A Narrow Escape
After a string of robberies and scams, detectives were already on Julia’s trail. But when they came to question her current patient, he vouched for her. After all, he had known her since she was a child, right? But as soon as the detective left, Julia disappeared into the night with the man’s expensive watch as well as other valuables. The man was stunned.
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“By golly, I guess I was wrong,” he told The Chicago Tribune. It seemed as though Julia would go on scheming the sick forever. But no criminal can outrun the law forever. After doing a little digging, detectives were able to link Julia to two other women from the criminal world: Eva Jacobs and “Suicide Bess” Davis.