The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-08

Those who were made the victims will
rejoice to learn that the two women who
were wont 10 so from Office to office in
this city selling tickets to a benefit which
was TO raise money for the erection of
newsboys home: for the benefit of Va
rious institutions. all of which benefits,
which were to be concerts, never took
place. have been in trouble(in San fran
cisco, and all because their little game
there would not work the second time and
they were forced to flee They constituted
blonde and a brunette. The brunette
was the smaller of the two and much the
preJtiest. She had a pair of eyes which
melted the victim at once. She never did
much of the talking, but the other one,
the blonde, Il large girl, took care OF that
business. The girl with the black eyes
melted the man who was marked out,
while the other talked him into a trance
and made him shell out.
They worked the game nicely They
visited the railroad offices, and the heads
of departments gracefully yielded to the
persuasions of the pair of sirens. Not
all. One irascible old fellow didn't t. he
kicked and referred them to his wife, and
his wife they knew, would not stand their
work, so they never called. But the ball
ance took ii ali in. They sold tickets ga
lore among the railroad men, who were
glad to natronize a concert which was
going 10 build a nice place of refuge for
ragged little kids, who had no moucy eX-
cept when they sold papers.
Then they tired OF railroad men and
NcHl 6IOGIu dIlOllS iIIt "NGIS- A'lS Va
the reporters OF this paper saved a lead
ing attorney OF the town from spending
Steen dollars early one morning when
they called. and he passed the word down
the line and the harvest of ShekelS saved
was considerable But they landed on
several.
The girls made such a nice stake they
went to the Knutsford to board. Two
travelling men marked them for victims,
took them out and had a high old time.
They appeared at the table in a very mel
and ra1 aaafr1
that when the meal was finished Mr..
Holmes took them into his confidence and
told them their opportunity to escape was
nigh and they had best take advantage
of It In other words, he did not want
q pair of drunken drabs around his house.
They objected. said they were not drunk,
breaths and confronted them with the
damning evidence, and they left. The
travelling men took them to San Fran
cisco. and there they started in business
again.
One of the railroad men who was made
victim was in San Francisco recently.
He was dining in the grill room when the
black-eyed beauty came il. She saw him
and fed. That night there was trouble in
the Palace hotel. Two hundred hnd TWEEN
ty-five people called and asked the clerk
where the concert was going TO be; the
concert for the home of the ragged waits, ]
at which Monsieur Fraginininininini, the
eminent French violinist, and Mademoi-
Selle DiViVivtViViYi. the sweet Partisan
singer, were TO play and sing for the bene-
lit OF 100 specially invited folks a IS per
invite. The tickets said it would be in
one of the large parlors of the Palace
hotel. The ignorant and uniformed clerk
could give them no information but he !
told reporter and the reporter wrote a !
story-. Coming home, the railroad man /
saw the black eyed fairy and the blonde /
beauty rooSting in Pullman car. With |
them were no travelling men. They were |
going on to the east and sell tickets for a /
concert for the benefit of the grandchil- !
dren of murdered brakemen.
It is very likely that the pair will never |
be seen in this city any more: that they |
will go away into Illinois or some other /
old place to work their graft. !
Their names? Oh. they had several. /
McDonough and Dougall and Russell and |
Robinson and Freeman and several !
others What their true names are no
man knoweth. Where they came from is J
a mystery. But they did several people /
here, who will remember them for many
months to come.