The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-22
DRAMATIC SCENE
ENACTED IN COURT
Mrs. Randolph Fitzhugh, Held
to Grand Jury, Charges
Persecution.
SHE IS ACCUSED OF THEFT
Admits That She S Catherine
Fennell, OF Richmond and
Washington.
SHE is ACCUSED OF THEFT
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New York. March 2l-Thcrc was an
other intensely dramatic scene III JEFF
ferson Market Court to-day, when Mrs.
randolph Fitzhugh. alias Mrs. Albert
;. Northrup, was arraigncd on a charge
oil Vagrancy, and under sharp cross
examination admitted that she was
Catherine Fcnnell.
As the young woman was being led
to the stand. assisted by two doctors
from Bellevue Hospital. Miss Dorothy
Fiske and Miss Edna Irene Munscy. an
actress. appeared in court and charged
the prisoner with grand larceny in the
first and second degree.
Magistrate Freschi dismissed the
vagrancy charge and arraigned the
woman Oh the new complaints.
AT the conclusion OF seven hours
testimony she was held in $4,000 bail
for the grand jury on a charge of
grand larceny in the first degree on
MISS Fishes complaint. and $1,000 bail
for larceny in the second degree on
the complaint of Miss Munscy
Second Charlotte Corday.
Before any questions were put TO
her. the accused woman asked permits
sion to make statement. When Mag
istratc Freschi granted her request
she said:
You can torture me all that YOU
wish. / am a woman, and women have
always borne Il great deal: ] am not
afraid OF suffering. am caught in a
trap here. but YOU cannot and will not
make me tell YOU anything. beyond
saying that ! am another Charlotte
/ Corday. | am lighting for a cause.
and | shall keep on fighting until you
manage to Kill me"
The Judge halted her and said he
would not require her TO answer such
questions that would tend to incrim-
mate or degrade her. but must know
her full name and he would permit
also charge of perjury to stand
against her.
District Attorney Dickinson then
cross examined her and finally wrunc
from her the fact that she was Cath
crime Fcnnell. of Richmond and Wash
inEton, ID. c.. and that she was known
TO the police under that name. She adj
nitted that she had heard that Albert
> Northrup. the government lawyer,
was married and had three children
OF his own. but she declared that he
had also married her and had sent her
money. In corroboratng this state
ment her attorney produced letter
from Joseph Solomon. Washington
lawyer and Mr.. Northrup's counsel
saying that he incloscd a certificate Of
her child's birth. But the letter was
not held as conclusive evidence that
Northrup was her legal husband For
three hours Mr.. Dickinson strove to
get informa ton from her but was un-
ical and begged the judge to save her
from the pitiless questions of the pros
ecutor. and twice the justice asked her
to be calm and to remember that no
one would hurt her if she would only
tell the truth.
Under further questioning she ad-
mitted having lived in Forest Glen.
Md; Falls Church, Va, and stanton,
Va When finally excused she was led,
hysterical and on the point of fainting
to her chair. where the hospital ply
sicians attended her.
Miss Fske told how she had attend
ed st. Bartholomew Episcopal Church
one Sunday morning In February. and
her gold mesh bag that had cost $3.50
She said that she did not know the
prisoner. but thought her the same
woman who sat near her in church.
Mary Bannon. maid employed by
Mrs. Fitzhugh. told of having seen the
bag in the possession of her mistress.
She also said that while in Washing
ton Mrs. Fitzhugh had given her four
pawn tickets to keep for her. hut later
that she had sold them to John Camp-
bell Groner. Washington man, for
$50.
A clerk named James Herman. en-
testified TO four articles being pawncd
by Mrs: FitZhugh here in New York
One called for a diamond bracelet con-
at $500. on which $40 was advanced.
The bracelet was identified by Miss
Munsey as being her property Tie
second pawn ticket was for a gold
mesh bag pawned on November 2, 1917
for $50. The third was for diamond
81 was advanced. And the fourth was
for n silver mesh bag pawned on Dc