The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30
HELEN GATES HAD TO SKATE
AND AGAIN COMES A CHOPPER AT
THE BAR or JUSTICE.
LEFT Home and Baby and FOund a Landlord
Who Objects TO His Things Being
PaWned-HOme Again. singing, Only
TO Find a Detective Waiting for Her.

OS
10 Find a Detective Waiting for Her.
The red ball was up yesterday for Mrs
Helen Gates, the twenty-four-year-old
Skater Girl" who skated into fame about
two years ago when she paid for meats
and groceries up and down the West Side
with several artificial checks. This time
Mrs. HeleE rented a furnished room from
Max HONG, a laundryman at SAT Tenth
avenue, and after occupying the room two
days went away from there with clothing
and jewelry that Wax says he paid about
$500 for.
When Helen was arrested two years ago
because Of the checks she was gathered in
on the skating pond at Van Cortlandt Park
while doing some artistic figure eight scrolls
to loud applause. Skating figures in her
present troubles also. The neighbors and
her janitress, a Mrs. Brice, said yesterday
that the reason Helen left her husband and
two-year-old baby at her home at 54I West
Fifty-seventh street and rented the fur
nished room from the Tenth avenue laun-
dryman was because her husband had put
his foot down on Helen's taking part in a
rolling skating contest Of some sort in
Harlem about two weeks ago.
The girl picked up a few belongings,
then kissed the baby good-by and went
off to the Harlem skating racket. The
next morning she came to the laun dry
man with a character recommendation
and rented a room. A door connected
her room and the one occupied by the
laundryman and his wife. Helen admitted
yesterday that she got into Honig's room,
o what she wanted and pawned the loot.
This was two weeks ago. Shortly after
she had pawned the goods Helen went up
TO her Dc home in Nyack TO visit her mother
and in the meantime her husband, Hugo
Gates the tenants say the real name is
Gettz, but that Helen had it changed be-
cause Gettz was too Germany and Mrs.
Brice, the janitress, looked after the baby
at the fiat at SAL West Ffty-seventh street.
A constant visitor, also, since Max Honig
complained of being robbed, has been
Detective Reid Of the West FOrty-seventh
street police station.
On Friday afternoon Reid was sitting
talking 10 Mrs. Brice when the skater girl
wandered in singing cherrily. She told
Reid she simply couldn't think OF being
arrested without dressing up a bit. and 30
while the detective buried his face in a
newspaper Helen bent on entire new rigging
llOAh DOpC ~ w ~ hCA LOltbbc CAnuy
hair in a sort Of alcove that opened into the
room where Reid was sitting. She con-
tinued 70 sing the same merry song while
the Drinking Up continued.
Yesterday morning Helen appeared
before Magistrate Cornell in the West Side
court 10 face her accuser, Max Honig.
Helen said she had taken the things and
had pawned them, but that II Max would
only give her a little time she would pay it
all back. There were more articles missing,
however, than Helen's pawntickets could
account for, and 80 MAJ asked the Magis-
trate for q continuance while the where
abouts of q changeable silk gown was being
looked up. Magistrate Cornell placed the
girl under 81 600 bail for an examination
this morning, me as Helen could not get a
bondsman she spent the day and night In
one Of the cells back Of the court.
Some OF the neighbors said yesterday
that Helen has boosted often Of the name
she got two years ago. After the phony
checks began TO come back TO shopkeepers
IN the wood alcohol belt marked mo funds ,
she acquired the nickname in the neigh
borhood Of Mrs. Cassie Chadwick. Jr." |
At that time she asserted hat she was