The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-08-02
american and Canadian Officers
Visiting London Also Fleeced
by Sharpers.
GIRLS ARE USED AS DECOYS
International Coterie Using Private
Houses for Games Operates IN
Enthusiastically OF an Avia-
tors Wife-Women Worse
Than Men.

London. There Is man living In
retirement in one of those fine, up
standing old JacobeAn manor houses,
act nifty miles from London a model
country squire. popular with his ten
ants. thorougbgoing sportsman, who
rides TO hounds most religiousy and
entertnins on the most lavish scale.
lie can afford IL. His annual income
| Is somewhere In the 100000 line. Yet
before the war this particular man
hadn't penny to his name.
The secret OF his extraordinary sue
cess lay In quiet, sumptuously fur
nished back rooms In quiet, common
place houses la those Somber streets
that nestle in and around Mayfair
cheInin de fer, poker, fnro. sometimes
roulette wheel, and the gilded oilers
OF old British arlstocracy would be
swarmlng round like moths about
/ a candle. They seem to have nm
| intuitlve sense for such places,
| these folk. Where the average
man would pass by without com
ment, they nudge ones elbow and
Whisper. "Thnt's old so.and.so's place,
II ever you feel inclined for quiet
| huttHr"~-that notorious quiet tlutter"
signfying anything from fvepound
note 10 $500 or so.
Among this select c0tcrc are men
and women of doubtful nationality
who mike best use of theIr business
for extracting Information Of their
mere highly connected clientele. This
was proved In the ease of II recent
raid, where the woman proprietor was
discovered To be an ngent IN German
pay Thus they attain double OBJ
iect.
Women Worse Than the Men.
Bat there ~ also another class who
frequent these pinces, Manufacturers
from provincial munltlon districts.
flushed with their new and easily won
fortunes and Wishing to be In the so
clal swim, run bllndly into these Well
halted traps. Perhaps their unplcas.
ant experience gives them wisdom.
They never repent the performances
They belong 10 that eternal type which
thinks II can beat the thief at his own
game. They are gamblers'for the same
reason TINT drugtakers and dlpsoman.
acs are what they are. They can't
help II.
The women are worse even than the
men. Al least 60 per cent more of the
other sex favor the green table, They
take their gambling seriously dead |
seriously. 10 them, is nothing of the
sporting element OF the affair; II Is |
cutthroat business OF pay and receive |
Once woman Is seized with the |
gambling hug" nothing ON earth can |
hold her. II Is the first step of the |
many great tragedies OF life.
Tragedy of m Avlator's Wife.
Perhaps one of the most tragic In
stances of this nature was that OF the |
wife of commander In the British fly
ing corps Prior 10 the war he was
member of the stock exchange aud
they lived In II quiet village 30 miles
from London. When he Joined the col
ors they sold their home and the wife
went 10 live in townsin tiny fiat In
Knightsbrdge She was little more
than n child, and charmingly unso-
phlstieated one NJ that so fell eusy
victim Ia the gamblers wles.
They got hold of her through the
maltre d'hotel OF the restaurant she
freauented even the smartest maitres
d'hotel and head walters are some
times. though unwittiugly. the lnstru-
ments of the ConfedcrateS who 20 to
the restaurants as part OF their daily
business 10 get at the lonely men and
women with money who are to be dis.
covered In every London hotel. One
day II charming woman of distinguished
with polite request to share II with
her. Consent was readily given. and
they got into conversation.
The welcome stranger sympathlzed
with her loneliness, aud finished hv In.
wiling her 10 dainty maiSonette of
Park laue. After dinner cards were
produced. Aud the aeeclns had begun.
rs the time her husband was able to
get home on leave aud rescue her the
unhappy woman hal been robbed of
The best part ~ 10000
Organized Like a Company.
That is Gully Que of tho brilliant
methods employed. This International
eaag it, agents cover every city aud
large town ia the world even in the
enemy Countries is organized like
sofTany oH a profit sharing basis
There sFe fW~ted agents III every port
Fashion center and high class health
fesrst It IS the business Of these
a@zht> "a llyr in princcly style. grad.
WHiy wvrm#ns their way into the con.
hleaee Of the uo,8bles Of the locality. +
giving spa detailed reports Of their
movements aud business transactions +
- "a EtaeFal headquarters.
Maeu a mouvyed man or woman +
sets Qua from Que country Ia another F.