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Show -- n y- - WOMAN'S WILES AT THE BOTTOM OF IT. WANTS A DIVORCE FROM HIS PRES- ENT 13- WIFE. i it, He May Wed a Woman of the State With Mediocre Talents, But Wonderfully Beautiful The Wife a That Martyr. REPORT r M. HE that sir -ila Caslmir-Perie- is about; to apply for a divorce is denied with ; i . j :;- - - vN'l; -. :: r, m G. ry Ma-tild- 0E1 )es 5y 1" ; :T;;y 1 IS A WEIED NEGRESS. THE POLICE CALL HER A FIEND INCARNATE. EVIDENCE IN BIO MURDER MYSTERIES. GIVES Paralyzes the Judge and. Jury by Her Strange Tales of Crimes of Which She Could Hare No Knowledge An En-igm- j a. ATBB MRS. A n n i e B orghlnes has been reading and mythology to herself imagines be the third fate, the one who snips men's lives short with her scissors. Anyway, theto Greek pictpoets used ure this divinity as excessively ugly and hideous, and character who has St. Louis the strange in succeeded making herself a subject of national interest answers that description to a dot. Her latest enterprise makes the eleventh case in which she ha attempted to swear away men's lives or their freedom on the witness stand for, nothing in the world apparently except to flatter her own vanity with the notion that human beings hang on her words for lifeonor death.for trial Mrs. Borghines is now her life charged with perjury in swearing falsely that two innocent men werea murderers. Nearly two years ago stockman named Edwin Brown, who was well known to every prominent stock dealer in the west, was robbed and beaten into insensibility by three roughs. He died from his injuries a few hours later. His murderers could not be found. Many suspicious characters were arrested, but there was not positive evidence against any of them until Mrs. Borghines turned up one day at police headquarters and said that she saw the crime committted. She described the circumstances with extraordinary vividnees, supplying so many details that there was no doubt of her veracity. Three men whom she named as the murderers had been under suspicion IjL e, i j ' IN KEPOSE. anyway. She identified them and apparently only the formality of a trial Ttood between them and the gallows. At the trial, however, one of the men was lucky enough to be able to prove positively that he was somewhere else at the time the crime was committed. He was discharged, but his alibi cast no shadow over the testimony against the two other men and they were sentenced to death. Before the fatal day, however, their attorney learned some of the previous history of the chief witness against his clients and got a reprieve on the strength of it. Investigation proved that this strange woman was a "sort of modification of Jack the Ripper. She had been gratifying for years a passion for bringing men to the noose, her first undertaking in that direction having taken place in Kansas City, where she had told the police that she could account for then mysterious disappearence of a citizen. He had been robbed, murdered and thrown into the river, she said. She had seen the whole affair and she described it as apparently only an eye witness could, and with a of detail that made her story of the tragedy stand out like a horrible reality. The two men she charged with the crime were unable to establish an alibi and would have been hanged if the murdered man had not turned up safe and sound just in the nick of time. The woman tried her game nine times more in Kansas City, describing the crimes with such vividness that the police had to pay attention to her in spite of her record. Her charges were invariably proved to be without foundation, and finally Mrs. Borghines gave it up and moved to St. Louis, where she began operations afresh. well-know- Big II . of f eto iety irea "fc V HELENE MATILDE. ienfc pict-uresquen- and the causes for this are already of quite a long standing. As a ft matter of fact, the first steps in the; year' had already been taken by M. Casimlr-Perier- 's lawyers when he became president of the republic. s of At that time his mother intervened, reel ind her supplications induced him to ma accept the high office to which hei was sailed, the hopes that the official and public life he and Mme. Casimir-Periutey would be forced to lead would put an LO. ' snd to their disagreements. But their misunderstandings became worse, and when M. Casimir-Perifound that the joys of political power lid not compensate him for his domestic annoyances; when his Intimate friend. M. Burdeau, died, and when his thr friend, M. Raynal, was hounded tnir-Perie- r, Dais Lsot pro-seedin- gs j . er er mania was a religious one and she had the delusion that she had greatly' sinned against God and as punishment for her sin her children were to be sold into slavery and she had threatened to kill the children to avoid this. Her husband went away to his work, leaving all at home in apparent quiet, but within a half hour his wife