The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-07-06

One day the Humbert suits were
shifted from the civil to the criminal
courts. The next day the gendarmes
opened the safe In II were button
and pile of old newspapers. The
Humberts fled to Spain and were
caught Their trial advanced from
simple case almost to an affaire, with
political connotations. Wife and hus-
band got short terms But Nine. Hum
bert still stuck to the tale of the
Crawfords.
Dss De Bars Career.
Diss De Bar, who specialized In the
occult. used the locked box motive
more than once, and Is such fine
example of plentitude OF husbands
that toward the end of her career her
full name was Ann ODelia Lolita
Montez Saloman Dessart Messart Diss
De Bar MCGOWAN Jackson, not count
ing professional titles, such as A-Diva
Veed-Ya and police sobriouettes, such
as Fat Annie.
She was a Kentuckian, daughter Of
n German professor and his Southern
wife. She came to New York in 1870
and announced herself as the daugh-
ter Of Lola Montez and Ludwig OF
York. Luther r. Marsh. once associate
Of Daniel Webster, thought Adelaide
Nelson was his spirit bride. Diss De
Bar. already medium. got Adelaide
on the line In the spirit world, and
eventually Marsh's family got the po-
lice to Interfere.
DIss De Bar boasted that she made
S150OO0 year out Of her successive
cults. Men were Just side line. In
1895 she married William J. Meow
an, a rich Chicagoan. Later she was
Mrs Jackson. She and Jackson were
sent to prison in England on the testi-
mony of girl neophytes. In 1909 Mrs.
Lillian Hobart French opened the
Mahatma institute at 80 East Thirty
third street. Diss De Bar was in the
background on throne. And. to re-
turn to the analysis of the expert
enced detective, Diss De Bar was no
beauty. Once while in Jail she added
80 pounds to the 200 she took IN with
her.
Ellen Peck Made a Million.
Ellen Peck was another type, and
successful one although she went to
Jail three or four times. Once % civil
and criminal actions were pending
against her and single diamond
transaction produced 25 indictments
She was devoted wife for 40 years.
raised family Of honorable sons and
WAS mother-in-law to- clergyman,
but despite the faith in her manifest
ed by many friends. even after she
had been convicted, she regarded rich
men as fair prey. In 1887 she got DR..
Jason Marks to invest $4,000 In one
Of FER projects. Tn 1894 she posed as
the wife of Danish admiral and got
many thousands Of dollars with which
10 press claim for millions against
the American government. The late
Thomas Byrnes, chief of detectives.
said she piled up $1,00OOO0 during
her career.
Her first exploit was buncoing a
soap manufactures. That was in the
eighties. He had been robbed. She
posed as a detective and got $4,000
to follow fake clue. Then she
trimmed patent medicine man-and
In those days the patent medicine
business was not unsophisticated.
Ellen Peck had sense Of humor ;
she liked to trim criminals She
trapped julius Columbani, IN ex-con-
Wet, who, when she advertised for a
loan on diamonds, gave her bonds
which she found had been stolen. And
many a time she approached big men
In the business world. giving as ref
erences the names Of equally impor-
tant business men whom they knew.
She became New York's oldest convict
In 1909. when, Mt the age of seventy
nine, she got $1,000 from real es-
tate firm by getting loan on title
which had been invalid for 60 years.
Nine. Humbert looked like char
woman, Diss De Bar was plump and
plain, and Ellen Peck had face like
a man's.-New York Times.