Evening star., 1896-10-16
HANDSOME WOMAN
Who Secured From Local Lawyers Adver-
tisements for Directory.


Quite nr-ser OF the members of Ibe
local bar sere called upon last fall nv a
young. handsomely attired and very at
tractive woman. who explained to the
disciples OF Blackstone that she wa,
soicitinS names for insertion in a hotel
directory. This directory. she explained.
would be placed in all the leading ho,e,s
OF this and other large cities, and the an
pearance IN IT of the business cards Of ,he
local legal lights would be of inestima ale
value. But the space was necessarily rm-
ited. the young woman suggested. and
therefore II would be wise 20 get IN hesore
IL was exhausted. which would be I'm an
unusually short time, so large was the de-
mand. Mrs. Gladys Osborne. as the fair
one explained Ter name was sweetly told
the legal luminar!es With the younr w.
man at times was a dapper fiashily dressed
young man. who introduced himself as her
, ,nuspahd and who dwelt upon and en-
| iarged upon all she had told
The couple occupied apartments a. q.
saiu' AT one or the leading hotels of the
city. and their appearance Indicated that
ra uney were nor only enterprising business
Peop'e. out also that their business was an
exceedingly remunerative one They inform-
ed those upon whom they called that the al
Tectory would be published by the Empire
fuDi.shing Company of New York and
gave other seemingly undisputed evidence
OF business standing and Integrity The
great majority of those called upon. SO N
is SAID. could not Withstand the entraa,ies
OF 'ne young people. especially. II 10 claim
ed, OF the young woman, and more than a
hundred OF the city's legal llshts n IA
Claimed, agreed that their names should
appear In the directory. especially as only
the r.diculously small sum Of 81 was de-
manded for that privilege.
ana, so the story goes. they even paid
their money upon the assurance, generally
OF the young woman. that the directory
would surely appear agreed upon the
nrst OF the present year
Ire first Of the year duly came round
but for some reason or other SO far az
tbe lawyers could learn. the directory did
not, or has II since appeared. And now
those legal limbs who orce so fully be-
Eeved In the reality OF the young woman's
story, are. II Is safe to conclude of the
very decided opinion Il at the directory
never VIII be seen. The alleged husband
OF the young woman, however. has written
from Boston. it is said. once or twice
since the first of the year that the d.
rectory will surely appear. but the sub
scribers here have, nevertheless given up
all hope and have concluded that they
Will not only never see the directory, but
that they Will also never have the pleasure
of seeing either Mr.. CT Mrs. Osborne again.
And what they are absolutely positive OF
is they will never see again the dollars
with which they respectively parted.
1t Is sad that similar operations have re-
Gently been carried on in Indianapolis Ind,
but whether or not the parties said to be
operating there are those who visited here
is not known. and the majority of the al
legged local victims care not. But when
next you meet your attorney, or, indeed,
the attorney of another Ii would be Just
as well to fail to mention the name OF
Gladys, or even mention the subject OF
hotel directories.