The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

She Is still under 70 and as winsome and at tractive as she was when I put her first breach of promise suit through for her.
 T leave you to imagine my state or min gled feelings when, after telling me of the remarkable success she had achieved as a professional breach of promise plaintiff all over the land, she thanked and praised me as her 'benefactor, the man who had pointed made me feel, somehow, like an accessory both before and after the fact.
 Her game must have been uniInaginably easy, from the way she described it. Her story certainly went far to convince of the truth of the adage that There's no fool trapping elderly men of means widowers in all cases. She so contrived matters as to get her victims to write many promise filled and affection reeRng letters to her-'such ink singers as the old parties are, to be sure" was her artless way of putting it-and these bundles of documents were, of course. her po-
 Baked at Matrimony.
 Tn several cases. she told me. her com fortably fixed elderly victims were really will ing, not to say anxious to marry her--which everything. She wanted them to side-step the marriage proposition and fight 1t out in court marry her she had to run away from. of course, because she wasn't in the marrying business.
 ''SeveraI experiences at the outset with eligible elderlies who more than willing to bestow their names upon her taught her the wisdom of selecttngas victims welfeto do widowers who had grown children. She found that such men were nearly always lia- ble to hesitate when 1t came to the actual point of marrying, account of the expected opposition of the grown children, and at this stage of it she could always find means to pick a quarrel with him, thus clearing the way for the framing up of her breach of promise suit against him.
 Besides the suits that she won in court she had forced quite number of elderly parties tos ettlew ith her under her threat that she would have recourse to the law. and she said that some of these settlements more munerative than most of the cases that she had won in court.
 Only One Real Love Affair.
 "You may believe that was in state of stunned surprise. perhaps not unmixed with curiosity, as listened to this woman's calm and connected narration of the superior form of backmail in which she had been engaging. I relieved as to my own connection with her when she told me that the case which l had for her was genuine affair. and that she had really been befooled by the Brooklyn contractor from whom l had obtained the s. 900 award for her.
 she had determined to go Into the breach of promise game a business, and to prepare herself for this sort of thing she had delib- eratelV studied the law in all of It's bearings become so expert that she enabled to frame up a case victim with such pre- csion and predication that she could gener- ally tell to a T just how good her case was going to be when it came to trial
 |" Don't be Hocked,' she concluded. smiling ly, after she mad unraveled her story to me; good in the breach of promise business all over the country but just because I've made my pile and out of the business I'm not going to give them away-certainly not '
 "A pleasing tale, that, for a reputable law yer and the father of a family 10 spend a morning listening to, wasn't it? But it's all in the days work, and have a receptive mind for these new things.