A “Female Doctor Jekell and Mr.
Hyde” Who is Badly Want
ed in Pittsburg.
/OUNG WOMAN OF REMARKABLE NERVE.
Nellie Boyer Was a Respectable
Woman by Day, Associating With
Good People, Bat Was the Re
verse by Night, and Robbed Het
Employers of $1,100.
St. Louis, Nov. 16.—Nellie B. Boyer,
whom the Pittsburg (Pa.) Press calls
a “female Doctor Jekyll and Mr.
Hdye,” and who is wanted in that
city for embezzling $1,000 of the Fed
eral Telephone Co.’s funds, has been
traced to St. Louis by the detectives,
and is now believed to be in hiding
here or in Kansas City. The local po
lice department has been requested
to aid the Pittsburg authorities in a
search for the young woman.
According to the revelations from
Pittsburg, Nellie is one of the most
remarkable criminals of the period,
and her history possesses a fascina
tion of romance seldom encountered
in the career of a criminal.
She Led n Dual Life.
Educated, clever, ready-witted and
of marvelous self-control, Nellie
Boyer, in the 12 months of her con
nection with the Federal Telephone
Co., led a dual life, the under side of
which was never suspected by her
confiding employers and associates,
and was not even learned until weeks
after she had disappeared with the
company cash box on August 6. This
pretty, modest girl, in the daytime,
conducted herself with such strict
propriety among her friends and as
sociates in the business world, asso
ciated with self-respecting people,
was the companion of persons of pure
mind, good morals and eminent re
spectability, and was engaged to a re
spectable, well-to-do young man of
good family.
The Other SUle.
She was the boon companion, at
night, of men of loose character, with
whom she frequented the disreputa
ble resorts frequented by dissolute
characters, with whom she indulged in
midnight debauches, and whom she
entertained secretly in her own apart
ments. Not a breath of suspicion of
this side of her life was ever whis
pered, so cleverly guarded and re
sourceful was she. It leaked out only
after the most thorough investigation
into her habits, made after it was dis
covered she was an embezzler.
A Display of Rare Nerve.
On August 5 last the head book
keeper discovered an error in her cash
book, and notified her that he would
check up the cash book next day. She
knew that checking up meant inevita
ble discovery of her defalcation, yet
nothing in her demeanor betrayed to
the bookkeeper or her associates a
suspicion of the truth. She went to
work as usual on the morning of Au
gust 6 and attended to her duties,
while the bookkeeper began cheeking
her book alongside of her. About ten
o’clock she went to the treasurer and
told him $400 was needed to pay off
three gangs of linemen, who were to
go into new territory, and that she
only had $100 in the cash drawer. In
truth there was not a cent in the
drawer, she having taken every dol
lar that had been received the four
days previous. There were no line
men to pay off, either, but she used
this as a subterfuge to obtain ready
money for her contemplated flight up
on discovery of her dishonesty. The
treasurer gave her a cheek for $400
and she sent out and got the cash on
it.
A Quick-Witted Ruse.
Looking over the bookkeeper’s work
from time to time, she saw that the
first defalcation in her accounts would
be discovered before lunch time, and,
to gain that much time, she suggested
that he go back and check up the ac
counts for the previous month’s busi
ness. He thanked her for the sugges
tion, and did so. At lunch time the
shortage was still undiscovered. Miss
Boyer took the $400 from the cash
drawer unobserved, and departed as
usual, ostensibly to lunch. She did
not return, and has not been seen
since by her employers, her associ
ates, friends and the horde of detect
ives and police engaged to search for
her when her thefts were discovered.
It was learned that alter a hasty
packing of her trunk she took a train
out of the city, but in what direction
was not learned for months after
ward..
Total of Her Defalcation,
The total amount of her defalca
tion reached $1,100. The telephone
company has offered a reward of $100
for her arrest, and has distributed cir
culars containing her photograph and
a minute description of her, down to
the smallest detail of form, manner,
habits, speech and dress. The circu
lar says she is of convivial disposition,
a good w'altzer and jigger, and a clev
er performer on the piano.
Just the Man.
“I say,” said the business man to the
detective, “some fellow has been represent
ing hin^elf as a collector of ours. He has
been taking in more money than any two
men we have, and I want him collared as
quickly as you can.”
“All right; I’ll have him in jail in less
than a week.”
“Great Scott, man! I don’t want to put
him in jail; I want to engage him.”—Bos
ton Transcript.
Children are a great comfort, especially
to such as never have the minister to tea.—
I uck.
C/rtinl ortlngr Improvement,
Pinchbeck—Ah, doctor! 1 see you con
tinue your visits to ray neighbor, Guffinger,
how is he, by the way, this morning?
Doctor—I am glad to be able to report a
noticeable improvement in his case.
“Indeed! Is he able to do anything yet?”
“Yes, indeed! He was able to pay his
bill yesterday, and that’s a marked improve
ment, as compared to the bulk of my pa
tients.”—Richmond Dispatch.
If a man should wear his pants so long
that he had to hold them up when crossing
a street wouldn’t the women laugh at him?
—Atchison Globe.
Ilad Investment.
Theodore—It’s all right, darling. I have
met your father, and we took to one another
at once. He even went so far as to borrow
ten dollars of me. Surely, he can’t refuse
me your hand after that.
Edith—Dory, I’m afraid you’ve made a
mesa of it. Pa told me about the ten dol
lars, and said I’d better let you slide; that
you were too easy.—Boston Transcript.
Dubious.
Quericus—Is he out of danger?
Oynicus—Oh, no. The doctors are still
treating him.—Judge.
When Tliey Were Reminded.
Sunday School Toachoi --Now, ehildre%
what did Pharaoh say to Moses?
Children—We don’t know.
“Oh, yes. you do. He told Moses to go anf
do something. Now, what did he say?”
“Go way back—and sit down!”—Balti
more American.
I'nele Epli'm.
“Dey’s mo’ dan one kind o’ wisdom,” said
Uncle Eph’m. “A wohd to de wise is
s'ficient, but yo’ don’t git no chanst to say
a wolid to de wise guy. He knows it all.”—
Chicago Daily Tribune.
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