Daily British Whig (1850), 18 Sep 1902, p. 7

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

« Ents ing." SOPHIE LYONS. A GENEROUS ACT RECALLS QUEEN OF CROOKS. Originator of the Kleptomania Dodge--How She Sold, Gold Bricks to Englishmen--An- Ad- venture With an Actress--She Once Fleeced Mike McDonald. "l saw a news despatch from De- troit 'the other day stating that So- phic Lyons, who for a good many years kept the fly cops of two conti- busier than any ten female crooks ever kept them before or since had remitted 86,000 to Billy Burke, an American crook in limbo in Paris, prefumably to help Billy salve his way out," remarked an old-time Head- quarters detective, whose police activ- THR - DAILY WHits, THURSDAY, SE EMBER 18. the lachry- Mikes bank at the'time. She tearful- mose play. T once saw her make a lv told. Mike, that her husband had notoriously hard Chicago judge blow confessed to her that morning ~ that his nose ferociously and turn her he was, in consequence of his gamb- loose "by springing her little bundle of ling, short in his accounts with his weeps on' him at the opportune min- ' firm, that he imperatively needed $2.- ute, and this, too, when she had been 500 to tide him over and temporarily nailed 'with the goods all over her. cover up his shortage, and that she Ii, instead of becoming a class A had come to beg the man to whom crook #he had gone on the stage, she her unfortunate husband had lost the would have picked up 'Camille' and money to let her have the $2,500 . as other sobhy parts like that and run a loan. § away with 'em. "Mike couldn't. and" wouldn't see it, "Sophie was never hauled up for {and he told her so flatly. He said this one. It was my understanding | that it was none of his business where that she made geod to the actress for | the mon who visited his gambling the theft vears afterward when she, i Place "got their money. He didn't Sophie, had the yellow papers to in- make them gamble or steal their em- cinerate, while the actress was corres- ployers' coin. It was up to them. pondingly reduced in fortune. Every thing was fish that came to his **A Scotland Yard man told me a net, and so on. good deal about some of the schemes | "Right at this point Sophie put she worked for trimming 'em in Eng- | Mike under the gun, fo to speak. She land. She started in with a pretty rose --up, Wilhelm Reilly, with her imperious manner, and-she could main clutch to operate villa, in Bath, where, with the aid of throw one of those things in a way a couple of male crooks who wire to make a vidous mastii within the ---- 7 es THOMAS G. Who has just been created Great Incohonee of the Improved Order of Red Men, is a resident one of the most. pro minent figures in the Indiana branch more than thirty was 'ust like Sophie. known to shake a pal There was a tine when it was safe for her to come to the front that she didn't do it for the purpos=e of digeing up bail or a trial fund for the corvalled erook with whom she had worked, and e¢ven for plenty that she's never voked up with itv dates "back aan "That She never ot an ex:pal. was never on jobs, "That little phic Gut of State's prison on a asions when it looked for her. The gratitude of pros; crooks for whom she had stooa when they were in trouble alwavs took them to Sophie's aid in bunches whenever she nailed and scheduled for a long bit, and in prétey nearly every case this sort of help pulk her through tidilv. Considering the kina of chances Sophie (ook Tor so many years, she dia very littl She had too many friends. "Sophie must hé. getting on This recent despatch Fd heard .of 'her in sever understood" that had been" Tiving on the level in Detroit, her home, for time, -£now -that- a good many years aco she put her two little girls into a Montreal convent to be reared and educated, and a friend of mine who saw them there told me that tliey haa developed into- charm cultivated and that the were jenorant mother's me thod of life, chatacteristic kept Ro rood bad many oc vot was tine, in vears the was al now. first although 1 yea sone womeh, of their EE -- ea =e rm ES ETT I expert "Sophie Lyons was in her day eas iy the star female erook of this coun tev. if not of the world. She had gh © the women