The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-28
WOMEN BLACKNIAILERS.
now They Hunt and Entrap Their
Prey in the Cities.


ut Is, perhaps, an ungallant thing
to say, but in New York, and LARGO
cities generally, beauty and blackmail
have come TO be associated TO such an
extent that the only safeguard is for
susceptible person to steer clear of
good-ooking strangers altogether"
The speaker was veteran detective,
whose thirty odd years of active SER
vice had furnished a valuable expert
cncc.
"Does it prevail to-day as largely as
in former years?' he was asked by the
writer.
"Why, it has multiplied tremend-
ously You see it is trade, this of
Matchmaking, which can only be sue
cessfully piled in great populous cities,
as there is then the slightest possibility
OF detection.
What are the faVorito methods adopt
ed by this queer profession?n
1.-The necessity for constant change
of system, to avoid detection, drives
them to invent new tricks 20 often that
it is difficult to keep track of them.
One Of the latest, and the most novel,
/ happened TO hear Of just q few days
ago. \ beautiful girl sought employ
ment in a downtown business estab-
lishmcnt run by father and son. Well,
she contriyod to entangle them both
and get up an escapade with the son,
which in the end cost him Il tidy sum
to settle. The romantic fool, beliey-
inc he had got real treasure in his
darling Edith, would make little cx-
cursions around New York in her COM
pany. Then she persuaded him to
write her letters and furnish a flat for
her personal and exclusive use up
town, Then in stepped the male
friend of the girl, an elderly runian,
whom she introduced as a special Off
Ger, claiming to be her father. OF
course, Romeo was only too glad to dis.
gorge literally on the spot.
"A new and rather neat trick to en-.
trap is for q pretty blackmaier to en-
ter store where there are a great
many clerks and statesmen. Well, once
in the store she plies all her feminine
arts upon her chosen prey Casually
some one occupying 4 good remunera.
tive position, and whose circumstances
she has learned something about, )and,
engaging him in conversation, lets slip
some stray remark which she empha-
sizes with her eyes. A visit or two,
possibly theater or opera night, and
some fine day my lady sails into the
store like n Spanish frigate bent on
plumber. \ hurried talk follows: the
man looks glum, but hands to the en-
snarer the money she has demanded.
| once knew OF the case of we'll
known editor in this city who was Ia
ken in by q blackmaler She was
little widow from Jersey City, and she
called upon him one day with q woeful
expression on her pretty girlish face
chat won his heart BY and by she
dropped him a note, and he fooishly
answered it. Then she got, as n favor,
couple Of theater tickets, again con-
| cert ticket and other similar courte-
sizes. These were invariably accompa-
MED by polite and somewhat gallant
| ly worded little note from the editor.
On the strength of these letters, and
with the aid Of a confederate, she ex-
torted from him over thousand dol
lars within three months"
is it invariably the case that either
the principals or allies in q blackmail
operation are women?"
Almost always They are the best
operators. Men suspect men always;
| thCv are fools tnOUru never to sUsnpct n