The Dickinson press., 1914-12-12
NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY, DECEMBER IL, 1914.

AND MRS. P|TK|N
Many of our readers will be inter
ested in what the st. Louis papers
recently said about Mrs. Pitkin alias
Isles, La Bar and De Vaney. At
torney w. F. Burnett Of Dickinson
is in receipt of the following news.
paper clippings from St. Louis TO-
gether with letter from the chief
Of police of said city with informa'
tion regarding the whereabouts o1
~. C. r." and the woman who gave
her name Mrs. Harriet Pitkin in
Dickinson last fall: 4
Daily Post Dispatch Nov. 20: Mrs
Harriet E. Pitkin, who came to St
Louis Monday with a man who she
said was the famous man of mystery
81. C. R." in an effort to have him
identified as the owner of large es.
tate in North Dakota, was taken with
the man this afternoon by detectives
from 4522 Page Boulevard to Chie1
Allender's office and questioned in re:
gard to her visit here. Mrs. Pitkir
| has had unfortunate and embarras'
sing experiences with the police i1
the past and was a workhouse prison.
er here in 1905.
81 4h1 roo1Son
dent with the Identification of the
woman by a Post-Dispatch reporter
as Mrs. Harriet E. La Bar, who was
tried and acquitted in Judge With
rows court in January, 1905, on 3
charge of aiding L. c. La Bar, sale
to have been her husband, in swindl.
| irg a publishing house out of $4,000
worth of books. La Bar was sent
enced to serve four years in the peni,
Immediately after Mrs. La Bars
or Mrs. Pitkin's, acquittal she was re-
arrested, according to police depart
ment records, and taken to Washing.
ton, D. c., for trial on a charge o1
passing a worthless check for $50
She: was promptly acquitted there.
| Mrs. Pitkin objected to accompany
ing the detectives to Allender's Of
flee, demanding they produce a war
rant for her. Upon their advice thai
it would be advisable to accompan!
them without objection, she agreed
The man introduced as Caldwell was
taken along.
The man introduced as Caldwell
Mrs. pitkin has stated, is the mys
terious 81. C. r." who was found un,
conscious on a railroad platform neal
Rochester, Mimi, in June, 1907. u
c.. R." was taken to sanitarium II
Rochester and after a year escaped.
| While 81. C. r." gray-haire(
man, whom Mrs. Pitkin always refers
to as "as a. boy" sat outside Chie1
Allender's office going through thu
motion of playing an imaginary VIC
lin, Mrs. Pitkin inside was answering
hundreds of questions and suggesting
some that Allender did not think of
She volunteered the information
that in 1905 she was sentenced tt
serve six months in the St. Louis
workhouse for spiriting a witness ou
Of the state, but was paroled by for
mer Mayor Wells after serving two
weeks. She explained she overheard
a plot in a street car between priv
ate detective and a girl, to rob :
conductor, and out of goodness o:
heart bought the girl ticket t.
leave town after the private detective
had been arrested.
| After an hour of steady qestionins
Chief Allender had not elected proc
from Mrs. Pitkin to convince him tn
man who accompanied her was tn
missing Jay A. Caldwell.
| Mrs. Pitkin says that she kidnapped
him from the sanitarium and that tn
man she has with her is this SAM
man.
A year ago Mrs. Pitkin identifies
the same man as her son, Earl w
Isles, who has been missing for sew
eral years. She now says that sh
knew he was not her son, and tina
she identified him in. that manner TO
the sole purpose Of keeping him witt
her. ."
Jay A. Caldwell, she AYERS, is tn
owner Of large tract of land il
North Dakota, valued at more thai
100000. Mrs. Pitkin said that il
her search for her son she foun'
Caldwell and Immediately recognized
him as the son of an old neighbor.
According to St. Louis records tn
woman has been known under tn
names Isles, LaBar, DeVaney AM
Pitkin.
Daily Post Dispatch Nov. 21:-Mrs
Harriet F.. Pitkin Of Chicago, who i
at 4522 Boulevard with a man, sh'
says is the famous man of mystery
81. c.. r." was questioned for tw'
hours by Detective Chief Allender a
police headquarters yesterday after
noon.
Mrs. Pitkin admitted that unde
the name of Harriet E. La Bar, sh
was tried and acquitted on a frau
charge in Circuit Judge Withrow'
court in 1905. L. C. La Bar, the1
known as her husband, was convicte'
on the same charge and sentenced II
serve four years in the penitentiary
He was charged with defrauding
publishing company out of $500
worth of hooks. .@=,..f .:...
She also admitted she was trie'
and acquitted on forgery charge il
Washington, D. c., and that sh
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