grafters that 12 ever ran nto, I've handled heat a Stroll, and down to the present min of and a few, in ute the eld time stars among the male crooks dofi their bonnets at the mere nent her name. Any old was Enouch for Sophis the quarter of a century that playing them both ends from the nid dle and coming and going shoplifting, spark crafting, moll buzzing and straicht dip work, forging, runn ver fence, skinning "n stringing along with t lng it w same during <h¢ n ol cood was sway cards, goods people, smug in going to Sopliie,. so long as the coin was sight; and I don't believe I'm tod in! saying that-she probably picked up of the dough durmg her active than any criminal, in American far nore carter or' woman, succeeded in vive: up hody ever "ophie--Lvons | to wit her but connections or hh ax broughe up has Sprung son = on the manner and a remember her and gifted she m books as a hts hack handsome mn th had (deh he SVes me "way aler with criminal Worn he Wilae arvery can®fn Detroit as a' chop didn't cot for the trigk expensive laces were hey new and lacking exper d her in Detroity, but ! framing Te She hut "Rhee hifter, ot stuf crafts Being they shipped © out ene carra she could martvred that wouldp't put a throat the Cardiff ah Bernhardt never that the could t ana gush tears Sophie dopea it dut that it wd of aiant Law th on the hot. ervstg Sophie Lyons could rn SO many ax was her | smuggling, when | man radius of her eye fold away his tail and. sneak across a sand lot, Mike wouldn't come to the Sontgior a little matter of $2,500 to keep but of State's prison her husband who had lost everything at Mike's place, jwouldn't Mike. Very well! She would immediately drive to the chief of police, who happened to be her first cousin, and she would tell the whole story to him, and she would see if "Which was about as far as Sophie needed to go on that line. McDonald skated to the centre of the baize with the $2,500, and thus closed the inei- dent. He didn't know until several months later that it was Sophie Lyons who had so cleverly swung him for the bundle. He then saw her in a Chicago court, where she happened to be up for a bit of a check transaction and he laughed when he recognized her. He remarked that as she was the only woman who had ever suc- ceeded in shredding him for a wad on a blufi, she was entitled to the dough." "When she clambered out of her first little mess in Detroit, Sophie made up her mind that that town wasn't roomy enough for her and she lammed on here to main burg. She was a swell looker, as I say, with all kinds of the society manner, and when she started in to shred the, New. York shops the game came her way .with a rattle. She was the first woman to put through the kleptomaniac frame- up in this country, if not the first to spring it anywhere. She had about looted the lace departments of a lot of New York stores, including several cute hauls at A. T. Stewart's, where laces were a specialty, before she was nabbed by accident, a bolt of expen- sive lace slipping to the floor from one [§ | of her cavern pockets. "Sophie rigged up a beautiful faint in the office to which she was sum- moned by the manager of the store, and reduced the members of the firm to tender sympathy by her recital of how the habit of involuntarily taking things had grown upon her. The up- shot was that they asked her, for her own sake and that of her family, to ~| be good, and let her po. Sophie then decided that swiping from the coun- pers and cases involved too much per- 'sonally conducted risk, and that there really wasn't enough in, it, anyhow, for a woman of her olroitness, 2 The things that she then proceeded to do around this little old town, off and on, for a good many vears, sure kept the headquarters stafi on the move, She was the first crook, man or .woinan to pull off the sliding hureau wlrawer "game inthe annexing of 7 stack of carbons. She rented a couple of communicating reoms in a promi nent down-town hotel, after register- ing under the name of a wealthy wes tern woman, whose husband was high- lv rated in the comntercial directories. Then she sent to one of the biggest gem dealers in New York; te fetch a collection diamonds brooches, ear- rings, rigs, and- so onto