Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-07-26
American and Canadian 0hlcerS
Visiting London Also Fleeced
by SharperS.
GIRLS ARE USED AS DECOYS
International coterie Using Private
Houses for Games Operates Un-
disturbed-Traged of an Avia-
tors Wife-Women Worse
Than Men.

LOnuOD.-Inefe Is u man living IN
retirement in one of those fine, up
standing old Jacobean manor houses,
not fifty miles from London; a model
country squire. popular with his ten
ants, thorOughgoing sportsman, who
rides to hounds most religiously and
entertains on the most lavish scale.
lie can afford It, 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 in those somber streets
that nestle in and around Mayfair
Chemin de fer, poker, faro, sometimes
roulette wheel, and the gilded idlers
of old British aristocracy would be
swarming round like moths about
a candle. they seem to have an
iftiuitive sense for such places
tl.eSe folk. Where the average
nun would pass by without com
mant, they nudge ones elbow and
whisper, That's old so-and-so's place,
If ever you feel inclined for a quiet
fulter"-that notorious quiet tlutter"
siemfying anything from a five-pound
Tote TO $500 or so.
Among this select coterie are men
end women Of doubtful nationality.
who make best use of their business
for extracting information of their
more highly connected clientele. This
was proved in 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
cial swim. run h'indly into these we'll
haited traps Perhaps their unpleas-
ant experience gives them wisdom
They never repeat the performance
They belong to that eternal type which
thinks II can beat the thief mt his own
game They are gamblers for the same
reason that drugtakers and dinsomanl-
ncs are what they are. They can't
help it.
The women are worse even than the
men. AT least 60 per cent more Of tie
other sex favor the green table They
take their gambling seriouslv-dead
seriously To them, is nothing of the
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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 an Aviator'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 TO the war he was
member of the stock exchange and
they lived in a quiet village 80 miles
from London. When he joined the col
ors they sold their home and the wife
went to live in town--in a tiny flat in
Knightsbridge. She was little more
than Il child, and charmingly unso-
phiSticated one at that so fell easy
victim to the gamblers wiles.
They got hold of her through the
METRE d'hotel of the restaurant she
frequented-even the smartest mattress
dhetel and head walters are some
tines, though unwittingly, the instru-
ments of the confederates who go to
the restaurants as part of their daily
business to ret at the lonely men and
women With money who are to be dis
covered In every London hotel. one
day charming woman of distinguished
appearance Strolled over 10 her table
with Il polite request TO share it with
her Consent was readily given. and
they got into conversation.
The welcome stranger sympathiycd
with her loneliness, and finished by in
wiling her 10 q dainty maisonet.e off
Park lane, After dinner cards were
produced. And the fleeing had begun.
Ry the time her husband was able to
ret home on leave and rescue her the
unhappy woman had been robbed of
the best part If $4,000.
Organized Like a Company.
That IS only one of the brilliant
methods employed This International
Eane-itS agents cover every city and
large town in the world-even in the
enemy countrieS-iS organized like
company on n protit-Sharing basis
There are trusted agents at every port
fashion center and high-clasS health
resort. 1t is The business of these
agents to live in princely style, grad
ua!ly worming their way into the con
iidence Of the notahleS of the locality
giving fun detailed reports of their
movements aud business transactions
10 n general headquarters.
When moneyed man or woman
sets out from one country To another
the agent ut the port of embarkatior
wires fun particulars of his-or her
business available capital and intend
cd period OF visit To his confederate
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