Show A SCIENTIFIC WHEEDLER Minnie Diy a Noted Chicago Thief and Some of Her Schemes Honey Sykes clung to Bill Sykes and got murdered for it Minnie Daly has stuck to Olabby Burns for some years and because of tbJsj she has often surveyed the azure skies or watched the falling snow through iron bars Minnie is a Chicago thief So is Clabby her husband Minnie married Clabby 59010 years ago He has always treated her like a dog She has always seemed to relish It No stunning blows no appalling curses inflicted upon her by the gracious Clabby have ever had the effect of destroying her lore for him Recently knocked her down twice with his fist on the streets of Chicago and was about to shoot her when curiously J enough an officer appeared and prevented I him from carrying out his intention t 1 1 1 CLAD Y BCTINS IIINJOE DAIiY The officer probably recognizing Clabby as a man whom the police wanted on a charge of murder allowed him to escape Giant intellect had that officer Anyhow Minnie is bound to get in jail again before j long She has been there a hundred times f already Many an ingenious scheme has she worked many a timo has she beautifully gulled ingenuous pulpheads of supposed shrewdness She used to bo more successful than she is now She is not so pretty as erstwhile erst-while Slight and almost tall in figure she S was pale and yet fresh of complexion looking look-ing remarkably girlish and innocent Sho 1 had a mass of dark brown hair dark blue J oyes and a straight nose and pretty mouth I She was usually very neatly dressed Her greatest trick was tho innocent schoolgirl school-girl act C S She would walk upon some prominent c street and nto her practiced eye to select a S man who had the appearance of wealth and C respectability Then she would enthrall him with a bewitching glanco out of tho corners of her eyes The man would gasp in tho deliriousness de-liriousness of his joy and summon up enough courage to address the pretty school girl C Sho would cast her eyes down tug at her gloves in girlish simplicity and with much t embarrassment would confide to tho saphead t in a sympathetically vibrant voice that she C was a school girl with n widowed mother and J was out for a little fun during the evening without the lattars knowledge or consent Then she would beg of the man to be very I circumspect and careful and suggest that 1 they step aSIde in a dark hall or doorway t while they conversed Some schoolmate she would say might chance to pass that way a and recognize her if he were not careful ± Then what would her mother say The lunkhead in a fever of happiness would do so Sho would converse with him t punctuating the conversation with gentle 0 little caresses The doughhcad would ask her C to meet him and she would promise Then sho would lightly trip away When she was gone the man would find that his diamond 5 studs his watch and chain and his wad had Coated away on the wings of night Would ho report his loss at tho police station I sta-tion t Oh no 1 He had been an imbecile once but ho wasnt t going to advertise himself as one I Minnies tendency to tears when arrested was a great featuro of her performance All 0 tho older reporters remember how she would weep and sob and assert her innocence t through the bars of a police station celL She would say in heart broken accents that if itS it-S got out among her social friends that she had t been arrested it would disgrace her forever All this was very amusing to tho men who knew her real character and her many they U lag exploits i Cut Minnie works it charmingly and by a V clever system of eye wheedling and a well a simulated semblance of sadness she soft soaps S the judges in tho most approved fashion |