had taken an ax and with it fearfully cut and beat every one of the children. The children are Ethel, 8 years; Antone, 6 years; Pauline, 3 years, and a baby 18 old. months They were all ess struck on the head ugly gashes and bruises being inflicted. It is feared that the baby will die. The" other ' ! t V, The manner in which the five members of the Tucker family met their death in their lonely log hut in Bayou, I. T., is still a mystery. Fred "Wilson, of the deceased, Tucker, was arrested charged with the murder and has been placed in jail. He refused to talk. D. B. Reed, a farmer, has been arrested as an accomplice. Wilson stated that while at work twenty armed men rode up to where he was working and at the point of a revolver made him mount behind one of their number and accompany them to the burned cabin. lynch him, They apparently intended to for his life but as he pleaded piteously him here for they relented and brought iK.-'--:!';;' trial. ;; . lown by the chamber of deputies of the railway conventions, in a of anger he resigned. At the palace m Justice-iIs said that the divorce is be-.aau- se tic t minent '- j rmust add that in of all this, fhich certainly forms spite valid rea-oa- a very for LL Casimir-Perier's- 1 the' Kt Intimate friends of the' act, of his conduct very severely. w JU(3Sis the first time the world has ex-pre- si- 1 . yy:-;-.:P- i The Says She TVa Insane. trial of, Mrs. Anna .. Kahn, murder with complicity in the chargedhusband is on trial last August, of her in the Circuit court in St. Clair county, 111 George The woman's accomplice, 30 for the Centrell. was hanged Nov. he took in the murder.to Mrs. part thatcounsel prove is endeavoring Kahn's insfiuneher - ay pro-vi&- glib-tongu- ed MBS. J0BDA.N. Jordan voluntarily surrendered before Mayor Greene, waived examination and gave bond for her appearance for trial on the charge of arson. The Jordan family is one of the wealthiest in the county and Mrs. Jordan is a leader in society. self, appeared -- years, during which he was believed to be dead. When he disappeared from St. Joseph in 1857 he was but 14 years old, and a relative who was known to dislike him was suspected to have murdered him. The suspicion, clung to him as long as he lived, and the mystery was only cleared up when Wyatt reappeared a few days ago. He has been living at Sacramento, Cal., a number of years, but says he became a freighter on the plains after leaving home, and later an Indian scout with Kit Carson. Wyatt believed his parents were dead, but found his father living at the age of $4 years when he returned. WATCHING THE PROSECUTING ATTOENEY. 'Mrs. Borghines is an illiterate negro of the lowest order, yet her powers of imagination and vivid description would make the everlasting, fortune of ia' novelist, and her strange, weird influence in a court room betokens the presence of psychic forces that science has not yet grasped. She shows no sign of Insanity other than; her. peculiar passion.! On the contrary, she shows remarkable shrewdness in devising testimony to support; her evidence. For instance, in the Brown' murder trial a letter which found its way to the police stated that the woman's husband had been offered a considerable sum of money to put her out of the way in time to prevent her reappearance on the witness stand. . Other letters of similar purport were also received and called on the duped one he had in his pockets three photographs. He' laid them out before his client. jj "That Is the sharper,, and that la tlie ejssayer, and that is the Mexicant exclaimed the "sucker" in amazemenL Where did you get those picture sj Mir. TIT I : ' I J Pinkerton?" ,jj Without answering this, Pinkertopo put the photos back into his a pocket and' said: fjlv "I can get all three of these people inside of a week, and will do so if yjeni promise to prosecute them. The chances are that you will get the major portion I! ill of your money back." Til do it," resolutely assured! the man.! "I have your word for that?" If "Yes, but tell me," haltingly returned the possessor of the spurious jbrifck, "will you guarantee me that the? Story won't get into the newspapers "I thought that would comef answered Pinkerton. "No; I can guanih-te- e nothing of the sort. Asa matter of fact, it is bound to get into the papers. The men will have to be arrested! ptlfc- iiciy. This precludes any chance or keeping it out of the press." The man who had given up the snlall . ' ". in - j j j c . j I ijj E V THE MEXICAN AND THE BRICK. fortune for nothing thought deep a"nd hard. He saw the story in print as others would read it; he figured it all tut and concluded that his own name and fame might become besmirched some out of his own mouth ;to buy that which did not belong to him who sold was not the most correct thing after all. "Guess you had better let the matter drop," he finished, and Mr. Pinkerton took his leave. The .line of argument which led up to this conclusion is the main safeguard the gold brick industry flourishes under, and accounts for the few cases prosecuted. The deal was worked by members; of what is known as "The Big Ten," jan organization of sleek crooks Whose headquarters are in New York. j. H THE PULPIT BETS. An Indiana Saloonkeeper Renounces Satan to Do Good. Ira B. Tillottson, who for the last fifteen year's has been in the saloon business in Valparaiso, Ind., Blom-ingto- n, 111., and Hammond, Ind., and up to last Sunday night had owned a saloon in Chesterton, Ind., has to enter the For two weeks Rev. Robertministery. L. Jones, an evangelist of Boston had been holding revivals injthe Methodist chtirch at Chesterton and and has met' with wonderfull success converts gaining from all classes. Among them Ira SunTillottson. walkhe day night ed out of his sa loon, has quit the business forever, and will devote the remainder of his life to. reclaiming the victims of alcohol. ;Til; lottson is about thirty-fiv- e years of age and is well educated. He read medicine when a young man, but drifted in- -; to the saloon business. Unlike Francis Murphy, he is practically a poor man and will travel with and assist' Rev. Mr. Jones in his evangelical work. don-elud- ed j t. f V t 1 1 ? ! The Merry War at Detroit. A Detroit special says that Mayor Pingree's latest scheme is municipal bulletin boards. His honor Is at odds with the newspapers in their effort to have a reorganization of the local health board, and because theyiS are of one opinion as to the health officer' alleged incapacity, he charges them with combining to "do him up." The fight on the health office has ibeen transferred to the legislature, and the mayor now gives out contagious disease statistics, the newspapers getting scarcely anything in the shape of health news from the health office, having to depend on their own exertions. The other morning the citizens on their way to church noticed around the city hall boards 4 feet by 6, painted black, hanging from electric light towers, guy posts and at the entrances to the building, and a hand lettered notice pasted thereon. The bulletin announces that it is not controlled by the "Scripps League," the Journal of the Free Press, and then proceeds to give the number of smallpox cases at the pest house, the number of recoveries and deaths, and the number of houses quarantined. It is gravely hinted that his honor will next favor the resuscitation of ye ancient bellman and thkt all public notices will be made through the town crier. Si j Mysterious Assult. n citizen Mart Baskins, a of Janesville, Iowa, was found in an unconscious condition beside the rail-- : road track near the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern depot the other evening, having suffered a heavy toblow reon the back of the head. Efforts vive him have so far proved unsuccessful. What prompted the assault and by whom it was made are matters of conjecture Mr. Baskins was serving on the .grand jury. well-know- Two children, while on their way home from school in Oklahoma, were lost in the storm and frozen to death. Residence of Nels 'Hanson, a settler near Brainerd, Minn., was burned during the parents" absence and two chil dren cremated. , J WILLIAM PINKERTON'. j with the victim. He was an old man of venerable appearance, paid his rent regularly, and had been spoken of vnry highly by the renting agent of f.he Died While at Prayer. building. The "duped one immediately of Allegheny, went Bernard made up his mind to say nothing of to St. Peter's cathedral to die. For the proximity of the assayer, but told mass af this he attended high his caller to bring the Mexican and his years his acin sat last and Sunday treasure in and he would see what he church, on knees customed! his While pew. could do for them. for fell and forward he gaspied Three weeks latep the sharper and .he praying Ushers carried him to the vesbreath. Mexican with the gold brick were in that the man was the office of the "Angel." The sharper tibule. It was seen Father Veredeker was pitting suggested that there; were any number dying. to Jgoin& on vestments his preparatorymass. of assayers within walking! distance, He celebrate tto the altar and intimated that one of a lot on a qtt man. the to attend was dying called certain street might be selected. This a gaping crowd the was done to disarm any suspicion as Surrounded, by the open jdoox! and near knelt to the assayer on the floor above. The priest sacraments of last the administered railroad president bit, told them that the As priest arose Mr. there was jan assayer in the building, the church. breathing. andfup to the floor above the trio and Dailey stopped II ascended. It worked. The the brick Masked Men. Held Cpiby and placed assayer reported favorably, a farmer living n the w M. Wilcoat. a valuation of $40,000 on the metal. The between and Le line money was" paid over in cash, and the county 111., was heldBureau and up robbed lowcounties. following day the assayer above 3 While on his Feb. men masked new out for ered his shingle and lit by home from church. About $18 in way pastures, money ana nis gpia watch Were taken. r Mr. Pinkerton heard the story and He was driving in a bob sled at the then made an appointment for the fol- time. !.') next lowing day, When the detective I B-aile- j , -- - ' f : . i! : i - ft ' her- B. Wyatt has returned to St. Joseph, Mo., after an absence of thirty-seve- n son-in-la- w "or to-d- Henry A Murder Mystery. 