The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-03
A RoBRFR OF HrNpoos.
The Charge on Which Lille Fox Was
Locked Up.

Lille Fox, alias Lille Simons, a fair
and preposessing, but altogether frail
and festive young lady, is behind the bars
of the Jail on the charge of robbing a
Hlndoo peddler with an unprOnounceable
and unspellable name, of his pack, valued
as he claims, at 500. She is also said to
have robbed another Hindoo peddler
named Mohammed of $50 worth of lace
handkerchiefs about two weeks ago.
Lille has quite record in Savannah.
she came here about six weeks ago. from
Jacksonville. She first secured a room
on the second floor Of the Office building
IN the rear of the Lutheran church. at
President and Drayton streets. She
claimed to be a typewriter by profession,
and went around town soliciting work in
that capacity. Being a very pretty
girl, with free and easy
manner, she attracted a good
deal of attention and the occupants of the
I other offices on the same floor soon had
, their attention attracted by a number of
male callers at her room at all hours of
the day and night. The result was
complaint against her on moral grounds,
and she was compelled to move out by the
agent of the building after a tenancy of
little more than week. She then Sc
cured a room on Harrison street, where
she continued her festive ways.
1t was here that MOhammed claims to
have been robbed of his lace handker-
chiefs. He claims that she enticed him
into the house, and that after he had
been there some time, she succeeded in
getting possession Of his pack of hand
kerhiefs and concealed them about her
person. He appealed to her to give them
up, and offered 50 if she would let him
have them back, but she refused Mo-
manned was so ashamed at being duped
| by woman that he made no complaint
against her, and kept his loss a secret.
Shortly after this Lille removed to a
house at the corner of Price street and
Bay lane. Friday, about noon. she sue
ceeded in enticing one of the yonng ped
lers, who may as well be called Abdullah,
for lack of better name The latter
says she made improper proposals to him,
which he declined.
While out of the room a few minutes he
left his pack containing two fine silk
dresses and number of smaller articles.
When he returned the pack was missing,
and when he asked for it the woman de-
clared she knew nothing about it.
Abdullah had seen a white man in the
house when he came in, and he concluded
that this man had made o i with his pack.
He left the house and went to the police
barracks, where he made his complaint.
He was directed to Justice Elsinger's
Office. Justice Elsinger sent Constable
NdLHdnS WIN ADQullaN 10 investigate.
The constable was soon satisti ed of the
truth of the peddler's story. He arrested
the woman and carried her to the magls-
trate's office. He was Informed that a
white man had been seen TO l cave the
house just a short while before. so he went
over to East Broad street and arres ted
Frank Simons, whom he knew to be the
woman's paramour Justice Elsinger
sent both parties to jail The woman
dropped a lace handkerchief in the magis-
trate's Office, which Abdullah identified
as belonging to HIM. On searching the
womans room several other handker-
chiefs were found, which Mohammed
claimed to belong to the lot stolen from
him.
Each Hindoo peddler has his own pri-
vate mark with which he stamps his
goods in indelible ink, and it was by these
marks that they claimed to identify the
goods. Parties in the neighborhood of
the woman's house declared that she had
made a regular business of working the
Hindoo peddlers and that Abdullah was
the third she had taken in there. Lille
was before Justice ElSinger for eXamina-
tion yesterday afternoon, but refused to
admit any knowledge of the thefts She
made some other statements, however,
which are interes ting if true. She said
her home is in Oil City, Pa, and that she
Is prominently connected in Atlanta.