Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-04
"MOLLIE MOTT" FREE AGAIN.
The Woman Who Loaded Dyer Seaman
Revolvers Has Returned to Chicago.

The Woman Who Loaded Dyer scanlan's
Revo1vers Has Returned to Chicago.
"Good-by, Mollie. Be sure and keep
out of trouble, and don't get sent back
here again. Be good girl, now, won't
youY
ooh, never you mind. Pm all right,
and don't think shall bother you again
good-by ~ said a trim, neat-looking little
woman-dresgedi in plain black-as she
waved her hand and threw kiss to-
ward the matron of the Joliet prison,
and, with q merry laugh, lightly tripped
down the walk to the railroad station.
Mollie was burglars wife. She first
came prominently before the public
and commenced her criminal career
when she married "Burt" Taylor, a
noted cracksman One day Detective
Grove made her burglars widow by
shooting her husband, who was with a
gang of burglars caught III the act OF
robbing Mandel Bros store. 'Mollie"
was then only IS years old. She next
married "Pete" O'Brien, an acknowl-
edged sandbagger, and while he held
up unsuspecting pedestrians Noble
would search them.
The little woman in black was none
QUIET llldu NIOllIC nOGU, dlldS Midi
Sheridan, alias half dozen other
names that were frequently entered on
the criminal docket of the various po-
lice courts in the days when 'Mollie
Mott" was counted "the wickedest
woman in Chicago" Mollie, says a
Joliet, ILL.,, dispatch, had completed her
| third prison term-a seven years SEN
tence-for shooting and attempting to
kill Police Officer Nolan at Chicago at
the time Nolan was attempting to arrest
the noted thief, Dyer Seaman, who is
now serving a ten-year term on the
same charge. There is nothing in
"Mollie Motifs" appearance that would
indicate her thirst for policemen's
blood, or mark her as one Of the worst
criminals of her class.
While serving her second term at
Joliet "Pete" O'Brien took up with an
other woman. Mollie swore vengeance
against him, and upon her release made
an attempt to kill him. 1t was not long
before she found congenial partner
one worthy Of her courage-in the per-
son Of Dyer Seaman, burglar and
desperate of the Chick" McMullen
style.
On the night of the crime she had
quarreled with Seaman, and it is sup
posed he struck her over the head.
Policeman Nolan heard the noise and
entered their rooms at Twenty
and Dearborn streets. Seaman shot the
officer half dozen times, leaving him
for dead, with a broken arm, two bull
lets in his neck and one in his left side.
After the shooting Seaman and the
woman escaped to a room which they
barricaded and defed the police. Shot
after shot was fired at the officers
through the door, and as fast as Seaman
could empty the weapons ''Mollie' re-
loaded them. He had two pistols, and
for twenty-four hours defied the police
Evidently seeing that he could not
escape them, Seaman finally surren-
dered himself and handed his revolvers
through a hole in the door made by
Sergt Thorpe with an ak. Mrs. Seaman
was still bleeding from the wound il
her head inflicted the night before and
presented a woeful spectacle. They
were quickly lodged in jail and SEN
fenced ashort time after. Officer Nolan
is still on the force.