The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-07

due to the unswervlng loyalty of his
 wife. She showed none of the effects
 of the life she was leading, and it was
 not hard for her to go before magis-
 trate and pose as hard working wife.
 She would work upon the judges feel l ings, and the order she wanted would be granted, No matter what happened, 1 she was always resourceful enough to l surmount difficulties. The first time l her husband was arrested, she obtained
 access to him in the station house on | the ground that she was a reporter. | All of this time, however, Mary and ! her friends were often to be found in 1 the resorts of the lower Broadway,
 There the worst specimens of humani- l ty that drift to this city congregate.
 Here Mary met many Spanish sailors 1 Since the war with Spain, vast num- l Der of Spanish war ships have come to | this port and the lower Bowery has l been overrun with sailors, genuine and
 otherwise. One of the adjuncts of each
 of these resorts is a tattooer. The Wo- I men are usually tattooed with the name and insignia of their sailor sweethearts | Many of these sailors paid their atten- ] ton to Mary, and her arms and neck were literally covered with these tattoo l marks. She was proud of them, too. Numerous fights were due to rivalries for her favor. In one of these fights Andrew Anderson's leg was shot, and 1t had to be amputated. But in spite of all, this woman was continually try ing to spur Kempton to make some-
 thing of himself. She told him that she
 would be perfectly happy if she could
 settle down with him and lead a,quiet,
 honest life. Kempton was heavy con-
 sumer of both drink and opium, and his
 wife devoted herself to curing him of
 both habits.
 On January 1 of this year the two
 made a resolution to turn over a new
 leaf and forget the past. They had saved a neat sum of money from the
 profits of the gang's begging, and they
 were going to go to Baltimore and be- gin life anew. Kempton was to be a clerk, and he promised to work hard. They soon went to Washington, and af- ter looking around returned to Balti- more. Here Kempton forgot all his good resolutions. He became violently intoxicated one night, and struck his | wife with a club. She left him, al- | though he had all her money Her only | means of gaining 8 livelihood was to | hire herself out. Naturally she could | not gain employment with very respec- | table people. so she took what she could | get. Kempton swearing that he was | done with the woman, drifted back to | New York, and again assumed his l place as leader of the Beggars' society. But in the course of few weeks it was seen that things did not go very well. The directing force was gone, and the beggars realized it. The beg gars, therefore, set to work to bring back the queen. 2 Kempton wrote to her. but she paid no attention to his letter. Then he wrote to- the chief of l. police of Baltimore, and said that his wife was forcibly detained at certain address there. The police found that the woman was staying where she was and they left her alone. This failing, Kempton at last appealed to his own respectable sister in Sarato- ga to write to the girl and beg her to come back
 This plan was successful, and with Mary again at their head the gang set