The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-06

LaughIin took the role OF Fouche yes
terday simply 10 oblige the family OF
his friend, the Marquis de TalleyFand,
They could not have managed these
,bings a whit better in France than
they did in New York yesterday. The
waiting maid Of Monsieur 10 MaFqsis's
daughter steals, or Is charged with
stealing, the daughters diamonds and
dinner dresses. She fees to New York,
Inspector Mclaughlin Fouche appre'
bends her. She begins to hint at
scandal in the family Of the noble
father OF her employer,
Then Mclaughlin Fouche does the
right thing 1.-THE First Empire right
thing by the family Of his colleague,
De IaIleyrand, lie conceals the fact Of
tho hlabbiHg waiting maids arrest-all
but the mere charge OF larceny He
silences the bIabbing waiting maid, and
ali those who heard her begin to blab.
Then no whiska her away, and-pouHl
i'm the blast OF pneumatic tube-she
is on her way back to Washington,
"wE MUST STAND ny EACH OTHER"
The scandal was. or was said to DO by
the babbng waiting maid, the tondness
Of the marquis Tor q rich AmerIcsness
who paid, according to the blabbing
waiting maid, Nine, Ia Marqpise q cor
tain annuity to be disregardiul OF the
pleasantries OF NJ 10 Marquis. 1t
wasn't much Of a story for the people OF
New York, who know and care Just
about enough Of Inspector Mclaughlin
Touches noble friends to distinguish
bis famous ancestor from Prince Met.
ternich. But il it had been the assas.
sinatlon OF Duo D'Engliien that was to
BIO covered up Mclaughlin Fonche
couldn't have been more Fret Empirish
about it. Official families have to stand
together
Ricketts,, the blabbing waiting maid, is
quito Of the stage kind Of waiting
lnaida-the kind that carry lovers notes
and show them for q consideration to
suspicious husbands. In one OF the
stolen dinner dresses she Is lovely
woman, as her photograph in the ar-
chiVes of Mclaughlin Fouche shows.
Even when she stood before Commits
sionet Shields yesterday whimpering
womauishly, "Ididn't do it; l didn't
take them" she looked very pretty,
although Weeping had reddened her
eyes and swollen her nose, She has an
olive complexion, bright dark eyes,
good features and dark wAVy hair.
She was nurse on Wards Island q
few years ago. She may have been
twenty then. She is twenty-five, the
police think, though she says twenty
three. She came from Ireland origl.
nally and evidently had been educated
Otll the position OF governess. She
married a neer do weel named Rickard
OF Rickerts, and by him has son now
six years old. From Wards Island she
vent 10 nursing and making herself
generally and confdentially useful, as
her breeding and education enabled her
10 DO in private families.
THE Primers FEMME DE caAMaRE
Six months ago she became the maid
IN waiting to the Princess Respolio,
daughter Of Mclaughlin Touches
friend, the Marquis de Talieyrand, and
wife Of Prince Mario Reapolio, attaches
Of the Italian legation at Washington.
She went with the family to Lenox. She
s' WIN mem N masniaRto9. sne
oSar Sr.b +. oI b,asg; sves and edootny
and much poorer looks than herself,
swelling about in silks and diamonds.
S9e made, too, at least two conquosts
Sse SaaS IL s Saa dpsss and am m snoinati ian
from domestic drudrery to equal Or sur.
pass the women whom she saw.
She took a cut lust a little to short to
her goal, when. relying ON her knowl.
edge OF the secrets OF Mclaughlin
Pouches friend, the MARQUIS, TO save
hOr from prosecution. she bolted from
Washington to New York on December
10 with 8, 600 worth OF dresses and tiia.
monds.
Whore she has lived here for the past
iow weeks ia one OF the things Ma.
laughlin Fouche keeps quiet about in
order to oblige his friend, the MARQUIS.
She is believed TO have beer, engaged as
nurse in West Fifty.second Street
She paid she lived at New Rochelle, but
she did not. She got her mail al a rri.
nte letter box Establishment al No.
1915 Third ayenue.
a TRAP WORTHY on a FoucHE'
She had left hor trunks behind her
and given her addrass at Now Rochelle
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nOusehold' Inc New YORK poilce got
The Washington police TO got this in