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Stage and Bring Down the House by Blowing Out the FOoght

road station. Then he got excited and
wanted to break in doors and things,
but was persuaded to depart when suf-
ficient evidence had been accumulated
in a rather less sensational manner.
So in time the case came up in
Springfield and the young man became
free again. And the erstwhile, Mrs
Perkins went away and word came that
she was the belle of the summer col
ony at Savin Rock, near New Haven.
She appeared at Cooley's Hotel this
time, and with her was nurse and her
six-months-old child. She registered
as Mrs O. G. Dewey, saying that her
husband was travelling in the South,
but would soon be in Springfield to
meet her.
She was to pay IS day for board.
She borrowed small sums of money
from Henry Z. Marsh, proprietor of
the hotel, and when these. with her
bill, amounted to S42 so, rendered to
him check for 800. 1t purported to
be drawn by Albert S. Bronson on the
Harlem branch Of the Corn Exchange
bank of New York. Mrs Dewey re-
ferred to Springfield business man,
and the hotel employees learned from
him that he knew Mrs Dewey and Mr.
Bronson, but that he would not guar
antee a check signed by them. Late
in the day, the proprietor of the hotel
testified, Mrs Dewey told him that the
Springfield man had agreed to guar
antee the check and the money was ad-
vanced to her..
She then left the hotel and went to
live at fashionable boarding house
at 36 Maple street. The check came
back stamped as worthless, and after
one of the clerks had done some Sher-
lock Holmes work and located Mrs
Dewey, she was arrested. She was ia
ken to the station in a carriage which
she had ordered but few minutes be-
fore for her own use.
When the case came into court, the
fair defendant was not there in person,
but was represented by no less than.
three attorneys, each of whom was ig-
noraRt that the others had been engag-
ed. Z. w. Beattie Jr., was the first
to put in appearance, so through him
plea of not guilty of larceny of mon
ey under false pretences was entered.
Then the case was continued, Mrs
Dewey being held in $500, which she
could not furnish Herchild remained
with its nurse at the boarding house.
Vainly Mrs Dewey sent to one after
another to those who had been hers to
rule in other days for the bail money.
Then she went to cell. 1t reminded
one of the story, so many, many years
old, OF the That's who, in the days of
her beauty and power, would whimsic-
ally refuse kiss to an emperor, even
though be offered her half of his poss-
essions, and yet who, when age and
the evil days were come, crawled along
the wharves, glad to give to the sail
ors all such poor favors as remained
to her in exchange for their crusts of
bread.
When she came into the court for
trial she was acquitted, the court hold
ing the evidence did not show that the
defendant had knowledge of the fact
that the check was not good.
When leaving the court room, Mrs
Dewey was arrested on a warrant
from the Washington police, charging
that under the name of Isabel Morgan
Perkins, she had passed in Washing
ton in December, 1908, a worthless
check for 500 in payment for a So pur-
chase at a woman's tailoring estab-
liShment and had received S94 in
change. Mrs Dewey consulted with
her attorney and declined to go to
Washington without requisition pap.
ers.
They gave her her oaby in the court
room for a while, and with it in her
arms she looked about at the curious
crowd OF spectators.
To which did she say in her heart,
you are more guilty than II"
When she appeared before Judge
Lowell, Mrs Dewey looked pale and
hapgard hut her hand Uas hold bigh
and those who were present realized
that she was woman of courage and
determination.
Chicopee way who had come to that
time of life when a youth is exceeding
ly liable TO love some one older than
himself, He had much money and fine
automobile. To set the machine off
we'll no one could have been better