The Washington times., 1905-01-17
MRS, DUKES PAST
NOW OPEN BOOK
Jerome Finds Out Much
About the Weman.
MAY BE TAKEN To TEXAS
Will Be Arrested if Found in New
York-Supposed to Be Fifty
Years Old.
MAY BE TAKEN To TEXAS

NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-District Attor-
ney Jerome, who has been notified that
Governor Lanham of Texas viii sign
requisition papers for Mrs. Brodie l.
Duke. on the indictment found against
her by the grand jury of Nacogdoches
county for swindling e. A. Blount,
president of the Commercial Bank of
Nacegdoches, out of 5000, thinks the
papers may be here by today They viii
be turned over to one of Inspector Nc
C1usky's men to serve on Mrs. Duke,
if she is in the State.
Some OF Mrs. Dukes past is in the
cellar of the county, court house. AS al
ready related. she sued George Hop
kinson in 1888 to establish q marriage,
and the suit was dismissed. She had
been living with Hopkinson, who de-
posed that he met her in 1878 in a house
at 80 West Twenty-hfth Street, where
he was introduced to her by agnes De
La Plane IA name curicuSly like Agnes
Despiaines). The woman was known in
the house as Alice.
Woman of Fifty.
Alice told him her name was Os-
borne, and that she had been charged
with attempting TO blackmaf1 the estate
of a. l. Osborne. The plaintiff in this
action (Aiice L. Webb" Hopkinson
said In his affidavit, was not in No
venber, 1873, as she falsely endeavors
TO make this court believe, eighteen
years old. On the contrary, she was at
that time, as the records of the Buffalo
Orphan Asylum Of Erie county will af-
firm. twenty-five years old She Is now
1887 in her fortieth or forty-hrst year
THE records of the Buffalo Orphan
Asylum show that she was born in 1853
or 1854 that she was admitted TO the
asylum on June 2 1860 and left there
May. IS. 1873. having. been taken there
make her over fiftv now. She says she
Is hirty-Ssven-
Visited by Turfman.
Other affldavits, made by Jennie Brad
ley. a maid at the Grand Central fats,
in West Thirty-sixth Street. where the
woman lived in May, 1890: William F.
Day. a patrolman, and others, stated
that the woman lived there with Murat
Masterson. Colorado mine owner.
N hile Masterson, according TO the affi-
Gayits,- was keeping her Site was visited
IN his absence by a man named Hard
man and a negro follower of the races
who was called Polo Jim.
Mention Is made in these court records
ot another negro who was called
Ralph, who, according to the aftida-
wits, sent her the revolver with which
she shot Masterson She says Master
son s1Or at her.
Mrs. Duke left the Union Square Hotel
-N<SlS4hsty d. llOcii TIE pIOpflGIOTS
had a chance TO Intimate TO her that she
was giving the hotel too much noIoriety
she told a maid that she would be back
but she didn't return Frank Schaefer,
ore of the preprietors, was called up by
Telephone at S:39 o'clock by Mrs. Duke
"Nct in New York"
I have decided to leave your hotel. .
she said. Il am not in New York now
hut you viii hear from me again
Abe Levy, of Mrs. Dukes counsel, had
this TO say soon after Mrs. Duke turned
fer back on Union Square: I'VE know
whore she is She is in Nezy York c,tv
Mi hin ten minutes of my office. asld she
VIII be on hand when there is Il good
reason for her appearing. She VIII bt
IN Justice GaSnor's court in Brooklyn
EeXt Thursday morning, when we vii
make an effort TO have her husband ,lc.
eldTei CT sound mind and removed from
the sanitarium at Amityville She i.
laot AFRAID of these alleged charges mad,
against ner by the authorities of Nacog
ooches county, Tex