Evening journal., 1910-08-30
TELLS OF RED
HAIRED SIREN
Thomas W. Lawson Confirms
in Part Mrs. FrenCh'S
Story
"A MIGHTY FACTOR IN
NATIONAL AFFAIRS

BY United Press Leased Special Wire
BOSTON. Aug. 3O-The Standard
OILS red haired siren, who according
to Mrs. Lillian Obart French, of New
York, lured Fritz Augustus Heinze
/ to his downfall and near destruction
in the panic of 1907, has accomplished
even greater feats than that. accord
ing to Thomas W. Lawson. Of
"Frenzied Finance" fame, who says
he knows her well.
Lawson will not give her name, but
| In an interview here he made the
fiat statement that her wiles is due
the fact that to-day a certain man
is now a United States Senator He
says the woman has been mighty
factor In State, financial, federal and
even international affairs"
Lawson recalled the settlement into
which Heinze forced the Amalgamated
group during the copper war and the
secret conference in the Waldorf
Astoria al which s12,000.O00 was paid
Heinze, whose control Of the eitua-
tion lay In his dominance in Mon
tana's State government, where the
affected copper mines were located.
Lawson said:
II remember the conference Mrs.
French tells about between Heinze,
H. II. Rogers. myself, and others al
the Waldorf Astoria. II was before
I had broken with the system.
Heinze was holding up the whole cop
per situation and had even secured
an overnight injunction TO take con-
troll of the Amalgamated property
This forced us to make terms with
him
There was no hesitancy on the
part of the gentlemen OF the system
TO use their accomplished secret
agent, the lady with the red hair.
wherever they found man OF
susceptible character OF her rela-
have no desire to involve myself in
4 his affairs with Mrs. French
81 am surprised that the red headed
lady marvel of 26 broadway has not
como before the public before as she
has been in the past a mighty factor
Yin national affairs.
owing to this lady's powers IN
three days and three nights seance a
an apartment hotel In Union Sduar'
a few years ago, a United States Sen
atOrship was decided.
Again in an international complica
tion. involving the sale of foreign
owned territory 20 the United States
and I'm which an international scanda
had started which threatened to in
volve a number of United States Sen
ators, this woman's Establishments
supplied the oil which finally smooth
ed the troubled waters.
"I cannot imagine more interest.
ing national episode than any hap
pening which would bring this lady
and her storehouse Of interesting az.
fairs in the limelight of publicity
Lawson's statement was called forth
by an Interview given out In New
York by Mrs. French. I'm which she
said that the Standard Oil Company
hired a "titian haired" beauty tC
work Heinze and get from him a
lot OF information by means Of which
the Standard was able to break the
pool in United Copper and force
Heinze. Charles W. Morse and their
associates TO the wall. This woman
Mrs. French says, hired rooms at th'
WaldOrf-Astoria. and duped Heinze IN
the cleverest style imaginable.
Mrs. French suing Heinze for $25,
600 worth Of copper stock which sh,
alleges she loaned him, the suit be
ing an outgrowth Of Heinze's engage
ment TO Mrs Golden Henderson, al
actress.