The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-22
MISS CASPARI FAILS
TO GIVE SIS, 900 BOND
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taken to the jail it is invariably the
practice to look for symptoms of mental
trouble.
That this woman has been working
and denying herself everything for the
mere love of eccumulating money, or
boarding it. is the theory that has been
advanced today. Somewhere, it is
thought. she has been saving the dol
lars which she has secured, and toward
the finding of that somewhere the po-
lice of many cities are now bending
their energies.
Miss Caspari herself said she got
100000 from Baltimore people. and when
the prison gates closed upon her there
she said she did not mind the prison,
but that she wanted 10 pay back the
money she had taken from people. May
be she does intend TO pay It al PACK,
but on that point as on every other she
is silent.
Waiting Years For What?
According TO her own statements, she
is waiting, has been waiting these many
years-for what she will not say. Her
brother, Dr. Charles Caspari, Of Balu-
more, who is the owner of prosperous
pharmacy business in that city. has
visited her twice since her arrest, but
she coafides no more in him than In
her lawyer, and that is nothing She
may perhaps be shielding some man
who reaps the harvests of her, games.
In fact the police have believed UP TO
today that somewhere there was a man
hiding in the darkness of her Sphinx
like silence. But If there is man, she
has covered up all clues that might lead
TO him. If there is a man, she mas sac
rifced herself for him, and has spent
five years Of her life in prison for him.
An attempt to question her about her
early life and about the man met with
TO success. The look of disappointment
comes over her face. She makes her
interviewer feel that he is transgress-
ing on ground which she holds sacred.
Keeps Her Secret Well.
The Baltimore police worked for years
TO reach that man. or the motive that
impeIled her. The warden of the pen
ilentiary, where she spent five years in
expiation of her Baltimore swindles,
tried to discover her secret. He failed.
Her brother tried to wiring it from her.
He failed. The police tried to unearth
it. They failed.
The washington police are trying to
sift It 10 the bottom, 10 pull that man
out into the light. But they are not
worry sanguine.
Miss Casparfs remarkable knowledge
of financial methods. is one phase of this
case which has puzzled the police. It Is
one of the things which tend TO make
the police believe there is a master hand
in the fine art of slippery finance di-
recting her movements. They have no
hope Of locating the visionary man
through her however; they realize that
al
in prison with never a murmur to shield
him, nothing they can do can force his
name from her lips.
Two Good Luck Omens.
The large leather handbag containing
letters. papers, and two omens of good
lucb-a piece of a broken horseshoe and
a fcur-leaf clover encased in an at
traCtive gold frame-remain the only
clues which the police have today that
viii aid them in penetrating the mys-
terry surrounding this remarkable
woman. In her letters and papers, like
everything else associated with Miss
Caspari, are only yelled illusions TO tho
motive that has prompted her to work
increasingly TO obtain large sums OF
money.
She has lived modestIy and her ex-
penses have been comparatively moth.
ing for woman who could get money
as easily as she appears to have done
Just how far she would have gone and
how much money she would have got
ten are matters Of conjecture, but tht
police say there IS evidence that she
had laid plans for a high finance
campaign in Washington that might
have netted her as much as she OBJ,
tained in Baltimore. Miss CasPari says
that she got more than 100000 from
prominent persons in the Monumental
City, although the specific charge OF
which she was sent to the MARYLAND
penitentiary for five years was obtain
ing few hundred dollars by false pre-
tense.
Behind the financial game that thi,
woman has played for a number 81
years is an impenetrable mystery tina
the police have little hope of solving
Like a stole, she maintains a silence re
garding herself, except TO deny that sh,
had any intention OF rObbing any one
Can't Find Where Money Went.
What has she done with the money
This is the question for which the polio,
are endeavOring to find an answer Blu
Miss Caspari seems TO be the only on,
who can answer the question, and tn
police have given UP all hope Of gettinj
anything from her.
The fOur-leaf clover Miss CaspaT
carried IN a small leather handbag. OF
the broken piece of horseshoe is writtel
the word luck" It is evident that thi
woman Of mystery is given TO super
stition
SO far the police have obtained tn
names Of seven women from whom sh
obtained sums OF money. Three o
these women live IN Washington. an
the others in different cities. Becaus
OF this the police believe that Miss Cas-
pari has operated over the Easter
part OF the United States, and while
Is probable that the extent Of her opera
lions may never be fully known, II 1
likely that the amount of money sh
obtained will be far in excess Of wha
the police at first believed.
Friendly With Victims
The names of these persons were OF
tanned from letters found In the brow
leather bag that has given the polio
all the clues on which they have had t
work Showing that Miss Caspari wa
on the most friendly terms with tn
persons whom she victimized. Is the 70
lowing letter from Mrs. Clagett:
MY Dear Miss Caspari:
Your letter was received this morn