The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-11-23
HAVE YOU SEEN NELUE? :.
A "Female Doctor Jekell and Mr..
Hyde" Who is Badly Want
ed in pittsburg.
YOUNG WOMAN OF REMARKABLE NERVE,
Nellie Hayer Was Respectable
Woman by DnS, Associntina WIN
Gnod People, Nus Nns the H"-
Vcrte ~ Ntsht aud uahbed nct
Employers af SG.InO,

st. Louis. NON. no.. Nellie hs boyer
whom the Pittshurg Pa9 Pres calls
female Doctor 1ekyll aud Mr.
lldye.s aud Who lis wanted in thai
city for emhczzling $1,000 of the Fed
eral Telephone CO.'S funds. has been
traced 10 st. Louis by the detectives
aud is now believed To be in hiding
here or in Kansas City. The local pa.
lice department has been requested
10 aid the pittshurf authorities in a
search foe the Young woman.
According 10 the revelations from
Pittsbnrg. Nellie Is one of the most
remarkable criminals of the period.
and her history possesses fasoina=
ton of romance seldom encountered
In the career OF criminal.
She Led Dual Life.
Educated. clever. ready-witted aud
of marvellous sclf.control, Nellie
BOYER. in the Il months of her con
neetion with the Federal Telephone
Co. led dual life. the under side OF
which was never suspected by her
eonhding employers and associates,
and was not even learned until weeks
after she had disappeared with the
company cash box on August G. This
pretty. modest girl. IN the daytime,
conducted herself with such strict
propriety among her friends and as.
soeinteg in the business world. nsso.
cinted with self-respectinR people,
WIS the companion of persons of pure
mind, good morals aud eminent re-
spectahlity. and was engaged 10 re.
spectacle, well-to-do young man oi
good family.
The other side.
She was the boon companion. nj
night. of men of loose character. Will
whom she freqnented the disreputa
BILE resorts frcquented by dissolut.
characters. with whom she INDUCED II
midnight dehauehcs. aud whom Nh
entertained secretly in her own apart
ments.s Not n breath OF suspicion o
| tlfs side of her life WAS ever whs
| pered so eleverly guarded and re
| sourcefnl was she. II leaked out onl
| after the most thorough investigation
into her habits. made after il was dis
| covered she was an embezzler.
4 Display of Hur- Nerve.
On August last the head book
| keeper discovered an error in her casl
book and notified her that he woul,
check up the cash book next day Sh,
knew that checking up mennt ineyila
BILE discovery of her defalcation, ye
nothing IN her demeanor betrayed Il
the bookkeeper or her associates {
suspicion of the truth. She went II
work as usual on the morning Of Au
gust G and attended to her duties
while the booklseeper began cheeisina
her book alongside of her. About ter
o'clock she went 70 the treasurer and
told him 800 wns needed to pny OF
three gangs Of linemen, who were tc
go into new territory, and that she
only had 500 In the cash drawer IL
truth there was not a cent in tht
drawer. she having taken every dol
lar that had been received the fouf
days previous. There were no line
men TO pay off either but she used
this rs n subterfuge to obtain ready
money for her contemplated fight up
on discovery OF her dishonesty. The
treasurer gave her check for sl0f
and she sent out and got the cash on
1t.
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