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The Return of the Twins' Double (Universal) Being extracts from the Scrap-book of ELLIS BRONSTON (From the Morning Star, October 1st) "LADY RAFFLES" SENTENCED! Famous Female Crook Gets Five Years "| ady Raffles," the cleverest I , woman in the Rogues' Gallery, long known to the police, but hitherto uncaught, was sentenced yes- terday, in the special sessions, to five years at Sing Sing. The capture and conviction of the woman for robbing Mrs. Alexander Colt-Smith of her jewels, while in her service as a maid, was brought about by Phil Kelley, New York's star thief-catcher. She will be taken up the river tomorrow in the custody of a special officer. On many former occasions "Lady Raffles," who is a most attractive young woman, as well as a clever one, has eluded capture. Five feet tall, slender, soft-voiced, and shy and timid in manner, she has nothing of the thief about her appearance, and has thus often been able to delude her captors, cloaking her bold and daring person- ality under the shield of her sex. This time the precaution of handcuffs will be resorted to, and she will travel to Sing Sing securely chained to her escort. For the next five years her romantic tho hazardous career bids fair to be interrupted. (From the Morning Star, October 1st) James Dwight Gordon Buys $500,000 Necklace The Rienzi necklace of two hundred perfectly matched pearls has at last found a buyer. James D. Gordon and his daughters, Nell and Jo, the beauti- ful Gordon twins, returned to this country yesterday on the Mauretania, bringing the necklace with them. It is said to be the only one of its kind in the world. (From the Record, October 2d) TERRIBLE WRECK ON THE ALBANY ROAD! Head-on Collision at Tarryville — Sixty People Believed Dead Two Mogul engines, going full speed on a single track just outside of Tarryville this morning, crashed into each other, reducing five cars to kindling-wood and derailing ten others. The wreck immediately caught fire from the engines, and the bloody glare of the flames added to the shrieks of imprisoned sufferers, and the terrible aspect of the wounded, who ran about frantically seeking their friends, gave the scene the aspect of an inferno. As the dead and injured were re- moved from the wreck, they were laid upon the bank beside the track. Thirty bodies have been found at present writing, but it is believed that at least twenty others perished, and were consumed in the flames. Among those who are believed to have been killed is "Lady Raffles," the famous woman-burglar, who was on her way to Sing Sing, escorted by plain-clothes officer George Blake. Blake's body has been found with the steel chain dangling, broken, from his wrist; but the woman must have been pinned down in the wreckage and burned. A partial list of identified dead follows. 43