The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-11
THIS IS A CLEVER WIDOW.
SHE WORKED THE OLD BOYS OUT
Nv THE WEST BY MAIL.

Nv THE WEST BY MAIL.
Advertised for - Husband md Got s70
Travelling Expenses from Justice McCuliy
orTnnkton, $50 from a. II. Cn-weii of MA.
rine City. and $50 from Morris Fix OF Hal.
Iock-snrnpies orthe Style That Fixed Fix
Chief Post once Inspector James OF New
York city. Samuel P. Kyle Of Syracuse OF the
United States Marshaps office. and Albert
o'Neil. Deputy United States Marshal OF Al
bany. have between them run to earth and ar
! rested a black. ed widow who has been using
! the mails and tho matrimonial agency papers
to get money out Of guiliblo Westorners. She
was brought before United States Commits.
sioner rockingham at Albany yesterday. ana.
unless she can get $1,000 bail. will 20 to iail.
This interesting widow is between As and so
years old but for a year she has been regularly
engaging herself as O ycunG girl under the
name OF Jessie L. Rivers and Emma J. Waters to
any number OF men in the West who have an
swered her advertisements for husband.
After they answered her she would keep up a
correspondence with them until in ono way
| and another she had 1eeced them out OF any
| where from IS to $40. When they ran dry
they heard no moro from Miss Rivers or Miss
Waters. She usually pleaded poverty. and
ask cd tho prospective bridegroom for money
| to buy q few necessary articles. such us n
trunk or parasol. and also for money to pay
her fare West. She offered to exchange pho
toCraphs with the intended husbands and
sent as her likeness picture OF some young
girl half hor age.
As result OF her correspondence with Jus.
tice Of the Peace NcCully OF Ynnkton. 6. d.,
she received $40 and then stopped writing to
him. From A. B. Caswell OF Marine City
Mich. she received $50. and he with Morris
| Fix OF Hallock Mimi. who was swindled out
Of $50. were the ones who put tho United
| States officers on her track.
Mrs. Emma J. Waters Is the name she gave
| to the police when arrested yesterday at one
| OF hor addresses, So South LANSING street.
Albany. although she has another name and
address. that being Miss Jessie f. Rivers. 78
Lansing street address; however. and is
known to the people Of the neighborhood as
borhood. shc '' confcfses having swindied at
least forty men out of from s5 TO- $50 each. and
S SO from i was JUSTICE o, The Feaes
| McCully.
5s Hs,s st sa Of wtS very to sv tns ma
spectors In forwarding a sample
p ss G 1hs . .s now s' roe "
Hero 10 a sample Of her letters to Caswell:
Mr. Own pr.n AND rrts fR.rxp-fcr Ind indeed such
and my picture. and thank YOU very much, what a
ss' deeply
love ws L. oh n da. Ing ns T 70 could SEQ
5 %S; NJ. r. S ;na tSi
wan. 1o1 ada my little ins s to she
And 10. iT.IIi lei .ssss my wl.1s. in coming to
pleas: help ms VI 5spsy i vii toll yop ia.s wGas
T:s iAsss - p.sy
st: .s him 10
yse
your .avce about .h:. tourney you send thing
Thsse are tho letters that produced $50 from
Morn
! did well for the INST letter Wen / am glad or
!: { We
Su Would sG' w Sdtr aqS ~
bu Ts4a be :" e:S' and s sSo
KIRK 1afi s%a ]
deSr friend would SO love to send yon my picture
-. tins: wiz "isn You al asoas 'i ,.m sS 50
s1s wsss, my lady "a drirn acd
Thy are 80 ons getting finished ownE
E.a;hsr that can no, send YOU any yst ma.t close
S Eva si.sr sysr
A letter written on Dot. 8 disclosex n dearer
relationship between the two. 1t reads:
ana Is r's o s%u Viii
alSseS ~hp p .
'' WHO ~ once 'c Jn.s EXT 'f RSr Mt''
The third letter. dated Nov %. 1892. reads:
ps.s osf %e or sry SS 1 al. sa aswa
sick Yea write me telling ns YOU have go an order
and YET Wen 'SH sou Mi
CO. ions ago a ear sieE and s@"la saSf
Son' snoT Thr; TO d. rse l e.. =" 9Idsf
2: liaock ANA asS them wh.. i meant. 10y yoa can
order bn Would not te Il, eIi have "Ss
write 50 aiaont but dear ono write At and toll
Don't you want me dnrl,nr or did.n. you send 1, at
;ss IL.
o n w% H:G and sS and
more can't nndsF.tsad II, Idont Know VIA. 10 DO,
ever tried little girl JESSIE
In another letter to Mr.. Fix she says:
Ihaye tho 10 dollar yet. would not spend ono |
:: f. + 's%i If Il M sP.y e.
TIL. fsRe ana ~ DO
Hi. to ina! %"t scs
there few things thai nuht get that have not
been able TO Afford and which will nave to have be-
fore L start
Perhaps you know enough about a woman'a ward
robn to know that she must need a few little |
things situated WAS and trunk more than |
any ming eih, but would not spend the money until
parts Of your letter made me feel hurt and bad
wa ntiil SO glad to hear from you uooib BY with a
WIN dnsn 'rG for your "wn ' F w:y
When the weary little girl was arrested yes
terday sho was caught onening lotter from
enclosed to buy her u few necessary articles.
The pun ishment for her or me Is under sec.
ton $3.50 Of tho United States Revised
lns Of $500 or imprisonment for
eighteen months. or both.
BROKE YOUSG UINSOR,S SHUrr