New York Dispatch

City and Suburbs.

A Famous Female Receiver.

The Most Noted Woman Criminal Flees the City Thirty Years of Immunity Ended—Mother Mandelbaum Fears Standing a Trial.

Well, what next?

Mrs. Mandelbaum, the notorious receiver of stolen goods; Julius, her son, and Stout, the go-between receiver and thief, forfeited their bail rather than stand trial. The bonds amount to $20,000, and the District Attorney will, it is hoped, see that these forfeited bonds are collected to the last cent, but if straw bonds were given, then send the men that went on them to the State prison.

Mr. Robert Pinkerton has shown in this case that he is an able successor to his father, old Allan, when he can force to flee the city the great—in fact, the only receiver of stolen goods in the city.

Thirty Years a Receiver.

She has been in the business over thirty years and this is really only the first time that she has been brought to bay.

Her Ways of Business.

Shoplifters came to her with goods that they had lifted, to dispose. Before she looked at them, the first query to the thief was, had the private marks been removed. If they were, then Mother Mandelbaum looked at them, put her own price on them paid it, as would a pawnbroker on an article offered for pledge.

Mose Ehrich was perhaps the first to reduce crime to a science. He paid his "help" from ten to twenty dollars a week for all they brought to him, but if they couldn't turn in a hundred dollars a week or more their services, as thieves, were dispensed with.

The Sprince receivers and the Leyyl family often quarreled, and gave each other "away" to the police when they lost the services of an expert thief, but the District Attorneys did not prosecute.

A Salaried Shoplifter.

The most noted male shoplifter of modern times was Charley Rothschild. For a time he was paid a regular salary of $18 a week for his stealings by lifting. For a long time he was honest enough to fetch to the woman Mandelbaum all his stealings, but after a while when he struck for $25 a week salary, and it was refused, he sold his goods to the highest purchaser. Indeed, he could get in the pawn shop just about as much as he could from Mother Mandelbaum.

Open Disclosures.

Three years ago a little girl was arrested, caught shoplifting in a store. Investigation disclosed to the police an extraordinary phase of crime. The girl's parents lived sumptuously at home. But the apartments they lived in were never occupied more than three months at a time, so that when the officer for the Society for the Suppression of Crime attempted to investigate into the child's history, he had great trouble to trace her out. Her parents lived in luxury on the earnings of her thefts. She then stated openly in court, when she found that she had to go to the House of Refuge, that all her stealings were disposed of to Mother Mandelbaum.

What this girl's thefts were is only a matter of conjecture. Her parents paid a rent of $30 a month they did nothing themselves to support the house and the officer who went to look at the rooms said they were furnished luxuriantly.

But there was only the child's word to prove that this woman was guilty of receiving stolen goods.

Black-mailed.

There was no doubt that Mother Mandelbaum was heavily black-mailed; how, otherwise, known all over the country to be a receiver of stolen goods, could she escape arrest? It was never libelous to call this woman Wolf Dave, and the whole family receivers of stolen goods, although not one of the family was ever convicted.

Sham Arrests

The Mandelbaum family have been arrested, but held very seldom for trial. For reasons that outsiders don't understand, the testimony was always weakened on examination.

The Ringler family, who sold entirely to Mother Mandelbaum, is a fair sample of how things in bygone times were managed in the police courts.

Thus, George and his wife, caught shoplifting, the two were brought before the magistrate. The wife had the stolen goods in her possession, She was declared innocent and discharged, on the ground that she was coerced by her husband.

The Justice got $500, and at the next hearing the man was discharged, for the reason that he was innocent of his wife's act. He had committed no crime.

So it was with the Mandelbaums when the police made a descent on the house. She bought the goods; the lease of it was in the name of some other member of the family; who was responsible for the goods in the house nobody would father.

They could afford to let the goods be seized, as they were bought at a fiftieth of their cost. Confiscation with them was nothing new; they were never known to replevin the goods seized, which went as perquisites to officials.

Thus it has been that many an official has fattened on Mother Mandelbaum, and she, in turn, fostered thieving, buying of professional thieves and of dishonest salesmen and saleswomen. If she once got the grip on a dishonest clerk, she held him in a vise.

Now that she is a fugitive from justice in Canada, let her be kept there; if she dare return, prosecute.

Give Her Away.

There is but one suggestion to make in regard to this dangerous woman. Mr. Robert Pinkerton knows just where she is. He should inform the Chief of Police where she now is, so that then she can do no harm. Make the woman a fugitive on the face of the earth—really a fugitive. No mercy should be shown her. When a man or woman once erred, she held an iron grip on them and compelled continued stealing, buying the goods at her own price, and, after a time, putting the officers on the poor devil, and the arrest was usually chronicled in the papers, giving the officer wonderful credit for sagacity.

The woman who seeks relief from pain by the free use of alcoholic stimulants and narcotic drugs finds what she seeks only so far as sensibility is destroyed or temporarily suspended. No cure was ever wrought by such means, and the longer they are employed the more hopeless the case becomes. Leave chloral, morphia and belladonna alone, and use Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.