The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1893-07-13
How She Caught Gudgeons In
Her Matrimonial Net.
SEE ADVERTISED FOR A HUSBAND
Sundry Western Suit0rs Sent Money
to Pay Her Railroad Fare, Hut the
Widow That They LOnged For
Never Came-One sucker"
Tries to Get His Money
Back-Fat and Forty,

| postot1lce detectives, interested few par
ties and in the end amused many more
She is at least 45 years old, fat and slovenly
but in Exchanging photos" this will,
widow always sent thatof Miss Wiltsi,
of Hudson, N. Y, who is 20 years old ant
pretty. The widow got a lot of Miss Wilt
sizes portraits from a photographer ths
young lady had patronized, and now he will
have to explain according to law
The first complaint received by United
States Marshal O'Neill was from N. B. Cas-
well of Marine City, Mich, who had sent
the widow $40. Her plan was to advertise
In western papers for correspondence with
q suitable gentleman" and when he was
sufficiently engaged to ask for money
enough to outfit and go to him The money
often came, but the widow never went
Soon after this letter arrived from Morris
Fix of Hallock, Mimi:
| DEAR SR-i would like If you could helr
that could get my mony back what Jessie c
rivers swlndeid from me can prove it that
she got the mony by this postmaster, and
think that you can find it out in that postof1s in
| albany that she got it for shure will send you
one of the letters that she rote to me to be
shure think got 10 or IL of hur letters here
am shure it must be the same nomber on the
letters that you have and If you should need
don't know any other marshal in hallock only
one he is my brothernlaw his name is bernard
hints and oWr co aherfs name Is oskar youngrin
they are both in hallock will allow you some
OF that mony what she got from me If you can
get 1t now try and do the best you can for me
! twould be very thankful if you could do that
for me for need my mony j don't like to be
swindeld out of it.
Mr.. Fix was induced to make the needed
affidavit, and the officials found Emma J.
Waters, alias Jessie E. Rivers, alias Emma
j. Wise, at 10 South Lansing place, AL
bany, and in default of 81 900 bail she now
boards at the expense of the United States
her offense being that of using the mails
for fraudulent purposes. The penalty is
$500 fine or IS months imprisonment, or
both. In her trunk the officers found l15
letters. and her daily mail when arrested
amounted to eight or ten letters. One Of
her victims was Justice of the Peace Nc
Gully Of Yankton, who sent her $40.
Her own letters always began in a very
modest and conventional way and then
gradually led up to the most ardent love.
Justice McCully having confessed that he
was too old for her she wrote:
Don't give me up, my darling. Mr.. Grover
Cleveland, a man of SO, married a young girl in
her teens almost and l am nearly an old maid
My picture makes me look too young.
At latest accounts letters to her were
still coming in, and the postal authorities
think she must have received over 50 900 in
a few weeks. But what has she done with
it? Her abode showed extreme poverty in
every detail, and she has, SO far as known,
lived quietly. She is shrewd one-shrewd
enough to hold the peace when arrested
and conceal her identity-and if she has
stuck the money away she will have some
thing to furnish a house with" when her
IL months are out. She knew the weak
points of her admirers too Here is sam
pie of her letters to Mr. Caswell:
ALBANY, Nov. II.
MY OWN DEAR AND TRUE FRIEND (for in
deed such know you are to MEL received
your dear, good letter and picture, and I thank
you very much. What nice letter you can |
write, and love to read thenl Never men
tlon word again about your writing or SPELL
ing, for 1t pleases and suits me. have looked
at and studied your picture SO much that
am deeply in love with it. Oh, my da1-
ling, just wish l could see you today. |
will be true and faithful to you and love you
while life lasts | will be content with you
and your little house, no matter how humble 1t
may be-. You shall never know an hours pain
or sorrow. am no idler, and shall want to
add my little mite to the nest as well as you.
my dear. With love and fondest regards. your
little girl friend, EMMA.
Arc good and smart women scarce where
hese gentlemen live? It would seem so.
or Emma" appears to have swept the
vest for few weeks with sort of cyclone
Il simulated love and drawn shekels from
many trusting one
Moral-Beware of matrimonial advertis-
rs! Beware-but, on second thought, it's
70 use. There's a new sucker born every
1inute''