New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-22
MRS. F|TZHUCH FREED;
.REARRESTED AND HELD
Says She Is Being Prosecuted
to Force Her to Tell Where
Baby Is Concealed.
IGNORED BY HER FRIENDS
Must Answer Charges of Steal.
ing Gold Bag and Purse in
Fashionable Church-Ball
Is Fixed at $4,000.

The woman known as Mrs. Randolph
Fitzhugh. who declares she is the wife
of Albert s Northrop of Washington
and who has been under arrest for the
last week on charges of larceny ana
vagrancy was discharged by Magistrate
I'reschi in Jefferson Market court YES
terday afternoon. but immediately rear
rested on two charges of grand larceny
After an examination she was held in
s.. 600 bail To await action by the grand
jury.
When the hearing was concluded after
: o'clock in the evening. the woman
broke down and tearfully protested heI
innocence.
This seems to be persecution pure
and simple" she sobbed Those people
want to get my baby. but l will die n
prison before ] tell where ne is Right
now there are some people high I'm 500
ciety i'm New York who could step ont
and save me. but they won't because
they fear the publicity that would fol-
low one man could speak the word
which would clear me. but he is too much
Of a cad. and ] am sworn not 10 tell ans
names. l Will keep my word.
The additional charges against the
woman were presented by Assistant DIS
trict Attorney Dickinson, and were based
on thefts alleged to have been 'com-
mitted in st Bartholomew church and
The Church or the TRANSPORTATION The
complainants were Miss Dorothy Fisk
Of Plainfeld y J.. daughter of Pliny w
%
oT 40. 9S4S Broadway
Complainant Did Not Appear.
Mrs Fitzhugn was discharged on
Wednesday on the charge of stealing a
gold bag. valued At 500. from Miss Fish
owing TO the inability of the police TO get
Miss Fisk to testify. She appeared in
court Yesterday. however. and Mrs Fitz-
hugh was held
When she was taken TO court from
Bellevue Hospital her easy manner ndo
disappeared and she was apparently "
nervous wreck She took the witness
stand at the beginning of the eXamina-
ton. but her almost hysterical answers
after the first few questions made IT
necessary to take her off.
When she first took the stand Mrs.
Fitzhugh was Intercepted about her
early life and her identity. When asked
if her maiden name was Catherine Fen
nell she refused TO answer. and when As
sistant District Attorney Dickinson asked
her If she knew that Mr. NoUhrop, "a
whom she said she was married. had beer
married TO another woman Tor several
years and had three children she almost
swooned. She insisted that Northrop was
her husband. and that recently efforts Hao
been made to take from her the birth
certificate of her child and her marriage
certificate.
Purse Stolen from Pew
Miss Fisk said she had missed her gold
mesh bag while attending St BartholO-
news Episcopal Church one Sunday
morning i'm February. Mamie Bannon d
nurse formerly employed by Mrs. Fltz-
hugh. told Of having seen the bag in the
possession Of the woman. Mrs. Fftzhugh
did not explain her possession Of the bag
except to ask that her testimony in the
vagrancy complaint. that the bag had
been put into her muff while it was lying
on a table i'm the dressing room OF tie
Waldorf Astoria, Ice accepted in this case
She was held III 5000 bail on this charge
Miss Munsey said she had lost purs
Containing some money and diamond
bracelet worth $3.50 on November p, il
The Church OF the TRANSPORTATION SIN
left the purse in the seat when she wen
10 take communion and when she re-
turned il was gone. \ woman IN blacl
who had been sitting in the pew behin'
her had left the church in the mean time
She could not identity Mrs. Fitzhugh al
the woman SubSequently Detective Grit
9Th found the bracelet in BroadWa'
pavnshop. pawned in the name Of Mrs
Randolph FitzhuCh. lie also found severa
other articles Of jeweiry pawned i'm thi
name
Miss Ramon said that she had seel
pawn tickets for this jewelry in her mis-
tresss purse and that man living il
Washington had taken them and give
Mrs. Fitzhueh money in return.
The woman made no explanation con
cerning the tickets and was held on th
second charge of grand larceny, ba