oo ~ sestury to be made gory by the hand © Anpa © when Nemiesis, constantly dogging his kill him, Man on Crowded treet. Are the opening chapters of the new | of women? Is she becoming more ty as the years roll on? . Beyond doubt, she is figuring moc: in the criminal annals of the day than ever before; more often are her hands | turned to deeds which the law regards | in the light of capital offenses. During the last six months or so fully two score more or less sensa- killings by women have been ted at greater or lees length io thy newspapers, while there have "been a number of others to which less at- tention was paid, and which passed the public - mind as soon, per haps, as the items were read. the majority of cases men have Teen the victims of women's homicidal fury. Either jealousy or a senve of promp! most of these Few women slay for plunder or any ai the buser motives, a All the traditional fury of a woman od famed up in the breast of Mes. M. Bradley, of Salt Lake City, she sought out former Senate: Brown, of Utah, in his Wach 75 i sad day for the brilliant 4 y Utah lawyer when th fates first permitted his path t, cross "that of the woman who finally sent him to the grave. For years she had been importuning him to marry her in simple justice, she asserted, to her two young sons. When hs failed to do what she consid- duty, she hecame a vengeful oot and notorious were the lose troubles of Senator Brown. When a | Kalamazoo, Mich., wife became greatly incensed at his devotion to Miss Isabelle Cam- 'eron, and, it was reported, this infatu- ation narrowly escaped ending in a condition of affairs ripened into that is remembe even town. At last, finding himseli cut by many of his friends, Brown went to Salt Lake City. He was followed by Isabelle Cameron, and when he had heen divorced from his 'wife, married hor, It seems the irony of fate that Mrs, Isabelle Cameron Brown introduced to hor husband the woman who later took his life. Mrs. Brown and Mrs, Bradley wore prominent clubwomen in Salt Lake, ant had become acquainted thtough mumbership in th: Poets' Round Table Club, a literary organiz- The introduction of Brown to Mrs. Bradley was made at St. Louis in 1896. Brown, accompanied by his wife had gone to St. Louis as delegate to the Republican national convention. One result of the friendship this be- © gun. was the separation of Mrs. Brad- ley from. her husband and of Brown from his wife. Then opened a long ser ies of scandalous and sensational ev- ent, which culiminated in: the killing of the former senator by the woman who. had charmed him, but of whom he dater. mdeavored to rid himseli. At the time of his death, Senator Brown, it hes been stated, was en- gaged to marry Mrs, Annie OC. Adams, mother of Maude Adams, the actress, is wife, having died about two years before. It was the discov ery of a letter from Mrs. Adams to Mr, Brown, speaking of an avpoint- "ment to' meet in Now York, that pre cipitated the tragedy in the Washing: ton x Jealous, despair and an overvhelm. ing sense of wrong seemed have Prompted this ='nring, one of the most schsationnl af the year But what nplice prompted © Mrs, Margery: ¢ lark | to lore Alecroon 8, Attwood from Pon fo Posten, to rad thes commit suicide ? Jealovse slots, ve Th whtolatm "hat she pad At Wood had heen marri-d was not Yorne out: bv: the eeeards: iy Boston. When he ow nt West, he nurertod that it was for the purtose of mating s home for to ane, a g Han Jsim» and intelligent, vourg At- wool was waceived no exeellent social rivales rl on November Oth, ws mareied to the dove Ster of a wealthy was sammened to Boston bv o fele- in. Which- falsely stated that Mes. the ~resence of the ell he had resnond- widow. fix «poke latter he, Josephine Terranova, 17 Years 0/d, Stew Uncle and Aunt. ed, she shot him, and then turngd-the | revolver upon herself. { Mystery obscures the motive leading to the killing of Gustave Simon, a wealthy New York manufacturer, on November 11th. Baroness de Massy, otherwise known as Anisin I ouise de Vernon, was arrested = charged with this crime, Simon, sixty-six years old, was pro prietor of a waist factory