The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-11
Prettiest Woman in New York
Under Surveillance.
is SHE MAFIA'S TOOL?
Stephen Bonsal Tells of This
Wonderful Little Woman.

/ make privately to avoid the possibility of
trouhle, Is Just now by a-sineular chain
of circumstances, upon when this arti-
Gle with throw no light, residing in the
gloomy House OF Detention under the
shadow of Police Headquarters This is
q hated place to all those who chronicle
the crime Of great city There is
never anything doing in the House Of
! Detention.
It's SPACE value in the columns OF the
press is rated at about q quarter Of
celumn week. You cant even set -
the door without permit from air Je-
rome, and he would sooner w.ite another
philippe against Low than 10 put his
name TO such an open sesame.
But there is something doing now in the
/ House of Detention. though the chroni-
clers of crime need must view it from
afar. The sergeant in charge sits in his
swivel chair today or any day, however
hot, with his stylish frock coat buttoned
I up to his chin He has grown to look
I just like The "Chesty George" the chief
/ of the sleuths. who as we all know. is
/ frequently taken for one or the other no
tables OF the -Four Hundred
! The doorman has taken TO waxing his
mustache, and the turnkey walks so
straight that some people think he's
! swaying back but he really isn't He
! is only given one moro lingering look
at the prettiest woman in New York
7 over his left shoulder, of course, as be-
comes a married man and the father Of
eight
! Say it didn't mean nothin' TO US
! turnkey am not going TO be precise
when we read in the evening papers
| that she was a beauty ard was coming
/ down here. We've read so much about
these police court queens and dark Ro-
wenas. and then have EN- turn up with
/ faces like mud fences and shapes like old
| shoes But Mame-she breaks all the
( records
Gosh, don't know what we'n do
when she goes. It'll be like losing a park
or a flower garden right from in front
of your door You wouldn't hardly think
that she IS The number one girl of the
| Malta or Italian Murder Club.
4 don't know about that, George. Some
| times she looks as II she was little kit
ten Who had strayed away from her
I
| ike a tigers cub that could take care of
herself in any old jungle. Sometimes she
looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her
mouth, and sometimes she looks as if it
would. Name has nine new faces day"
And each one Of them is prettier than
the other Interrupted George, entEusi-
astically-
Well. to make a long story short, the
House Of Detention may be demoralizcd
/ BY the beauty show it harbors, hut IS
far as this chronicler of crime is con
cerned. the majesty of the law was main
tanned, and Names face remained screen
ed Now and again, however, one of the
elegant young detectives attached to the
district attorneys Office appears upon the
scene. Soon he emerges from the gloomy
place of detention. ) 1.-THE active female
form. shrouded in a black mantle such
as the Sicilian women wear to mass, trips
10y his side
.'An lights are now out" says the
dcorman to the sympathetic bystanders
Name has gore TO the district attorneys
Office, where they are going TO iutelrogate
her again about her marriages and that
Murder club to which some folks say
she belongs, and how it is quicker than
South Dakota divorce"
At the next corner Name. whose real
name. or one of those under which she
has operated. is Maria Of the Angels Par
telio. gets on a trolley car. J viii ven
| ture to stake my reputation that ro enc
living with the possible exception Of Nine
Janauschek ever got on 4 trolley car
with such mediaeval srace as does Maria.
The conductor IS abashed. the motor
man mortified The central Office sle-rh
falls all over himself, Lut after ali 4ia-
ria gets on the car. Seated upon The
waiting bench outside the Office OF tl1e
particular Young assistant. who sircs
some of his attention to The homicide
cases, Maria lets her black an inch or
two or three and by mercifui degrees.
you begin to understand the state 4 II ina
~ those stanch officials a the House o.
! Detention
Her hair and eyes are black as the raw
ems Wing. her complexion IS Ike 4l-ba--
tar. These statements are trae. blt ;heg
90 rot give the slightest IDEA OF siarla s.
charm. che ore thing that strikes lou
about her is that there IS nothing freshly
baked about this woman. She IS not the
result OF an Improvisation.
= thousand years Of love and hote. q
culture and refine ment. in things good ~
wei IS things evi. have all cntere3 into
! the making Of her. ana you fesi quite GER
tain II the Crusaders had NOT visitei her
island home. II the Sasacens had aot la-
vsced it aud Pot ga tne usly women Il
The sword and tho beautiful e1s in lheir
hareass. X the Sic.li-n vesaees hsd never
been tosseI ard Garibaili. wath lis fes
shi~s q followers. aeFer captured htr
r-othar's city. Palermo. Maria tarfeilo.
whether II the anse,s o. not. wue.a .ol
he Skiing telore yor 5est - she g noV7
CT t,iem ournlal prisoner hereh vsiiiaz
for IN vaun, assistant district attorney
10 come il fron lHneh-
rhs asccrtaIasG facts in Mar.a's case
are fesv. she vas fou-a 81 hii.-E AID .a
tears e. vacant room 90 est t-
st.e-t few nights seC WHY s ar
rested Der or ~ Ie-t rlaced her aossr
6eteati1u the poles wil rot say ad
sssria-she canaot luzazine. Several ho-l,
h7vever. before thc ar~est vas e
.Ar,haa-elo Dai-nov zas rsure5 q
ho;el n EIarls-a. r tho trnn,eaAaie eiel--
tv - Naffa's Lonely q-aE-r
sna admits sic was married - ths
murdered MAJ oalg tAe 6av hsfare s. ~
/ l-hurcn 4 CIR LAZY = Norat Mieaaci
hut as size SAYS ealte peruneu;iy. vl-t -
thass The lgeRs s. ne csse are as rn1nF
- me seaees - Vslio-utrgsa- The fcts
AZ. Few ana fa- between -Ital-srs hsvea
c.susti,u fionsl aversion ~ hslp.1g 1a 90
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