The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-26
miss Gasp ARR GIVES
(. hint OF HER SORROW
Gompares Herself to Han
nah, Who Waited Twenty
{ Years for Lover.
SILENT WOMAN
BATTLES POLICE
Shadow of Minister-Sweetheart
. Turks in Background of Her
Career-Guided by Another.

81 have been Hannah. binding shoes
waiting. waiting. for something that
never came. All, the shoes 1 have
bound; the years I have waited"
This statement. touching in its sim
'plicity. made by the woman of mys-
terry" Miss Frances A Caspari, may /
sbe the key TO the life Of the most re
markable prisoner with whom the
i-washington police have ever had TO
deal
sThe woman OF mystery" they call
fher. and she is well named. For five
Slays the police Of this city have en-
adeavored By every known means TO
Discover her secret. AS yet they are
;rShere they began-balked. For years
sxhe shrewdest detectives Of Baltimore
EolIowed every possible clue. laboring
Yin the same effort They failed. too
k7er secret IS still locked securely with
On herself-and she will never tell
withstands Police Third Degree"
= This woman. accused of swirdling
a8ther women right and left. has baf-
lied the police of washington as they
Asave never been baffed before. They
Nave her; yes; but in spite Of all the
sahird degree methods. with all their
sEhrewdness. they have been unable
80 wiring from her a single word
Sthat would laid thsm in their effort to
discover the whereabouts Of the large
asuns Of money which she admitted she
s7aad secured from her victims
She. only bows ner head and remains
ssilent Her face is inscrutable; one
tmay as well try to read the thoughts
of the Sphynx. 1t IS a face o. sorrow
%Sometimes IL lights up with kindly
sssniIe, but it reiapses again into the
,-old expression. There is no despair in
st. no emotion; lust sorrow written IN
every line.
Courted by Minister.
Twenty years ago this woman was
n school teacher in Baltimore. She was
pretty. and had plenty Of admirers
She was engaged to minister
young man lust starting out in the
service Of the church There is a
1 5story. which has never been confirmed.
4 that this woman involved him in fin
'ancIal difficulties. Anyhow, he disap-
ipeared.
Back Of all the movements and op-
-erations of this remarkable woman
there has always been the shadow Of
man. The Baltimore police hunted
that man. The Washington police are
irow trying TO drag him out from the
darkness where he has hidden 50 long
There are many things which lead the
police TO believe in his existence. Al
though Miss CASPIAN admitted having
feeced Baltimoreaus of nearly 10000
the police were utterly at loss 20
account for her disposal OF it. She
never dressed in fine clothes. She
never spent money for anything more
than the bare necessities Of life. Yet
she was forever borrowing small
samounts from friends. and paying them
bacl, with interest. This. coupled with
s4he belief that some hand more Gun
ming in the ways OF slippery finance
ethan her own IS directing her move
Ernents. has led 10 The theory Of the
IMAM in the case.
Twice Betrays Feeling.
Only twice has this woman opened
iIisr lips in washington TO speak Of hel
sfeehngs. once, in the police court, sh'
burned to a newspaper man, and said
ooh, why do they stare so heartlesslI
$50 cruelty? One half the world does
mot know the secret sOrTows Of the othe
half. II they did there would be NOR,
Reconsideration for those in trouble
And again. when she departed sud
pdenly from her silence, she compared
Herself to Lucy Larcom's "Hannai
sBinding Shoes
8 For what is this woman of myster,
awaiting? If the story Of her own lif
SIS analogous with that strange poem
slof Lucy Larcom, the answer IS plain
THE man who entered her life when sh
was a fair young school ma'am in Bal
AaImore is still the ruling factor in it.
SO far as is known there has neye
Fbeen anything emotionally romantic 4
s4he makeup of Miss Caspar. Accord
sang TO her brother. DR.. Charles Cas-
rpari, a prosperous pharmacist. she ha
always been quiet and retiring. No
Eeven 10 him has she ever spoken of he
affairs.
Her two statements, however, shov
that there IS some great sorrow in he
life hat is gnawing at her heart Xix
"a cauker. She says she is waiting
krhe says she is Hannah. Hannah wall
led twenty long years for the fisher
IMAM lover that went down in the Sc;
sFrauces Caspari is still waIting-tc
her lover of twenty years ago2 Sh
will not say.