The sun., 1894-12-17
MRS. MARTIN, BURGLAR.
WILLTAMsBURGH THE FIELD OF
a VERY cLEVER THIEF.

NioytFs NhS NueteHs EhNneE OF - EnuUNs
orssso-Thsn On Pretenee or wanting 60
Buy House She Looks the Place over.
sud Carries or Lot OF Jeweiry.
This IL the story of a woman who has shown
long suffering williamsburph something new in
burglary. WilliamsburRh had almost come 10
believe that there was nothing In the business
that II didn't already know. because for months
past all sorts and conditions OF craftsmen have
tried thor prentice hands there with results
that have doubtless been gratifying TO them.
II remained for a woman TO evolve something
not only new. but artistic; and wiliamsburgh-
ers would have been unquestonably very much
surprised at her method had they not been al
ready so very much surprised that she was
caught in working II. Now in the serene con-
sciousness that she is in Jail, they are only sur
prised that any one should have let her work IL.
Mrs. Amanda Martin is the name Of the
woman. or her williamsburgh name, for there
II reasonable belief that her names are as nu-
merous as her resources. The police of Brook
lyn have been looking for her for two months,
and II is said that Inspector Mclaughlin also
wants her.
She Is small woman Of thirty-1ve or so. with
srenned manner and a slight German accent.
She talks gibly and inspires confidence by her
apparent artlessnoss. In word she Is as all
the Williamsburghers who have come in con-
role she has played.
II is not known exactly when she went 10 Will
liamsburgh. but II was probably about four
months ago. At that timo friend of hers,
Mrs. Minnie Meyer. went to live at 1.122 Will
loughby avenue. and Mrs. Martin took up her
residence in Mrs. Meyers small fiat.
She lived there off and on for a month or six
weeks, and nobody knows where she lived when
she wasn't there, except, possibly, Mrs. Meyer,
who won't tell. Mrs. Martin always had q good
deal of ready money about her, and bought the
two little Meyer children many presents.
Mrs Meyer, the neighbors say, also spent
money freely. and she used to explain IL, with
out anybody asking her, by saying that she got
. regular income from Germany. The noigh-
bors, however, never got very well acquainted
with either Mrs. Meyer or Mrs. Martin; they
know that Mrs Meyer passed as grass widow
and that both she and Mrs. Martin were
away from homo q good DEAL and that they
didn't usually get in until late. But beyond the
confidence about the income from Germany,
which seems TO have been dwelt upon by Mrs
Meyer, the second. noor-left, which was Mrs.
Meyer didn't have much to do with tho second-
oor-right the third-hoor right or left, nor. in
fact. any OF the other foors
Mrs. Martins first Willsmsburgh venture In
obliquity was n very commonplace job. wort hy
only the prentice hands who have been making
trouble for the Brooklyn police contempO-
c ss sres a. and eonSns GERMAN
Eeeper. Isnats Woif BY name. who has = dingy
little place ah at ss 1,Fss a n,,ber art nor
delccS! ,nS !op none Of ,bs nudasty which strikes
to the breast t OF sGe arc noT
feel not 40 badly. IL was a Job so mean and
trivial shSt MT Martin % II ss5P ass Ps so
realized that she was guilty OF it.
for n bonscke.ncr about two months AGO. He
wanted n midtIle- aged woman who could cook
.fac,nrv Sow "a narson Will tbo.e annpirements ho
was Wiling TO nav satisfactory wages In an
swer 70 Ihe b amen rroo bv tSs siae
door and bowed 10 Wolf. who WAS behind the
nnsi,,v Hssilv sT " winine his hands on tbe bor
towel, and in his agitation leaving an open
bottle Of before Ss ws0 Mad bad
Martin into the living rooms back OF the sa-
ioSh: rs Martin oxp,oined that sb. Ind CALLED N
ask for the place as hogsskeeper. She said abe
enos@ad her on tho snot
Mrs. Martin took of her cloak and bonnet and
other things in a few days. Then she got to
work setting things to rights. She whisked the
,ba. , aiood Ionp " ,ns mr. bsr IN sheer sSmira.
lion. The children came home from school,
calisd tSsm daprliSRs and e kissed them and
moved the furnitura bv Intervals. Wolf chuck.
nSG isd sGisy asa went BACK 10 MS oar' he hao
That night Mrs. Martin made biscuit TINT re-
mindsd %yoif ~ those his mother used 10 make
He chuckled softly again. and rubbed his hands
haneath thc tnbie Sumner over Mrs Martin
I'LL TSh III. ~" nIra and x,rmssdd his siInners
Tban after tncEine the children into their
trnndlss beds shs saf down beside Wolf with
some Knitting she had already begun. and
taik ed 10 him She talked about his business
nS ohUt nv Nh" th nrnsnscts ~ rcvivinr trada and
.hout nnnnev nakIn9-about eyarvthinp in
faot- that interested Wolf.
IF NAV have interested Mrs Martin too for
when WoiI mnyed nv the woman's biandish
,rsnts 10 confidpnce nnbosomsd his homes and
fears 1nd the mount of money he mad iaid by.
Mrs Martin ,vss rant ~
Ih asr sd onestaP after ouestion with nak al
,nnncancs IN " Ssr every iinssmcnr And WoIf
amsyerad He wasn't 10 be ontmatched in inno-
eence, ~ "
sYTSs M o. ,an,-o ~ MIRA Martin bousakaarsr xx.s
ot.~activ t,yo Il avs dnrntIon Those Two days
We're days of hiss 10 Wolf He had found what
~ 10y baI 'nay.r honed 10 and "a mother Tor MS
nS,Idren rS ne and a h"nsekeener as tborouah and
u...',,Is n.nt,'I ~ n. ' IL ,iaad ,rjys ~ $3.50
n 1he S carss @ NJ ,ba ho,sebold had hssn lIf,ed
,,nm lis his bnnds. nt n single bonnd he had Al.
. ..pa as nansS.a 81 IilartS thot he hsd naysr
innaJ - Rae agajn IL yyas alnost a Araan,