Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . d hid herself until the search was then contrived to escape from the city by putting on thesuit of a common laborer and coolly walking on board theboat for Detroit, in her disguise. Her hair was cut short andshe was smoking a clay pipe with such relish that no lookeron suspected that this counterfeit of a man was the notoriousMollie Hoey. According to the most probable report, thisreally remarkable thief is now picking pockets on the otherside of th
Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . d hid herself until the search was then contrived to escape from the city by putting on thesuit of a common laborer and coolly walking on board theboat for Detroit, in her disguise. Her hair was cut short andshe was smoking a clay pipe with such relish that no lookeron suspected that this counterfeit of a man was the notoriousMollie Hoey. According to the most probable report, thisreally remarkable thief is now picking pockets on the otherside of the Atlantic. On the same page with these noted criminals appears theportrait of Louise Jourdan, alias Little Louise, who is dis-credited by a reputation as a pickpocket that is hardly secondto that of Mollie Hoey. She was born in England whereher father kept a public-house, and was sent to prison .forlarceny when she was a young girl. LTpon her discharge shesecured a place as a maid for a wealthy Spanish lady and ac-companied her to Brazil. Here she found an opportunity tosteal the diamonds of her mistress, but was arrested and sen-.
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