The Monte Vista journal., 1908-11-14
DISCLOSURES REGARDING THE
WOMAN WHO TRIED TO
ROB MRS. PHIPPs.
MORE STRANGE D0INCS
SUSPECTED OF DESIGNS ON
TREASURY AND BOND ROB-
Berry IN CHICAGO.

Denver-The News Thursday morn.
ing secs: Mrs. Allen F. Read. who at
tempted to extort 100000 from Mrs.
Genevieve Chandler Phipps under
threats of death, invaded the State
Treasurer's office in the capitol Sat
urday, and State Treasurer Alfred e.
Bent declares he believes the woman
intended to loot the states treasury
under threats Of dynamiting.
Chicago detectives last night charged
that Mrs. Read, under the name Of Mrs.
Brown, attempted on November End
to get away from Chicago with 10000
in bonds which she mad secured from
the firm OF Babcock. Rushton 4 Laud.
:.erback. bond brokers, on a worthless
check.
As a result, the broken woman, who
was last night again released from tho
city Jail and taken to the Shirley hotel.
has become the pivotal point in three
unusual cases, involving rigid investi-
cations by Colorado state officials, Chi
'cago detectives and the Denver police
department.
! With the flood Of light being thrown
on them from these sources. disclos-
ures regarding the Reads are being
made rapidly. These indicate that the
Reads did not posses the amount Of
money or income which close friends
believed they did. George Campbell.
father Of Mrs. Read. whose funeral she
attended at Pittsfield. Mass. left but
$4,000 In personal property. Mrs.
Reads sister. Miss Jessie Campbell,
teaches school.
Convinced by surgeons examination
that the woman. who seems to Be In
sane And drugged. was no person 10
sllow travelling alone. Chief Of Police
Armstrong began IN Investigation last
night to determine whether the mind
Of another directed her acts. He has
detailed detectives to learn the per.
sonal history Of the Reads for period
Of several years.
State Treasurer Bent says he conA.
IDENTITY believes had his once not besn
filed with people Saturday the attack
ON Mrs. Phipps and the policemen 1t
The International Trust Company
would never have occurred.
III It hadn't besa for this throng I
believe Mrs. Read would have been
placed In jail Saturday" said Bent.
Instead Of the attack on Mrs.
Phlpps. Mrs. Read would have been
CHARGED with IN attempt to steal tho
states funds.
Mrs. Read visited me about 1880
O'Clock. dressed just % she was Mon.
day. She told me. Just ~ she told Mrs.
Phipps. that she was . writer for an
eastern magazine. che said that she
desired to know all OF the details re-
garding the care OF the states funds,
- she was to write an article on that
subject.
II became suspicious Of her when
she began asking leading questions. I
asked her name. She said she was
Mrs. Coles Of New York. I asked her
what magazine she represented. She
replied that she was not 1t liberty TO
disclose this.
This made me believe further that
oil was not right. Then she CON-
planned Of the number Of people In the
oMces. and said Il vas di@cult 70 ct
what she wanted when 70 many were
there. She asked me II she couldn't
have . private interview after the ot.
Gees were closed for the day. She
said she would like 10 meet me alone
h the olacss late In the aftsrnooa.
'This uncoaditioaaliy refused. and
Q few minutss later she departed, q.
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