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acquittal more to her attractive personality than
to anything else.
A few weeks later she married the ex-detective,
and then there were not wanting folks to hint
that the detective had, in his infatuation, sup.
pressed bits of evidence. But this was absolutely
disproved when a well-known criminal confessed
to the crime. In the meantime, however, the
suspect and the detective had settled down in
Canada, and had almost succeeded in forgetting
the tragic episode which had so strangely made
them man and wife.
Languishing in a prison at Rion, in France, is
Belgian woman who, in the course of re.
markable career as artistic swindler, has fallen
INTO the hands of the Continental police forces
four times. 1t is asserted that she is neither
good-looking nor attractive, but she possesses
remarkable power to captivate men, which she
has used to such marked effect that on three oc-
casions she has escaped from custody with the
connivance of her custodians. On one occasion
she eloped with the policeman who conduct.
ing her to trial afterward taking the earliest op.
portunity of slipping away from him, leaving him
to explain the affair to his superors in the most
| probable way he could.
| She then enjoyed some years of liberty When
next she was arrested she boasted that no pris-
on guarded by men was strong enough to hold
her, and in consequence of this two jailers were
specially detailed to see she did not escape, and
to protect each other against her wiles. But
she escaped with the connivance of both of them.
She was however, quickly rearrested, when her
custody was entrusted to two women, the result
being that she is not able to use her fasci-
nations with any effect on her iaiers
Probably the most pathetic case on record,
however, in which jailer fell in love with, and
ultimately married, prisoner is related of
former turnkey, who now occupies a RESPONSE
BILE position in one of his majesty's prisons in
Ireland. Some six years ago, young girl was
forced by stress of poverty to steal She was
detected, tried and sentenced to three months
imprisonment. At the end of that time she was
released and, having friends, or relatives to
whom she could apply for assistance, committed
another theft, in order, she informed the mag
istrate, at the second trial. that she might
cape starvation by going to prison again.
The magistrate, humane man, gave the pris.
oner nominal sentence, and issued instructions
that the case should be brought under the notice
of the court missionary. The latter consid
erably surprised the following day to receive a
visit from a warder who had charge of prison
ers in the dock, and who confessed that he had
been so moved by the distress of the girl and ad
mired her physical charms to such extent
that he would willingly marry her if she would
consent at the expiration of her sentence.
Naturally, the missionary advised the warder
to consider the matter for while longer and
to make no hasty proposal on account Of his
pitv for the prisoner In the meantime, he of
fered to see that the girl was supplied with food
clothes and work. The warder did not change
his mind, however, and the upshot of the affair
was that he proposed at the end of six months
and duly led to the altar one who had been more
sinned against than SHINING