her apart: ments, she was desirous of select- ing some wedding presents for a sis- ter about to be married in the west. The diamond man sent an agent with a grip full of jewelry to the hotel, Sophie, putting on her fine. haughty manner,- received the agent in the sit ting ropm of her twa-room suite. She spent about an hour' carefully seléct- ing thé gig-lamps that she wanted, putting them aside in a morocco case that she produced for the purpose. Af- ter picking out about $3,000 worth of stones she announced that she had en ough, and she placed the morocco case in. the top drawer of a bureau that by the door leading into the bedroom. She told the happy diamond man that she would go into the other room ~and draw a check for-the am ount of her indebtedness for. the Jew " SO HR Y HARRISON, of Indianapolis and of the order. with the short cards, she vanked down big money from fledg lings. whom she succeeded in fascina ting |by her looks and" conversational charms. This, however, she found to be dull work, and so she took up the cold brick came, the intricacies of which had been taught heér bhy™ Town O'Brien, the King-craftsman of the} phony bullion garb. "She put it to the credulous well todo provineials whom she snagoed that she was the widow of a wealthy American' gold who had died suddenly in Encland, leaving her short of the ready money but with enough pure gold bricks to huild a, smokehouse. She stufied them with the little story. that, inasmuch as the British Mint forbidden to pur chase" gold" from any person not a British subject, | she would be com pelled to dispose of one of the gold bars at a.sacrifice in order to obtain funds back to. the States in the style befitting her station, in addi tion to paying up a number of rather heavy personal debts that she had contracted in London, It isn't re coud, of course, just how many: times Sophie. got. awaw with the oold bri | in England, .but the Scotland Yard man told me that "he had three of the alleged auriferous har< that she had reluctantly parted with to gullilile Englishmen of = the pro- vinces for sums ranging from £1,000 to £3,000. "It wasn't very long after Lvons, with a wholesome fear of Brit i~h prisons; began to tind. England wo for her that she took to the diamend-<m heg--eame--on--a- large ale. She did the trips between Am stevdam and New York, carrving all but quart measures of the non-decla ed shiners for a lone time before got pinned © to the stick. She one of the original users of "the steamer trunk for jewel and she had as many scheines for stowing the jewels awav as a gosling has pin-feathers. Tt was Sophie Lyons who invented the hol hich shoé heel which, screwing on the shoe, ry. for smugeled miner was of as to owt on aame seen Sophie {stood caloric els, "After she went the "diamond chap sat and twiddled his hat, figuring jov- ously on the amount of his commissi on for the big sale. But after he had waited and twiddled his hgt for about halt" an. hour he bégan to grow ner vous, and so, just to satisfy himself, he tiptoed-"over to the bureau to have a look at the marocco case. Of course it wasn't there. Sophie had walked off with it long before. ™ jowelsoand: a She had simply passed out of the nighty safe at that. util the | room in which she had examined the nspectars eventanlle sot wise to it piewelry into the hall, and then enter: through the squealing of 'a nerveless ect: the other TONE: A panel had heen smuggler who peached to [one out of the dager leading into the punishment. sitting room, and likewise the back- LC was no less a foxy feminine per hoard oF the top drawer of the bur- son than Sophie Lvons. the same, | "8% So that it had been something who once fanned Mike McDonald, the }e2sy for Sophie just to reach through Laois Chicavo, cambler, who died the cut-out panel, annex the morocco = a case from the bureau drawer, put on her hat and stroll out. It wasn't un- til vears afterward that Sophie hauled up for this, and then har luck was with her, She wriggled out of it on her Jlawver's clever plea that, as the sight of the man who had sold the diamonds to her had become de fective, his identification Wasn't cepted by law. she was fal bottomed low, and off made a fine reposi one, woinan