The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-02-16
WAS A SMART
WOMAN CROOK
Queen ELIAS" Remarkable
Career Of Crime on Two
Continents.
DID MANY CLEVER TRICKS
She Was the Originator of Many
%sw'ndling Games and Always
Found Them Profitable
Gold Rricked London.
DID MANY CLEVER TRICKS

, ~ ~ No"H cll IIC llSI "lc
It comes to producing smart women
observed a grizzled veteran of the Ne,
fork detective force who wal In wash
inston recently on y :cIuis;ttion cas-,
Whatever else they're saying or writ
ing about Mrs. Cassie Chadwick.
dont hear it claimed anywhere tina
she hasn't shown herself to be smart
81 IMAM a double-lashed coW-uuirk
But long years before Mrs. Chadwtc,
was gu OF her short skirts and pig,
tails Cleveland had picked I'D a repu.
eatlon as a developer OF clever wome1
criminals. | am not saying this as {
knock for Cleveland. bur Simply no.
cause it's the fact. Detroit. = tow,
not far from Cleveland, has for man,
years peen known to police folks as the
place from which an extraordinarily
olsproDortionate crowd of the smartest
male crooks on earth hail from. and
tlat isn't saying hat Detroit isn't a
INC Guy: IN the same way, the pretty
cleVeland place isn't responsible for
the big mob of class A women Grim
lnals from that town that haze shone
in the criminal world.
one of the snartest female crooks
that the police of the world ever had
10 contend with was Ella Mayhew-
Queen Ella she was called-of Cleve-
land. NS
In her day-and 1t was a long one
Eila Mayhem was easily the star fe-
MAZE crook OF the United States. if nor
or the world. She had all of the wor,-
en- grafters that aver l ran into-and
I've handled a feW-lashed to the mast
alu asleep at the switch, and right
down to the present minute the did
tine stars among the male crooks doff
lhelr bonnets at the mere mention of
queen ELIAS name. The Iags par-
tlcularly reyerenced Ella because she
always took care of them when they
were IN trouble. II any of the push
Iad 70 stand for a pinch anywhere
from t oangertles to Shanghai, Ella was
there with her entire bank roll. IF ,7cc-
essary, to fix UP the bail thing or to
otnerWlse salve the nabbed ones way |
out. she was never known to shake
d PAL or even an eX-pal. There never
was a time when it was safe for her
TO come u in the open that she didn't |
1T for the purpose OF Digging IN
bail or passing over a trial fund for tbhpp
cofrailed crook with whom she had
worked. n even for plenty with who,,
she,d never yolSed up on Jobs. II wa,
little characteristic that ken.
Queen Ella out of prison on a good
many occasions when it looked bad for
ner. Inc gratitude of p%rosperins
crooks for whom she had stood When
they We're in trouble always took them
TO ELIAS aid in bul1clIes alIu suuads
she got grabbed and was
cheduled for a long bit, and i'm nearly
very case this sort OF help pulled her
Tous iIuliy. Considering the kind
long chances that ella Mayhem took
SO many years, she did very little
had too many friends.
All One to Her.
ANY old game, with enough In. it,
was good enough for Ella during the
luarter of Il century that she was
playing them both ends from. the mid +
lie and coming and going-shoplifting
On a toppy plane, spark-grafting for
ne DIGS ones, straight dip work in
iroWds, laying down the quee or bogus
,heeks, running q swagger fence. skin
mig MARKS at cards. %stringing along
the green goods people, snIggl-
nG; 1t WAS all one to Ella, SO long
as the coin Was in sight. L dent be-
g that I'm going too far in saying
..at she robab picked up more
HONEY durlng her active career than +
criminal, man or woman in Amer
police history.
NOBODY ever succeeded in getting
slla MaXFlew to give up ANYTHING
about her connections or her early life,
cut she was brought up in CIeveland-
nat 1nueh she admitted. r remember
leF as a handsome and c~uriously eifted.I
Noman away back In the seventies.
mat was after she bad deliberately
embarked, with her eyAsr wide omar il
lpon 9 criminal career.
hlHa began in Cleveland as q, shon-
liter. She uIdnt e. in for the trinket
'tun, put made expensive. laees her
sraIt. being new and lacking expert
nee, they nailed her in Cleveland hut
she slipped out by frarnins ..n4a Sxy-su4
sympathy dodge.
Queer Ella could manipulata The
p~ersecuted and martyred female st,l,t
n q way that wol,ld4p9t q lump IN ttht.Si
3nroat o. g munirn1fied mound builder,
ma Duse, the emotional Italian
Actress. never saw the day or night
nat she could turn ON the spiget and
SO many not, crystalline fears as
Ella Mayhem could when Ella eot IT
figured out that it was going to be her
main clutch to operate the l~achrymose
2lay. l once saw her max a notori-
ousiy hafd and Vindictive BROOKLYN
blow his nose ferociously and
urn her loose b., Swinging hea. little
weep play on him at the psy-
moment. and this, too, when
had been nailed with the goods ali
her II, instead of becoming a
lass Acrook, Ella had gone upon the
stage, h would nave picked up the
sobby parts and run away with them.
New York Next.
$500 NJ - Ni1iIltDClGd CuC& Or lerfi
first little mess In Cleveland she made
up her mind that the Lake Erie town
wasn't roorny enough for her, and SO
she made for the main burg over the
way from iIoboken and Jersey city.
She was a magnificent locker, with all
sinds of the society manner and when
she started in to shred the New York
the game came her way with a
She was the very first woman Is put
through the k-lsptonnaniac frameupiinf
his country. She had about looted the
ace departments OF lot of New York
stores. including seVeral cute hauls at
T.. Stewards establishment, where
We're q speciality. before she was
labbed througlngan accident, a bolt OF
expensive lace clipping to the floor
ron one of her cavern pockets.
ELLA fxed UP a beautiful faint in the
office, to which she was summoned hyA
sneTmanager or tllessfore n reduced |
he members of the firm % tenderssym-
pathy by a recital of how the habit OF
taking things had grown
Upon her. The upshot was that they
her. for her own sake, and for
he sake of the family to be good-and