The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-13
BLIND MOTHER
IS HER EXCUSE
CHICAGO WOMAN ARRESTED FOR
EIGHTH TIME - PASSED
WORTHLESS CHECKS.
.BLAMES HER HUSBAND
He is Also in Jail, and is Believed
to Have Fleeced Business
Men Out Of Fifteen
Thousand Dollars.

Chicago, Sept. 12.-"He betrayed
me again and again and | stuck to
him, but when he drove my mother
blind my love turned to hate and
I'll senr him to the penitentiary, if |
go back myself while doing il"
Mrs. Carrie Perlberg. under arrest
on the charge of assing worthless
checks and in custody at the Hudson
avenue olice station, yesterday threw
all the blame for her misdoings on
her husband Albert s'erberg, also
held on similar charges, and declared
she could clear herself If permitted
to tell her story to jury.
Mrs. Perlberg who has police rec
ord of seven arrests for forgery and
who has served three terms, was
booked on charges of forgery by
Lieut., Max Heidelmeir and will be
given q preliminary hearing in the
Chicago avenue court this morning.
Lieut. Heidelmeir tried to gain
confessions from Perlberg as to other
suspected forgeries in Aurora. The
police believe the operations of the
man and his wife will show total
of from $4,000 to $4,000 obtained
from Aurora business men through
fraudulent representation and forged
notes. Perlberg is said to have rep
resented himself as a detective in
the Chicago deartment.
A blind mother will take the pla e
of the baby with which Mrs. Perlberg
has sought to arouse the sympathies
of Jurors on previous trials. Three
times when brought to trial on for
gerry charges she has hell In her
Farrrs~ 70 -baby boy and has pleaded tor
clemency that she might eefar the
child II was discovered that the
baby was borrowed the occasions
Mrs, Perlberg with tears and sobs
| told the tale of her mother and how
her wrong doing was for the purpose
of caring for the aged parent.
"If can tell my story to a jury |
can acquit myself" Mrs. Perlberg
said. while | was in Joliet this last
time I did needle work and the
matron sold it for me- Every penny
made | sent to my old mother. She
was living at rs Clark street Perl
berg found her there and went to live
with her. He opened my letters and
took every cent inclosed. Three
times she fell on the street or some
one knocked her away from a door
and the last time struck her head on
the pavement Two days later she
went blind.
When ! got out Oh parole several
months agoI found my mother help
less, hungry, not only blind, but al,
most dead. Then Perlberg came to
me again. He threatened me if I re-
fused to pass more checks for him
1t was the only way to get money for
my mother. married him ten years
ago and within two years had be-
gun to tread the path of evil with
him driving me along it. He never
lid any work that | know Of. O. |
don't care where | go or what hap
| pens If | can get away from him, anC
| if some one will care for my oil
mother a few weeks longer-then sh,
| will die
Mrs. PerlberG broke into tears FIRE
/ quently while telling of her troubles
Because the mother is in destitute
circumstances she was taken to tn,
Harrison street annex yesterday
where she will be cared for tempe
rarily. sQt@
t This woman has been the tool 0
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