fodoe a Years ago, for a 2.500 hank roll. was running a big faro bank in at the time: and he had not htained the tremendous clutch h afterward made it virtually us for the authorities of the whole I Hines to attempt to budge in fact, in sme danger, ssumption ot office of a he was was, to the a al chief of police, and running a sort of thes high rollers safe to believe that Lyons knew all aboyt how h'Mike at the time, or have dad to ry killing with him. up to Mike's fine house afternoon, in new Chicago as constuently pent uy came for Iv. It is pretty "It would take about a week to tell {even of the new that Sophie { Lvons charted ont and put"over here It | and' elsewhere while was on the turf. Some of them were mighty in to pull | genious: Nearly all of them we ractertized by a species of ef such as no woman crook hefore & after Sophie Lyons, ever exhibited. stat When | "One afternoon she floated into Mike her, in the parlor she told of the stage boxes of the Boston Mu- him that -she was 'the of a mar to attend wn who had _a few nights before Jo gotten, up regardlessly, and she looked 10.100 to buck Mike 8 Taro like the real bill of lading from Bea she had got the name of the During the progress of the who hetually did this big performance she enthused a whole lot lose-out from a crook who had been in over the acting of one of the cow ones she <h fashed wiche great "pertur one ation one met WL seum the matinee. She was trying bank con Street. make FACTS THAT TA Kr he for Cash. production. many thousands of barrels of high Barbara tract expects actually occurs, the value of the holdings will speedily advance. [os ' 35 3 # Fone Easter Consolidated Oil Company continues the best paying inveXment with a sound financial status on the market to-day. The company is not an experiment. lished on a solid dividend paying basis. to its stockholders at the rate of 2% monthly oa their investments. 5 " This company has over 100 producing oil wells en its holdings in Ohio, and is selling grade illuminating oil monthly to the Standard Oil Company This vast tract of oil land will be the new oil Eldorado of the far wharfs on the company's holdings are already built for loading tank steamers, transportation will be much cheaper than by land. The superintendent to strike the second "pay streak" of oil sand at any time now. When this be doubled, and the price of stock _will undoubtedly ASTERN CONSOLIDA t Ws : sul Stockholders Are Jubilant, and are Doubling Their Holdings in Anticipation of the Rise. Thousands of Dollars in Dividends | on Their Investments Will Be Paid | Out This Week in Checks to the Stockholders. : 1 1 EEE It is estab- It has distributed over $100,000 in dividends 5 5 This company has vast holdings in Santa Barbara, Cal, 19,000 acres along' the Pacific coast, Drilling for oil has already commenced, and rich indications give prophecy of immediate West. Two 1 oceas by WAT which on the Santa of drilling ge 1 ol 0 3 Another Fact. Those Who Buy 50c. a. Share Will Have an Oppor- tunity tc Realize on the Advance to "| $1.00 by January Ist. - Development work is being pushed on the company's Kexn River property. Five wells are being drilled a five more will be begun as soon as oil is struck in these. 000 barrels of oil a month in addition to the product in Ohio from 100 wells. The Standard Oil Company is building a Giant Oil Refinery in Kern River tract, which alone will require thousands of 'barrels of oil a day. the Stock Now: at + with all possible speed and These ten wells' alone will give 50,- A ' : des iy 1 Such are a few of the FACTS that make the stockholders happy and the Bastern Conso- lidated the safest a: d n:ost profitable investment on the market. A solid, substantial business enterprise that appeals to conservative investors who require absolute Security as well as profits. Send for prospectus. C. B. HEYDON & CO. Rooms 4o1 and 402 Manning Chambers Building, 72 Queen Street West, Corner Queen and Terauley Streets, Court House Square, FT i 1 ' - TORONTO, ONT. WE Wipes ates pany. This actress wore a lot of glit- terers in portraying. her part that the practiced "eye of Sophie easily pre ceived were the real thing. and not the usual stage phonies. The actress was