on Broad way. On the dav of the shooting the | baroness entered the establishment and walked through the crowded rooms to the office of Simon, Shortly afterward the sound of quarreling was heard. Then the wo man emerged and Simon, immediately behind her, seemed to be twshing her from the room. After a little time she returned, and three shots fired Employees rushed in, to find Simon lying 'on the floor, mortally wounded "I did not shoot him." Baroness de Massy calmly declared when arrested The asserted that the shooting done hy another who ine in wait as she intered the were was was ly office to person, collect money due her for work. It was asserted at the time that Simon, when dving accused the woman of shooting him. Baroness Of Aristocratic Lineage. Baroness de Massy come the aristocratic family of de Vernon. pro vginent in one of the French provinees, Her husband, a friend of Count Boni de Castellane, died suddenly three vears avo, and the hatonese suspected that he had been poisoned. She took up the work of ferreting out the assassin, and heo search, itis Af af said, led her to America. For some time before the killing of Simon she had been working as a designer of i shirtwaists, i About the middle of December. Jo seph O'Neil and his bride. "Goldie." formerly a welldmown artist's model in New York, tooh a room at a hotel in Greenwich, Corn. Fhartly after ward O'Neill was fomnd dving from ao stab 'wound under the eve. inflicted the nolice sav. with a nail file, Thev alka charoe. that Mrs. O'Neil was alone with him in the room at the time, and that i¢ why she was ar rested accused of killing her hushand Ten wears ago the voung woman married William H. Fialoy, a member of th New York nolice force, hut sen arated from him later and became an artist's model. Only a ccuple of voars ave she was ove of the best known mode's in Now oman @ Bloodt Roget thiningl Re Participant in Capital Crime. THE DAILY Reco fs WHIG, SATURDAY, FEB ing heavily just before his Jdeatk, and, j ended 'when the married sister fired a in addition, had taken poison. his furie Nchbara, twenty-tn of the Tombs prison, New York, wh the crowd was waitifir to sce some relative of Harry Thaw emerge from its doors. : When her vietim fell aftr 1 fi the shot, the wl three more The The fease of Mrs. Annie Birdsong bullet through the other's head. O'Neil was a steel worker. and it A jury at Atlanta, Ga., aojuitted was a singular coincidence that the Mrs. BE. M. Standifer of the charge of wife, accused of his murder, was lock- | murder. She acknowledged that sho ed in a ¢ Greeawich which he [had slain her seventeen-year-old sis had con ter, whom she discovered, she declar e suffered wrong at Jed, in an intrigue with her husband 3 { o "It was not for that, how , that years old, of Brooklyn, N.Y., coolly | 1 killed . but to wipe out the dis down Nicolo Ferrapee within | grace." to the jury. "I knew view of dozens of people in the stre-t. | that my were they living, The shooting occurred almost in front | would rat see her dead than die graced." f "Unwritten Law." law" was the de recently "unwritten into his h © was the coolest | tried in Copia county, Mi ippi, on person on the street and quictly hand the charge of killing Dr. Ba , while ed the revolver to a policeman whe | the jury that tried Mrs. Naonie. Nuck- cane running up ols, of Richmond, Ky., upon the Committed » prison, she said she ge of killing Mrs. Viana Black at did not wis! fully to employ a lawyer, be , who killed her degpio, and his wife i stabbing them f A Land pathetic y fe It w trial that we had su able wrong at the hands of her uncle while living in his home. Sh : assert thd assertion of the police. woman asserted that Potts failed fulfil his promise to marry her. I yhotograph of another woman, together with which séémed to have originated in an advertisement by Potts, was found Young { correspondence | York, and hed heen emdloved hy nl. most every artist of note. She was Yoonsidered ore of the most Lnautifmi youre womén who. frequented the [studics. and was in demand to pose for paintings and sculpture work. h Cur is not a HOF Neil, but; sold, 