The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-08
MURDER HERO|NES
SINK INTO OBLIVION
They Have Fallen Back Into Mass
of Humanity, and Are Now I'm
known and Unnoticed,

NEW YORK. Nov. S.-Where are
the murder heroines OF yesteryear!
Briefly in the hmelight OF publicity
they fall back into the mass OF hu'
mainly again, unknown and IN
noticed.
Ethel Clare Leneve. heroine" OF
Or. Crippen's flight and capture is
already lost behind the curtain that
fell over her when her murderer-ioV-
er was condemned To the gallows, and
she was left TO seek forgiveness OF
heartbroken family.
Nine years ago the country was
aroused over trial and acquittal OF
Florence Burns, a beautiful Brooklyn
girl. charged with the murder OF the
man who betrayed her. Only the
other day she was sentenced to long
term in a New York prison for work
ing the badger" game. The pretty
young heroine OF 1901 had become
hardened creature of the lowest vice.
Jessie Morrison was paroled from
Kansas prison recently after i'm
prisonment OF 10 years for the muir
der of a successful rival for the af-
trections of -6iin- Castle a. EldeFaae7
June %, 1900 Castle is married again
and lives in California. Jessie Nor
rison, now about forty, wan and bag
gard, has gone to her sisters home in
Excelsior Springs.
Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley was acquit-
ted in Washington. d. c., just few
years ago for the murder OF Senator
Arthur Brown OF Utah, the father of
her children. She went back home,
-,
hut, supporting her children by the
hardest work Neighbors stunned
that Bradley woman" Now a court
has awarded her illigitimate children
part OF Senator Browns estate and
she has taken them where her story
and theirs is unknown
Claudia Haines. young, beautiful, is
suffering the paugs OF faithlessness In
New Hampshire village. to which
her identity as the mistress OF Billy
Annis, killed by her husband. Capt.
Peter Haines, has not followed her as
! yet.
Bertha Claiche, the white slave"
who betrayed her into a life OF dis
| honor, was recently in the New York
police court begging protection against
| the man whose mistress she became
when starvation threatened her and
her children. The once beautiful Ital-
ian girl is now a withered, pathetical
figure.
Evelyn Granville. the beautiful and
talented actress. heroine OF the Web
ster-Granyille murder case, testified
that she was the mother OF Webster's
child and that Goodwin had tried TO
steal her affections. Both statements
she afterward admitted TO be false,
but they saved Webster's life. When
Webster was released from prison the
other day, the heroine of his trial,
now sadly unkempt woman. was
serving a term in the Rjttsburg work
house.
Then there is Evelyn Nesblt Thaw.
petite heroine OF the Sanford White
murder. for which Harry X. Thaw is
now In the asylum for the criminally
insane She has aged greatly and Is
no longer the innocent che-ild' she
was when White fell in Madison-sq.
gardens She plainly shows the pace
OF the great white way. The other
day she testified in court that she had
10 pawn her rings to live.
Nan Patterson, charged with kill
ing her lover, Caesar YQWng, in a cab
spent II months I'm tlfs~Tombs, and
was freed on the disagreement OF the
! Jury in her second trial. Her husband
forgave her. but Nan soon grew tired
OF humdrum home life and hurried to
the gay life OF Pittsburg. A few
months ago her name was connected
| with a mysterious attempt 10 shoot a
young bank cashier
Josie Mansfeld's fatal beauty re-
suited in the assassination of Jim
: Fisk, Jr, president Of the Erie rail
road. in the Grand Central hotel. New
York. in January. 1872. Josie was In
| the zenith OF her bold, brilliant, gray
eyed beauty, courted by men OF wealth
and station Fisk won the proud
beauty and placed her in a splendid
establishment introduced her to
| his friend Stokes, whose infatuation
brought jealousy and murder. Josie
Mansfield la now over 20 years old. In
| feeble health and. since her brothers
death, an object OF charity at Water
town. South Dakota.
| Bertha Claiche, the white slave"
who slew Emile Gendron. her master,
is in sanitarium In Pennsylvania
The murder heroine, however. pretty
and petted. IS nothing hut a fitting
shadow rushing into the Oblivion OF
! shame and death.