Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-03-24
THE GAZETTE.
SATURDAY EVENING. MAR. 81, 1894
An Adventures.

All adventures.
An adyentu. ess with u remark alb
career has at last fallen into the hands
OF the French police. Her name Is
'1me. Moulin, aid SIC was arrested on
Tuesday morning Al Pas~y ia on IT,
the train coming from Paris. Her resi-
Sence at the Time of her arrest was Io9
Rle du Rauelagh, at Passey.
This woman commenced her career
as a lyric artistic. and in that capacity
b ID several times toured around me
world while still quite young. She
h I'd, it appears, considerable success IN
Russia and in America.
In 1880. on her return to France
from tour to New Orleans, the actress
made the acquaintance OF NJ. Moulin,
a millionaire, who married her. In
spite OF his immense fortune, she ruined
him in three years.
In 1888 NJ. Moulin was murdered Oh
the pier at Algiers, and the police were
never able to discover who committed
the crime.
On the death of her husband, Nine
Moulin found herself in very reduced
circumstances. Her husband had wlllet
what was left of his fortune away from
her, with the exception of an income OF
4,0G0f. year.
Nine. Moulin had been too much &C.
customed to luxurious living to settle
down at her age 10 moderate income
Ike 4.000f. She practiced all kinds of
f.aUds to make show of great wealth.
She was never seen except in broug-
ham. and went in state to the large
shops, ordering valuable furniture and
other costly articles, which she sold at
once and never paid for. She changed
her name and address continually, and
the police were unable to catch her.
Her chief fraud was the buying of
house property. In less than a month
she bought five houses, in the Rue
Bernard Palsy, Rue Cuisine, Rue St.
Charles and the Rue Lagille. As she
mad no money, she asked for delay.
Her rotary, who lived not far from
Paris. in the Seine-et- Marine, acted as
her accomplice and guaranteed her sol
vability.
As soon as the sale was effected,
Nine. Moulin sent for architects and
contractors and had the houses trans
formed into tenement houses. Then
she sold them and disappeared, leaving
the former proprietors and the new
proprietors with delicate question to
argue out between them.
Growing bold with her continued sue
cess, Nine. Moulin aspired to the acqui-
sition Of house in the Rue Picpus.
But by this time the number of CON-
plants that had been made to the police
was enormous. Three hundred Paris
tradesmen complained that they had
been denauded, and it is bought that
now that the defrsuder i; discovered
double this number W II send in infor-
nation about her.
Nine. Moulin was aided in her ad-
venturous career by her brother and an
elderly woman, who was, it appears,
remarkably clever in Disgusting herself.
Among the numerous aliases assum-
ed by the widow we're the names of AL
bany, Mills, Montague, Bocca and Du-
moulin, and she had lived successfully
at 81 Rue des Martyrs, 80 Rue de
Saint Petersburg, Rou Fcnelon, at
the Petit Chateau at Sevres, and 6 Rue
DIES Arts at Levallois Perret.
At the time of her arrest she had, in
addition to her residence in the Rue Gu
Ranelagh at Passy, an apartment at Il
Rue Cuisine, in house which she had
bought in the ingenious manner de-
scribed above.
1t is estimated that the swindles and
frauds which can be attributed to this
remarkably Clever" woman already
excaed > GOO GEO francs