flattered over the gracious smiles and handicappings of the woman in the box, whom she took to he a fio- urante in.social affairs of the © Hub, and she smiled back at Sophie. "At the close of the performance Sophie sent to the actress' dressing room a card-- a bogus, of course-- im- pressively engraved with a good name and addr The actress was delight eto Tetoive Sophie in her dressing room, and thev had an enjovable chat tor half an hour or so, in the course of which the actress' vifftor invited her to teas and dinners and réceptions to fill a route from cover to cover. When the visitor departed, how ever, the discovered that. her jewelry, which she had removed and placed in a casket on her dressing ta- ble, was mournfully minus. book actress REFUSED A CHARTER. Philadelphia Judge Says They are a Business Corporation. Philadelphia: Pa Sept. I5~The ap- for a charter made hy the i lication 5 has Church of Chtist, Scientist, opinion Judge Arnold says: "The charter applied for in this case grant have is, a to we that We have power a church, hut for profit business, a charter for 10 authority Lusiness corporation." Continuing. the court the text hook of Mary Bakgr Gi. Eddy infractions to Christian, Scientists to oll ana circulate the publications of M Eddy, failure to do the same ly fron quotes from a suflicient cause for expulsion viembership in the church. "This shows," says the court, "that so-callea church corporation organized to enforce the Mrs: Eddy'syhooks bv 1 which ix a busi of the such the I= a tor profit, ale or plumbers, matter of and relidion. Ax have no power to charter 'ation the app ation is refused.' iad HRs not ures cory artery Steamer North King leaves Kinos ton Sundays 10:17 a.m. for 1,000 Is] Leen refusea by Judge Arnold, In hid | {covers 3 donblepurpose--=y church an .a lb. ovsters, 40c. to Hc. a quart; s PRODUCE AND PRICES. The: Standard Rates -- Governing The Local Markets. Kingston, - Sept. 16.--There is but little change in the local proauce mar- ket quotations since last week, Fruit--Plims, 40c. a basket; peach- es 0c to Sic. g basket; lemons, 20c. a dozen; Jamaica oranges, 3Uc. to 40c. a dozen; bananas; 15¢c. to 25c. a doz- €n; pears, 40c. a peck; California rears, dlc. a dozen. Vegetables--Green corn, 10¢. a doz.; potatoes, 7c. a bag; cabbage, 5c. a head; carrots, beets, ete., 5¢. a bunch; tomatoes, 75¢. 4 bushel. Fish--White fish, 12c. a lb.; sea sal- mon ana Seattle salmon, 25c. a lb.; salt salmon, salt trout, salt mackerel, 0c. a Ib; salt codlieh, 7c. to 15c. lb; kippered herring, 30c. a dozen; perch, 20 ¢. a dozen; mackerel, 15 ¢. a Ib.; pike, 7c. a lb.; halibut, 15¢c. a Ib; bloaters, 30c. a dozen; finnan haddie, 10c. a lb.; salmon trout, 12. a lb; blue fish, 124c. a lb; frogs' legs, 30c: ell clams, 20c. g dozen;-shell oysters; 20¢. a dozen; ciscoes, 10c. a Ib. Poultry.--Chickens, 50c. to 70c. a pair; fowl, 60c. to 70c. a pairy ducks, GOc. to 70c. a pair; turkeys, §l to $I.- 25" each. lie Meat--Beef, hindquarters, Ge. to Te. a lb; forequarters, 5c.. to Ge. a lb-; choice cuts, 124¢ a lb.; mutton, Ge. to . a Ib; spring lamb, 9c. to 10c. a hogs, live weight, 6c. to 6ic. =a ; veal, 3c. to 6c. a lb. tongues, 25c. euch. + Girain--Wheat, Manitoba. No. 1, 79¢. to Sc. a bushel; white winter and Canadian spring, 63c. to 67¢c. a bushel: local soft wheat, 63¢. to 0c. a bushel: Northern, No. 1, THe. a bushel; buckwheat, 50c. a bushel; bar- lev, Aveo Bushiel: peas, 65c. 4 bushel; oats, 3c. a bushel; rye, 45¢. to 4Sc. a, bushel. Flour and 'feecd--Bakers' atrong and farmers', flour, §2 to 82.10 a cwt.; Hungarian patent, 82.20 to $2.30 a cwt.; oatmeal and rolled oats, $4 to .50 a bbl; corn meal, 81.40 to &.