The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-07

son, Marie OFT, Nine. OF, Marie Cicotte
| Mime. Wilson and niece. The younger one
of the two was supposed tC have at one
time been married to a Detroit man nam
ed Edward Cicotte, but Peter NJ Bur
rOughS, the diamond broker of Cincinnati
and Fremont, whose wife the younger
one claims to be, but which he repudia tes,
says he has the best of proof that the
young woman did not marry Cicotte, but
that she infatuated him after he had
fallen heir to $1,000, got most of the
money, then shook him, so he was obliged
to take a job breaking on a freight train.
CAME FROM INDIANAPOLIS
Marie has a brother named John Wilson,
of indianapolis, and an aunt named Mrs.
Joseph Stake. Marie is said to have left
Indianapolis about fifteen years ago after
her first sensational adventure.
Peter Burroughs, who now lives with
his wife and mother at Fremont O., says
the younger woman attempted to take his
life in San Francisco. Marie set up a
claim that she had married Burroughs on
Feb. 4, 1894, but on Aug. %, Of the fol-
lowing year, she brought suit against him
for $4,000 for breach of promise. This
suit was brought at Los Angeles, Cal,
when Burroughs was auctioning off dia-
monds and jewelry. Oct. Is, 1895. Marie
appeared before the superior court in Cal
Ifornia and finding Burroughs there in
person declared he was not Burroughs,
but a man who looked like him.
Aug. % she produced a letter dated
Stockton, Cal, signed P. J. Burroughs
and addressed to the superior judge, in
which it was set forth that Burroughs re-
quested the Judge to let the case go by
default. This letter, IT is claimed, proved
a forgery, and 1t Is said that an indict-
ment for statutory offenses hangs over
Marie's head in California as a result.
ARRESTED IN WESTERN CITIES.
At Omaha, in February. 1896 she was
arrested for entering the !ewelry store
of c. w. Reynolds, where Burroughs
was selling goods, and taken before the
court on the charge of being q profess
sional blackmailer; also for assault and
( battery; the mother was included in these
charges. Before the judge she displayed
a wonderful knowledge of law, but was
not permitted to handle her own case.
An injunction was afterward served upon
the women, preventing them from en-
tering Reynolds place of business, but
they paid no heed to tha Injunction and
were rearrested. They were let go for
a day on their own recognizance, and
they Immediately locked themselves up
in the Hotel Trextel for two days and
an officer was obliged to break down the
door AS It flew open Marie struck the
officer over the head with water pitch
er, stunning him, and the mother tore
open his clothing, infiicting most das-
tardly outrage upon his person, as a re-
suit of which he nearly died.
In February, 1897, they were IN Chi
cago department store when they sud
denly set up g cry that they had been
robbed of $1S5 in money and over 1000
worth of diamonds. They accused one of
the girls but she was searched and Moth
ing was found. Chief Ripley pronounced
the story Of the ROBBERY fake. III Chi
cago, at the Auditorium annex, they
were given room temporarily after be-
ing arrested, and went from the sixth
floor over the top of the building, and
down on the other side. where they were
rearrested.
While in Cincinnati they made a claim
to having been robbed of 81, $50 worth Of
diamonds. There they were arrested and
charged with lettering and blaclSmailing,
and each fined $50 with thirty days i'm
prisonment. They were released before
their sentences had expired. Burroughs,
who was then in Cincinnati, had them
arrested for perjury, Marie having sworn
+ she was his wife. When in court Marie
threw herself or the floor, wept, cursed
and swore. Both women were indicted
by the Hamilton county grand jury.
REFUSES TO EAT IN JAIL.
While in Jail at Cincinnati they refused
nourishment for four days, and Marie,