The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-26
NEW YORKLSMS.
From Our ot0n COrrespon,' Tent.

From Our 0t0n Correspondent
NEW YoRL, Sept. 20, 1868.
Were you ever In your life taken In and done
for BY womsn2 appeal now Rot to do wny-
Tipped young men, TO whom that experience
must come among the other early bitter
experiences of their minority, but to respectable
heads Of families, to immaculate mammas, to
jrreproachable papas, to spotless duennaS in the
roIss Of aunt, or guardian, or companion, or
elder sister, or poor relation--to all the nume-
rous varieties that belong to the higher social
grades OF respectability. In being thus taken
In by woman, the fleeing is not wholly mix
lure of the mourniul, the revepgeful, and the
ridiculous when the adventures who has be.
trayed you is young, beautiful, and gifted. The
deception so sdroitly practised has the smack of
not unpleasant surprise. You wake from your
dreams Of the gay deceiver's innocence and
truth, but the facts remain that that she ,Dds
young, wos beautiful, sods captivating. 1t Is
sad the next day to see her name in the ne VS.
papers yelled under a cloud of aliases and to
reflect that she has deceived tho sand other
people to whom she seemed as be wltching as
to you. I knew such woman as this once.
She had rolling, voiuptuous eyes, in which dark
depths of lurid and rubescent splendor occa-
sionally revealed themselves. tn ought her an
angel until one fine morning a couple of police
men came and whisked her of, and the next
heard OF her was that she was "sent upn for five
years.
Some such woman as this was the confidence
female who was hooked couple of days ago
and brought up before the judicial bar of the
Essex Market Police Court. 1t seems that her
name is Annie C.. Kley, and that the number
of hotel proprietors and lodging house keepers
whom she has swindled is legion. Gold watches
diamond rings, moire.antques, articles of Uertu
borro wed money, and almost everything of great
exchangesble value were brought to light from
the depths OF her capacious trunks and the
number of complaints that have come
pouring in upon her renders her case
hopeless one. Among liquor dealers
furniture dealers, house owners, and hote
proprietors her success appears to
have been enormous. She is pretty, petite, we'll
bred, well-dressed, sweet.voiced, of brilliant
conversational powers. In shCrt, she is one of
those goden-haired devils whom Miss Braddon,
or George Augusta Sala, her faithful cheveIier,
would rejoice In. woman to ruin the peace
OF every household; to corrupt the daughters
and seduce the sons: to tWine herself around
virtuous fathers, and raise the demon of
Jealousy in young wives breasts. Scandalous,
heartless, remorseless, born thief and liar in
defs'igable in caiolery aud swlndling, artful to
the extent iu which duphcity seems artlessness,
This fairfaced fraud has worked herself, through
the baleful success of years, into a frst-class |
position behind stone walls aud locks and bars. |
What between opera boufe and the elections, |
and the latest news from Spain, New York has |
enough to babole about. Grau's company has |
1t length arrived and distributed itself among
.he hotels. There are marvellous tales told of
he beauty, both of face and voice, of Pasi Bell,
and Fontanel, and Desclaazas and OF the hand
omeness OF the tenors. The Tietjens enterprise
'f MIR. Mapleson seems to have fallen through.
Neither do we hear any more of Morascni, the
erpsicborean coquette of Egypt, who was to
lstonish the votaries at Pixies Opera House.
The prayer-meetings in Wa'er street still con.
inue, but whether there are most rats, rascas,
,r religion on exhibition seems undetermined.