Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-05-31
their quarry had managed TO give them

their quarry had managed TO give them
the slip
In May, 1914, the Paris police cabled
that they Ind arrested them. They were
not extradicted until nearly yenr later,
and then on The specific charge OF theft OF
q 1925 bit of iewelry. They we're acquitted
because Of n flaw in the indictment, md
It was impossible TO try them ON other
stronger charges without violating the
extradltion treaty with France.
They disappeared after that and did not
again come III contact with the police OF
tins country until recently, when George
II. Cummings, manager of the New York
Novelty Company, reported to the police
that he was suspicious of the intentions OF
woman who had induced him TO let her
have $4,000 worth of diamonds ON a
memorandum to sell to mir. Lucas,
and that when he had demanded the re-
turn of his stones he had been curtly re-
fused. She had given ID Park Row as her
address, and when Detective Tom Smythe
arrived there he was surprised to discover
that the Diamond Queen and her part
ner had selected quarters on the same
floor and next door to the office of the
United States Department OF Justice.
The end of Miss Amethyst was theatric
al IN the extreme. Detective Smythe half
opened the door Of the office, slipped into
the room and put his back against the
door.
Il have warrants for both of you," he
announced PUT your hats and coats on
and come along with me. :
He strobe toward the man as being the
one likely to give him the most trouble If
any developed. AS he did so the Diamond
Queen" opened a handbag, as though she
planned to adjust her couture or powder
her nose. Instead she took out tiny
bottle, removed the cork and poured the
contents down her throat.
"1ll not 20 with you, she declared
Historically, and her knees bent beneath
her as she said it, When the ambulance
arrived from the Volunteer Hospital in
response 10 a call from the excited de
tectlve, kllsenger was seated on the floor
sobbing and pleading with the lifeless
body to speak TO him. As the stretcher
was borne out of the room the detective
tapped him on the shoulder and kllsenger
started for the Tombs.
The editions of the newspapers that
chronicled the end of Miss Amethyst, also
told OF the sentence TO prison of Kitty
Dowell, another woman criminal who has
been extraordinarily successful In keeping
out of Jail She was convicted in Special
EesSlpilS Oh HitdtiflR 3s1 itdGt1 ittb nun
Mays and sent to Sing Sing for not less
than six months nor more than three years
This was her first conviction, but IT was
the one-hundredth time she had been
arrested, according to Miss Mangan the
probation officer who investigated her
record. At various times Kitty had heen
charged with matchmaking. picking peck
cts, shoplifting and bail jumping. But
somehow she always managed To escape
the consequences OF her acts Sometimes
jurors were susceptible 10 her tears, some
times the victims rclented Whatever
kitty's system, it was effective. She was
arrested in January, 1910, on the com
plant of Warner NJ. Van Norden, former
" president OF the Van Norden Trust
Company. He said she had taken $4,000
from wallet IN his evening coat.
In telling how it happened, Mr.. Van
Norden said that he paused in front OF the
Waldorf-Astoria to pick up a womans
handbag and that when he handed it to
her, after Strengthening up, she threw her
arms about him in what appeared to be a
half tipsy embrace Of gratitude.
The police never did manage to put
Kitty away, as they express il, and the
fact that she has been convicted at last
and for the theft OF a S25 bag which,
wouldn't have won a second glance from
her ten years ago, is evidence that Kitty is
losing some of her cunning and much of
her discrimination.