'zM . ; Returns After Many Tears. children will prob ably recover. The neighbors heard the children screaming and went to the rescue. The woman was caught in her frenzy and taken to the county jail and later in the bay committed to the asylumi "fine added weight to Mrs. Borghines story, TUBNED A BIG TBICK. until an inmater of her house testified that she had heard the woman dictate the letters to a paramour. This strange woman evidently has GOLD BRICK MEN BEAT; THE BANK PRESIDENT. Indian blood in her veins. She has o, more power over her features than the famed Japanese facial contortionist. She paralyzes attorneys, HE THOUGHT HE HAD A 840,000 LUMP OF GOLD, witnesses and even the judge himself of a a her and twist ugly lips by glare from her vicious eyes. Sometimes she And Paid 816,000 tor It Out of His turns up her eye balls till only the whites can be seen. Sometimes she enSurplus Millions Clever Game of the larges the pupils till the whites of her. Big Ten Gang of Operators Wouldn't eyes are almost hidden. The prosecutProsecute. ing attorney has several times been cut short in the middle of a word by one of her frightful grimaces, and he T WOULD SEEM has appealed to the judge in vain for that with the educational influence protection from her evil powers. modern of The woman is a fiend incarnate, and the if scientists can find a clue to her charthe gold newspaper brick swindle had acteristics they will do a service to the cause of justice. The most promising about run its race. so Yet there thrives is has she made far that suggestion one of the marked hypnotic gifts, and is, possibly most dangerously a genuine clairvoyant. "brick" dexterous cliques ever formed WHO KILLED SINDELARS. and one whose A Wisconsin Man the' Victim of a Mysoperations for the which closed December last with year terious Criminal. ran close up to $100,000. In one week Josph .Sindelars of Casco, Wis., who alone three sales were made which netis said, during his lifetime, to have had ted the Ten", operators $16,000, many quarrels with his wife, met hi $10,000 and"Big $6,000 respectively. It is in death recently under circumstance connection sale with named the first which cause District Attorney Watta-w- a that this istory deals. to suspect foul play. Sindelars William A. Pinkerton, head of the big was first supposed to have been killed Chicago detective agency bearing his by his team running away. When the name, on his last trip east, was called wounds were examined at the inquest in all haste to his Boston agency, ara large cut on the head was found riving there he fond a ietter begging him to call on a certain gentleman of wealth and position who needed his advice. Mr. Pinkerton had no idea what was wanted, but, jumping into a cab he drove to the office of the gentleman who had sent for him. The celebrated detective sent his card Into the office and a moment later was asked to step in. The gentleman he accosted there, and who answered the name signed to the letter asking him to come, was a distinguished looking man of affairs, and, the introduction over with, at once launched off with: "Mr. Pinkerton. do I look like a fool?" he asked, pulling his chair up close to the thief-take- r, and speaking as one, who had made up his mind to have his head felt and hear the worst. Mr. Pinkerton diagnosed the malady as of the brick sort, but said nothing. "They do not as a general thing make railroad presidents of fools, do they? I am also one of the directors of the bank, which is another evi dence that ordinarily I am not an idiot, is it not? I have accumulated a couple of million dollars by thrift, business JOSEPH SINDELABS. sagacity and enterprise. These attrinot, as a rule, attach themwhich some one had stitched together butes do to selves dolts and dunces, do they? I with thread, but who performed the distinction from one with operation could not be learned. Anoth- graduated of the in the country, best colleges er deep cut was visible above the left to which tend would show that I had cuts had the appearance of eye. The to read to how learn insome ample opportunity made with been having sharp Mr. the all newspapers. one this, over Despite the and the that eye strument, did?" do I think what you was also sufficient to cause death. The Pinkerton, "You bought what you thought was coroner's jury brought in a verdict