Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-15
Respectable Victims Dread Of Public
uV Keeps Tango TritnmerS" Immune

The head OF the agency himself called the trust
girl through mild form OF the third degree She con
everything that her nfatuaon for her dancing
and that she had been compelled by him to
NIT the teonies with which she was charged.
The trust president wanted his money back but he
would not stand for any publicity.
The detective set an investigation on foot and dseov:
cred that her tango partner fellow who had
been mixed with forgerics in the past, prn
cipal, but uterer.
BY appeal the Mann act he forced to disgorge
and also to marry the stenographer.
do not want to be understood as saying that all the
either There weakngs from better quarters scions
of better birth
They are taught how to "steer" victim male or
female. against spiked" roulette wheels. and how to
slip the peter choraD into glass of wine. This type
Of trimmer is invaluable the gang also In erecting
ntroductions and in disposlng OF "phony" ewelry
other Junk at exorbant rates Another tavorite game
prices In fact they turn their attention to all lines Of
graft.
The tango trmn,ers" do not spend all their time on
waxed floor. The cabaret and the paror
meeting places but they frequent seaoon
at the opera and are also conspicuous times
In of the better and respectable class
where they to be with daughters Of
gooa famlles of financial standing This Is part
They also paronize the Summer resorts ever on the
alert for opening and they will take big chances
they think there is possibility of Turing respectable
shifted
The social gangster is problem. serious problem,
and one hard of solution: He is not only beyond the
pale of the law half his time but he appears
yond the reach Of the law. AS have said he hunts IN
packs and he is criminal his finger tips enjoying
Immunity that IS accorded to other recalcrant.
DO not recall an arrest, much less conviction. of
one OF these parasites of the cabaret and the tango
parior And yet they live altogether upon the money
extracted IN one way another the general public
from which they were outcast until with nimble feet if
sluggish wits. they danced their way into popularity
and pef
.,.r Why Is IT, | am asked frequently that these
"ortnies are not brought to book? How does it
that they evade the ordinary statutes against larceny
crook gambling. blackmail and worse breaches Of
the moral code?"
The explanation is simple as the solution of the
problem and the resultant elimination of the social
gangser will be difficult
The victim doesn't "squeal"
There must be prosecuting witness In order to IN.
conviction for crime. to a greater or less ex.
tent the good thing" who has been trimmed" by a
tango mob has committed indiscretions or at least
he has shown an amazing folly he doesn't think It
would look well in print IT. the person pucked be
woman Is even more difficult to persuade her to make
holer She is apt to get "n bad" with her husband
or. II single, with the circle In which she moves
The various "mobS remarkable for either In
dividual or collective intelligence but they have a
lively appreciation of that particular train of human
nature which shrnks from confessing foolish enange.
ment
There is record where reputable business
man. shrewd and commercial In his pleasures real