Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-22
WOMAN KNOWN HERE
MRS. MORGAN AT ONE TINE IN
THIS CITY.

Special Dispatch to Tho Star.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, August a.
Friends of Mrs. Kathleen Morgan. who was
shot In the Hotel Imperial Saturday by Mrs
Beatrice Young Identified yesterday a pic
ture of Mrs. Isabel Morgan Perkins OF
Springfield. Mass. as that Of Mrs. Morgan,
who is now in the New York Hospital how
ering between life and death.
The career OF the Springfield woman may
therefore become OF vital interest in the de-
Tense of Mrs. Young for murder In case her
victim dies. Steps to fully prove the con-
nection were taken yesterday.
The picture of Isabel Morgan, the Spring
field girl. was identified by Mrs. Young yes
terday as that Of the woman she had shot.
Those who had reason for not identifying
the photograph said that the picture resem-
bled Mrs. Katherine Morgan very much.
Mrs. Perkins left Springfield and went to
New York. Nothing was known of her ca
reer until on December 20, 1903, she arrived
at the Cooley House here, where on the ho-
tel register she made the entry, Mrs. G. G.
Dewey, nurse and child, New York city
The party had S. day rooms, and at the
end of week the bill was $500. Mrs.
Dewey was then recognized as Isabel Nor
gan, divorced wife of Perkins, and when
pressed to pay her bill gave the hotel pro-
prietor a 800 check drawn on the Harlem
branch of the Corn Exchange Bank in this
city. 1t purported to be signed by Albert b.
Bronson. and was Endorsed by Mrs. G. q.
Dewey"
On this check the proprietor of the Cooley
House. Henry E. Marsh gave to Mrs
Dewey $lO. and then wired to the Corn Elk
changes Harlem branch to find If the check
was good. and learned that there were no
funds to meet the check
Mrs. Isabel Morgan Perkins-Dewey was
arrested and she and her child were locked
up in the Springfield police station
soon other charges were made against
the woman. Major Sylvester. head of the
Washington police force wired to the
Springfield authorities that Mrs. Dewey on
december II. 1893. while at the Metropolt-
tan Hotel in that city had given to Lans-
burg Bros. tailors, check to pay bill OF
$94. The check was drawn on the Chicopee
National Bank of Springfield. Mass. where
MRS. Dewey. when she was Mrs Perkins,
Kept her personal account.
In this city she was known as Mrs Isa-
oeiie NJ Perkins, alias Mrs. c. c. Dewey,
al1as Mrs. Isabelle Morgan. She was ar
rested IN Springfield. Mass, about the mid
h hnna OF January Of last year and brought
mere IN charge Of deputy marshal and
natron At that time she had with her a
small child. The child was also with her
when she was here some time prior to the
date or her arrest. She also had with her
n much older woman, who was introduced
as her chaperone While here she oc-
cupied rooms at the Metropolitan Hotel
where, 1t was alleged, she managed to get
O. WI thioSS cH5Ch LOT $1S.J0 caShed. She
was also alleged to have had similar
check for $50 cashed at the dry goods
establishment Of Lansburgh Bros In the
latter transaction she bought a bill of goods
and received $94 in cash in change Upon
her return to this city she was placed in
jail to await trial upon the two charges
sympathy for the woman was aroused by
the presence Of the child and the woman's
sad story. She told Of her first marriage
and alleged desertion. and also of her sec
ond marriage. People who became inter-
ested In her case succeeded in getting the
prosecuting witnesses to withdraw the
charges Mrs. Perkins told the officials and
her friends that she wanted to make an
other start in life and was willing to enter
reformatory institution. It is stated that
upon the proceedings being dropped she
went to the House of Mercy. remained a
short time and was then sent back to
Springfield