The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-27
BY DAVID 1. eLuMENFELp

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Chapter II
LONDON. June 81 Omitted Press9
Louise is typical of a handful of
swell women crooks who work and
prey on the society of London who
depend largely on night life for their
enjoyment.
berries which come to light only as
reports of a famous society woman's
loss of jewels in public places.
At breakfast she reads her mail
mostly continental, calls for her steno-
grapher also a crook" and dictates
her letters and makes her plans for
the day.
To see her sitting there In her silk
en- kimono you would think you were
at the breakfast table of young So
ciety girl planning a days enjoyment
Louise is, however, doing nothing
of the sort. She is probably planning
way of getting an invitation to the
house party of the Duke of x, with a
view to enmeshings some of the young
''bloods" who are likely to be there,
for plucking.
How She Operates.
Or again, maybe, she is debating a
letter to her accomplices in Paris or
Vienna, trying to getsa position for one
of them q fashionable jewelry store
on the Rue de Ia Paix, CT again set
i. ting a train in motion for smuggling
into the country a consignment of ex-
pensiYe dope.
Louise puts on her gown by Poiret
and her hat by Paquin and sweeps out
Into that glittering limousine. In the
morning she will probably visit the
fashionable stores where she is we'll
known as respected customer, make
several purchases and then drive off
in her limousine again, this time on
business. Her way may lie in the
downtown direction of Whitechapel or
Limehouse. Here she leaves her car,
putting a raincoat over her fashion
able clothes, and disappears into a
side street. What she does there is
never known to any save her accom-
plices who meet her at these rendeZ,
Gus But the results become public
later with the full light of publicity
glaring down on a robbery or swindle
of huge proportions.
Who are Louise's accomplices?
They are drawn from all classes.
From Many Glasses.
First there are those society male
victims who, bewitched will do any
thing to gain her favors. These give
her information of the big society func
tons, who is to be there, who is tC
wear diamonds, who is to wear pearls
and who rubies. The information once
given, these society bad boys" are
the hands that lift" the Jewels il
some dark corner behind the palms.
Next come the chauffeurs. These
or rather that class of chauffeurS
whom she employs, are mostly dishon
est taxidrivers, and private car drivers
of doubtful morality.
After the chauffeurs comes whole
horde of underworld personalities a
Louise's beck and call Walters, dis
charged officers, con men, pseudo-de
tectives, one-time policemen, discharg
ed nurses, actors and actresses of low
class.
Police Know Them.
The police know all about Louise
One day, they claim, they are goini
to get her. But I doubt it. Louise i
too clever. She never does anythin
herself. Louise merely pulls tn
strings. She pays her accomplice
highly. She tells them, that they hav
only themselves to blame if they ar
caught, and only the knife between tn
ribs when they finish their sentence
they give away the Lone She Wolf
Another type of woman crook VIII
is almost ubiquitous is the super-shol
litter. London has scores of then
They'll go into store, arriving in
neat motor car, and first pay for a
their purchases. Then, after a laps
of time, they will open a credit a
count. After further lapse the a
sistants begin to know and trust thel
until, one day, madame crook phone
that store and asks for consignmeI
of jewelry or dresses, to be sent to be
flat. In due course<a young man a
rives with the jewelry for her
choose. He drinks cup of coffee I
something else and wakes up in a
empty flat, minus hostess, minus II
jewels.
1.-THE Endl