The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-24

wbom the police were at FIRST inclined TO
..,t,pnd with the notorious Ellen Peck
aas brought up in the county court
nroo,lyn, yesterday to plead to three In
drc,ments charging her with conspiracy
and larceny =. 4,
To The pending indictments she ~
.n,rced with having obtained ABOUT
. ,,e o6o from the late Christopher Lott
~ samIly physician, and various sums
g.tr, othcrs 10 the extent OF upward /"
$4,000 in all. ,,,,.,, 4, cha
Elements against her, and was COM
roI,,ed TO Jail in default OF $1,000 ball'
'' The woman, who is said to be far and
or,,av the cleverest confidence operator
T., the country, surrendered hefseh "a
,ha prooklyn authorities. She Is known
=" Inc notice as Dutch Mary"
hs the Herald told in detail Monday
,or two years, during 1895 and 1896, Mrs
Hansen lived In Greene avenue win
yVii,iam Simpson, her son-in-law, and
ME wife her daughter, Their residence
wos moi far from Or, Lofts home IN
poId avenue. Mrs. Hansen, 1t is alleged
nosad as the wife OF Admiral Johann
Carl Hansen, of the Danish navy still
Il, active service. He was said to be a
man Of great wealth, who had deposited
IN The United States treasury sums va
wing from 5000, 900 to S6O,OOO,OOO, believ-
iTg Il would be safer there than In the
institutions OF his own country. She
had trouble In getting the money, Mrs
Hansen claimed. and II cost her much
for lawyers fees to prosecute her claim.
Mrs. Hansen Is alleged to have Induced
Dr. Lott, who had attended her, and MIR,
and Mrs. Simpson at different times, TO
advance her various sums, aggregatlng
$4,000 to satisfy the lawyers, She also
managed to get from Miss Shea, pro-
y1ssIonal nurse, who lived with her.
about $500. for some purpose, 1t is said.
several other residents In the vicinity,
II is alleged, also succumbed 10 Mrs.
Hansen's representations and cheerfully
advanced various sums.
DR.. Lofts inability TO recover his loans
IS said To have brought on the Illness
which caused his death. Then his widow
placed the matter In the hands OF law
yers. Mrs. Hansen was indicted with
Mr. and Mrs Simpson. The Simpsons
were arrested and released on bail. Mrs.
Hansen could not he found.
surrrnders To ChieT Murphy.
All the time Mrs Hansen was ut her
home, No. 400 Summit street, Jersey
City. on Monday evening she sent her
son to Chief OF Police Murphy, of Jersey
City, and said she was willing to give
herself up but didn't want to spend the
night In a cell Chief Murphy placed
two men on guard To see that she would
not change her mind and escape during
the night. Then he notified the Brook
Ign police.
Mrs. Hansen was brought to Brook
Ign on the annex boat by Chief Murphy
yesterday morning. She was taken In
charge by Detective Welser. who was
waiting for her. and hurried to police
headquarters. Her son followed her.
Soon after her arrival Mt police head
quarters her son-in-law, William Simp-
son, started out to hunt up bail for her.
Mrs. Hansen spent half an hour In
Chief REYNOLDS office. and said she was
quite willing TO tell all about her trans.
actions with DIR. Lott. She said she had
got much less than $4,000 from the doc
tor, and what she did get, she declared
was merely loan. Her son-ln-law be-
Ing out OF work in 1893. she said. shS
borrowed $3.50 from DR. Lott to meet her
expenses. Some time later the doctor
gave her $1,000. More money was nepd.
ed a few months later. md the physician
had no hesltancy In advancing another
$1,000. making her total Indebtedness u
him $3.50
That was all she got. she said and she
paid back $500, and her son-in-inw gave
Or Lott n diamond pin, gold watch
and other articles OF iewelry. Miss Shea
wac also given jewelry, she sald-noI
that any money had been borrowed from
her but because Mrs. Hansen owed hcl
two years wages.
AZ to the story OF her being the wife oI
wealthy Danish admiral Mrs Hansen
says that was "Just as ridiculous as the
rest OF the story" This 10 the way II
originated, she explained:
Dr. Lott went to her home one day
with a clipping from newspaper lr
which II was stated that Il Danish adml.
raj had died and left n fortune to hi,
only heir. said TO be wllhelmlna Han.
sen. The doctor wanted TO now II she
was the heir and she assured him that
she was not He seemed to think differ.
emily, she said.
Taken TO tho County Jail.
Mrs Hansen was taken into court
She was arraigned before Judge Hurd
in Part II. OF the county court. Previous
to this she had hor picture taken for thu
Rogucs Gallery.
One NJ the three indictments to which
she was called to plead charged conspir
acy. II being alleged that she conspiret
with the Simpsons to dcfraud Dr. Lot
out OF F725 and Miss Nellie Shea out o
SSlO. Another Indictment charges hel
with grand larceny in the frat degree II
having obtained $3.50 from Dr. Lott un
der false prctenses. while tho the thlrt
brings charges Of grand larceny In III,
second degree, alleging that she obtain
"a EiI5 from Miss Shea by similar meth
OdR.
After Judge Hurd had fixed the bal
Mrs, Hansen was taken To tho count!
jail by Detective Bagnarcllo.
Chief Murphy, OF Jersey City, Hnlt
he had known Mrs Hansen for man!
years. She had come to Jersey City II
1876, hc said, and had been there only
snort tlmo when she met Frederick T
Fnrricr, thon n well known man Rbou
town. lie became greatly attached 4
her, and II soon became rumorod that h
was engaged TO n rich widow who hnt
been left 100000 by nm uncle who died
This uncle. Mira Hansen told her friend
hnd boon Catholic priest She had al
ready received $4,000. and the balance
wan being held by Cardinal McClOskcy
she could not get the rcat Of the fortun
unlll tho cardinal received The conscn
OF The German minister to glyo II up.
Cleared 100000 In j snty ClIy.
John T. dnrrotson, who had Just re-
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