Between 1892, the year her husband died, and 1900, Janetta Simons moved around New York, living with George Weinhold, who one could conclude was her common-law husband.  I can find no record of their marriage despite the fact that Janetta called herself Mrs. Weinhold. She may have been estranged from her family.
	James and Freida Simons were released from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in 1892 and for a time may have lived with Janetta, George Weinhold and Hattie (Henrietta) Simons. By 1900, James and Freida were no longer with them, their wherabouts unknown. There is a Freida Simons living in New Rochelle, New York as a servant in the 1900 U.S. Census but it's difficult to verify her as our Freida Simons. James may have lived with other family members or may have been in a foster home. 
	Joseph Simons had enlisted in the U.S. Army and was fighting in the Spanish American War. Bella was living on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan and working as a saleslady.  Flora had married Joseph Webb and were living in Manhattan with brother William and her Janetta's mother, Hannah Hart, who was 87 in 1900.  Webb was an electrician and William had taken up the same trade.
	My grandfather, Sam Simon, was 13 years old in 1900.  According to my father, he was raised in an orphanage in Harlem but not the HOA.  I can't find him. My father said it might have been a Catholic orphanage. Throughout his life, Sam Simon was known to have been born on St. Patrick's day during the blizzard of '88. His birth certificate proved otherwise, that he was in fact born in 1887.  He probably did not know himself. His birth certificate was listed under a misspelling and would probably never have been in his possession.
	A very close scrutiny of documents related to the pension of Louis Simons revealed a single phrase which contained a clue which led me to his brother, Max Simon, and another unsolved mystery. Max had married Elizabeth Hirschfeld and was living in Brooklyn. He had three children, Charles, Maxine and Mildred. Max had been going the name Mark but also by Simon NOT Simons. Very curious. Max also listed, on every census, that he was born in New York. If that was true, then Louis and Max's father, Isaac, would have had to have left Germany and come to New York but I cannot conclusively locate him. 
	Janette, Hattie (7 years old) and George Weinhold were living on East 110th Street, Manhattan, in 1898. They lived in a fog of self-deception. Surrounded on all sides by extreme poverty, hunger, filth and desparation, their tiny enclave was an oasis. They lived as royalty, sipping tea from silver service, lounging in their chamber, chatting, laughing, smoking and waiting.  Nearing Christmas, 1898, they skimmed the newspaper together, as they had done many times before. Skipping over the headlines to the obituaries where they noted the death of a doctor's wife, the date of the funeral services and the address of the deceased. Janetta and George, with Hattie in tow, made their way down to East 57th Street. With George acting as lookout, holding Hatties hand, Janetta broke into the doctor's townhouse there and upstairs. She rifled through the drawers, grabbing what she could, stuffing it into her coat. She may have dropped something or made too much noise for there were servants still about the house. She heard their footsteps on the stairs and scrambled under the bed but it was useless.  She had been caught. The servants summoned the police. George ran back home with Hattie. The police arrested Janetta and brought her back to the precinct for booking. There were some questions of her which led the police to their home where George was playing the role of his life; laid back, smoking a cigar and enjoying his opulent lifestyle.  
	The police weren't convinced.  Their trails always led to the same places; some filthy hovel, some desparate immigrants.  What they saw when they walked through the door this timeknocked them silly. It was a tenement apartment in a dirt poor neighborhood, furnished and outfitted in the most opulent style. They knew they had their man. 
	Weinhold went to Sing Sing for receiving stolen property. He served his time and was released only to end up in a mental hospital in Suffolk COunty, New York, where he spent the rest of his life. 
	As for Janetta, there is no conclusion. She apparently did not go to jail but she may have. She may have died in custody. Or she may have lived on. Her daughter Bella married William Brown in 1900.  Brown was a policeman. Whether Bella met Brown at the precinct and solicited his help, whether she knew him when the arrest happened, whether he used his influence is unknown for now. 
	And finally, for this part, whether Janetta escaped. Janetta had a young child and perhaps a connection in the police.  She may have been released pending trial.  She may have run.  And your grandfather may have helped her relocate, maybe to Buffalo, and kept the secret his entire life, changing his identity and hiding his background.
	There a lot of different scenarios and I feel certain that someday this great mystery will be solved. There will be a clue or there is a clue, somewhere hidden in the documents. There will be many dead ends but one trail will prove out. 
	More to follow...

Finally, Derrick.  A lot of people wiser and more street smart than you and I have gone to a lot of trouble to bury this history. There may be even more to it than we know now. I have not shared this with anyone on this side of the border except my one cousin who is a trusted confidante and my wife. I felt that you should know and I entrust the information to you as a genealogist, for the sake of history and knowledge.