The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-22

.,erisb him will give him up9
occurrence of the events / am about to
srst confess my inability to answer this
can set no bounds TO woman S devotion
-,,,ve seen one Of her kind turn traitor to her
.;,,ds for the sake of the man she loved
,ot tell what strain will snap 4 woman IS
80. because this man had committed crime
ss United States government for which he
.r ten years term in prison.
December, 1873. I was summond from
% Washington by the chief of the secret
q, rave me 4 letter to Allan Pinkerton and
:. ranted me to undertake what might be-
,.oo and dangerous mission. Wisconsin and
.,s infested with counterfeiters. Mr.. Pink
woman who was willing to betray the
~ man Her name was Mrs. Napoleon Bona
"a. She herself was the wife Of counter
convict And her home was in the little
g Of Monroe.
,,v, later was IN Mr.. Pinkerton's s office in
a He read the letter I brought to him from
y, If the secret service and then looked up
r.aa tells me- he said, "that she has a
La Of information regarding the counterfeiters
|. . onerating in Wisconsin. She is eager TO give
|..na,;oD to the government. Her husband is q
n ,Isoner. you know. She wants TO apply for
~, and she thinks if she can do something for
',rnent from time TO time that white mark
4 q. down for Bone as she calls her husband.
-, oords she wants to enforce her plea for his
q ~ a showing of services performed for the gov
&, bv herself I know nothing of what she may
Il ,.n. but Will give You a letter to her.
4 "a 20. and left for Monroe the same night.
~ moruing looked up Mrs. Latta and found
= lived in forlorn little cottage at the edge of
a +o he 7
a. letter of introduction from Mr.. Pinkerton,
4 lie read while stood on the doorstep.
In never forget the impression she made upon
|S, was a good type of the TALL angular, raw
\ hopter woman of forty years ago. She was
q iorty.tve years old. Her black hair was only
[Lnpning to be streaked with gray but her eyes
Is, sory Of her apxieties her soTrows and her dis
I,,..pts. Yet there was a world Of patience in
4 S,mething in their glance. however, told me
Ia moi always be patient that there were times
! lH placdity became transformed INTO the fury
las and spares rot And so it proved.
E, she had read the letter, she invited me in.
Ir,1 INTO which I stepped was low and dark. AS
"a could discover it was the only room in the
except the bedrooms. In the center was a big
tsruing heating stove, the red sides of which
81 though they did not make comfortable the
|ksts Of the Wisconsin winter that blew IN
ut two men, one youth of twenty; who was
IL her son Frank. and the other her nephew,
Robinson who was perhaps thirty years old.
|kn srterin~ upon the discussion of the subject
| bad conc 10 investigate she sent her son out
nom. explaining to ne afterward that she did
|as to have him hear what was 10 be said. Then
a ne her uephew-"Clate, as she called him
! lsn me everything I wanted to know.
|>red to him and asked him what he could tell
,uiell you. he said. "where YOU can find some
fa Ehieh counterfeit plates are made, and per-
es bedpiece o. the press.
You teli ne where ! can find the plates from
rs notes are printed2'
Z; never them.
q owns Inc rolls and the bedpece of the
|bsr know
e!T be was lying, but I kept at him. He chung
|Srenty 10 mis- statement supplementing IL only
st.snt OF saving that the rolls were buried IN
E'cis. Finally | said 10 him:
s end your aunt want 10 do something 10 help
Htls who is in prison. It would do him abso-
q . good 10 turn these things over TO me with
IIl7 ne who owns them In fact, If you were TO
II where the rolls are buried without revealing
Ia. oi their owner ] should be compelled to ar
70 The government would take the ground that
I,.s VINO knew where counterfeiting material was
Il also knew TO whom thev belonged. What
70 get is not SO much things as persons. !
4 ee men who are making counterfeit money
htshed the matter over for hours, Mrs Latta
/55e )olning N the conversation, but the best
syget syet ont Of Clate was a promise that he would
.e@ saa Oni mat night who owned the rolls A3d,
Eng had drawn on, made an appointment for
Veiock the next morning and returned TO my
3 Eent to the house the next day Mrs. Latta
X 4 4
FssIt sat know what has become Of Clate," she
q de got up at five clock this morning and b
HG. de didn't tell me he was going, and |
Nv WGeTe he has gone
.s-sveeteq, however. that he had gone 20 the
H.. OIL Boscobel. where he had relatives. If
DO. p.@ come home By night. she said she would
sscGoeI and see if he had been there.
/stts !ooked bad. Mrs. Latta insisted that she
v..iS@ S hothinp of'the men / sought. So told
sss'u 20 TO Chicago where | had some work
s a, AZ promising meantime 10 do some investi.
|t,vsss Vel own account and 20 keep me informed
Fii,:gI she might learn
1t@ul towa 90 to Chicago Just then. went to the
- 9 ~, M GAINESVILLE. and the next morning took
Nqln TO Boscobel that I knew Mrs Latta
..s7 /, she kept her word to see where Clate
s,.s vac gone. She was on the train. | rode
IA MI sS;,a a'stant coach from her and got off on
=, e W. ,she alighted on the other. ] also shad-
nd me house in which Robinson IS relatives
n ssape zoe back with her on the same train with
H. We Ne, next three weeks I kent up my CORE
le,i.n I'm Mrs. Latta, and on January Is I re-
Fom her asking me &c visit her at
y Ssa oay l was at her home in Monroe. She
esr. 20 .oInulated plan 70 catch Tom Strceter,
twer5,als lars Old, who lived In the township of
rtstse satMenty,six miles distant Streeter was
icrrnaaa an1 bad in his possession, so Mrs. Latta
LaTta SoVOO IN spurious notes.
/p dearesuu esuu?gested that 1 visit Streetor, osten'
Itk Sba ~. ~ counterfeit money, and try to buy
q /lleans Sald Strceter had a boyhoOd friend in
~ eiob,a"naa'hed VII! Hanchett whom he had not
rho VII years. / could pretend 10 be Han
Ip and dTpu I a lad, had moved away from Gratiot
Ised oecpine wholesale dealer in bad money
tot reco,!atta l!;atta II she was sure that Strcetcr