The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-05
A FILTRATION ENDS IN A ROW.
THE MAN II THE CASE CALLS IN
THE POLICE.


lie Thinks the Pretty Typewriter IL
Gay Adventuress-Com completely
Mashed. He sends Her Tickets and
Money to Garry Her From Atlanta
to New Orleans TO Marry Him-Her
Failure 90 Make the Journey Fol-
lowed by Her Arrest for Fraudu-
lent Use of the Mails.
Atlanta. Ga, March 4-If her story is
true Miss Lulu Thomas. a tall. handsome,
well-dressed young woman OF about twen-
ty, who was placed under arrest this morn
ing by city detectives. is greatly perse-
cuted and outraged.
But on the other hand If the allegations
OF one Louis Simpson. a New York drum-
mer. are based on facts then the hand
some young woman with the saucy man
ners is a shrcwd adventures and the said
Simpson in the condition Of the man who
had one leg that was longer than It really
ought TO have been
The young lady Indignantly says she is
the victim Of persecution by a Tilted suitor.
who, crazed for love Of her, has undertaken
to ruin her character because. after a
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she refused to marry him.
The story began to unravel itself last
Saturday. when chief OF Police Connolly
received a telegram from the chief OF the
New orleans police asking him to have
Miss Thomas. who was said to be living
in a fashionable Walton street boarding
house. arrested for using the malls for
fraudulent purposes. A couple OF de-
tectives We're sent out 10 make the arrest.
but less than an hour before their arrival
the bird had flown. Miss Thomas had sud-
denly determined to move and paying up
her bill, had cleared the house with her
trunks only a few minutes before the
detectives put In their appearance to ar
rest her. This circumstance sharpened the
appetites of the detectives and they felt
sure they We're on the trail OF rare game.
This morning II was discovered that Miss
Thomas had gone 70 the Markham house.
but a second time the detectives arrived
just IN time 10 be told that she had only
Just left with her trunks for other quar-
ters. Later on Miss Thomas was found
at lO6 Ivy street, at the house of Mrs.
John Robinson, where she was arrested
and escorted to the office Of the chief OF
police.
Simpson. the drummer. now In New Or
leans, who ls the instlgator OF the arrest,
based the charges Of using the malls for
fraudulent purposes on the fact that the
pretty Miss Thomas was his afiianced
wife, that she wrote to him promising to
join him in New Orleans, and upon this
promise he sent her railroad tickets and
money but after receiving them she de-
cllned to come to him. He now thinks she
deliberately played him for a sucker that
she Is not only "A gay deceiver IN the mat
ter OF hearts, but IS also a shreWd and
unscrupolous confidence woman as well.
When arraigned to-day Postmaster Amos
-
fendant by her pretty face and charming
manners, volunteered to sign her bond
for any amount and the case now rests
in that condition, with good chances to be
finally dismissed.
Mrs. Robinson, at whose house Miss
Thomas Is now quartered, vouches for the
good character Of the young lady, for
who she says has lived In her house for
the past three years with the exception
Of a short interval when she went out on
a visit to her family in Cincinnati. When
she came back Mrs. Robinson did not
have accommodation for her at once, and
she went to the Walton street boarding
house, where she met Simpson the New
York drummer who has appealed to tho
police Of New Orleans and Atlanta for
revenge because she refused to become
his wife.
Miss Thomas is an expert stenographer
and typewriter and has made her living
in Atlanta by her profession. "This man
Simpson Is crazy about me, that's ALL"
she said to-day when visited by the
Morning News correspondent "Tie asked
me to marry him twenty four hours after
/ met him. ! thought Il would be no
harm TO firt a little with him and when
he left for New Orleans he wrote back for
me to come there. that he had secured
the marriage licenses and we'd be mar
ried, | wrote back saying Of course, I'd
be delighted, and then he telegraphed me
a ticket and some money. was sick when
" came. The ticket was good only for that
day and l wrote that I'd refund the
money. But ! think Mr.. Simpson is crazy.
He sent me word by another drummer that
he would make me rue the day / ever saw
him If did not marry him, but no man
can force me to marry him whether I
want to or not, and VIXEN my brother and
father hear of this they viii certainly
make IL warm for Mr.. Simpson"