The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-02-16

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"At the close of the performance
Queen Ella sel1t to the actress dress
ing room a card-a bogus, o~fhcourse,--
impressively engraved withs a swell
name and address. The actress was de-
lighted to receive Ella In her dressing
room, and they had>an enjoyable chat
for half an hour or so, in'the. course
OF which the actress visitor invited her
to enough teas and dinners and recep-
lions to fill a route book from cover to
cover.
when the swell visitor departed.
however, the actress discovered that
her jewels, which she had removed
and placed in a casket.o on her dressing
table, were mountaineering. Ella
was never hauled up for this one I
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. H..-
"'Queen Ella made many trips TO
Europe. and a Scotland Yard man told
me about some of the schemes she
worked to trim 'em in England. She
started in with a.pretty villa at Bourn-
mouth, where, with the aid Of a couple
of male crooks who We're expert at
short-cardins, she took down big non
ev from tlediings whom she succeeded
al ny llCl loohS JIG tol1S
versational 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 put it to the credu,ous well-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 a 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
adition to settling Il umbe of rather
heavy personal debts that she ana 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 me hat he
had seen three of the auriferous bars
thatSshe mad reluctantly parted with to
gulible Englisllrnen of the provinces
for sums ranging from a thousand to
three thousand pounds.
1T wasn't very long after Ella May
heW, with a wholesome fear Of Brit
lsi prisons, began TO find England too
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Of the non-declared sinners for a long
time before r ent ninned to the sticls
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 gosling has pipfeathers. It was
ELLA Mayhem who invented the hollow
high shoe heel, which, screwing on and
off the shoe, made a fine repository for
Struggled jewels, and a mighty safe
one, at that, until the inspectors even
tually got on to it through the suueal-
ing OF a rervless woman who peache1
to dodge punishment.
1T was no less a crafty feminine per
son that Queen Ella the same. who
once famed the most noted of Chicago
gambling house proprietors for a
$4,000 bank roll. He was running a big
he had not yet obtained the tremendous
clutch which afterward made it vir-
tlaly useless for the Chicago author-
tiles to attempt to bulge him. He was,
II tGctt,in some danger, owing to the
assumption of office of a new chief of
police of Chicago, and he was conse-
quently running a sort of pent-up
game for the high rollers only. 1t is
pretty safe to believe that Ella Mayhem
knew all about this at the time, or
she would never had dared to try to
pun orr the little killing with the gamb-
ling house proprietor.
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