Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-06-17

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similarly treat every member of the "a
/ found. "
Another criminal trade pursued by tn,
new York adventures 'the chattel mort
gsge game" Chsttel mortgages, if tn,
reader does not know the law on the sub
lect, are signed, ackncwled before A NO
ary, nled IN the registers Office, and Their,
lnoexed alphabetically, but not locally
The swindler buys large invoice of furn.
lture on the instsllment plan, pays q mod
crate first installment and then moves h
another part ofthe city. She then applies
TO money lenders, bankers, brokers and
other investors for q loan, with the furni.
ture as collateral security, using different
name with each progressed victim. They
send an appraiser to the house. who val.
nes the house and reports to his principal.
The mortgage executed and filed, the
money paid over and the woman forthwith
gives up the house. leaving the furniture
for her creditors to fight over.
In one case, Louis Post, the celebrated
Union Labor leader, was fleeced nv a
Brooklyn woman named Mrs. Rogers
who, rs he afterwards ascertained, had Sc
cured loans aggregating among the thous-
ands nom various parties. The chief on
orator IN New York is Mrs. Matte Done
Ter, who is known to the police and
her creditors under more than thirty
aliases. She Is a young woman of not
more than %, with rather pretty, baby
like face, and voice and manner over.
flowing with innocence and childishness.
Detective Macdonald, who has been on
her trail several times, declares that in the
past five years she has stolen over SIS. O1O
in this and other ways.
A new style of adventures has appeared
IN New York in the last few years who
adopts literature as her particular vein. It
Is seldom that she can write; in fact, in
some cases she cannot even spell correctly.
Her nodus operandl is to make the ac-
quaintance Of circle of good-nstured
newspaper men, and by some tale or pre-
tended poverty, induce them to write for
her stories, poems, humor, descriptive
work and even news items. Then armed
with letters of introduction, she forces or
foists her goods upon editors who are pay
ing good salaries to the real authors of the
articles. Sometimes they are even more
reckless, and deliberately copy poems and
articles from out-of-town papers or old
books, and dispose of these as brand new
productions. Only two months ago one
of the ilk sold to theNda and Express for
gotten poem by Fitz James O'Rrien, en-
titled "The Matching of the Easter Egg"
hrst published thirty-tive years ago.
Amos Cummings, the editor of the
EreRiag Sun, in speaking of this class of
women, says: with few notable excep-
tons who deserve high credit for their
faithfulness and good work, the majority
Of the women who claim connection with
the daily press are either adventureeses OF
else frauds OF the worst type"
The vast majority of the adventuresses
of New York depend for their maintenance
upon the folly and passions of the other
sex. They are more or less decorous in
theie demeanor, and try as far as possible
to COMFORT themselves according 10 the
usages OF good society. They frequent
the numberless restaurants and cheap ho-
tells with which the city is crowded, and
make 1t special point TO increase their
1ney Huu tuSlr DeSb
victims, not rs might be imagined, in
young and inexperienced, in the fresh ar
rival from the country nor the college
graduate, bat in the man of the world, the
banker and the blSse merchant
Their first preference is the rich expert
enesd married man, their last the youth
ful aud sentimental clerk. Their mode of
attack is flattery, delicate and refined it
may be, but still hattery. They have
strong perceptive powers, and seldom over
look mans weake spot. Once in her
power she draws from the victim hand
some salary or income, in many eases
larger than what he allows TO his own
family. As it is seldom she is content
with single income, she usually provides
two or three strings to her bow, and is
thus enabled to live in style which to
decent and GOd-feariDg folks is perpet-
ual mystery. And to cover up her actions
she almost invariably is Jealous and IN
firing church member from the first day
Of the year TO the last.