that the man came to his death by a gold brick," answered the detective, wounds made by some sharp instru- bluntly. "That is just what I did. I gave up ment. It also transpires that Sin$16,000 in cash to a trio of sharpers for bewas when last seen, delars, walking hind the sleigh, which adds to the sus- what was not worth 16,000 cents."; He told his story to the detective, depicion of foul play. tailing it in all its minutiae; he told of the sharper who had convinced him CHARGED WITH ARSON. that he had a deal on with a Mexican who was soon expected to arrive in the Society Woman Turns Up in an Unusual city with a lot of gold, which had Role at Vincennes, Ind. been reduced in a crucible and molded Winfield S. Lane has sworn out a into the form of a brick. The gold was warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Louisa a portion of a buried treasre recently Jordan of "Vincennes, Ind., charging found, and that the Mexican would disher with having burned a grist mill be- pose of it for less than half its intrinlonging to him and her husband, Geo. sic value. The thing contained someJordan, at Decker last summer. Mrs. thing like $35,000 worth of metal, andfl th sharper would effect the sale that the purchaser would pay hiss a fair commission on the transaction. The purchaser was not to put ub a penny until he had satisfied himself that the brick was the genuine article. He could have the thing assayed himone, self, and he, the would pay the assayer if it was other than represented. The matter must be kept quiet, however, as the gold was part of a lot of booty secured by brigands on the Gautemalan frontier. This was one reason why the finder was coming to Boston with the treasure. By some strange coincidence, months before the brick proposition was made, an assayer of gold and precious metal had rented an office on the same floor Mor-imot- warmth by the Paris Figaro. The wife o f the e is the aggrieved party, not the guilty one, according oto all verf certain sions events in the dowhich mestic life of Casimir-Perlenow reach the proportions of a wideis spread public scandal. His name everywhere connected with that of the widow of one of the most prominent public men in France. The insinuation made by the Figaro will probably cause the whole story to become public in order to establish the good name of the recent mistress of Casimir-Perie- r. the Elysee, if for no other reason. It is The woman in the case is Helene said to be due solely to the strenuous an actress of mediocre talent, but efforts of the mother of the president wonderfully beautiful. Her portrait ia :hat an open breach was prevented sevprinted herewith. eral weeks ago. The records of the French courts on WOMAN'S AWFUL DEED. such matters are not open to public inspection, but there is good reason for In a Crazy Fit She Tries to Murder Hci believing that no action is pending beFour Children. and his wife, at tween Casimir-Perie- r this moment. An awful tragedy occurred at Napa, The real cause of the resignation of Cal., the other morning in the home M. Casimir-Perie- r was not at all politi- of Peter Meternich. Mrs. Meter- cal, but of a purely private character. nich, while insane, undertook to kill is on the point of seeki- her four children and succeeded in do- The a to obtain divorce from Mme. Casi- - ing them all serious injury. Her ng is. TT-:::- : , heard of the family troubles of Casimir-Perie- r . He was married twenty-tw- o to his cousin, Mile. Helena ago years but 18 years old. They then Perier, have two children, a boy of 14 and a girl of 12. The love of Mme. Casimir-Perie- r for her home, her children and her husband has been told everywhere Only a short time ago the universal opinion of her was thus voiced: "Few Parisiennes are more culture than she who now shares the highest position in France with her husband She is one of the very few women occupying enviable positions in society against whom nobody has ever beer heard to whisper an unkind, let alone a malicious, word. Her leading: characteristic is her extreme amiability . and her readiness to promote the happiness and enjoyment of all around her, more especially those less advantageously herself." placed than Mme. Casimir-Perie- r is Justly admired for her beauty. Her hair is brown, and her eyes of the same color. Her complexion is beautiful, and the somewhat prominent nose gives an aristocratic stamp to the features. She is an accomplished hostess, and great things were expected of her by Parisian society when her husband went to the Elysee. She is as well read and as fond of literature as the queen of Italy. She plays and sings, but more for the amusement of her children than for her own pleasure. Still in the prime of life, she looks younger than she really is. Perhaps this is due to her unfailing good temper, for nobody is said to be able to recall a harsh word of Mme. THE PALL OF PERIER A be , ; hi. j .4 |
