The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-02-17

| lions TO MI q route DOCK from cover to
cover.
When the swell visitor departed.
however, the actress discovered that
her jewels. which she had removed
| and placed in casket on her dressing
table, were mournfully minus. Ella
was never hauled up for this one. l
understood mat she made good to the
actress for the theft years afterward
when she-'Queen Ella'--had the yell
10" papers 10 ihc!herate, While the
actress was corcespondingiy reduced in
fortune.
queen Ella made many trips to
europe, ana II Scotland Yard man told
me about some or the schemes she
worked TO lrlm EN- IN England. she
started in with pretty villa at Bourn-
mouth, where, with the aid OF couple
OF male crooks who We're expert at
short-carding, she took down big mon.
/ e9 from meanings Whofn she succeeded
IN fascinating by her looks ana con-
VeTsational charms. mis-, however,
she round 10 be duil work. and SO she
TOOK up the gold brick game the intri-
| cacles OF Whicn nad Deen Taught her
| by rom Obrien, the king craftsman or
the phony brick dodge.
| Gold Ericked London.
| .,,,
she put II 10 lhe cTeou'ous "el-to-
40 proNlheiat MARKS wliolii sue shasseu
Inis she WIS 'he "iaow OF a Weaitny
golo miner VINO haa died suooehly IN
hnglahu. ieaNine her snort Q. reaay
casn, nu' Win eilousn pure soio or. ems
10 puila a slilokenouse. one stuIieu
.netl Win the il'Le ShoIhe narrative
that inasmuch ms the British mint was
lorpiudet 10 PuIenase soiu from any
person no, u bliti s,l suoJec!' she Woulo
De cotnpeileo 70 DISPOSE OF one OF the
soia pars at sac'iiice IN oruer 70 op-
| tain lunds 10 sel PACK 70 tne states
III the s'sie oeiiltihs her statiot, IN al
ulllon 70 set.l,hs hullloeL Oh ratner
| ne"N! pei sohhl usp,S .iiht sie anu her
deceased nusphno hau cohtracted III
LONDON. II isn on record, OF course,
just now many times Ella got by with
me gold pslcK game IN england put
.he ocotlanu iara man toid me that ne
had seen three OF me aurlrerous oars
INA, she nao Ieluc.ai.ly parted win 10
sulllpie hnsllsn consistency OF me provinces
ipr sums ~, lhhs,hs rom thousaho 10
three .iousaiiu pounus. ~
III WASH very iong atter Ella May
new WIN wholesome rear OF Br't-
isn PRISONS pegaii ~ lihu England 700
chloric for her that she TOOK TO diamond
sinusgllng on large scale. one qua
". iil's ~ wei fNiiis 'eiualt' anu tseW
of the non-declared sinners for long
time before she got pinned to the stick.
she was one or the hrst users or the
false bottomed steamer trunk for jewel
smuggling, and she had as many
schemes tor storing the jewels away
as gosling has pinfeathers. 1t was
ELLA Mayhem who invented the hollow
high shoe heel, which. screwing on and
OF the shoe, made fine repository for
smuggled Jewels, and a mighty safe
one. at that, until the inspectors even
tually got on to 1t through the squeal-s
ing or II nervless woman. who peached
TO dodge punishment
1t was no less a crafty feminine per
son mat Queen Ella the same. who
once famed the most noted Of Chicago
gambling house proprietors for
$4,000 bank roll. He was running big
faro bank in Chicago at the time, and
ne hhd not vel OBTAINED the tremendous
Gluten which afterWard made 1T vir-
tnally useless for the Chicago author
tiles to attempt to bulge him. He was.
In fact In some danger, owing to the
assumption or Office of new chief OF
police of Chicago, and he was conse-
quently running a sort of pent-up
game for the high rollers only It Is
pretty safe to believe that ella Mayhem
knew all about this at the time, or
she would never nad dared TO try to
pull Off the little killing with the ganb-
ling house proprietor
Even Did a Gambler
.e,,, oa,,
Sne iia s,,n UP 10 tne sanioier
nouse III d N!ctotli one , afternoon, IN a
s s VI Srel, perturpatlon. When me
laro pank man met her IN ms parior.
ol a man VINO a Few nlghts ago mad
uroPI'su Sl2oVo III Tying 10 DUCK the
SailpieI hisli rolier faro oanK-she
mao 20. we llallle oi the man VINO &C
lualig uia MAKE tnls ioseout from
| etook WI" no l'au eeeh IN me iuro pank
az .he t1ilie. one tearluiiy toio the
sanipier thal her huspand nad con-
{ iessea 10 hes tliat morning that ne was,
l IN consequence OF MS gahlplng, snort
IN ms accounts win ms Erfr' mat ne
lInperatiVeiy neeaed $o'ooo 10 tide nlin
over ana temporarily cover up ms
snoltas"' ana 'nat sile nao come 10 peg
.ile n,iii W Mho'li iler i.oftuiale II US
paiio lau iost tne money 70 iet her nave
me So,ooV as ioaH. me gambler
cou coy, IN, anu Moulq1l see II, ana ne
told heT SO llhliy. ne saio tnat IL was
none OF ms business where ene men
VINO Vlslteu ms sainplins pace got
thelr money. ne diun make tnem
5ahnpie OF seeat .Ileir empowers com.
Z. Was up 10 .ne IN EVeryIhine was
the gambler under the gun, so to speak.
She rose up with her imperious man
ner, ana sneh couid 90 mat IN way >,
80 ra,i. off Thn nantiar ,n d,S ~
come to the front for a little mater
of SIS. 600 to keep out of prison her hus-
band who had lost everything at the
faro hank. eh? Very well She would