OMAITA; SUNDAY MORNTXO, SEFTEfBER so, .im.
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QUEEN IF CROOIS CAGED
Eopkig Ljani, Voild-Iiowi Otioua!
iGta IiU Tronblt icali.
LOCKED IP ON CHARGE OF PETTY THEFT
Vibi Whm Associated with Meat
' Desperate Orit ml TMevee
Er Kmwi a He
Faaslly Uatery.
ftophle Lyons, for many year th pos
sessor of the title of "Queen of Crook,"
who ha figured In mora daring criminal
exploit then any woman living, and who
j" twlne arrested In St. Louis, Is In jail
t Mancheateij N. H., upon a charge Of
tlnllng a dneen pair of trousers.
Jkor year Sophie Lyons remained In ob
scurity. Police In the big cities had not
rem her for ao Ions that moat of them
thought her dead.
Then suddenly Sophie Lyon emerged
from obscurity and returned to her old
tricks. Bhe waa caught red-handed by the
Manchester police and Is awaiting trial,
which will be called In October.
By the arrest of Sophie Lyona the law
again takea charge of the woman known
throughout the continent aa the "Queen of
American Criminals." That the world
famous shoplifter, pickpocket and black
mailer ahould be again In the tolls on so
petty a charge Is typical of the strain In
Sophie Lyons' nature, whloh drives her
to steal whether there be any necessity for
the th.ft er net. Tha woman comes of a
line of criminal. All her life she haa
breathed the atmosphere of crime, and If
she. haa been true to one human lnatinct.
It Is steadfast loyal to a pal. To read
the atory of her life la to obtain an Insight
Into the highest realms of criminal prac
tices, for Sophie Lyons waa not only the
friend of notorloue crlmlnala. but operated
with some of the biggest who ever looted
a Jrnnk or separted a wealthy man from
his money.
Jim, my far m Crest.
The "Jimmy" might well-be the crest of
tlio Elklns- family, from which Sophie
comes. Her grandfather a burglar In Lon
don, Eng., her mother a shoplifter, her
fnther a fugitive from Justice, her slater
at Blackwell' Island for keeping a dla
nrderly house such was the handicap un
ilr which the girl started life.' At It sho
was arrested for picking a pocket In New
York. That waa 44 years ago. Whan
S.tphie waa 17 she met Mme. Mandclbaum,
n woman who dealt with high-class thieves,
rind so found her way into the Inner circle'
of a set that Included the most expert
erlrrilnal In the world.
At that time Sophie was young. Blender,
dlnty, eyes large and gray, with the trick
of tears, a trick that she has not lost to
this day. She made a valuable addition to
Mrs. Mandelbaum'a band of experts. And
then she married Manny Harria, a pick
pocket, but left him after the hoaeymoon.
It waa a few months later, Harria being
in prison, that she met "Ned" Lyons, son
of 'an honest Manchester weaver, who,
drifting to New York In 18110, fell In with
thieves, and rapidly led them all In the
daring and magnitude of his eperatlona.
One of the greatest bounty Jumpers of the
war period, a robber of dead aoldiera, Lyons
was. en exile In the west, knowing capture
nt death, until 18a6,when he returned to
tu oM. worth about flBO.000. wnen tne
raro bonka had got that, Lyona Joined the
Mandclbaum outfit and there he met with
BopMe Elklna, or Harris. The fact that
her mother. Ann Levy, was In Sing Sing,
and her father a housebreaker, but en
hanced her other' accomplishments In
Lyons' eyes... They were married and she
then learned of the desperate robbery he
was planning, that the world learned of
some weeks later.
Mingled With Notorious Hebbere. ..
Lyons, Jimmy Hope, Mark Shinburn and
Charl'v Hullard. all famous bank robbers,
hired n bisernent under the Ocean bank tn
New York and proceeded to establish an
"exchange" business. This was a blind to
cover up their cutting through the celling
of their place to get at the bank vaults
above. When the watchman of the bank
closed up on a Saturday night In) lt the
task of cutting through was half done. On
Monday the bank waa poorer by $1,000,000
In gold and notes. The robber had, not
been disturbed by the fact that a police
man tried the door several times while they
were at work.
Tho Lyons had now a snug home on
Long Island, and when a son waa born the
father ur-red' that the wife give up stealing,
as thev had now ample means. But she
could not. nnd was soon caught red-handed
In a New York Jewelry store. Tt waa only
by the "xnendlture of large sums that Lyons
saved htr from Sing Sing. As It waa, she
waa 't to the Islajid for six months and
their home waa broken tip.
