a. Seaman
could empty the weapons "MolIie" re-
loaded them. lie had two pistols, and
for twenty-four hours dcfcd the police
Evidently seeing that he could not
escape them, Seaman finally surren-
dercd himself and handed his rcvolvvrS
through a hole in the door made hv
Scrgt. Thorpe with an AK. Mrs. Seaman
WAS still bleeding from the wound in
her head inflicted the night before and
presented a w"etul spectacle. They
were quickly lodged in Jail and sen
fenced short time after. officer Nolan
is still on the force