The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-19

| positively identified as her maid. But
 the prisoner, although charged once
 before with q similar offense, does
 not handle her alleged crimes with
 the same broad sweep of imagina-
 tion that characterized Diss De Bar
 Divorced wife of General Diss De
 Bar, the notorious woman swindler
 married Theodore Jackson in Chi
 cago, and with him perpetrated many
 and various types of crime, including
 religious cult.
 Diss De Bars most notorious ven
 ture was the deluding of an old man
 of wealth and artistic taste, Luther
 Marsh of New York, whom she de.
 frauded by means of "spook pie lures" The canvases, which were i found to have been painted by her
 husband, an artist of mo small ability, were 9meared over with
 chalk, which she rubbed off at se- ances thus fooling the victim who
 believed his enslaver's hands were guided by the spirits of dead artists
 For this hoax the Goddess of the
 Shows got a sentence of twelve years. But later she and Jackson ap. peared in London with their notor- ious cult, "theoretic unity" the machinations of which brought them to the attention of Scotland Yard
 The practices of their demoniac cult were barred to shocked public. l A London court sentenced Jackson to fifteen years in jail and Diss De Bar to seven. But the Queen" of her followers survived and finally came back to the United States to appear in vaudeville.
 Not the least of her remarkable . claims was Diss De Bars constant . assertion that she was the daughter of the likewise notorious Lola Mon tez, one.time favorite of the poet. king, Ludwig I, of Bavaria. now long since resting in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. under a slab which says simply: Mrs. Eliza Gilbert"
 Lola Montez's career was distin. guished if not for financial swindling at least for the vicissitudes of her love affairs. An eloper-at seven. teen-with young English officer. so as to avoid an unwe!come match, she was soon deserted by her hus- band. who found another lady more to his liking Little did the young bridegroom realize that the young iamsel he neglected would yet be the prize for whom kings and princes would compete.
 Irish and Spanish blood combined in the makeup of the daring Lola. who captiyated Paris in 1929, when 'he visited the city billed as Dolores hartez." a dancer. She could not lance any too well. but 1t is said Ter beauty made other qualifications for success. Her ec- became famous and often ed to her banishment from various owns she visited, whose staid in labitants would have none of the 'aprices Of the dancer At the age King of Bavaria. He was sixty. md 1t is said she represented to Jim the beauty and poetry of life hat the exigencies of his stern ca eer had kept repressed in his na- ue. She became his favorite and vas given the title of Countess Land eldt and a villa in the Barerstrasse ..
 Lola ruled over Ludwig's affec. z ions until 1S4S, when European fer c nent turned his subjects against the q air young charmer. whose views we're opposed to all conservatism. o he was banished and Ludwig gave d ID the crown nine days later.
 America became Lola's mecca after his period, and here she came to !, eek fortune on the stage. But her ack of serious accomplishment was , lot balanced here by her beauty and , lotoriety, 80 failure was inevitable. , She married later in the west, but 'eturned in her old age to the east. , Tn Astoria. L. l., she died unknown , md unmourned.
 In this lack of comeliness, coupled with success in deluding men, Diss De Bar resembled the late Cassie Chadwich. whose audacious exploits in fleecing financial kings are prom. inent in our annals of crime.
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