Lyons In ISM looted a Waterford, N. T.,
hink rf $160. OPO and got seven rears hi
BlngPin: his wife, after her release from
the Inland, following him to the asms place
for five . yearn tor robbery of a Jewelry
store of $1,&X worth of goods. Only a wal
separated the husband wife and In 1X71
Lyons made a aenaatlonal escnpe from the
prison by smuggling himself out In a
grocer's wagon. A year later. In the midst
of a terrific snow storm, ha drove up to
the prison with a confederate and when the
guard at the entrance responded to his
rln'v Sophie Lyons, who had been warned
at l-at time to be there, apranv past him
and the trio gnlloned away, vainly pursued
by guards from the prison.
Later Shoot Haabaofl.
Sophie bed other admirers than her dar
ItiH Vu-bnd. Once, when Lyons was In
PrUon. RonMe took tip with a tnaa named
Hamilton Brock, a gambler and burtrlar.
Lyons, on bis release, purchased a young
cannon ird wont gunning for Brock. The
two mt In a gambling place: Brock saw
Ms "sn first and when the smoke desred
' the bank roWr waa down with a bullet
In his law and another In hia body,
t yore recovered, but Sophie never for
, sfcwi Brock for ht treachery. Loyalty to
pal we her only relielon. go she took
in ,wnn rfrv' crH(i. uirn ma nailoBomnsi
of crooks, ard tried blackmail In MIcMran
with Mm. rnce she sat on the lawn of a
wealth lawyer for hours until driven away
with .h hose. Her next exnlolt was In
psslstln Brady to lift $4.MA from a bank
depositor m .Ports. for which Bradv -t
two years. With Burke. "Billy the Kid"
ehe mnnsred to glean $40 OOfl In JrkoA
Mich., and later spent three uneventful but
Industrious years In the county tall of Ann
Arbor. Mich. Posing aa Mme. d Varney.
Dr. Lyon'
PERFECT
Toofh'Powdor
Cleanses and' beantifles tb
teeth and purines tho breath.
Used -by people of refinement
fox orer a quarter of a century.
Convenient for tourists.
PftEFaAtO SV
ah went to Paris In 1K with Brady and
the trip netted them Ijno.MA Though she
waa arrested for picking pockets near the
Aro da Triomphe, her imperious denial and
haughty way of carrying of? the situation
Imposed an the gendarmes, who apologised
with true French politeness.
Among her many accomplishment la that
of a linguist, owing to which ah waa able
to make the acquaintance of many promt
nent men and women of the day during her
travels. She ha claimed acquaintance with
Victor Hugo, Marl Corelll and a host of
other celebrities, past and present. st,
Louis Republic '
CHERRY TREE ACT ECLIPSED
I.dla.a Bey Pl.ek. fireea Apple, la
Flrcea Thei Rlp Pratt
Appear.
Harry Lewis, the 11-year-old ion of F. J.
Lewis of Indiana Harbor, outdid the
famoua cherry tree act of the late George
Washington when, after . wrecking the
orchard of hi fond parent, and receiving
the regulation reprimand for telling the
truth, he caused the missing fruit to re
appear on the tree.
Harry I a close student of the history
of the great American people, and recently
It occurred to him that It might be well to
emulate the action of the founder of the
nation.
An apple tree In the back yard atded
him In hi laudable desire, but he was
short the hatchet, so he waa forced to
do the best he could by stripping the tree
of Its, winter fruit.
MY. Lewis, on hi return home In the
evening, noticed the dilapidated appear
ance of th apple (tree) of hi eye, and
on questioning his son and heir received
the stereotyped "couldn't tell a lie" monol
logua N
The Irate parent sustained his part in
tb soul stirring drama with the aid of
a club, and when It wa all ever Harry
went to bed and slept on his face.
The next day Mr. Lewi had made up her
mind to render the occasion a memorable
one by adding to the ordinary menu, apple
pie. With tbl object In view ahe had
purchased applea on Saturday and brought
them home. ,
Early In th morning Mr. Lewi arose
and went Into the back yard to view
the remain of hi orchard. He took ope
look at the tree and hurried back to
the houa to call the partner of hi sor
rows. Together they went to the back door
and gased on the tree groaning under
the weight of 26 cent worth of fine rip
apple.
For a time the thing waa regarded
a miracle, for the applea which had pre
viously dangled from the branchea of the
tree had been mean and unripe. , A close
Investigation, however, led to the Identifi
cation of several apple on the tree a
those purchased the preceding day by
Mr. Lewis, and disclosed the fact that
they were held In their places by thread.
Harry waa not further flogged, but was
made to pluck the apples and help la
their peeling for the pie.
He la due for an Abe Lincoln rail split
ting act la two weeks. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
ANOTHER NEW INDl'STRT.
