The Washington times., 1909-05-09
By ALLEN D. ALBERT JR.

HAOINAf IN
Parker. with whom she once lived IN
Chicago and Kansas City, this woman
has degraded her remarkable cIeverness
and sullied her gift Of an extraordinary
personality.
That she conceived the plan OF
| spirittng away the son of the rich WhItIa
family and, possibly, by suggestion.
moved Boyle TO undertake it.
| That she received and kept from Boyle
all Of the $4,000 ransom save only
about $50.
That. Notwithstanding drunkenness.
the use Of foul language and leader
ship from her through the oates of the
peniteniary. Boyle still loves her with
the self-effacement OF q weak nature
finding its first strength in this love.
TEat herein was the culmiaating
MISUSE Of talents of mind and
graces of manner beyond most Of
her sisters. beyond all Of them save
perhaps dozen or twenty.
That the insinuations and smotbered
threats of Boyle relate to a charge
which defies all the probabilities ana is
/ not trusted even by his own mother
| Nothing short OF a conversation with
this woman can explain the apparent
extravaganza which every newspaper
! correspondent has written of her
4 Drawing picture OF her In words Is so
I battling task that up to this time no
I one has really undertaken IL But per-
I haps the reader may realize some GER
/ tain elements OF her charm If he follows
her as she enters the courtroom in the
little country town OF Mercer and
through a subsequent interview
Picture Drawn
Of Scene In Court.
The room is the exhibition hall OF
rural academy, the Mercer court house
k&ving been burned two years ago. In
it ara assembled all che good women
Of the county seat. in white shirt waists
and walking skirts or in spring gowns.
/ for the most part home made Before
/ the bench Of the court is a 1ung line OF
green-eoZsSed card tables. surrounded
by correspondents accustomed to ex-
| citement and IN touch throughout their
| professional lives with unusual per-
sonalitigs. The family and relatives OF
the kidnapped boy have the first row Of
seats and maintain a studied disregard
OF the doorway through which The
woman is TO enter. In the windows.
the doorways, against the walls. stand
country merchants, farmers, their wives
and daughters.
Suddenly the whole throng OF 300 per-
sons murmurs. A deputy sheriff walks
resolutely through the door near the
improvised jury box Behind him, nov
ing with the easy grace OF the accom-
plished actress. is Mrs Boyle.
The figure Is that Of a woman OF
about twenty-three years, rather slen-
der, and easily erect. Her scant weight.
probably not more than 10 pounds. is
eccentuated by a long covert coat Sur
mounting her rather small head is a
modish hat, not in the least extreme, OF
black straw. The decoration consists Of
black tulle, with a medallion Of jet
and two quiIls also black ven OF
heavy cross bars, with black beads at
the intersections. gives her face the ef-
feet of marked delicacy.
Past the newspaper men, between the
district attorrey-his head low over
jury Hst-and the judge, she moves as
compOsedly IS a matron of many more
years at reception. She seats herself
with her back 10 the court room A
little trick Of posture indicates an ex-
change of glances with Boyle, sitting
not more than three feet away, between
his jailer and his lawyers. Then ''the
woman" turns.
Face Suggests
Charlotte Corday.
1t is needful, in such an account.
to speak moderately, to keep well
within the facts. But that would be
an utterly inadGuate description of
this defendant which did not Hken
her face TO that of Charlotte Corday.
in the familiar portrait of the mar
tyr behind the bars OF her cell. 1t is
distinctly more fair than that of the
French woman, and the hair, waving
in simple lines from forehead to a
I loose and moderate Psyche knot. is
neither the yellow of the familiar
I bleach nor brown, but OF a distinct
! copper tinge. The modelling OF her
features is delicate beyond the belief
of those who have seen only the pho
/ tographs taken after her arrest-and
/ her dissipation. Like certain great
/ lady of the land. hers is a charm TO
which the camera does faint credit.
/ Out of years OF reporting in the
courts and an ample experience in police
/ cases, the writer has come to a theory
that every woman caught in the tolls
/ reveals in her face the explanation.
| Helen Boyle does not belle this prin-
/ ciple. But her face required a longer