Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-05

But she was always on the lookout for
talent. She was even willing to discover
it and foster it.
In this attitude of mind she met
young man of good parentage, related to
Wall-strcet parsonage. who has name
well and favorably known. lie called
himself Willie Maddox.
Fay found Willie integestins- She fat
tered him. lie, was pleased. She was al
iuling. RE %sis se.ighied27s Re
Gene with me, said tsle.e..ff
u will said VIII, II, Will follow you
.aaqf where afr luziot psseml
No. you are not igoing alone" she re-
joihed. and she showed linn ~ FIRE cs-
cape leading into tho apartment of the
celebrated Black Mike.
Climb that-the wife of Black Mike IS
full of jewels-they're all over the place.
Get them and come back to nc" ordered
Fay
Willie climbed and relieved Mrs. Black
Mike of all the jewels she possessed. lie
turned them over to Fay, who sold them
| to business man in Seventh avenue.
Business man Informed on Fay. who was
arrested. The remainder of the haul
was found in her fiat.
Black Mikes wife, whose name was
Emma Gardner. appeared In Court as
/ the complainant.
Fay again defended herself.
What happened. oh, nothing. Fay
was acquitted.
The underworld nearly lost its breath
1t was in hectic glare of admiration for
the Tenderloin Portia and generously
congratulated her.
In other ways at that time she de-
| veloped her individuality. She helped
the families of crooks who we're doing
/ time She paid the fines OF women who
sent to her for help. She told others OF
easy places where they could pull on
quiet but profitable robberies. She never
passed an open hand ON the street With
out dropping a coin into it, and she never
missed an opportunity in her own special
line or vocation to add to her earnings.
She lived for some time with the no.,
torious rope-fadder burglar. Jack o Brfen.
who is now doing seven years In State
| Prison for hitting man with black
| jack In political scrap on the West
/ Side. and who showed the exceptional
vitality of escaping from roof on
| Forty ninth street and Fifth avenue aft
| ter policeman had fired a bullet into
him. and getting to doctor in West
Thirty-ninth street, surviving what, APP
parently was a death wound.
Before O'Bren met with that spec
tacular episode in his career he had
quarreled with Fay, striking her a blow
from which she never recovered Her
health failed gradually and the end
came. If she made any defense of her
past she did it in private as she never
whined nor wept over the happy days OF
her girlhood
Up to the last she continued to violate
the law in her old manner of running
creeper joints and teaching new acquain-
tances how to operate as burglars
Her burial was from the fiat of wo-
man named Smith, whose picture is in
columbus Ohia as shoplfter. and who
was the wife of Crooked Neck Smith. a
famous Western stall. now doing life In
Canada for killing Il Canadian pick
pocket known as Mike Malone.
Fay's protege, Willie Maddox. after the
death of Fay and the capture of O.Brien.
| was trailed successfully by Central Of
| flee men. captured and sentenced 10 State
| Prison for four ycaf'sAit 8ti1 ~ ii
| lately there has been no complaint of
rope-ladder burglars, arguing. possibly.
that Fay's inhuenee, may have had, its
| limitations, ,afterl all, New. York Tcie-
graph.