Oaaaha Dlstlllere Will Hereafter Do
Bottling tn Boat.
Since -congress, gome yefg ago, enacted
the bottling in bond taw eastern 'flletUlera
have freely made uae of the privilege
granted thereby and the demand for bot
tled In bond goods haa grown to very
large proportions, more than 60 per cent
last year over the year previous. Under
the recently passed pore food 'law, which
becomes effective on January 1 .next, the
sale of bottled In bond goodrf will In all
probability increase in yet larger propor
tions. The object of bottling In bond
la to assure to the consumer a whisky
of full strength! full' measure, more than
4 year bid and unmixed with any foreign
material. 1
To meet this growing demand Messrs.
Her A Co, have arranged to bottle their
Oolden Bheaf Bourbon and - rye whiskies
in bond and the necessary revenue stamps,
one of which ia fastened over the neck
of each 1 bottle, have been especially
prlrted by the Treasury department "at
Washington and will be supplied by the
collector of Internal revenue here,- under
whose aupervlslon the bottling la carried
on. Messrs. Her & Co. expect to secure
a very large share of the patronage for
this 'class of good and expect to make
their bottling In bond establishment aa
important branch of their bualneaa.
The freight from the east, which on bulk
goods figure from five to ten cent per
gallon, amount to from so to 40 cents per
gallon on the case goods, or from 60 cent
to $1 per case which the purchaser will
save by buying the Omaha goods.
There has been in former year some
what of a prejudice in favor of whiskies
produced in the east, but Intelligent con
sumer and dealer have commenced to
realise that Just as good good are pro
duced here a anywhere and that to ahlp
whisky to Omaha 1 somewhat like ear
ning coal to Newcastle; besides,1 probably
nine-tenth of the whisky sold a Ken
tucky whisky never saw Kentucky at all,
but under the new pure food law that will
be made Impossible and every locality will
have to stand on It own merit.
Messrs. Her at Co. are about to let the
contract for a large additional bonded
warehouse so a to increase their facilities
fer aging goods, a only goods 4 year
old r over can be bottled in bond, which
require, therefore, a ' very large amount
of storage. Their enterprise deserve suo-eese.
WHY SHOULD SHE REPINE?
Paalehsaent ll-Ilete by a Wesaaat
Waesa I.erer Wa Shewa
the Dur.
Caroline Oaborn,. then a ' beautiful girl,
took a vow twenty-five years ago that she
would never speak to any man, not even
her father, because the latter had ordered
her lover from the house, and 'that she
would never willingly look upon any man
again.
It wa tn Bakeravitte. In the Litchfield
hills, near Waterbury, Conn., that . the
tragic story began. Caroline, who I now
a gray-haired woman, ha kept her vow.
When she appears in public, which I sel
dom, she is always hooded and heavily
veiled. Her lover of twenty-five years ago,
a gentleman named Lumpklns, Is Mid to be
r- wealthy merchant In a New York state
ctu i
There 1 nothing to show that Lumpkin
made any attempt to see her after he
waa ordered from th house. On the con
trary, the fact that he did not see her
and continue to woe her and msrry her,
despite her father's orders. Is sufficient to
prove that he did not take the courtship
nearly a seriously a she did, and should
have convinced her long ago that her
father waa tight In ordering him from the
house, and that she waa lucky when he
a tayed away. ,
No lover who I worth powder enough
to blow him up would be deterred from
seeing his aweetheart by Scything her
father might say or do. A lover worthy
of ft girl's heart and hand would hang
around every day and night for ten year,
if necessary, until he found the roast
clear, and tb great majority of lovers
never have t wait that long. s
Unless half the romanrea we read and
all the love stories w hear are purely
lBaglfiiry-4inleaa th experience at th
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average lover- Is. a dream rather than, a
reality there Is nothing that puts an edge
on true courtship like opposition. It 1
the lover who is ordered from, the house,
who 1 told never to show his face there
again, who Is thrown down a flight of
stairs, who has the dog set on him, who is
forbidden to appear In the part of the
town wherWs would-be father-jn-lnrw, re-
sldes,'-who is cautioned not to walk on the
same side of the street with hi sweet
heart' big brother It is this sort of lover
that almost invariably gets the girt. ,
If the millions of sweethearts whose
fathers have told their lovers to stay away
had taken vows never to see or sneak to
a man again, there would have been few
happy marriages, and the race suicide evil
would have been more pronounced Hhan
tt im.
