The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-02-01

IS NOW UNDER ARREST
Story of How a Beautiful Girl Was
Led From CoqGetry to
Crime.

The Troy Budget of Sunday printed
long story of the strange career Of
Isabelle Morgan Perkins Dewey, a
former Bennington girl who is now
under arrest at Washington.
This story reads like an novel and
whether fact or fiction the Banner does
not know. The following is the main
part of the article:
The present misery of the former
social fayorite of Springfield is but
continuing chapter of that suffered in
Springfield. Friends deserted her; the
companions of years dreaded to have
their names linked with that of the fair
prisoner.
There is no doubt that something
like a panic was caused in a certain
circle in Springfield when it was an
nounced that Mrs Dewey had declared
when she found she was not going to
get bail Immediately: every we'll,
then l. will spend my time writing
little something. My characters may
be taken from real life, too. I'm not
good at making up names, so perhaps
III have to use the real ones, And
IN call my book Memories of Spring
field Life, or something like that"
The history of Mrs Dewey who is
Isabel Morgan TO those who knew her
when she first went to Springfield and
Isabel Perkins to those who met her
after her first marriages. the history
of a woman not strong enough TO re-
sist the temptations offered by the men
who had been drawn to her by her
beauty. The moths came to the flame
and we're scerched, but by ard by
many of them dimmed the candle.
She first appeared in Springfield
about dozen years ago. She was
then just coming into the heritage of
beauty Of the fortunate young woman
of twenty years. Most of the beauty
is still hers, but there is little SEM
blance of weariness over all.
Gradually it was noticed that she
began to go with faster set than had
known her before, and one by one she
gave up her teaching and tutoring con.
nections. She began to dress more
superbly than ever before, and was
frequently seen behind the fast horses
or in the automobiles of some of the
more sporty" men of the city. She
was spending much money, and finally,
through something that was learned
by one of her enemies, it was ascer-
tained that she had practically made
herself penniless. The attentions paid
her by married men became the talk of
the town, and in three cases, it is said
without hesitaucy, she was the cause
of separations, and in one case of a
divorce. The papers we're all drawn
up in another affair, but acompromise
and a reconciliation took place at the
last moment before the case got into
court.
The friends OF old days began to cut
the young woman on the street, and
her actions became more reckless than
ever. She had dropped altogether out
of respectable life, it was thought,
when suddenly she flashed in again.
There lived a young man out
Perkins had some time before en-
ployed detective to look into the
conduct of his wife, and now that per-
sonage came to him, telling him they
should follow Mrs Perkins to New
York, and that there they would come
upon something that would cause the
obtaining of divorce to be easy in
the extreme, The young man consent
ed to go, but when the tram got as far
as New Haven his heartfailed him and
he said that he could not bear to spy
on his wife. So the detective went on
alone, but it wasn't many hours til
tie egram came aasniug back IRON him
telling Perkins to come on Immediate
1y
This time Perkins went, and was in
formed that his wife and a we'll known
man were in hotel very near the rail