The Washington times., 1922-09-03
small Town
l. GIRL DUPED
-...ANDDEFRAUDED
Broadway Habitue Weds Ken
lucky Girl and Brings
Her to New York.
SPENDS HER SMALL LEGACY
ured from Main Street She
Finds Jazz Life Is Dead
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participated IN the .So-cdtted 5dzz
life of the big city. Hoto she ,ods
.tricked by an oily-tongued yotn0
Eps1n, tUho posed as a university
e.L.@urdduate, club member and heir;
TX ko4o he wasted her, small fortune; /;
hoto he i,tdnced her to run up huge
= accounts at exclusive shops and
establishment x of the "uUenne";;
ho,o after marrying her he desert
led her-uu is told IN these amazing
ysveIations Of the life. of nineteen
year-od Evelyn Goodwin, 0ho ran
awap from "Mutn Street." Pine
viIle. Ky. It is the biography Of
a airl iUho thinks, despite her e1-'
peTiences, that she can "bedt" the
city and still remain good.
fs:t BY GENE FOWLER.
Copyright. 1saa. by New York American
Evelyn Goodwin, Kentucky So
sn ,eiety girl, sitting in a five-dollar-
a-week room, told me how a
mans suave talk had wrecked her
:. happiness. Two days after she
r started life in New York with
: William F. Olcott, white light
habitue, he deserted her at their
LUXURIOUS suite at the Hotel
Plaza, she said. Gowns costing
thousand dollars-but never
vbaid for-are held there. Two
simple street dresses, more suit
able for wear on Main street
than on Broadway, are all that
& she possesses from an elaborate
II wardrobe.
{ Rejects Fathers Plea.
~, Duped, defrauded, deserted,
EVELYN Goodwin has been Offered
~ by her father a railroad ticket
O back to Pinevilie, KY. and q
home. Penniless, the slender sIi
of nineteen refuses to return TO
the gossip of the small town. In
the constantly progressive duel be
tween prosaic Main Street and
Broadway, the avenue Of the biz
city again has won.. The city Is In
this girls blood.
This Kentucky girl, a pawn of
adventure, has lived an amazing
two years in New York. Through
it all she has Kept herseit c.eaf
of the usual depths that engult
the innocence of girls who defy
conventions.
:" A Mothers Remorse.
To William F.. Olcott. himself
Originally '"small towner;" of
Patriot, Ind, this girl was a pass
ing incident. The first heart that
he broke was his mothers. In II
letter to Evelyn, written less than
q month after Olcott induced her to
take his name in return for his
taking small fortune willed
Evelyn by her mother, Mrs. Lydia
H: olcott, expressed the bitterest
wish that any mother can make;
'T wish I never had given VII
Ham BIRTH"
The father Of this man. whose
twenty.three years Of life have
been crowded with deeds Of
trickery, deceit and shame. suf.
fered financially through the boys
wayward tendencies. The father
conducts an unpretentious drug
Last December olcott was ar
rested. He was alleged to have
raised amounts on claims while
acting as claim adjuster for q large
insurance company here, an Of
ficial told me. The mother. broken
hearted, still could not refuse the
call of her boy. She made a
hasty trip here, put up the hundreds
s.-of dollars which her boy is alleged
u
fraud. She obtained his relese.
Evelyn met Olcott at the Friars'
Bali In New York early in 1872. She
was then staying with her sister.
Mrs. Genevieve Thurman, widow
of the late celebrated Arthur Thur
man, automobile racer who lost his
life some time ago at the Indianapo.
lis speedway. olcott. always a
chance to feather his nest.
wooed ''Follies" Girl.
H.. He had just concluded a mad
period of heart advances townrd
Edna French, Follies girl. Miss
French describes him as, q "sneak,
fourflusher and cad"
a. 1t was while Edna French was
said to have been married to June
Gregg, Harvard man, that Olcott per-
sisted in paying her attentions. 1t
was during this phase of Olcott's
rr.-- checkered existence that he became
the boon companion of "Dapper Dam
Caswell, spendthrift and Broadway.
ite. .,
"Dapper Den," saliow.faced and
cruelty cool, was the messenger
2, chosen by Oicott to break the news''
to Evelyn that he had taken her for
Z !. all she had and was through"
This same "Dapper Dan," then
spending the last few thousands of
r, the nearly half a million that he wns
wasting on show girls and good times
Is was living at the Clarfdge with Oh
cott.. The latter had left the Plaza
- two days after the Olcott couple had
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