- a cwt.; bran 818 to 329 a ton; shorts, $23 to $25 a ton; hav, 39 to {1 a ton; straw 4 to 8G a ton. uds, and at 5 p.m. for Rochester, N. | V.. calling at Bay of Quinte ports. Take the Rideau King for Ottawa ery Tuesday and Friday, gt 1 pour James 'Swiit & Co., agents, ard given by street © Dekin beef, hides, ing, 40c, to 25 Hides--These prices John Mehayv, Prock He. to 60c. eac 7 lamb s euch; hides, $2 to $2.2 each! rendered tallow, 3ic. a. lb.) un- washed wool, 6c. to 7c. a lb.; washed wool, llc. a lb.; washed wool in trade, a lb; horse i b Fa lb. . ad off the, cars, fe 1 5c. a lb. COMMERCIAL MA . ox 3 YEE Hw What is Going on in the Business World--The Market News. The Hungarian corn orop is this year very, deficient. - For the first week of September earnings of forty-six American roads increased 5.87. Per cent, i TEA oA A London cablegram "savas existing. stocks of wheat _arefthe smallest gince October, 1898. : While frosted corn would net be fit to de liver on contracts, feeding purposes. The American Agricalturist reports that buvers are paying $1.50 to $2.50 for winter apples ih New York state. an The peach crop in Essex this yaar is 'the largest since the disastrous Treeze-out "in 1898, and heavy shipments are being mad every The newest 'trust is one of broom mantfar- It will have a cafiital of $5,000,000 Dairy Wholesals. Butter.--Creamery, 22¢ to 23c. a lb.; farmers' in prints, 20c. to 22c, a Ib. in rolls, 18c. a Ih. . Cheese--93¢. a 1b. Dairy Retail. Butter.--Creamery, 23¢. a Ib. farm- ers' in prints; 22¢. a lb; in rolls, 20c. Eggs. Wholesale--15¢c. a dozen. Retail--17c. a dozen. "Markets Elsewhere. Toronto, Sept. Wheat, "white, new, per bush., 65c. to 7lc.; wheat, ved, mew, per bush.,, "65c." to 68c.; wheat, spring, per bush., ¢ wheat, goose, per bush., 62c. to oats, new, per bush. 2. to 35¢.; barley, per bush. 40<"16 42c.; rye, per bush., 45c.; hay, old, per ton, 16; hay, new, per ton, 810 to 814; . straw, per ton, 810 to 810.50; seeds, per bush., Alsike, choice; No. +,-87 to 87.25; Alsike, No. 2, §6 to $6.75; timothy, 81.75 to 8$2.- 50: apples, per bbl, 81.25; dressed hogs, £0.25 to . butter, dairy, per Ib., 14e. to 17¢; butter, creamery, per lh., 18. to 2le; chick- ens, per pair; Hie. to T0c.; ducks, pair, 60c. to Slc.; eggs, per dozen, to 1Ye.; potatoes, per bug, 65¢ 13. day. turers. Philadelphia capitalists. Twenty years ago the total bituminous coal output of the United States was about 50,- 000,060 tons a vear, whereag now if is not sar from 250,000,000, . It is reported that the New York Central & Hudson River Railway will at once double track its lina from Utica. N.Y., to Montrent on acconnt of the heavy awd incremsing pas- senger avd freight, teaflie, The exports of animals and their products from Canada, during the months of July and August, were valued at $41,000,000, as compared with a little over $10, ,000 for hiefs forequarters: $4.5 550: bo the same period last vear. The exports of 'hindquarters, 87 agricultural produéts during the laet two um, carcase, 85 to $6.50; beef, cho wonths were valued at $3,956,000, an in 7 to 87.50; lamb, $5 to § crease of $1,300,000 over the sme period carcase, 8 mutton, & to &7;, veal, choice, 87.; last year. . to 88.50. Montreal; Sept. 15.--There were ah- out S00 head of butchers' cattle, 50 calves and 1,000 sheep and lambs of- fered for sale at the Fast End abat- toir to-day. The butchers were pres- ent in large numbers, and there was a good' demand for everything pretty good in the beef line,, but common stock continue to bring low rates. A ir of good steers were sold at £4.60 the 100 Ibs... but none of the others brought" over 4ic., and from that down to 3c. per lb., for pretty good while the common stock sold | at from 2le. to 3c. per Ih. Calves cold at from $2.50 to $12 each, or from 3le Sc. per Ib. Sheep sola at from Jc. to 34c.. and lambs at from to dc. per Ib. Good lots® of fat sold at about 7c. per lb., weigh- New York Man Weds In Berlin. Berlin, Sept. 18.--A wedding in Ber- lin to-aay of interest TT Aeritens was that of Miss Margaret- Seefeld and Ernest Kempton dams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fdward D. Adams, of New York. The bride ig the daughter | of Lieut.-Col. Seefeld, of Berlin, form erlv. commander of the military dis- trict of the Grand Duchy of Baden. rr ---------- pat For any case of nervousness, sleep- lessness, weak stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia, try Carter's "Little Nerve Pills. Relief is sure. The only nerve medicine for the price in market. Planteur, the great food for house plants, large packages 10c. Sawmpley free. McLeod's drug store, cattle, <<. 10 J he it would still be used for or more and will probably be organized by - v

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy