The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-11-04
W0EK? WHAT'S TIE USE?
New York Family Live Luxuriously on
Nothing Year Except Plenty of
Aliases

New York, Oct. 2S,-Mrs. MARY
Rice" her four daughters and niue
grandson, all of them well dressed ana
genteel in manner. appeared out OF
place when arraigned before MaslS-
trate Mayo with score or more of dis
reputable and bedraggled prisoners in
Jefferson Market police court. me
complainant against them was F>reder-
lex Brodt. proprietor OF the knicker-
booker hotel.
He testified that the prisoners pre-
scented themselves at his hotel without
baggage ten days ago and engaged ms
best suite of rooms. Mrs. Rice told
him that her husband was wealthy
Philadelphian who had ben to Carts
bad for his health, and who was home
ward bound on the White Star steamer
| Cedric and that she wished to wait
with her children for his return her
| baggage, she said. had gone astray our
| Ing her trip down from Saratoga. ana
would probably be along in a day or
! two
At the end of their first week, the
hotelman said. he presented oill 70
his guests. whose baggage had not yet
arrived and was told that Mr.. Rlce
would settle as soon as his steamer
came in. In the meantime they nad
| run Il big bill with a neighboring nv
eryman and had been surrounded win
flowers purchased from fashlonaple
Fifth avenue dealer. Then the steamer
came in, and no Mr.. Rice appeared
Mrs, Rice explained her husbands de-
lay by producing cable dispatch,
stating that he had missed his steamer
and would take passage on the next.
Famous MacCarton Family.
The prisoners were Identified In cour.
as members OF the famous MacCatton
family who under many aliases having
been living eXlavagantly on nothing a
AZ s<sfN g~fn
head Of the family, lost his position as
manager for Philadelphia steamship
company in 1898. The elder MacCarton.
according to the detectives Will To-Day
complete term of six months In the
Kings county penitentiary, whittier ne
was sent for beating hotel keeper IN
Porchester N. Y. His son Frank, TWEEN
ty-onc years old. has been prisoner IN
the tonbs for three weeks In default
of 5000 bail, awaiting trial for sWind-
ling a boarding house keeper.
The records show that the family
have used as aliases the names Abbott
Mcbride, McVey, Clark, Dixon. Pom
eroy Pomery. Yard, Gibbs. Carter. Hill
Harris and Zabriskie. A favorite
method of raising money has been te
! buy a diamond locket for Baby Jack
) and to pawn it.
The oldest daughter, Edna, who is
the mother of Baby Jack, Is twenty
The baby is fifteen months old. HI:
real father is said to be a New Yorl
r lawyer who is well known. The sol
5 Frank, who is in the tombs. Is brigh
l appearing young fellow. Then COM
r the three charming daughters. Bessie
aged eighteen; Mabel. fifteen. AM
Helen, ten.
Committed by Magistrate.
Magistrate Mayo committed Mrs
, MacCarton,. the two elder daughter
and the bay to Jefferson Market prisol
, for examination tomorrow morning
= Mrs. MacCarton is charged with de
: frauding hotel keeper, and the daugh
. ters are charged with vagrancy. Ethe
> and Helen were given over to Agen
Pisarra, of the childrens society.
Among the effects found in Mr.:
: MacCarton's pocketbcok were engrave
! visiting cards containing the nam
= Mrs. B. Frank MacCarton," wit
. Thursday" in the lower left hand cor
; ner; also what purported to be a car
= of introduction from the Rev. Willia1
a z. Huntington Of Grace church.