Connecticut western news., 1893-07-27
SHE WAS NOT SCARED.
MRS. cREelER DEFIEo THE REeULA-
 TORS AND THEIR TAR.

She shot Their Notice Full of Holes, Posted
 One of Her Own Written Tn Red Ink
 and Then Waited In Her Hammock For
 the Unknown Enemy.
 BLOOMFIELD, N. J., July 24.-There Is pne woman whom the regulators" can't 'righten. They have tried it and failed in- tloriously. She is Mrs. Gertrude Cregier bt this place. 30 years old, plump and pret- ", and she showed her grit by the way she answered public threat with public de- lance, and got amusement out of the sen sation the affair created in that town.
 Mrs. Cregier lives with her husband John, who is employed by w. L. Gilbert in Chambers street, New York city, and who is comfortably well off, in one story louse in Belleville avenue, near the Belle lille line. She used Co be popular in Bloom Eeld. but last December, 1t is charged, she 'loped with George Pritohsrd, who had boarded in her house.
 All the neighbors sympathized with the deserted husband, who declared he would lpply for divorce. Instead of this Cregier look his wife back two months sfterward. Since then the couple have been ostracised.
 The woman doesn't seem to be greatly distressed by the treatment of her former friends She drives about town in a dog tart, and as she is good looking she at lEacts considerable attention.
 A Notice of Warning.
 Persons passing the Cregier house were Astonished to see nailed to a tree in front of the place large sheet of paper on which Ras written:
 Mas. CREgrER-Asy you did not heed our private notice we give you warning that the niRger who s living in your house must be of the premises before sunset tonight and you must not receive my more men visitors in your house during tour husbands absence If you do not do as se say we will give you coat of tar and feath- trs and ride you out of the village on rail Your dogs will not protect you, for we win poi- lon them. TIE REouLAToRs , Under the signature were rude drawings of bucket marked ''tar," bag marked feathers" and two longitudinal lines marked "rail.n
 This notice attracted a great deal of at tention from passersby. but no one at- tempted to remove it, and 1t remained on lhe tree until afternoon. Mrs. Cregier then tore it down, and taking pistol from her pocket she showed her contempt for the warning by shooting the paper full of holes and declaring she would do the same with the regulators" if she discovered them. She posted notice of her own on the same tree later in the afternoon. Her notice was headed with rude drawing of Il revolver in red ink and underneath was written:
 Beware of me- for am no fool, and any one who attempts to molest me or my dogs will get the contents of my pistol. l am not afraid of anybody in this town.n
 When the story of the warning notice to the woman and her manner of treating it became noised about, it created great sen sation.
 Scores of people went to the Cregier house to read the answer to the "regu- lators." No one cared to tear 1t down, es- pecially as Mrs. CreRier sat in hammock only few feet away and swung compla- gently to and fro, enjoying the sensation of which she was the cause.
 On the street corners and at the Orchard station of the Morris and Essex railroad men gathered in groups until late at night and discussed the affair. There was much speculating as to the identity of the reg ulators."
 Several persons intimated that the whole thing was n scheme to frighten the Gre giers into leaving the neighborhood. but all agreed that the woman k not one of the kind to be easily scared.
 No one could be found who would admit having any knowledge of the regulators, and those living in the neighborhood de cline to talk about the Creglers or what the woman had done to incur displeasure. The person mentioned in the threatening notice is a colored boy l7 years old, who attends to the horse and COW owned by Mrs Gre gier. John Cregier, the woman's husband, was not at home, IL is believed he will spend money to discover the identity of the "reRulatorsN