The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-24
A QUEEN AMONG CROOKS.
The Woman Vino Has Been Fleeing
Atlanta Run Down.

One of Her Victims Saw Her On q
Train and Caused Her Arrest-Re-
alizing That She Was Being Shad.
owed She Made Change of Costume
in the Toilet Room, but 1t Failed to
Fool Her Pursuer.
Atlanta, Ga, July GA woman ar
rested under the name of Mrs. George
Higgen at Marietta, twenty miles from
Atlanta on the Western and Atlantic
railroad, has been identified as the same
woman who victimized several Atlanta
merchants by passing bogus checks upon
them in May last. Mrs. Higgen was
known as Mrs. f. r. White in Atlanta.
She is, to all accounts, confidence
woman, whose field of operations has
been wide Under various aliases, it is
believed that she has pursued her
career all over the country, and
the local detectives expect to
identify her as one of the
most notorious crooks in the
county before they get through
with her. The woman is no ordinary
operator. Her shrewdness in evading ar
rest here since May, when the detectives
first took up her case, shows that she has
nerve as well as talent in her peculiar
line. While here Mrs. White put up at
the Aragon hotel, which is ultra swell.
| She dressed in lavish style, and when
she undertook her operations, drove out
in q carriage. Altogether she put up an
appearance that was eminently success
full in establishing confidence in the
| miDdQ of fba trig ivo,zaG ,,auobont,
HER PLAN OF OPERATIONS.
| The plan she worked was to make
small purchases and tnen give checks for
a considerably large amount in payment,
| receiving the difference in cash These
| checks passed in Atlanta, which so far as
| developed to date, foot up several hum
| dred dollars, were all drawn on Florida
| banks, several bearing the name of +. w.
| ARneW of Ocala. When the Atlanta
merchants found that they had been
swindled by dashing Mrs White Of the
Aragon they offered reward and put
the case in the hands of the detectives,
but she had disappeared, or at least the
detectives could not put their
| hands upon her. Yesterday, however
MIR. Eady of the Eady-Neal Company,
clothiers, who were losers to the tune Of
| $50, saw Mrs. White on the train going to
Marietta- He followed her, and had her
arrested on her arrival at that place.
LIGHTNING CHANGE ARTIST.
Mrs. White suspected that she was
being shadowed on the train, and TO
escape recognition, went to the ladies'
| toilet and changed her entire costume.
| This did not work, however. Mr. Eady
was not to be fooled. After the arrest it
! was discovered that Mrs White had been
IN Atlanta at several leading hotels much
! Of the time since the detectives have been
on the lookout for her, but she has been
so shrewd that they failed to catch her.
! She not only dehed the detectives, but
actually made several new victims here
while the reward was hanging over her
| head, passing a check on the Hotel
Marion only few hours before her ar
rest. A man claiming to be Mrs Higgen s
husband is also under arrest at Marietta.
| In Atlanta he passed as DR.. Scott, occu-
! pying a room next 10 Mrs. White at the
| Aragon. Charges of cheating and swind-
! ling have been made against the pair in
| Marietta. When these are disposed of
| they will be brought on to Atlanta to face
| the music, here and undergo a complete
| identification.
The prisoner may be the famous Mrs.
| Kate Bradford, who disappeared from
! New York few months ago.