The herald., 1897-09-27
SHE THEN TREATED HIM
MRS. MATTE JENKINS NEGO-
TIATIoNs IN NOTES
She Induced Local Physician to Back
Her Bills and Left Him
Sorrowing

in the st. Nicholas hotel this afternoon
by Detective Dillon and Deputy Sheriff
White of Los Angeles on Justices war
rant charging her with felony in obtain
ing money by false pretenses. The COM
planning witness in the case is DR.. Bert
Ellis of Los Angeles. She went south with
the deputy sheriff this evening. 1t is said
that Dr. Ellis ndorsed notes of Mrs. Jen-
kins to the amount of $1,000 to enable her
to start a millinery store in Los Angeles.
The doctor went east and the woman and
her husband soon followed. She returned
to this city, but was injured in an accident
en- route and claims to havd been I'M a,
physicians care ever SINCE Finding him
self responsible to the banks, the doctor
has caused her arrest.
One of the most picturesque careers
Of Becky Sharp type Of character has
been brought to a close by the arrest in
San Francisco of Mrs. Matte Jenkins
For several years she and her husband,
Charlie Jenkins, were among the not
able figures in this city at the theaters,
where they always sat in boxes; on
Spring street where their attire was re-
marked from it's elegance, and their de-
meanor by its hauteur, and among their
intimates where their apartments had
the reputation of being one Of the most
expensive luxuries the city afforded.
Mr.. Jenkins, by trade, is a hotel clerk,
one whom Mr.. Hoyt would have de-
lighted to have copied for one of his
farces. He is tall, slim, of aristocratic
bearing. and, better than any man in the
business, could gauge his welcome of an
arrival as he registered exactly to the
number of dollars in. the guests pocket.
He had an X-ray eye when 1t was a
question of instantly determining
whether man wanted fifth floor in
side room or q first floor front suite
with bath.
He also had the conventional big
diamond stud, and, as it turned out, a
delicate disregard Of the laws regarding
property.
Jenkins was employed at the Holler-
beck, and then adorned the Nadeau
corridors, being discharged from the
latter place last winter. The pro-
prietor said to the Jenkfnses in parting:
There is nothing too wicked for either
of you to do, from stealing up" and this
harsh opinion seems to have BEEN JUS
tified by the facts. The imme ediate
collecting bill for one dollar and a
half twice. One dollar and half of
this went to the hotel; the other did not.
There are stories innumerable about
Mrs Jenkins manner Of raising money.
AS none of these have got into the courts,
and might embarrass innocent people,
they need not be recounted. The Incl
dent which led to her arrest is a sample
of her fertile methods.
DR.. H. Bert Ellis, practitioner in the
Bradbury block. had been treating Mrs.
Jenkins for some time prior to last
May. Mrs. Jenkins, who, when she
had her war paint on, was full of aristo-
cratic majesty and insidious ambush,
went to the doctor with story that she
needed thousand dollars to enable her
to keep an interest which she declared
she had purchased in the millinery es-
tablishment owned by Mrs. D. Gottholf
Of South Spring street.
DR.. Ellis consented to help the woman
from her alleged difficulty and kindly
agreed to aid her In getting the money
1t was about the middle of May that she
induced the doctor to endorse little
matter of four notes for her, of $3.50 each.
They were made payable in four months
consecutively, beginning August 2S. Her
reason for making so many notes was
because she wanted the payments to fall
easier. Mr.. Chase, the proprietor of the
Nadeau hotel, where Chas. Jenkins, the
attenuated husband, was then employ
ed, had agreed to pay her certain por
tion of his salary every month. In ad-
dition to this-so her story ran-she was
receiving money from the east After
DR.. Ellis had endorsed her four notes.
the woman took them to the Merchants
National bank, where she received $1,000
A few days later she called upon DR.
Ellis, who was treating her eyes, and
gladdened him by saying that she ex-
pected to receive some money from an
eastern relative and would be thus en-
abled to take up all the notes by the end
of May. But it was not to be. The last
of the north DIR. Ellis left for the east
and did not return until the LIST of July.
Naturally, he inquired about Mrs. Jen-
kins, and soon learned that che and her
attenuated husband had left the coun-
try. DR.. Ellis succeeded, after consider
able difficulty, in locating her in Chica-
CO. ard later traced her to San Fran
cisco. OF her husband, however, little
was known. DR.. Ellis experienced not
the slightest trouble, though, in ascer-
tanning that the woman had not been
near the bank and dust had begun to
accumulate on the notes lying urdis-
turbed in the vault.
A further investigation satisfied the
doctor that the woman's story about the
millinery store was untrue, and for some
time he has had attorneys at work
trying to get his money, but without
success. On Friday last he swore to a
complaint charging Mrs jenkins with
obtaining money by false. pretenses,
hence the arrest
About two years ago Mrs. Jenkins
announced that she was heir to the An
trim estate in Ireland and the papers
were filled with the story. She left, os-
tensibly to get her millions, but came
back without them.
The people who knew her we'll here
said that she has craze for expensive
lingerie and that her collection of rare.
lace trimmed garments is one OF the
most costly in the country
According to very reliable authority
this is not the first time that Mrs. Jenk-
ins has been behind the bars with Sc
rious charge made against her. Some
months ago a Mrs. Cicotte claiming to
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