New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-19
4 GAY OLD DECEITER.
THREE WOMEN DRUGGED AND ROBBED
BY CARRIE REESE. - YEARS OLD
SHE HIRED OUT TO THEM SUCCESSFULLY AS
SERVANT PUT THEM TO SLEEP AND THEN

SHE HIRED OUT TO THEM SUCCESSFULLY AS A
SERVANT PUT THEM TO SLEEP AND THEN
RAN OFF WITH THEIR BELONGINGS.
Carrie Reese, who sometimes goes under the name
OF Carrie Martin or Katie Mclaughlin, was arrested
bv Detectives Hamn and Lang. OF the Eas; Fifty
nrst-st. station yesterday afternoon for robbinS
Mrs Catherine Karnaghan, Of No. Si SXth-ave
OF a quantity Of clothing and jewery on the morn
ing OF August 6. Carrie who Is a hite woman
seventy-two years Old, has record that would
make the ordinary wrongdoer Of haif her age grow
green with envy. Within the last month she has
committed three cever robberies and carried Of
plunder worth 500
About the last OF June Carrie went 10 work as
servant for a respectable e.dery woman who lives
In One hundred-end- nd-seventeenth-s, between Second
and Third aves. on July 2. after the woman OF
the house had eaten one Of Carries tempting break
fasts. she became suddenly s.ee2y Carrie insisted
on putting her right 10 bed. When she woke up,
late in the afternoon. her head Was s~.nmiIsi i
she so u tha, she could not stand carrie n"d
In a few days the woman discovered that In the
course OF her slumbcrs Carrie had br1ushi IN an
agent Of the Harlem Loan Company and han mort NOR,
gagged all tho unitur for @ Care RI sbou na to tb
UP the woman insurance papers 70 SNOW sno" ~ ~ ,h ,e
agent and had forged her MISTRESS name 10 the
When the woman OF the house found that she would
have 10 appear IN court she ietused 10 prosecute
The clever Caroline next went 70 work under the
name OF Mary Martin for Mrs. Mary Noet, Of No.
ness i ons night. and aSoke ate the morning
uneasness. Carrie had gone, and upon LOOKING t
about Mrs Vogt discovered that she had taken
clothing and jewelry worth several hunaTea uo'-
lars Mrs Vogt had Carrie arres,,ea snd
cuted the case. but through the intercessioh; IL ~
said OF Mrs Foster. the "Tombs Angel. h,t .hIr.s
got only a short time in the city prison. "H"ch
ended on August .. - - .,..sot .be
applied for work to MN Karnasnan VINO mas Nra an
employment bureau at No Si S!xth-aEe. MIs'
ployed her as a servant. Carrie cooked SUPPER lor
mistress awoke few hours later than usual WIN
her head swimming and a general feeling much
resembling seasckness She hurried out 10 the onc'
to attend to her business. When she had occasion
to 20 TO her cash drawer she noticed mat IL haa
been tampered with Becoming suspicious snc
hunted about for Carrie, but The ola woman Wa was
nowhere 10 be found Upon looking about MI; Mt;
Karnaghan discovered that jewery worth ABOUT y"
ard clothing worth $50 were gone
After n long hunt the police YESTERDAY afternoon
discovercd Carrie al the door Of No. I5 second i''
rhev waited till she went upstairs ana fCl'oW'-i h
"a her room on the second floor. Carrie receiver
tho detectives with the utmost coinposufe' hhi
nrofessed not 10 know them at all lhouRh She ndi
tesn arrested before by them. When they han
searched the room and found part OF the pIuhlrr
she owned up TO stealing and said that she w0uid
plead guilty. ..,,.-..,1t,,
her eeventy-two years. she is sharp-eyea ana cum
min