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Arthur Cheney Train. True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office
True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
I
The Woman in the Case
II
Five Hundred Million Dollars
III
The Lost Stradivarius
IV
The Last of the Wire-Tappers
V
The Franklin Syndicate
VI
A Study in Finance
VII
The "Duc de Nevers"
VIII
A Finder of Missing Heirs
IX
A Murder Conspiracy[4]
X
A Flight Into Texas
XI
A Case of Circumstantial Evidence
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Arthur Cheney Train
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Waiting for her in the grounds below was James Parker, twenty-seven years old, already of a large criminal experience, although never yet convicted of crime. The two made their way to New York, were married, and the girl entered upon her career. Her husband, whose real name was James D. Singley, was a professional Tenderloin crook, ready to turn his hand to any sort of cheap crime to satisfy his appetites and support life; the money easily secured was easily spent, and Singley, at the time of his marriage, was addicted to most of the vices common to the habitués of the under world. His worst enemy was the morphine habit and from her husband Mrs. Singley speedily learned the use of the drug. At this time Mabel Prentice-Parker-Singley was about five feet two inches in height, weighing not more than 105 or 110 pounds, slender to girlishness and showing no maturity save in her face, which, with its high color, brilliant blue eyes, and her yellow hair, often led those who glanced at her casually to think her good looking. Further inspection, however, revealed a fox-like expression, an irregularity in the position of the eyes, a hardness in the lines of the mouth and a flatness of the nose which belied the first impression. This was particularly true when, after being deprived of morphine in the Tombs, her ordinary high color gave way at her second trial to a waxy paleness of complexion. But the story of her career in the Tenderloin would prove neither profitable nor attractive.
FIG. 6.—The check on which the indictment for forgery was brought.
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