Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

and saunter out. 1t wasn't for many
years afterward that Ella was hauled up
for that job, and then her luck was with
her. She wriggled out of it on her law
yer's clever plea that. as the sight Of the
man who had shown her the diamonds had
become badly impaired. his Identification
OF her wasn't acceptable in law.
Many New Games.
TT would take about a weekto tell even
of the new ones that Ella MIyhew charted
out and put over, in mapE parts Of this
country and the world in general, while she
was in full career. SSme of them were
mighty ingenious. NeZfly all of them were
characterized by sort of effrortery such
as few women originals have ever exhibit
ed.
"One afternoon for example. she floated
into one of theEtage boxes of the old Union
Square TheaEr in New York to attend
h e g rs Up f aas r ana
the Murray Hill district. During the prog
ress Of <he performance she enthused lot
over the acting of the leading woman of
the famous old stock company. This &C
tress wore lot of genuine diamonds in
portraying her part. The actress was fiat
tered over the gracious smiles and hand
clippings of the swell-looking woman in
the box, whom she took to be a figurante in
the social affairs of the town, and she
smiled back at Ella.
'At the close of the performance Queen
Ella sent to the actress dressing room
card-a bogus, of ourSe-impreSsiveIy en-
graved with swell name and address. The
actress was delighted to receive Ella in her
dressing room, and they had an enjoyable
chat for half an hour or So in the course
of which the actress visitor invited her to
enough teas and dinners and receptions to
fill a route book from cover to cover.
when the swell visitor departed, how
ever the actress discovered that her jew
elry, which she had removed and placed in
a casket on her dressing table was mourn
fully minus. Ella was never hauled UP for
this one. 1 understood that she made good
to the actress for the theft years afterward
when she-'Queen Ella'-had the yellow pa
pers to incinerate, while the actress was
CORRESPONDENCE reduced in fortune.
queen Ella made many trips to Eu-
rope. and Scotland Yard man told me
about some of the schemes she worked to
trim 'em in England She started in with
a pretty villa at Bournemouth, where, with
the aid of couple of male crooks who
were expert at Short-carding, she took
down big money from fledglngs whom she
succeeding in fascinating by her looks and
conversational charms. This, however she
found to be dull work, and SO she took up
which had been taught her by Tom
O'Brien, the king-craftsman of the phony
brick dodge.
Gold Bricked London.
She put it to the credulous well-to-do
provincial marks whom she snagged that
she was the widow of wealthy gold miner
VINO had died suddenly in England, leaving
her short OF ready cash, but with enough
pure gold bricks to build a smokehouse
She stuffed them with the little gnome mar
rative that inasmuch as the British mint
was forbidden to purchase gold from any
person not British subject, she would be
compelled to dispose of one of the gold bars
at sacrifice in order to obtain funds to
get back to the states in the style BETTING
her station, in addition to settling a num-
Der or rather heavy personal debts that she
and her deceased husband had contracted
IN London 1t isn't on record, of course, just
how many times Ella got by with the gold
brick game in England, but the Scotland
Yard man told me that he had seen three
antly parted with to gullible Englishmen
OF the provinces for sums ranging from a
thousand to three thousand pounds
1T wasn't very long after Ella MAYHEM
with wholesome fear of British prisons
began to find England too caloric for her
that she took to diamond smuggling on a
large scale. She did the trips between Am
sterdam and New York, carrying all but
for long time before she got pinned to
the stick. She was one Of the first users
of the false-bottOmed steamer trunk for
jewel smuggling. and she had as many
schemes for slowing the jewels away as a
gosling has pinfeathers. 1t was Ella May
hew who invented the hollow high shoe
heel, which, screwing on and of the shoe
made a fine repository for smuggled Jewels,
and mighty safe one, at that. until the
inspectors eventually got on to 1t through
the squealing of nerveless woman, VINO
peached to dodge punishment.
1T was no less a crafty feminine person
than Queen Ella the same, who once
famed the most noted Of Chicago gambling
house proprietorS for 5000 bank roll, He
was running big faro bank In Chicago at
the time, and he had not yet obtained the
tremendous clutch which afterward made
fact, in some danger. owing to the assump-