The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-02-17

ing woman in the box, who, She took to
be a iigurante in the social affairs OF
the and she smiled back at Ella,
Al the close of the performance
Queen Ella sent 10 the actress dress
ing room a card-a bogus. of COURSE
impressi"e!y engraved With n swell
name and address. The actress was de-
lighted 10 receive Ella in her dressing
room, and they had an enjoyable chat
Tor half am hour or so, in the course
of which the actress visitor invited her
to enough teas and dinners and recep-
tions to fill Il route book from cover to
over.
When the swell visitor departed,
however. The actress discovered thai
her jewels, which she had removed
and placed in Il casket OF her dressing
table, were mournfully minus. Ella
Was never hauled up for this one. 1
understood that she made good to the
actress for the theft years afterward
when she-'Queen Ella'-had the yell
low papers to incinerate, while tho
actress was correspondingly reduced in
fortune.
Queen ELLA made many trips to
Europe, and Il Scotland Yard man told
me about some of the schemes she
worked to trim EN- in England. She
started in with Il pretty villa at Bourn-
mouth. where, with the aid of a couple
OF male crooks who We're expert at
short-carding, she took down big mon
ey from tledlings whom she succeeded
in fascinating by her looks and con-
Ne"Sational charms. This, however.
she found to be dull work, and so she
took up the gold brick game, the intri-
cacies of which had been taught her
by Tom O'Brien. the king craftsman Of
the phony brick dodge.
Gold-Bricked London.
she mt ii ia the cre6ula,,c ,y-oll-to-
do provincial marks whom she snagged
that she Was the widow OF. a wealthy
gold miner who had died suddenly in
England, leaving her short of ready
cash. but with enough pure gold bricks
to build Il smokehouse. She stuffed
them with the little gnome narrative
that inasmuch as the British mint was
forbidden to purchase gold from any
person not a British subject. she would
be compelled to dispose of one of the
gold bars at a sacrifice in order TO OBJ
tain funds to get back to the states
in the style BETTING her station. in adj
dition to settling II number of rather
heavy personal debts that she and her
deceased husband had contracted in,
London. 1t isn't on record, of course.
just how many times ELLA got by With
the gold brick game in England, but
the Scotland Yard man told Inc that he
had seen three of the auriferous oars
that she mad reluctantly parted with to
gullible tInglishmen of the provinces
for sums ranging from Il thousand to
three thousand pounds.
ut wasn't very long after Ella May
heW. with Il wholesome fear of Brit
ish prisons. began to find England too
Caloric for her that she took to dianlOn
smuggling on Il large scale. She did
the trips between Amsterdam and New
York, carrying all but quart measures
of the non-declared sinners for a long
time before she got pinned 10 the stick,
She was one of the first Users of the
false-bottomed steamer trunk for jewel.
smuggling, and she had as many
schemes FOR storing the jewels away
as a s~osling has pirfeathers. 1t was
ELLA Mayhew who invented the hollow
high shoe heel, which. screwing on and
Oft the shoe. made n fine repository for
snnugsled Jewels, ANA IA mighty safe
one, ut that, until the inspectors even-
tually got on to ii through the squeal-
ing OF II nervless oma who peached
TO dodge punishment.
1T was no less d crafty feminine per-.
son that queen Ella The same, who
gambling house p%roprietors for "a.
$1,000 bank roll. He was running n big
faro bark in Chicago ut the time, and
he had not Yet obtained the ~men
clutch which afterward made it vir-
tnallv useless for the Chicago author,
tiles to attempt TO bulge him. He.was.,
in fact. in som danger. owing to the
assumption of office of Il new chief OF,
police of Chicago. and he was conse-
quentiN running II sort of pent-up
game for the high rollers only. It is
pretty safe to believe that Ella Mayhem
knew all about his at the time, or
she would never had dared 10 try to,
pull off the little killing with the sanab-.
ling house proprietor.