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NO PROFIT IN CRIME. I , ! | (Continued from page 2, column 2.) i brated woman crook in the world., ; The police called her the wickedest j I woman in the world. For 50 years i she conducted swindling operations which-netted her at least $1,000,- j 000, and not long ago she was ar- j rested because she couldn't pay a i note for a small amount. Ellen Peck was born in 1S29. Crime has been her fetich. Her hands, thick veined, j - shrunken things, have delved incessantly into crime. The intricacies of the'wrinkles on her forehead and!' X ! f. clustering around her gray eyes and j I - > her wide, thin lipped mourn weic ( brought there by the care or the grief * that good mothers know, for in them I * are stamped the record of almost. four decades of scheming and plot-1 ting and executing sharp and steal-^ thy crimes. One million dollars in ill-gotten -gains has come to her hands. She has spent of it lavishly. ' Bpt of all the proceeds of herj shrewdness and her boldness she has not enough left to keep her decently. This old woman, who was stealing | and swindling long before Mr. Lin^ coin became president, must have long memories, memories of the hap py home of her girlhood in the town of Starbright on the Hudson; of a devoted husband and a beautiful daughter. In those days Ellen Peck was a prominent member of a church circle, a deaconess, indeed a religious ? ~ ? /i ??ao m_ leader. Yet sfte was secn?u? Ui cam- a - "J- ing of adventuring after stolen wealth, secretly laying plans to swindle, secretly arranging to desert home, husband and daughter, good nam^?everything that a normal woman holds sacred and precious. I* . Babbitt Her First Victim. " ' The start of her criminal career will never be known probably, but it was, signalized, after minor coups, by , robbing B. T. Babbitt, soap manufacturer, of $19,000. She convinced Mr. Babbitt that she was a detective r and able to recover for him $200,000 in bonds that had been stolen by a trusted employee. She enticed $19,v *000 from him by clever pretenses of expenses incurred in her "detective" work, y Escaping prison by a successful assumption of insanity, she soon '" robbed- a jeweler named Brady of $20,000. Franz Meyer, who organv v.. ized'a regiment of volunteers at the \ start of the Spanish-American war, .S possessed 'an independent income prior to meeting Ellen Peck. When i-v the woman was brought to trial charged with swindling him of $100,y'i i 000, Franz testified that she had reS& duced him to the straits of shooting - # ? sparrows in his backyard in order to provide food for his family. Bogus real estate deals were her favorite - : bait and one William B. Crinkley lost $20,000 through overtrustfulness in this regard. There was, too, the Jay ~~ Tott Cnnld Gould an air. sne, wuum oaj never knew in his life, pretended to be his intimate friend. She made many believe that she was and got y them to give her large sums of money r vv- to invest on "tips" that she told ? them came from the lips of the Wall g street "wizard." fr':. These and many other affairs were punctuated by long prison sentences ?two at Auburn among them?and many shorter terms, as well as a period when she was detained in jail merely on suspicion. So great was the fear that she inspired that the polfee have never ceased to watch ? her. Governor Dix pardoned her from Auburn prison in 1911 on the ? > theory that she was too old to be j * dangerous, but when she got out she swindled a Central American. t Monk Eastman's Testimony. Monk Eastman, returning from Prance the other day with a fine military record, hastened to sav that crime leads only to ruin. The former gang leader, burglar and terror of the police, insists that he is through with the trade; that the army service i made him a changed man, and that as long as he lives will walk straight. > "Well, Edward Eastman is a person * of experience whose words may be studied with unusual care. The bureau of criminal identification possesses a long list of his violent exploits and a fat envelope stuffed with memoranda, which is a detailed his tory of his bad life. Hear him now: "There is nothing in crime. There Is nothing in being a thug. A gang leader never gets anywhere. The ^ pity of it is that there are a lot of pi young fools growing up who try to make a reputation by being slick. If they could only know in advance, as I know, how little there is in it beyond disgrace and privation they'd quit now. They'd get jobs and stick f to them. They'd let booze alone and stay away from gangs. 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