The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-06
Philadelphia Woman Changed
rs Cent Order TO One for SlOO
CAUGHT WITH The GOODS
Had Several Altered Notes When Taken
and Admits She Has Made Lining
10 This Way.

New York. Aug. 6.-For several months
the postal authorities have had com
plants of postal notes raised" by a
woman. operating under the names OF
Annie Sharp. Charlotte Cross. A. Thomp-
son and other aliases The notes were
issued by small postoffices between Phil
sdelphia and New York. usually for 25
cents. BY means of acids the lgures
were erased and then notes were raised
10 sums from So TO 800 each.
Postoffice Inspectors Jacobs and Meyer
worked on the case for several weeks
without success Last Thursday they
missed her by only ten minutes at Bath
Beach, where she got $40 on one OF the
notes at the Belmont hotel. where she
was stopping. The note purported 10
call for 500 The clerk, who had not
that amount. advanced $40. When he
took the note To the postoffice he found
II had been issued for 25 cents. The in
spectors were informed and started at
once for aBht Beach. but arrived Just
too late.
A short. stout woman. apparently a.
years old. appeared at the general deliv-
cry window OF the postoffice late yester-
day afternoon and asked TO have the mail
OF Annie T.. Sharpley forwarded to No.
1927 North Twentieth street, Philadel-
phia. AS she turned away Inspector ia
cobs raised HIS hat and said: Anne,
the chief Inspector upstairs would like
TO talk 10 you
NOTES IN SATCHEL.
The woman's f'orid complexion faded
TO an ashy white. Inspector Meyer had
20 support her 10 keep her from falling
She recovered her composure and fol-
lowed the inspectors Half dozen Of
the raised postal notes were found in
her satchel. The woman. arraigned be-
fore United States Commissioners Shields,
said that her right name was Annie r..
6harpley. She said she had been raising
notes since May. She agreed 10 return TO
Philadelphia, where a warrant has been
issued. She was locked mp i'm the Lud-
low street Jail for the night
The Knickerbocker hotel OF this city
cashed one of the notes for 500, the Pal
ace hotel Of Newark another for the
the Bronx hotel, One Hundred and
Twenty-eighth street and Third avenue.
also paid her 500 and several Brooklyn
hotels have cashed her notes.
month or so ago the inspectors say,
Mrs. sharploy, under an alias, rented a
room at No. lS7 East Sixteenth street
from a Mrs +. A. Marsen. who had an
account with the Bank of the Metropo-
lis She showed a postal note for S252o
70 Mrs Marsen. and asked her to give
her a note saying she lived with her, to
show at the postoffice for her identii-
cation. Mrs. Marsen gave her the note.
OF the Metropolis. which cashed the pos
tai note
Mrs Sharpieyis- home is i'm Philadel-
phia, where she has lived for many
years. She formely had an express bust
ness, which she sold I'm March. She
had been highly respected.
Mrs. Sharpley then according To the
Pinkertons. appeared i'm Chester. Pa. and
foated several forged and raised checks.
She was next heard from in a small viii
lage in Pennsylvania where she disposed
OF raised postal note
She asked the inspectors yesterday
how soon she could begin to serve her
sentence. and how long IL was likely
20 be.