Woodruff County news., 1901-11-23

verse by Night, and Robbed Her
 Employers of $1,1OO.
 St. Louis, Nov. 16.-Nellie B. Boyer, whom the Pittsburg (Pa.) Press calls a female Doctor Jekyll and MT. Hdye," and who is wanted in that city for embedding $1,oO0 of the Fed eral Telephone Co.'s funds, has been traced to St. Louis by the detectives, and is now believed to be in hiding here or in Kansas City. The local po- lice department has been requested to aid the Pittsburg authorities in a search for the young woman.
 According to the revelations from Pittsburg, Nellie is one of the most remarkable criminals of the period, and her history possesses a fascina- tion of romance seldom encountered in the career of criminal.
 She Led Dual Life.
 Educated, clever, ready-witted and of marvellous self-control, Nellie Boyer, in the 12 months of her con- nection with the Federal Telephone Co.,, led a dual life, the under side of which was never suspected by her confiding employers and associates, and was not even learned until weeks after she had disappeared with the company cash box on August 6. This pretty, modest girl, in the daytime, conducted herself with such strict propriety among her friends and as- sociates in the business world, asso- ciated with self-respecting people, was the companion of persons of pure mind, good morals and eminent re- spectability, and was engaged to re- spectable, well-to-do young man of good family.
 The Other Side.
 She was the boon companion, at night, of men of loose character, with whom she frequented the disreputa ble resorts frequented by dissolute characters, with whom she indulged in midnight debauches, and whom she entertained secretly in her own apart ments. Not a breath of suspicion of this side of her life was ever whis- pered, so cleverly guarded and re- sourceful was she. It leaked out only after the most thorough investigation into her habits, made after it was dis covered she was an embezzler.
 Display of Rare Nerve.
 On August last the head book keeper discovered an error in her cash book, and notified her that he would check up the cash book next day. She knew that checking up meant inevita- ble discovery of her defalcation, yet in lo, the boollkeeper or her associates suspicion of the truth. She went to work as usual on the morning of Au- gust and attended to her duties, while the bookkeeper began checking her book alongside of her. About ten o'clock she went to the treasurer and told him $400 was needed to pay off three gangs of linemen, who were to go into new territory, and that she only had $100 in the cash drawer. In truth there was not cent in the drawer, she having taken every dol lar that had been received the four days previous. There were no line men to pay off, either, but she used this as a subterfuge to obtain ready money for her contemplated flight up- on discovery of her dishonesty. The treasurer gave her a check for S40O and she sent out and got the cash on it.
 Quick-Witted Ruse.
 Looking over the bookkeeper's work from time to time, she saw that the first defalcatio in her accounts would be discovered before lunch time. and, to gain that much time, she suggested that he go back and check up the ac- counts for the previous months busi- ness. He thanked her for the sugges- tion, and did so. At lunch time the shortage was still undiscovered. Miss Boyer took the $4OO from the cash drawer unobserved, and departed as usual, ostensibly to lunch. She did not return, and has not been seen since by her employers, her associ- ates, friends and the horde of detect Ives and police engaged to search for her when her thefts were discovered. It was learned that arter a hasty packing of her trunk she took a train out of the city, but in what direction was not learned for months after ward.
 Total of Her Dedication.
 The total amount of her defalca- tion reached SLIGO. The telephone company has offered reward of $1oo for her arrest, and has distributed cir culars containing her photograph and minute description of her, down to the smallest detail of form, manner,