3 wos known se Kitty, ar #Galdie," Pellau, a light-hearte] oo : eho oroat Jes of anburn hsir ras principal attraction in the eves of artists Recently she Wiinrind 2 Seung, ta, accounts. gus: 5 gins Het that he ill-treated her, few pieces of foweley had heen all the clothing she owned he auburs-haired Tite wo tl aay Psd fit tl woman had been drink second matrimonial ; 10 her home, in Baltimore, Md., » evening in November, she found her {ninotecn-yenr-old sister, Ida Goff, among his effects, and thie lod to the thenry th ance again ungovernable iealousy hod plexed its part in x trag- v : To its promptings, also. was charg- od the murdec of William Robinson ol Terre Haute, Ind. Hix wile was accused of firing two bullets through his heart at the termination of a yuar- vel, resulting from the prescuce of the green-eyed monster. hen Mrs. Josephine Kelly returned one in company with hor hushand. Accusing the sister of havi her husband from her, Mrs. Kel ceivid a scomnfal reply. struck Mrs. Kelly with Unt can woman, ord," ed Muller ting; a lively fight -- commencament, was influ- ig convinced of the justice of 1 r favor by a similar senti her bloody ' deed. ment. Mrs. Black flaunted her sucess Widespreid inferest was ma in winning the affections of Mrs. last sum ge of Jo Nuckols" husband in the face of the n 1 teen-yvear-old Ita. | mand d wife. wy last fall, a beautiful Ameri alling hersell "Mrs. Stuf killed an old Frenchwan, num- at a table in 'the Hotel Interlaken, Switeerland. the deed has ever been Herbert, oaiat the man's wile knew of and Joi Jersey City, to cut the thront of y . wrongs her younger daughter and then throw Revenge © : . herself from the «roof of her house. ge Df Outraged Virture. Mrs. Henry Knippen, of Columbus Later Josephine married, happily Grove, Ohio, decapitated her children as she thought For time all Wohi spon: after being released from an in- well, but her husband learned of the { sane asylum. uniortunate chapter in her life's his Mrs. Clarence Markham, of Andover, tory and left her Mass., chased her seven children from Thon, wi all her sense of outraged | room to room, through the yard and womanhood intensified by this last into the stable, slaving them one. by bitter blow, and thinking only of sure { O0¢, and then killed herself. Insanity, and speedy x ge she invaded the | beyor bt, was the ea r uncle and aunt and kill- At Detroit, Mrs. Rose Barron was X \ sympathetic jury, af | arrested, charg with attempting to bor a dey e trial, acquitted her. poison members i Ja Lo Blufis, lowa, Frank K Une woman, Mrs was Potts, | of Philadelphia, was «in Vermont, for the shot to Mm his room. Charged } hus . a sim with the y, Emma Ripkiv, not yet Mrs. . ds, of twenty: vears « was arrested. + Mre Agnes Myers, of That Potts was shot while . Mo,, und Mrs, Anna Val wing irsty? rds Seem Frequent 238. «ntina, of Lodi, N.J., spent the year behind the bars under sentence of death. This sentence was commuted in the case of Mrs. Valentina, het Mrs. Myers and Mrs. FEdwucds began the New Year with impentling doom still hang- ing over them. Of all s of recent times, however, } » Halliday deserves record place. At the Matteawnn, N.Y., Stato Hospital for Crimina! Insane she comimitted her fifth murder, in Sep tember. In 1891 this bloodthirsty woman killed her son, and then murdered her husband, Paul Halliday, at their home, near Newburgh, N.Y. Soon af- terward she shot Mrs. Margaret Me- Quillan and her daughter, Sarah, con- cealing their bodies in a bam. Commiitted for life to Matteawan she seemed a docile prisoner. Then, on the fateful September morning last year, she suddenly. attacked and killed one of the hospital attendants, Nellie Wicks, with a pair of shears, inflict- ing over 200 separate wounds. .Waiters Boycott Employer. Budapest, Feb. 22.--Messrs. Mayer andl Nagy, of DPudapest, have been boycotted by the Waitors' Association because they spoke hurshly to a waiter who served them badly in a coffee house. They have been refused service in almost covery restaurant and coffee. house in Budapest, and have been driven to eating in small places where the proprietor is his own wait- ar. Up-To-Date Burglars. London, Feb. 22.