The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-17
MANY JEIXYLI.S AND HYDEs.
Strange Double Lives Led by Well
IknOMnl PEOPLE.
Trom LONDON Tid-Bits.

From London Tid-Bits
There are numbers of people who lead
double lives. While in some cases the mo-
tives which influence such persons are
pretty evident, in many others, one seeks
a reason in vain.
/ A lady well-known in fashionable socie-
ty particularly in select ballroom cir
cles, and whose wealth and personal at
fractions are a matter of common com
ment, is in the habit of DOMINIC the role
of a ballet dancer at a celebrated West
End theater. where under an assumed
name she finds ready employment Her
dual life is carefully kept a secret, save
from one or two of her most intimate
friends, and neither her aristocratic con-
nectiOns on the one hand. nor her asso-
ciates on the stage on the other have
any conception that Lady A. of polite
society and Cissy NJ Of the -Theater
are one and the same person. What the
lady motives can be for indulging in
this dual existence it is not easy to see
but it is a fact that any scheme for the
social Improvement of theatrical employ
iron.
Another lady, also well known in soci-
ETY., leads a curious double life. During
the London season she occupies a legiti-
mate place at the head CT numerous social
functions, but directly the curtain is drawn
over the high class carnival she shuts her
big house in Mayfair and retires to the
country, where, under another name, she
superintends and carries on a prosperous
business in the cheese-f2rming line. When
the season begins again the management
Of the concern is placed in competent
hands, and the lady resumes her station
IN society. Money-making is evidently not
the influencing motive for this tWO-fold eX-
lstence, for the lady's private wealth is
large, and the profits of the concern men,
toned are said to be greatly discounted in
acts of charity.
A dual life seems to possess great at
fractions for people in high stations. A
certain peer, bearer of name that has,
IN its day, done doughty service in poll
teal life, spends half his time in his
wonted sphere as a member of the aris-
tocracy, and the other moiety he whites
away by DOMINIC the blouse of a mechan-
&c IN an engineering workshop.
In similar manner another member of
the hereditary house is in the habit of fire.
quently dropping his identity as one of
the upper ten" and seeks and finds en-
ployment as engine driver on one of our
prominent lines of railways. Yet another
live lord is credited with leading the dual
existence of a peer of the realm and
driver of hanson cab.
The motives that influence such cases
as these are different to the reasons
actuating London clergyman whose in
come from clerical duty is so small that
he finds il necessary to conceal his iden-
tity during four days of the week in or
der that he may supplement his scanty
stipend by doing the work of a wine mer-
BY far the larger proportion of dual
lives are adopted for nefarious purposes
Charles Peace, the notorious burglar and
murderer OF Mr.. Dyson, is an example of
a criminal who, for long time, success
fully adopted a double role in life. At
Lambeth. Greenwich and Peckham, where
he successfully resided in first-class style
Peace led the life of a gentleman Of inde>
pendent means, enjoying the respect of
his neghbors, none of whom had the re-
hottest idea of associattng him with the
daring burglaries perpetrated in their
midst during his residence among them,
ana Of which he was, in reality the au-
thor. It was the intimacy which his as
sumed position gained for him in getting
admittance to the houses of the gentry
around that enabled him TO commit some
of his most notorious robberies.
Others of his kind have played the
double role. The appearance of a certain
Italian count" who had the run of fash
ionable society some years ago was
marked by the disappearance OF quanti-
ties of Jewels and Valuables from the
houses of many of those whom he visited
The robberies became SO frequent that
special endeavors We're made by the police
TO capture the perpetrators. After long
and fruitless searching the larcenies We're
finally traced to the foreign nobleman"
who, until arrested and sent to mediate
over his performances In one of her
majesty's jails, had, IL appears been in
the habit Of playing the double role of
count by day and burglar by night
Dual eXistences such as these society
can well DO without,