The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-07-06
Siren Type of
Crook Outdone

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Paris, Vienna and Switzerland. Last
March she was again arrested In Los
Angeles, accused of obtaining $4,000
worth Of goods by false pretenses and
| selling them. Her alleged victims in
Europe and America were business
men of the conventional hard-headed
type. Her success explains why credit
men grow bald early.
Originally she was reputed to be
niece Of railroad magnate, and was
said to be related to q sugar king of
San Francisco. She married the mag
Mates secretary, man named
Toomey, and they were divorced in
1905. She at once sued doctor I'm
st. Paul For $4,000, alleging breach
OF promise. Then she married Ben
Teal, theatrical manager. and in 1908
was sent TO BlackwelPs island for a
year on her conviction on charge Of
suborning perjury. 1t was alleged
she arranged falsely TO show that the
millionaire defendant in the divorce
suit was seen coming from the room
of an actress. Mrs. Paddleford, or
Teal, won new trial after serving
part of her sentence, and the case
was dropped.
She married again. The new hus-
band was reputed to be millionaire,
DR.. George Paddleford Of Hollywood.
He has sued for divorce, alleging she
married him under an assumed name.
In April, 1922, she and her daughter
went to Europe. Mrs. Paddleford
took suite at the Hotel Crillon in
Paris, ordered many gowns kept the
dressmakers' samples, and when asked
for money threatened to cancel her
orders. The hotel presented bill, so
she moved and had the second hotel
pay the bill of the first. To all in
quiries for money she referred to her
millionaire husband. 1t worked. When
she was arrested in Vienna the police
| found in her rooms IL trunks filed
with costly furs. But Paddleford sent
no help.
Delusions appear In the case Of
Mrs. Emma Richardson Burkett of In
diana, whose career was short. She
was sentenced in 1921 to three years
Imprisonment for forging the indorse-
ment of Theodore Roosevelt to note
for 100000 which she presented to his
estate. She said an uncle Of hers went
to Alaska and brought back a trunk
which he told her not to open till he
was dead. In II she found $4,000
This, she said, she loaned to Roose-
30 hA DILL
convention in Chicago In 1912.
At her trial an Illinois prosecutor
testified that in 1910 he investigated
charge that she had attempted To
get $4,000 from another estate than
Roosevelt's. Once she served 30 days
for using the mails while running q
matrimonial agency. Her husband
Burkett, was her fifth. At her trial
she refused to let her lawyers plead
insanity.
Mime. Humbert's Schema
Nine. Humbert, who was tried in
Paris in 1903 inherited any delusions
SHE may have had. Her father talked
for years of a mythical estate. AS a
girl she got trousseau from dress
maker by asking for II, although no
marriage was in sight.
She married the son Of former min.
lister of justice, person Of impor.
tance. They set up in Paris. She LEI
Il be known she had two rich uncles
In America, named Crawford. That
was not their real name but one had
been mixed up in 1870 with a notori.
ous BIT of treason. They gave her n
treasure worth millions. but forbade
her to open their treasure box until
they were dead In proof she showed
the safe. She brought suits for the
right to open the safe az once. 9th.
ers-dummy men-sued her. She
won. they won. Appeals were taken
A whole background OF rights and per.
sons was manufactured by court pro-
ceedings.
Meanwhile the Humberts floated
7OO0OO.O90 francs In notes. Much
went for interest and refundlng. but
the net profits were 6O.OO0OO0 francs.
Meanwhile Nine. Humbert's one
daughter was kept in seclusion and
the whole family, according to the
governess, became genuinely hyster-
ical with grief when the little girl told
one tiny little-girl fb.