--0On twd Russians ~Davis Borel and Eli Lehmann--re- manded at Blackburn on a charge of shop-breaking, the police found a com- plete safe breaker's outfit, consisting of sixty highly finished tools. The police watched the prisoners enter the promises, look around with electric lamps and depart. They were arr.st- ed at the railway station. W Passing Of Historic Fair. London, Fob. 22.--The historic Mit- cham fair. which dates from the time of Queen Elizabeth, is a thing of the past. The showmen have consented to a declaration that they are not en- titled to go on the fair ground and to an injunction 'being applied for by | the Mitcham Common Conscrvators re- straining them from doing so. ------------------. Rare Coin In Collection Box. London, Feb. 22.--A gold coin--one- third of a guinea~--bearing the date 1802, has been found in a collection box at Peterborough cathedral, with a proceeds piven to the Cathedral storation fund. Re- One Death In Twenty Years. London. Feb. 22.--The Foresters' Juvenile Society at High Wycombe has heen in existence twenty years, hiring which only ene of its members has died. He was killed in an acci- dent, five months after enrolment. Jer Fst " request that it should be sold and thé | AN OWN sre i" ny; Wom, Eo WN Mie WRANGLE OVER STAMPS. MONK WRITES OPERETTA. Produced For the First Time Geneva. Geneva, Feb. 22.--The Abbe JJ. Gross a Grand St. Bernard monk, has writ- ten an operetta, which will be played for the first time next week in Geneve. 1t is named 'Le Bon Vieux Valais," and is in five acts. All the songs and music are by the monk, who has also designed the ancient costumes which are to be worn. The operetta describes the life of th ancient inhabitants of the Canton of Valais. in $15,000 Spent in Suit Between Man and Wife. Paris, Feb. 22.--M. Lebon and his wife have spent $15,000 on law in Paris in a wrangle over the posses: sion of a collection of postage stamps. The two decided to. procure a div- orce, and everything was arranged amicably as regards the division of their money and household effects. Both were ardent philatelists and when the stamp collection was mentioned, M. Lebon claimed it, because he had started the collection when a boy at school. The courts decided to-day that an expert should be engaged to divide the collection equitably. The Cry Of Bad Blood. Let the blood become jmpure or im- poverished and the nerves--which draw their nutriment from the blood--are apt to reply with pain. Rheumatism, ne in, locomoter ataxia and other ind affections arise from impure Blood. Debility and muscular weak ness has the same cause. The certam remedy is Wade's Iron Tonic Pills They are a grea', nerve strengthen and blood maker, at Wade's Drug Store, if. not satisfactory. High Prices For Old China. London, Feb. 22.--High prices were realized for old china 'at Cheistie's yesterday. 'A Chinese porcelain vase, enameled with = flowers, i inches high, was sold for ninety-eight guineas, ' while eighty-eight guineas was paid for an old Worcester dark blue vase, eight inches high. London's Smartest Burglar. London, Feb. 22.--William Hodges, who was sentenced, yesterday, at the Old Bailey, to four years' penal servi- "Bought att ye Seige Of Corke " London, Feb, 22.--At Messrs, Sothe by's rooms recently a first edition of tude for causing "grievous bodily | Milton's "Paradise Lost," 1669, * i harm, to a policeman, was desc the seventh-title page and curious NS by the policeman as 'the smartest house-breaker in London. He is only twenty-one years old, note on title, 'Bought att ve Corke, in Ireland, p. 6d., Sept 1690," vas sold for $110. The best medicines in the world cannot take the place of the family physician Consult him carly when taken ill. Ayer's Cherr Pectoral If the trouble is with your throat, bron- chial" tubes, or lungs, ask him about taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Do as he says. 3 I he new kind contains io alcohol Death Of Mrs. Julius Caesar. nathed Mrs. Juli died at the age. of roy. a Woman | Caesar has just sixty-seven. London, Feb. 22.--At Farnham, Sur- (