The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-15
A FAIR BLACKMAILER.
Brilliant Career Of o Dangerous W ON
an-Mrs. Kadey Slettery'5 Exploits.

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Brilliant Career Of Dangerous Won
an-Mrs. Kadey Slsttery'5 exploits.
from the los AnQeics Tribune.
The great increase in the population OF
Los Angeles has attracted a large number
of persons, male and female, who believe
that the world is their oyster, and 10 be
! opened by them either by fair means or
! foul Many Of these people land IN jail be-
! fore they have wandered any great distance
| upon their devious ways, while others man
age to keep their heads above water Ior
! remarkably long time. Sooner or latef
! their rascalitv finds them out, be Jhey hu-
! morous or saYdOniC villains The most Dan
! gerous of this class Of people who levy upon
the rest of the world for the wherewlthal 70
| exist, belong to the gentler sex 4hey
| bring such fascination to bear upon men
/ that their efforts meet with the most artls-
! tic success, in not only securing money from
them, but in filching from their good names;
| Women in whom PRINCIPLES OF truth anu
! purity have been Obscued, and who drllG
| without anchor in the sea of life. are capa
BILE of more mischief in five minutes than
can be RENE he'd in a lifetime. Very lew
men are proof against the winning grace OF
handsome woman, II she chooses 10 exert
herself to win admiration There nave
| been number of iusts nce5 IN Los Angeles,
where such women haze wrecked MONIES
and destroyed regulations. Sometimes,
however, their plans fail. and they run
against stubborn resistance. Their black
| mailing schemes are found out, and they
meet with ignominiOus discontinue
For several months past such danger
GUS enslaver has been operating III Los
Angeles, and her game has only been
checked recently. She has at various times
times occupied apartments at several or the
leading hotels and is quite q fascinating
woman. While she has sailed under sew
eral names, her real name, 1t Is understood,
is Mrs. Kadey V. Slattery, and she is orig
inally from Ohio. From there she went to
st. Louis, then to Kansas City, and from
there to this city. She is about 2S years old,
brunette, and quite accomplished.
For several months she has been engaged
in systematic attempt at matchmaking
prominent business men in the city. In gen
| eral her plan of operations has been to Sc
| lect a victim and send him a note request
! ing him to call on her, giving the number
| of the room where she resided. Upon the
arrival of her caller she would, IN an arttul
manner, pretend to have some idea OF IN
yestment, and form his acquaintance After
! two or three calls the mask would be
| dropped, and she would threaten, If sum
of money was not forthcoming, to call upon
his wife and tell her that her husband was
of her attempts upon a well known wealthy
real estate man, who was frightened into
| giving her various sums of money, amount
! ing in all to nearly $500
Mrs. Slattery is.ingenious, and in other
instances varied her programme according
| to the characters of the men whom she was
! enabled to entrap. To some she was
widow, to others an unmarried woman, ana
! at one time went in deep mourning for sew
eral weeks, pretending to be in deep grief
over the supposed death of darling brother
who had passed away. The gentlemen who
! were bitten were reluctant to admit it, and
Mrs. Slattery managed to reap quite gold
! en- harvest. The list of her victims sweIled
| from week to week, and more than one well
known and prominent business man could
tell his little story about the dangers Of call
| ing upon ladies who send them notes to
call on particular business Finally, how
ever, about week ago, the fair blackmaller
met her match, in the person of a wealthy
| citizen, who Is also a man of family and
| prominent in business and social circles.
His home is a very delightful one, and Mrs.
Slattery conceived the idea of destroying the
gentlemans peace of mind, and at the same
| time putting money in her purse. She sent
! him note as usual and, after getting ac-
| quainteG with him, archly informed him
that, if he did not give her a specific sum of
hard cash, she would go to his wife and
| raise a row. The gentleman was naturally
| alarmed at this stroke of feminine duplicity.
| But his Indignation got the better of his
| fright, and he bMntly refused to be mulct-
ed. Nothing daunted, Mrs. Slattery, with
! sublime bOldneSs told him that if he did
not acquiesce it would be a sad day for him.
Considering that the point at which chival-
~ ceases to be a virtue, as well as patience,
had been reached, the victim went straight
to the authorities and demanded the arrest
of the lady. She was waited upon by an
sbtiicer at her room in a prominent hotel,
and the interview was a highly sensational
| one. When first charged with her duplicity
her dark eyes flashed fire, and she rose in
queenly indignation.
''Sir, she said you are mistaken There
| is the door pointing with the air of a tragic
queen toward it, and looking as if it was an
INSULT TO be avenged with the blood of the
base hireliug who had presumed to question
her woman5 crown. The officer quietly
persisted, however, and called to mind a
number of incidents, which showed the lady
that her history was known. In short, lie
tailed TO every room she had occupied sipce
she had been in the city. and so held up to
her the story of her brilliant schemng that
she finally Hecame abjcctly frightened and
begged the officer not to expose her Wis
ions of life behind the bars of q prison
arose before her, and she finally said that
she would leave the city at once if she was
not arrested The officer consulted his SUI
periors, and 1t was decided to let Mrs. Stat
terry depart rather than stir up a scandal,
and bring into notoriety the names of the
prominent gentlemen who had been victim
lied and their familie. The career of Mrs.
Slattery-for she is a widows. after all,
a sad one, hut also a dangerous one, and her
victims will no doubt heave a sigh of relief
when they learn that she has been brought
to full sop, and that her black eve and
pretty figure will no more loom up as a fas-
cinating danger.