One cannot help feeling orry for Caro
line Osborn, for one can easily see that had
she not taken such a foolish vow some fel
low would have come along who would
not take her father too seriously. He
nearly always comes along. He comes
along at least in seventy-five out of a hun
dred cases, and In et least seventy-five out
of a hundred cases the girl knows he will
come along, and this is what prevents the
frequent occurrence of uch tragedies aa
that which Is drawing to a close in Baker
villa. On general principle, a lover who will
not continue to call regularly after he ha
been ejected from his sweetheart's house,
who will not get In through the back door
when the front door is closed to him, wbo
will not take the opposition of his sweet
heart' father aa a matter of course, and
who will not Joke the old gentleman about
It In after year. Is not worth making a
vow for. Chicago Inter Ocean.
he had tried to die and wondered how he
could be saved.
Swimming and floating about for an hour,
he said that he saw the lights of the Brit
ish ship In the distance and thought that
It would take the same course as the Car
pathian He then swam about a mile and
a half and managed to get almost directly
In the course of, the Bert Shaw. . As it ap
proached htm he 'cried out several times,
and finally attracted the attention of the
ship's officers, who took him aboard nearly
eight hour after he had Jumped Into the
ea.
The Ben Shaw continued on Its way to
Gibraltar and, being a faster boat, over
took the Carpathla In the Mediterranean.
It. exchanged signal with the Carpathla,
and then told of how It bad picked up the
Interpreter. The two boat landed In the
Italian port on the same day, and when the
stories of the Jumping and rescuing were
told the officer of the ship marveled. No
one eould remember an lncldont like It
before. Bidler left the Ben Shaw and said
he was going back to his home among the
mountains, find his wife and child and then
re-establish his little home. New York
Times. , ' '
The "C" la Hoaear."
Borne caustic remarks on the engrossing
subject of simplified spelling are contributed
to the current Harper' Weekly by Rupert
Hughes. Whether or not Mr. Hughe' point
of view coincides with the one generally
held upon this subject, there can be no
doubt that he . gives utterance to it with
much humor and. persuasive power., .There
has been, he says, some marvellous rallying
to the defence of etymology "by people
ho. I'll swear, had to go to the dictionary
to ne sure how to spell It. Their train of
thought reminds me of the English reason
for keeping tho 'u' iu honor to show that
tt came Into our language via the French.
If you say, 'But in the first place It didn't
come from "honneur;" In the second place
it doesn't show It if It did, and in the third
place. If if. did, why in the nam of heave
ahould I In my day and generation add
superfluous letter to a lot of words to show
that they came from a language they didn't
come from? To thl th Englishman
blandly answers, 'Because!''" ' -
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THRILLING TALE OF THE SEA
Haa Overboard Starts Comiuotloa
A Iwlna for Ufa aad tha
Reseae.
The story of a marvelous rescue at sea.
whieh. If contained In a work of fiction,
would be declared Impossible, was told by
the officer of th steamer Carpathla of the
Cunard line, which arrived in New Tork
September . The event related happened
K0 miles west of Gibraltar.
Just before the Carpathla sailed from
New Tork on August 1 a young man ap
proached T. O. Hodgson, the purser, and
aaked that he be given a position of Hun
garian and Italian Interpreter, In 6rder that
he might work hia passive to Naples. The
man gave hia name aa Paul Bidler and
aald he had been In America two years.
About a month before he had received a
letter from friends In Flume, Hungary,
staMng that hia wife had broken up his
home and had left with his child. He
wanted to return to his native country In
order to find his wife and re-establish his
home. Purser Hodgson was Impressed with
the story and gave him the position.
During the voyage Bidler waa very cheer
ful and did the work exceedingly well.
However, as the steamer n eared Gibraltar
he became melancholy and the officers en
deavored to cheer htm up, but found It
impossible.
On August . about 8:S0 In the evening,
Bidler, In the presence of several passen
gers, Jumped overboard. The ship was
stopped and an electrio buoy thrown over
board. A boat was also lowered. Bidler
was seen In the moonlight struggling with
th water, and cried to hi rescuers: "Go
away. Lat me drown. I don't want to
be saved." The men In the boat, however,
rowed toward where he waa, but loet sight
of him as a cloud passed ever the moon.
Search was continued for nearly an hour,
but no trace of him could be found. Then
the steamer continued on its Journey.
The British steamship Ben Bhaw. on Its
way from Liverpool to Naples, takes the
same course as the Carpathla, and while
It wa steaming along cries of "Help! Save
me!" were heard. The steamer stopped
and a small boat was lowered. The man
was picked up fcnd told how he had
Jumped from th Carpathla.
In telling his story to officers of tb '
British ship he said that he saw the res-
cuing party at work, having stayed In the
shadow all the tim. When the Carpathla !
started aa It trip, be said, he was sorry I
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