The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-05
HER VARIED CAREER
NOTED NEW YORK CHARACTER
FETOHES UP IN PRISON

Arrested Charged With Forgery and Other
Kinds Of Fraud and Now LanguishIne
In the Tombs-How Mrs. Martrant Los
Money By Her, and How She Found Ou
That "Mrs. white" Was Really May NJ
KeIlard-Her Connection With Barbars
| Abba Detective Raid That Failed
Story of q Strange Career.
| New York, November 4.-The Herald
says: The Herald has told of the arrest
on Thursday, Of Miss May NJ. Kellard
VINO for several years mas been in the
public eye in this city. Her recent ar
rest and present incarceration in the
! Tombs are due to charges OF aiding and
| abetting a forgery, and Of grand iar-
ceny, the complainant in one case being
Mrs. Mary D. Spencer, OF No. So2 Column
| bus avenue, and in the other ". A. FRS
| bic, Of No. 119 West Thirty-seventh
street.
The facts concerning the woman's ca
reer in New York became known to the
Herald readers yesterday. the circum-
stances being given by Mrs. Catherine
Martrant, Of No. 11S East Twenty-ffth
| street.
Mrs Martrant has for some years
| rented rooms at No. 116 East Twenty
fifth street. About October l a young
woman called at her house, saying tina,
she desired to rent room of her for a
short time. She was dark, apparently
about thirty years of age, and dressed
entirely in black. She introduced her
self as the daughter-in-law OF former
Dock Commissioner and Police Magii-
trate candy" White, adding that she
was also the neice OF Mrs. Elliott F.
Sheppard. She was not living with her
husband, she added, because Of his III
treatment of her, and as he did not sup
port her, Mrs. Sheppard made her an al
lowance of $500 per month. she had re-
Gently received her share in an estate
valued at s65, 900.
She had been living in Washington,
but mad come to New York on business
connected with her estate, and also to
consult dentist.
Mrs. Martrant, believing the woman's
story. which was told with a very plaus-
ible air, showed her a back parlor, the
rent of which was $3.50 per day. Mrs.
White engaged the room at once. She
had no baggage except a small hand va
Use. Her trunks, she said, would come
in day or two. She paid three days
rent
Mrs Martrant was lying down in her
room, which was the front parlor and
adjoining that OF Mrs White" on the
evening Of October s, when knock at
her door and ''Mrs. White" entered. She
had in her hand a cup Of tea, which she
said she had brought for Mrs. Martrant
thinking she might care for 1T. After
placing it on the bureau she went TO Mrs.
Martrant's side and tried to csress her.
But the incident offended Mrs Martrant
and few minutes later the woman re-
turned to her own room.
Mrs. Martrant had occasion to look for
several pieces Of jewelry the following
morning and found that several valuable
rings which she had left on the bureau
the previous evening were missing.
Among them were a diamond, a garnet
and several other rings. valued at about
$50. There had been no person In her
room on the previous night who could
have taken the jewelry except Mrs.
White" A detective was called but
found nothing.
> Mrs. Martrant missed another solitaire
diamond ring, valued at $3.50, the next
day. 1t was taken while Mrs. White"
was IN her room. Then Mrs. Martrant
determined to catch the thief if possible.
"Mrs. White" had asked her to cash
check for 800 which she showed her.
1t pur2orted to be signed by Mrs. Elliott
F. Sheppard, and Mrs. White" explain
ed Il had been sent her by Mrs.
Sheppard as a birthday present. Mrs.
Martrant said she could not cash it,
Mrs. Martrant had sold out her busi-
ness. and ,as she was going 10 move the
next day and wanted to watch the wo-
man, she invited her to go with her to
her new apartments, IN West Thirty
first street.
On October they moved, Mrs. White
leaving a bill OF s35 unpaid, but giving
the new occupant nat worth about $40
as security.
Mrs Martrant, who held a number OF
pawn tickets for articles left with her as
security oy persons who had not paid
their bills, decided, on October s to visit
Berger's pawn shop in Sixth avenue, to
find out if the tickets had about expired.
Mrs. Whit" Offered to accompany her,
La
trant that Berger had casned the check.
Mrs Martrant was suspicious Of the
woman. and was satisfied that Berger
knew good deal about her. She there
fore excused herself from Mrs. White
as soon as possible, and returning 10
Berger's shop asked him IL he could tell
her VINO Mrs. White" was Berger,
bursting into a laugh. said. Why, don't
you know VINO she is? Why, that is
May Kellari. Barbara Aub's friend
Mrs. Martrant went directly 10 her
apartments and began search OF her
trunks, several o: which she hsd not ex-
amined since leaving the Twenty-ffth
street house. Then she found sew
eral hundred dollars worth Of things
missing. including a seal skin sacque.
dress goods and pieces OF old fashioned
jewelry and several other things.
A few days later. after they had been
to a theatre together and had returned
home, Mrs. MarIrant while taking off
her hat, saw in the mirror that Miss
Keliard was taking some pieces OF paper
from her pocket book. At the same time
s.e announced that she intended lsav-
ing the room for few minutes
Mrs Martrant said last night that she
felt that the other woman mad become
Suspicious and intended destroying the
pawn tickets for the stolen iewelry. She