Arizona republican., 1904-02-26
SOUTHERN ART ASSOCIATION
A Get-Rich-Quick Enterprise That
 Worked Like a Charm.

A man and woman traveling under the name of Mir. and Mrs. Vaughn and assuming to represent the South ern Art association, came to the Sixth Avenue hotel a few days ago, inserted an alluring advertisement in the local papers, tarried just long enough for the harvest which aggregated $500, as near as can be calculated, and some time between o'clock Wednesday night and Thursday morning, faded into the elsewhere.
 Yesterday a self-constituted commit tee of about a dozen of their victims spent the greater part of the afternoon telling their troubles to the police, the sheriff, the justices of the peace and anybody else that seemed to be clothed in any sort of legal authority. Tn every case ttey secured the deepest sympathy but that was about all that could be done for them, for though they were victimized and robbed most outrageously, the authors. of their mis- fortune were out of reach and there is grave doubt if the law could touch them even were they here.
 The victims. of course, were honest, trustful women; the sort usually se- lected for the operation of a confidence game and women too, who could i'll afford to lose the money, each one be- ing fleeced in amounts ranging from S5 to s15, according to how much they had with them, and how Venturesome they are in speculation. Following is the little adlet that did the business: WANTED-At once, ten ladies to pre-
 pare road samples, $15 to s25 per
 week Room 6, Sixth Avenue hotel.
 The response was fattering to MT. and Mrs. Vauhn but in no way embar- rasSing. Evindently they had been there before and knew just what to expect The women were only ad mitted to Room 6 one at a time, except in the event of two coming together where exceptions were made and they were permitted to be robbed together. On entering they beheld the walls pro- fusely hung with pictures and were met at the door by Mrs. Vaughn, a woman of more than ordinary attract iveness and possessing large liquid i eyes; altogether a most magnetic per sonage.
 That the Vaughns represented the Southern Art association, there is lit tie doubt. Most likely they are it, in it's entirety. But there the honest part of the business seemed to stop. They said their business was to provide pie lures, made with a pantograph, to be used by the association which had large houses all over the country, as road samples by it's representatives ! That the demand for these samples exceeded the possible supply and they were commissioned to teach the mak- ing of sample pictures by means of the pantOgraph. Each pupil was to be charged s1O for five lessons and $4.5O for the pantograph and paints. At the end of the course they would be competent to make pictures and the association would buy them as fast as they could turn them out. If they were not yet qualified they would be given additional lessons free. If they only had 8 to invest and S4 50 more for the outfit, they would be permitted to pay the other five dollars in pictures af- ter completing the course. In other words, if they only had five dollars to be separated from the Vaughns would take that much rather than get noth- ing. But they must hurry, for next week the price would be $25. The purpose in admitting the pupils separ- ately was to make these little conces- siOns, if necessary, as an exceptional favor to the individual without the knowledge of those who had put up more money. It was announced 1t first that each lesson was to be an hour in duration but each pupil was