The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
Answers to Corresnondents.

| a present
 l On the following day she received back
 the card and the stone, the banus's sec
 retary writing to say that the count
 feared she had been the victim of some fraudulent action. Nevertheless she did
 not desist from her purpose Shortly before Christmas she sent the count beautiful hand made lamp mat,
 together with letter containing the sea-
 sons good wishes, expressed in fulsome ! and sentimental terms. This also she re- ! ceived back, but the banus, in returning ! 1t, wrote on the back of his visiting card | few words. to the effect that in return ing her present he had no desire to hurt her feelings.
 The banus' handwriting was just what she had been trying to obtain from the first, and she at once set about learning to initiate 1t, with so much success that before long 1t wa simpossible to differen- tiate between the genuine and the forged
 Then she went privately to the cashier of one of the largest banking establish ments at Bucarri with a forged check for sum amounting to 800 pounds and a let ter which had apparently been written by the banus. The inference to be drawn from the contents of the letter was that some intimacy existed between the banus and the young lady, and the cashier, sus- pcSIAhS hOtHlAS, very gave the young lady the amount required.
 Stealing a Honeymoon.
 Encouraged by this first success, the young lady became bolder, and had no difficulty in cashing at the same bank forged checks for 1.2O0 pounds and 3O0O pounds. respectively the cashier, a sharp business man of long experience, being easily gulled.
 But this was not all. She went to oth- CT banks at Buccari, where her fraud was quite successful, and in the course of two Or three years not only got possession of a very large sum of money, but was clev- CT enough not to arouse the least suspi- cion. incredible as this may seem.
 Having become rich in this way she turned her thoughts to marriage, and fell in love with a young professor of lan- guages who was the son of director of a college of repute at Agram. To gain this young man for her husband as quick ly as possible she wrote a letter in the handwriting which she had become mis- tress of. and took 1t, sealed in all secrecy to the father. In 1t the father read that 1t was the wish of the banus that the young lady who was the bearer of the let ter should be quietly married to the re- cipients son, and as father and son were not only willing but anxious to comply with his highness's request, the wedding shostIy afterward took place.
 The young couple departed for Italy to spend their honeymoon, but the brides career of fraud was nearing its end. One of the bank cashiers died, and the forge ries were discovered, and the adventures was brought back from Italy and sent to prison for seven years. All things considered. these frauds are among the cleverest in the history of crime.
 Paris has known many remarkable ad- venturesses, and among them must be numbered the one-time poor peasant girl and afterward governess. who, having commenC or intrigue and fraud at tn ally assumed the name on, and by trick cry eded in becoming a per social circles of the F
 Man lcs, fraudulently obtain by people Yhose