The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26

Securities Company was declared an outlawet
Eighth United States judicial circuit on Aug.
seeking the acquaintance of people Of cul-
ture and occasionally received these friends
In her suite Of rooms at a fashionable hotel,
while the hotel keepers were given to un-
derstand that she was an aristocrat, living
somewhere in the suburbs.
The baroness Deutschland the criminals
arrested in her house corroborated the fact
that she kept her associates well in leash.
directing their movements and exacting a
commission of Is per cent. from the gross
proceeds of any burglary, theft, swindling
operation. murder planned. advocated or
merely countenanced by her, for no crook
burst operate on his own account. No free
lancingi
LONG LIST OF CROOKS.
The police found in secret drawer a list
Of over two hundred professional and occa-
sional criminals, with their addresses and
special qualifications as mot averse to
blood" "the ladies' pet ''good for pur-
poses of revenge" etc. One of the arrested
ten introduced himself as Marie Therese's
acknowledged lover. He had won her in a
fierce battle on Place dialogue, only some
weeks ago. His rival was now an unidenti-
fed body at the morgue. The wounded wom-
an was Leonie Chouchart, expert pick
pocket and companion Of a porch climber.
She received the wound in her breast while
standing guard at q certain house ON Place
De la Nation.
Folie St-Cloi Hospital sometimes had as
many six seven beds going. though
only members Of madame's band were ad-
mitted to it's privileges. To her criminals.
wounded in fights, or otherwise in the course
of their professional labors, the services of
a graduated surgeon-physician were ex-
tended. This latter gentleman was men,
Der of madame's household and was caught
with the rest. A promising member of the
medical profession. he had been ruined by
his passion for gambling and women, and
several years ago established a secret prac-
tice among criminals whom he tended in
cases of illness and injury, when they might
have been arrested going to an ordinary
physician. Madame hired the doctor by the
year. forbade him to practice outside and
practically set no limit to his usefulness,
allowing him to purchase the latest surgi-
cal instruments and practice the most ex-
pensive cures. The police suspect that the
doctor also may have rendered advice in
poisoning cases, and supplied means for
committing murder by poison, which, as a
physician, he would have no trouble in pro-
curing.
1.-THE only difficulty I experienced" said
madame, was that myself and friends had
to do all the homework, as to engage serv-
ants would have been too risky.
When the party was led out to be con-
veyed to the station, the baroness asked
permission to take along her ''talisman.'
a human skull.
This occupied conspicuous place on the
hall stand and in handing it to the owner
the lieutenant noticed its excessive weight
Examination showed that it was three
quarters filled with gold pieces-"change for
my associates when they go out to work."
said madame, smilingly. The skull was in
scribed: pennies for My Lovers" Aside
from that no money was found on the prem
Uses, but further search may reveal it's hid
ing place. In all probability the baroness
keeps her money in various banks under as
sumed names.
OTHER FEMALE CRIMINALS.
The case of this female Morgan of the
Paris burglar and murder trust bears all
the earmarks of purely feminine criminal
ity: Thoroughness of system and attention
to the minutest details; a domineering spir-
it, founded no less on superior intellect than
on woman's me-honored weapon beauty;
cruel impulses Orders to kill, tempered by
charity. the hospitaD: talent for acting
and a desire to play the grande dame. IL
centiousness and devotion to the man who
won her in a fair fight. OF such criminals
as Baroness Gordoue the last quarter of a
century produced, among European women.
twenty or more who outdistanced their male
competitors to such an extent as to make
them appear mere imitators of their genius
for inventing new and startling methods to
obtain what was not theirs.
The forerunner Of Therese Humbert now
puzzling the Paris courts with her Craw-
ford mystery was Adele spitzeder. founder
OF the Munich Dachau Bank. who, in the
course OF twelve months. swindled 5000
conservative and naturally suspicious Ba-
varians out OF 100000 francs or more by
get-rich-quick schemes. Her golden prom
ises. ostensible honesty and far-reaching
charity bamboozled the good Germans SO
thoroughly as to bring on a financial crisis
in the kingdom Savings banks were de-
| pleted OF deposits. mortgages raised OF
called in. government bonds thrown on the
market In large blocks. paying mercantile
businesses abandoned-all to get money fol
deposit In the Dachau Bank. Very fire.
quentiy Adele had not cashiers enough tc
handle the mood Of gold lent at the rate OF
90 per cent per year. but facilities for pay.
| ing the enormous interest. and paying Il
promptly, were never neglected until finally
the government stepped In and by grossly