She Duped Many Men

WOMAN NEAR ALLEGAN WORKED "RICH WIDOW" SCHEME.

GOT LETTERS BY BUSHEL CONTA1NING MONEY AND STAMPS.

ELOPED TO MINNESOTA, BUT WAS CAUGHT AND RETURNED.

Allegan, Mich., May 1.- Sheriff Bensley arrived here last night with Mrs. Lizzie Coffee and Frank Kipen. He captured them at Fairmount, Minn., living together. They skipped from Burnip's Corners two weeks ago.

Mrs. Coffee for some time advertised in Chicago that she was worth $60,000, was a young widow and handsome. She received several hundred letters daily, enclosing money and stamps. Over 400 letters have arrived in this office since she left, and the pile is steadily increasing.

The prisoners will be prosecuted for adultery. The woman has a husband and children. Her companion is a young man aged 30.

Notice was drawn to Mrs. Coffee's career some time ago through the petition of the postmaster at Burnip's Corners for help, he stating that Mrs. Coffee's mail was so immense that it necessitated an allowance for an additional clerk in the office. The officials investigated and Mrs. Coffee got wind of the fact. She evidently preferred to disappear rather than stand an investigation of her methods.

At this time Mrs. Coffee was living with her husband on their farm near Burnip's Corners. He was apparently in sympathy with her scheme and usually got the mail himself, driving to the office and getting the letters in a bushel basket.