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She soon endeavored to nesotl-


A Loan of 825O,OOO
from Lord Byron, offering as security
capital in a business which she claim
ed would yield enormous profits. The
business was the manufacture of boots
from waste substances by a process
discovered by her brother-in-law, for
which she said the United States had
offered her 81 SOC. 900. Lord Byron
at once advanced the money asked for
and then he was dropped
Two other victims are couple OF
clergymen, rectors of large and popu-
lous parishes In the county of Oxford,
and who. as the pastors and spiritual
mentors of men of every degree must
certainly possess some knowledge of
the world In each case they are men
nearer 60 than so, and, what is more,
are married and have families Yet
they have ruined themselves not only
financially, but also socially and &C.
Realistically, for the sake of this ex-
traordinary women, who was in the
habit, according to their own account,
of reviling them and abusing them in
the most contemptuous manner
The sums which Mrs. Kingscote has
obtained from these three mature men
of the world, either in the form of
gifts, loans that were never meant to
be returned, or else bills signed by
them and which she got discounted,
amount in round numbers to over ST.
100000; and it is asserted by those in
a position to know that this constitut-
ed only a moiety of the sums which
she las distracted from people in all
parts of the world during the last Is
or twenty years by means of her hyp-
motto eyes and mysterious powers up
on the wills of others.
An Army Captain Duped.
Mrs. Kingscote's hypnotic power is
attested to in most positive terms by
Capt. William Adams, of the Fifth
Lancers, British army. The way he
was worked upon by Mrs. Kingscote
was as follows: The adventures had
among her many tools Mrs. Mary
Stephanie Drummond Wolff, her broth
er's widow. In 1894 this woman was
on the verge of bankruptcy, and by
her written confession, had committed
numerous crimes at the instigatiOn
and for the benefit of Mrs. Kingscote.
Her creditors becoming importunate,
she was hard pressed, when Mrs.
Kingscote, to save her for future use,
resolved to get some one to marry her.
Sna was introduced to Capt. Adams
and selected him as her victim. 1nvit-
ing him to dinner, she told the cap
tam of her charming sister-in-law and
with tears in her eyes, informed him
that the only thing that could save
her from ruin was an immediate mar
rage. The captain was completely in
her power before dinner was over and
vowed that, to oblige her, he would
marry the women whom he had never
seen. He did, and when he came to
his senses found himself in sad
predicament. Divorces in England
can be secured only on statutory
grounds, but Mrs. Kingscote volunteer
ed to help him out for a monetary
consideration. Her husband was to
figure as correspondent in the case
and also to be well paid for his serv-
ices. Capt. Adams agreed to the terms
and went to his regiment in India
free man but minus a fortune.
Hypnotized the Court.
Efforts were made to bring Mrs.
Kingscote to justice, but she seemed to
exercise a power over the courts also
and treated with contempt the Court
of Bankruptcy and summonses to az
pear for examination in connection
with several of her crooked transac-
lions.
The dupes referred to are believed to
form only a very few of those who
have fallen victims to Mrs. Kingscote's
mysterious influence. She dealt with
all manner of men, their possession OF
wealth being the only consideration
she exacted.
Her complete confidence in her pow
er to control mems actions is shown
by her invariable practice of writing
mean, insulting letters to those she
had beaten. Now, as a browning in
suit, she has put upon the market
| book in which are portrayed, so thin
| ly yelled that any one at all familiar
| with her proceedings may recognize
| the characters, the dupes she desires to
hold up to the worlds ridicule. Her
book is being widely read and COM
mented upon and serves to establish
/ her still more firmly in the minds of
society as a woman of depraved NOR
ais whose possession of an influence
| beyond the ken of western intellects
makes her a dangerous factor in the
affairs of mankind, and one. who
should be Stunned by society of all
| classes.