The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-12
The Naughty Little
Milliner

Y 4l0pyrlght, lgI0, by W. u. Chapman,
VVhe sympathy of the public il
Mally bestowed upon the weaker sex
Nhongh Heaven knows it is r mistak,
suppose that the weakness of hu
unity is confined TO woman alone. Ger
tnly in matters of love and sacrifc,
oftentimes proves herself the
niger. and IN criminal WAYS her pow
. 1 of invention have MANY times
!. 2.&ehed the acme of perfection. The
SbtIe devices resorted to by women fol
Hing the wool over the ewes of the
u .icers Of the law are frequently more
sleading and difficult to penetrate
IN the most scientific roguerv planned
men.
.NThe several novel eXpedients resorted
AIby the Widow Wood, better known
police circles as 1.-The Naughty Lit.
n Milliner," for throwing dust into
- eyes Of the detectives, is indeed n
Slrvelous exompliication of female in.
Nuitv.
II was along IN the early seventies
ieu IL became known that there WAS
!. culating about New Orleans a dan.
.fous counterfeit five dollar treasury
/ te, likewise pretty good imitation of
yer half dollars, A number of these
d FIVE dollar bills were received at
ne banks and might have passed along
Ihdetected had not one of the bankers,
'Vre discerning than the others. made
3 discovery that these notes were
unterfeit, though they were well cal.
Iated to deceive the average trades
"a. The bogus half dollars had been
S'ned with steel dies and were exact
Stsimiles of the genuine in all except
- metal they contained. They passed
tdily among the foreigners, especially
ssput the French market.
9phese gray old buildings, greasy, di~
NdRted and time worn, full of meat,
ut. vegetables, picture stalls and
ID venders, were the resort of men
ID women of almost every nation,
,,Aring strange garbs and mingling in
youth gabble their mauy-toneued
ices The burly German butcher with
= blue. eyed frau: the scdate and dark.
3wned Andalusian. putting his cigar:
81 Italian subservIent and scorninp
friment as he would the ticnd; dam
of every hue from snowy white to
nty black; the quadroon, octaroon and
~ dark-haired and dingletted maid
m famed llsboa in kerchicfcd neck
!, new budding bosom, darklY,
larthily beautiful. All were there, .
|lppIly mixed together. recklesslv re.
Wing and as recklessly passing these
kus coins as though they were the
inine product of the United States
At: 1t would have been difficult to
Flnct any of this motley ihrong as
H0uld be necessary to show that the
sers of these bogus bills or small
hns had guilty knowledge.
lVperator James Fitzpatrick, who was}
that time in charge of government |
ret service affairs IN New Orleans.
an an investigation for the purpose
Iferreting out the source of this bad
ipey. After weeks of anxious
ching II was learned that a young
who daily visited the French mar
3 FOR the purpose OF buying family
VISIONS had, as regularly as she
ier left bogus half dollar. She wore
altered dress and there was sor-
rql expression settled about her
Ind yet interesting features, 1t was
Y gentle and detected expression of |
lcountenance that first attracted the !
sntlon of Officer Fitzpatrick. The |
cons and Italian dealers about the |
Fket had never made a complaint in |
'erd to the bad money. as they could |
lily pass II of on one another or at |
+. eof1ee honses along the river front.
f'enowing the grl one dav the officer
s3ed her TO little variety store on
Joseph street, near the corner of
ioupitoulas street. After short
70 had elapsed the girl came out of
shop. She was now attired in some
~ above the common garb. Unob-
ved by her. the officer watched her
Fements until she finally went ipIo
mall grocery store When she came
] she carried package. 1t was plain
she had made a purchase. When
..girl was well out of sight the de.
i've stepped into the little store and
|qested the Creole boy in attendance
net him see the money that he had
ayed from the girl that had lust left
place. 1t was a new five dollar note
NJ The boy handed out. LOOKING il
lr carefully it was found to be one
the bogus kind.
ne oticer made a plausible explana
that ne thought sufficient to satisfy
I. curiosity Of the boy, and was now
re certain that he was on the tracI,
INC source of the counterfeifs and
= tne occupants of the little variety
e were the distributors Of the bop1is
opposite the variety store across the
sel was the sign Furnished Rooms
hent, and Fit2patrick was forth.
Df enough 10 be able TO hire a front
~ where he could sit at the window
watch the suspected place. In the
use of time he learned that the occu.
Us were mother and daughter. The
f-ner was a widow, quite pretty, about
~ years of age. Her daughter was
{ moro than twelve or fourteen, Ash,