St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-10
The Remarkable Career of
Florence Miami Blood, Of
Philadelphia.
Her Intimacy With Ezra Foot.
OF st. Paul, and What
Came of It.
She Forces Him to Marry Her
by Means Of a Bogus
Baby Boy.
The. Divorce, Arrest and I'M
prisonment--Story Of the
Girls Mother.

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The World
prints the following remarkable story
involving the name of a prominent st.
Paul young man:
Florence Miami Blood was very
pretty girl three years ago. She is at
tractive yet, but there is an air of mel
ancholy about her face that in itself
would be interesting were 1t not for. the
fact that at times the expression changes
to one of chagrin and hate. Then she
is positively ugly. She is brunette,
but her hair now is an artificial auburn.
She is of plump figure and has mobile
face.
Florence is nearly or quite twenty
Ezra Park Foot she was about twenty
She was a vivacious girl. fond of fun.
talkatiye and bright. She knew the
world. and had tasted many OF its
sweets, and much of it's bitterness. So
pretty girl doubtless had many sweet
hearts, and maybe she loved. Be that
as it may. Florence proved weak, and
when Ezra Park Foot and sue met i'll
Philadelphia she had grown somewhat
callous Of public opinion.
Ezra Was TNenty-Three.
He was student of dentistry in Phil
adelphia, and about twenty-three years
old. His father, SilaS Foot, was and
still is wealthy leather dealer in ST.
Paul, MINI. Ezra decided that he was
better fitted for a professional than a
mercantile life.and for that reason went
to Philadelphia to learn how to be a
dentist. He was literally supplied with
money.
Florence Blood made young Foot think
that she was as much Smitten with HIM
as be was with her, and it was at deli
cate Sugge Stion of hers that they went
to live together. During the day Ezra
studied how to get at the root of tooth
and to drill a hole and fill cavity. In
the evenings he and Florence would
take a drive along the pretty willow
lined WiSSahickOn or go out to Bel
mont mansion and enjoy the breeZeS
and the beer.
Matters went on in this shape for
months, and Ezra had acquired such
proficiency in the handling of teeth
that his teachers qualified him to prac-
4 tlce. He concluded to 60 TO smaller
town. and, after looking about, went to
Lancaster, Pa, where the old reliable
Pennsylvania Dutch had money enough
to pay good prices for new teeth.
II He Was Tired Of Florence.
Florence Blood had been a conven-
fence in Philadelphia. She would be a
drawback in Lancaster. Besides. Ezra
had Outgrown his puppy love-" ard
the sprightineSs of his companion had
grown wearisome. His prospects and
lis feelings both demanded that the
liaison be broken off. So he and Flor
ence parted.
Nearly year went by. Florence nat
urally had learned from Ezra all about
himself and great deal about his fam
lily and prospective wealth. To return
to the precarious> life she once led was
not pleasant outlook. She began to
think.
1t may have been original with her,
or some one of her Shrewd female
friends-fOr Florence has many friends
among the birds of prey-but anyhow
she conceived scheme. Why not do
as Eva Mann had done? She might in
duce Ezra Foot 10 marry her, just as
Eva did Robert Ray Hamilton. Ezra
was high-minded and honorable. Yes,
she would do it.
But the Raby:
That was easy enough. Florence had
been in New York aud knew scores of
women of shady reputation who would
aid her. When she lived here few
years ago she was known as Maggie
Lawrence. To reappear III her old
haunts might jeOpardiZe success. Ii
would be better, she thought, to come
to New York as a wealthy and reSpecta-
BILE woman and deal through strangers.
Walking through East Forty-fifth
saw this sign OIL the door of No. 10: