Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-31
american ard Canadian Officers
Visiting London Also FIeeced
by SharperS.
GIRLS ARE USED AS DECOYS
International coterie Using Private
Houses for Games Operates Un-
disturbed-Traeedy of an Avia-
tors Wife-Women Worse
Than Men.

London.-There is a man living in
retirement in one of those fine, up
standing old Jacobean manor houses,
not fifty miles from London; model
country squire. popular with his ten
ants thOrnughgoing sportsman, who
rides to HOUNDS most religiously and
entertains on the most lavish scale.
He can afford l.. His annual income
Is somewhere in the 100000 line. Yet
before the war this particular man
hadn't a penny to his name.
The secret of his extraordinary sue
cess lay in quiet, sumptuously fur
nished back rooms in quiet, common
place houses in those sOmber streets
fh0t nestle in and around Mayfair.
Chemin de fer, poker, faro. sometimes
a roulette wheel, and the gilded idIers
of old British aristocracy would be
swarming round like moths about
candle. They seem to have an
intuitive sense for such places,
these folk. Where the average
man would pass by without com
ment. they nudge ones elbow and
whisper. That's old so-and-sO's place,
II ever you feel inclined for a quiet
futter"-that notorious quiet tlutter'
signifying anything from a tive-pound
note to $500 or so.
Among this select coterie are men
and women of doubtful nationality,
who make best use of their business
for extracting information of their
more highly connected clientele. This
was proved i'm the case of recent
raid where the woman proprietor was
discovered to be an agent in German
pay Thus they attain a double OBJ
feet
Women Worse Than the Men.
But there is also another class who
frequent these places. Manufacturers
from provincial munition districts,
flushed with their new and easily won
fortunes and wishing to be in the so
clal swim. run blindly into these we'll
ta'tad traps. Perhaps their unpleas-
int experience gives them wisdom.
They never repeat the performance.
They belong 10 that eternal type which
thinks II can beat the thief at his own
game They are gamblers for the same
reason that drugtakers and dipsomanl
acs are what they are They can't
help It,
The women are worse even than the
men At least 60 per cent more OF Re
other sex favor the green table. They
take their gambling seriousIy-dead
seriously. To them is nothing Of the
sporting element of the affair; It is
cutthrout business Of pay and receive.
once n woman is seized with the
gambling "buS" nothing on earth can
hold her II is the first step of the
many great tragedies of life.
Tragedy of an Aviator's Wife.
Perhaps one Of the most tragic In
stances Of this nature was that of the
wife or q commander In the British fly
ing corps Prior to the war he was a
member Of the stock exchange and
the lived in n quiet village 30 miles
from London. When he joined the col
ors they sold their home and the wife
went 10 live in town--ina tiny tat in
Eni@htsbridge. She was little more
shan child and charmingly unsc-
ph. .ticated one at shat, so fell easy
vjc!tm 60 the gamblers wiles.
They got hold of her through the
rs.1ra dhotal of the restaurant she
frpoHented-even the sm0rtest maitres
l'hoiel and head walters are some
ti"cs Though unwittingly. the iustru-
mcn,s Of the confcderateS who 20 TO
the restaurants as part of their daily
lHness 10 get at the lonely men and
women with money who are to be dis
covered in every ondon hotel One
oqy q charming woman of distinguished
appearance strolied over To her table
With, 2. polite request to share 1t with
her. Consent was readily given. and
they rot into conversation
The welcome stranger Sympathlzcd
with het' loneliness. and finished by in
,it.ne hel To a dainty maiSonette OFF
Park lane. After dinner cards were
produced. And the Fleeing had begun.
- .he time her husband was able To
scr home en- leave and rescue her the
unhappy woman had been robbed of
the hest part oC 100000.
Organized Like a Company.
That is only one nf the brilliant
methods employed. This International
cang-ItS agents cover every city and
I.gge town in the world--even in the
enemy countrieS--iS organized like a
company, on proft-sharinS basis
There are trusted agents at every port
fashion center and highclaSs health
resort. II is the business of these
agents TO live In princely style. grad
ually worminE their way into the con
fidence of the not0bleS of the locality
giving full Detailed reports of thpir
movements ana business transaction,
30 a general headquarters.
When moneyed man or woman
sets out from one country to 8nothe
the agent at the port of embarkatioI
wires fun particulars of his--or her
business. available capital and intend
ed period of visit 10 his confederat,
nj the other end The victim is shad
owed and approached on the train
aboard the ship, even in hotels. Thei
organization is the acme Of thorough
cAM0UFLAGE NO GOOD HERE