The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-12

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girl. is without doubt the most amazing
criminal in the world. She is Bin
Sykes" and .Fagin'' rolled into one.
There is hardly crime in the dec
aIogue that she hasn't committed,
Burglary with her is an art. Every
form of thievery with her is pastime.
Annie Morgan. is 80 years old. She
is beautiful in face and form. She
dresses with irreproachable taste. Her
suburban villa in North London is fur
nfshed with elaborate luxury. Her
carriages and horses, with Inverted
coachmen and footmen, are smart and
correct. Her maids are models of
propriety and occurrences.
Seen in her open landau in the Lon
don parks Annie Morgan would be TAX
en- as woman of the higher classes.
She is modest in her own demeanor,
quiet in her tastes, always dignified.
Underneath this veneer of snartness
and respecta biIity Annie Morgan is on
ly a beautiful white devil. She is alb
solutely without a heart Feelings Of
pity even for the tenderness and sweet
ness of her own sex she has none. for
she makes it her business to decoy
girls to her home, where they are
taught all the mysteries of crime. And
yet, with her heart steeled against pity,
her conscience duIled against crime,
Annie Morgan fell a prey to womans
greatest administrations of her own
sex. If she had not become jealous of
the love of her principal confederate
for one of her own pupils in crime she
might yet be creeping into houses at
night to. steal jewelry, money and
plate.
1t was only after her arrest that
Scotland Yards most famous detec-
tives We're enabled to find the thread
which, when unraveled, led them
through all of her amazing life.
Annie Morgan was born in London
of well to do parents. She was raised
as other English girls are. She receiv-
ed a fair education. When she was II
years old circumstances compelled her
to earn her own way in life, and so
she secured employment with dress
maker.
Dressmaking was entirely too hum
drum for a girl of Annie Morgan's dis
position. She .envied the rich women
to whom she fitted the handsome gowns
| of velvet and silk.
| One afternoon when alone in the shop
| Annie slipped over her own plain work
| ing dress a handsome silk gown and
stood before the tall mirror All at
once Annie Morgan realized that she
| was beautiful. From that moment a
desire for beautiful clothes filed her
| soul with unsatisfied lodgings.
! Ore evening she made the acquain-
lance of a young man who came into
| her life like a knight Grant to the
rescue of an imprisoned Princess. She
knew nothing of him except that he was
handsome, wore fine clothes and SEEM
ed to have money. She went to sleep
that night to dream of him. The next
evening she met him again, and in a
burst of girlish confidence revealed her
longings.
s-Corne with me and you shall wear
silks and diamonds every day of your
life" said her newly found friend.
1t took Annie Morgan one minute to
decide. She never returned to the dress
making shop. In less than month the
young II year old girl had embarked
upon life of crime. The man with
whom she had eloped was George Ma
son, a burglar who mad just finished a
term in prison. He easily bent her
weak will to his own. She was an apt
pupil, he was good teacher.
First Mason taught Annie Morgan to
pick pockets. Then he gave her instruc-
lions in the deft art of shoplifting. She