The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-26
| MISS M'NABB
LIKED SILVER.
She Tied sChhd In Chair and
Then Looted ihs House.
WAS CAUGHT ON FIRE ESCAPE
Protested Her Innocence, but Was Rsla ln
$1,000 Bal In the YOikvIIs Court.
Would Pay 10 board.
WAS CAUGHT ON FIRE ESCAPE

New York. Dec. H.-Mlss Anna McNabb.
who has been boarding with Mrs. Dem
ming at III East Sevepty-seventh street
acted, IL is alleged. I'm a most repre-
hensible manner toward her boarding
house mistress and wound up her career
of unlawfulness In the YorkvIlle police
court. where she was held I'm $1,000 bail
for an attempt TO emulate the career OF
Claude Duvan.
Miss McNabb. according TO the story
told by Mrs. Denning. was a most unde-
sirable boarder. She took a room with
Mrs. Denning last october. and invariably
greeted the requests OF her landlady
with the scorn they deserved.
She not only did not pay any board
from the time she first lodged beneath
the Denning roof, but. as the story was
told I'm court, made almost daily ex-
cursions into the rooms OF the other
boarders, whence she returned to her
own apartments laden with silver backed
hair brushes, other toilet accessories and
whatever else of value she could accu-
mulate.
FIGURES HER LOSS AT $780,
Mrs. Denning. on counting up her
losses. figured out that Miss McNabb had
relieved her OF over a hundred dollars
worth OF property, while the losses of
the other boarders has not been figured
out as yet
Miss McNabb was asked to leave, was
later pleaded with 20 go away. and was
finally urged strongly to find anotheI
boarding house. She met all these re-
quests with scornful refusals.
She was very well satisfied with n
home with Mrs. Denning. and remarked
on several occasions that she would
never. never leave her dear, kind. friend
ly hostess. This annoyed and even
vexed Mrs. Denning. who looked at the
matter from an entirely different stand
point.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Denning. hav-
ing lost everything else, lost her pa
tience. She determined TO place Miss
McNabb under arrest, and so sailed
forth to solicit the attendance OF po-
licemen at her home.
LEFT HER SON ON GUARD.
Before going, i'm order to be sure that
Miss McNabb would remain until her re-
turn, she locked that young person in
her room, locked up the McNabb hat and
cloak. and. leaving her 6-year-old son on
guard. went away satisfied that her
boarder would be there on her return.
Miss McNabb. however, was a person
OF resource. Soon as Mrs. Denning left,
Miss McNabb broke open the door and
descended upon the young Denning, with
whom she jested regarding his mothers
departure, and melted to childish games.
which has as a feature the tying up OF
Master Denning with clothesline in a
chair
Young as he was. Master Denning sus-
pected that all was not right. and he was
confirmed in this opinion when he saw
this clever young woman bundle the
household silverware into a convenient
parcel for carrying and place II upon the
fire escape.
TRAPPED BY THE SMALL BOY.
Miss McNabb then secured the key to
the wardrobe. got her hat and cloak and
was about to flee when footsteps were
heard in the hallway She hastily moved
to the rear of the house not voting
that young Howard had escaped from
his bonds and was in hiding beneath the
bed When his anxious mother appeared
with a guard OF police he pointed out the
escaping Miss McNabb, and she was
''nabbed" just as she was about TO hasten
down the fire escape.
She could give no reasonable reason
for having shown such consideration for
the family silverware, and consequently
Judge Brann thought that there was a
thousand dollars worth OF doubt as to
her intentions and held her in that
amount OF bail.