Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-15
Rescued from Her "Tango Boy"
on Whom She Had Spent Thousands

The young girl and the middle aged man are the two
that furnish the easiest and the profa
BILE graft know OF the OF girl whose escapade
did reach the newspapers and whose infatuation
cost her thousands OF dollars Fortunately she wes res
cued the very brink OF the precipice She is
orphan and is travelling in South America with her
guardians.
In the social gangster vernacular as the rush. Her
monthly drawing account 81 900. and she had
shown any disposition wild to be ncorrigble.
She vas a normal American girl with too much money.
The whole explanation OF her alteration lies in these
three words-"too much money" She attended her
first public dance under proper chaperonage. she
innocent and had idea that all the persons she
why she permitted to be there at all? Others had
done her thinking for her all her life. Her estate was
In the hands of her uncle, and her aunt most
estimabe lady who tried to do good by her. and
who broad minded"
under proper chaperonage. 1t not long before the
mob" had line her knew her income and the
source whence 1t was derived knew the very day
upon which the principal OF her fortune would be placed
in her hands. Four or Ave OF the mob banded
convinced from their experience that she would fall"
for one Of them, and she did, for perfumed parasite
learned the true character Of the cotere which they
themselves had steered their ward when It almost
too late.
But this uncle was a man of hrmness, and besides
under his brothers will he held the purse strings The
only advantage the mob" had the bludgeon they
held over him IN the OF threatened publicity He
bufed them-they are all cowards-apd In posi-.
ton to know that he did not give penny Of black
mall. But already they had all but compromised the
niece. and the particular tango boy" for whom she had
shown preference had obtained from her in addition
to considerable sum in presents a pair of diamond
cuff buttons diamond studs Tiffany, STOOL $1,000
pear.shaped diamond finger ring billiard cue set in
ivory and silver and saddle horse that $3.50
sides she had expended hundreds dollars in enter.
tanments Cor his friends and fellow gangsters and their
Let me say here that these effemnate grafters are
learning the riding game. They find the ability af.
feet passion for horseback riding of great
ance in their business.
This particular Lothario slept his youth away a
fire escape In Essex street, and transmogrcation
ohnro ir tQ
VINO Is never seen after o'clock except in evening
clothes would never have been possible but for the
moya of barriers by society itself He has cultivated
foreign accent and passes himself off member
of a noble European family.
The mob although uncutured in the proper meaning
or the term ls worldly wise and has picked up In
prisngy short while the easy Of their betters
The object is to turn the victims head They talk to
her about the broader life, the delights Of Bohemia
without Knowing anything Of the geography Of Bohemia
or what 1t really signifies They gliby discourse upon
the advantage OF living ones life" and agree
among themselves that the conventions Of society
not Tor this enlightened Naturally young and
1mpressionable girls head is turned She is in new
world and she conforms It's code. Then the mating
instinct being always predominant she her choice
among her admirers. the others wthdrawing--but the
money several ways.
The net is spread for older women In different way