The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-24
A WOMAN'S REVENGE
PRETTY WIFE OF SAFE BLOWER
DISCLOSED HIS IDENTITY.
DESERTED IN BUFFALO.
RESTAURANT CASHIER WHEN SHE
MET PROFESSIONAL CROOK.


American Attraction When She
Promised 10 Love, Honor and
Obey"-Hn ndsOmeIy GOwned, and
Wined and Dined Like Queen,
She stuck TO Her Husband Even
When She Discovered the Truth.
when His vacation Had Been
Spent the Fine Looking "Yegg-
man" Deserted the Woman Who
Had Agreed to Forget His Occu-
patton.
Heaven has no rage like
love to hatred turned;
Nor hell fury like wom-
an scorned.'
Behind the discovery Saturday night
of the presence in Savannah of Hand
some Frank" and his paralytic ac-
complete, two "yeggmen," is an inter-
esting story of a revengeful woman.
There were further developments
yesterday that warranted Detective
Frank Wall in telling just how he OBJ
tanned information that probably pre-
vented the pulling off" of big job"
in this city. The identity of the two
strangers was disclosed by a woman.
the wife of the swell-looking safe-blow-
er, called Handsome Frank"
Two years ago they were enjoying
a honeymoon in Buffalo. but when the
big fair was over the woman was de-
serted; left broken hearted by a man
she believed to be a gentleman when
she promised to love, honor and obey,
but who she was willing to live with,
even after she made the horrible dis
covery that he was professional
crook-a 'yeggman." She waited pa
tiently for several weeks after he left
her, and in the realization that she
had not only been deceived at the al
tar but had actually been deserted,
she became a reckless woman.
Was Restaurant Cashier.
Young and pretty, an orphan. she
caught the eye of the man she knows
as Frank Barrett, the individual she
calls Handsome Frank" She was
employed as cashier in one of the
many first-class restaurants that
sprang up like mushrooms when the
Pan-American Exposition was run
ming. The fine looking man was
pleasant when he paid his check and
the heart of the pretty young girl
went out to him. Six feet. broad
shouldered, a well-keDt blonde mus
tache and penetrating blue eyes, he
was just the sort of man who would
have attracted most girls.
Nor did Barrett fail TO notice the
pretty cashiers glance. 1t was timid
r4t 70
veyed worlds of information. At lunch
a few words were spoken and on the
same evening the two were dining to-
gether in another cafe. He told a story
that was we'll put together. He was in
tested in one of the thousand attrac-
tions at the exposition, and she be-
lieved him. One week after they had
met they were pronounced man and
wife.
Two weeks later she accidentally
discovered his real business. She had
been given fine clothes, had been
Wined and dined al the finest places
in the city, and had been made much
of by the big and handsome man she
had believed was all he claimed to be.
For an instant she revolted at the
thought of being the wife of a profess
sional crook. But he had been very
kind to her and deep down in her
heart she loved him with all the fire
and passion of her composition He
had treated her as no other man had
ever done and she believed that he
loved her.
Blinded by Love.
Blinded by her wild love she prom
Used to stand by him through thick
AND thin, and the idol that had almost
been shattered remained the same. He
continued the devoted husband that
he had been and spent the greater
part of his time with her. He was
spending money that he had made in
other parts of the country, and nitro
glycerine and burglar-proof safes were
far from his thoughts. This prepos
sessing craftsman was enjoying a va
cation.
But the Exposition closed and the
trusted husband threw off the spell.
His fancies had been satisfied and he
left his wife without word, but with
money enough to supply her wants for
some little while. Then she became
a woman with a past and drifted from
place to place. always cursing the man
who deserted her. Several times since
in her travels she has seen him and
each time she has befriended some off,
Ger of the law by disclosing his ident-
tity.
The first time she met him was at
a watering place in the North and
he refused to even recognize her. She
has never attempted to speak to him
since then. She has been satisfied
to tip him and his paralytic accom-
plice off to the police, and as soon
as she caught sight of him in Savan
nah she impaired the information in
her possession to Detective Wall. All
of these things she told to the plain
clothes man, with the understanding
that he would keep her secret until
she left the city. She went North yes
terday.
THEFT OF MONEY