The Washington times., 1923-03-20
Girl EASY PREY
Of SCHE|NNVG
CROOKS
Dorothy King, in Guest Of Love,
Bestowed Riches on Man
Who Beat Her.
By MARGERY REX.

Written for Cosmopolitan News Service.
NEW YORK. March 20.--They're
still trying to find out which Of
Lady Luck's admirers was venge.
full enough to kill her-Dorothy
King, now buried far from the
Broadway whose jazzy shrilIness
furnishes q funeral march Tor the
pretty Marionette.
The violent climax Of her life. as
short, as fluffy and as artificially
colored as the hair that MARSHALL
used to call spun gold" was in.
evitable. It is not always murder
or sudden death, this climax, but
nearly always some sort Of catas-
trophe when Lady Luck disappears
from the clubs" the hotel Hobbies
and the beauty parlors.
Money Silences Family.
Sister Of a chauffeur, Dorothy
keenan, progressed" az she be.
lieved, to the point where she had
autos to give away, and she gave
one to her brother. Her family.
first shocked, then feebly resisting
the momentum of Dorothy's swift
ly moving new life. finally were
silenced by money, and thus become
stockholders in her destinations. q
company that was soon to blow
up"
Money and clothes are the OBJ
vious allurements Of the sort OF
life the dead model chose. Yet she
wanted love, too, and discover6A an
object for her latent tenderness In
Albert Guimares. Having tried mar:
riage once-with a chauffeur-and
found it wanting, Dorothy may
have justified her line Of conduct
with the thought that she had been
cheated Of happiness and meant to
grab all she could OF the worlds
luxuries ~ including love-to be
taken wherever she encountered 1t
in any Of its phases.
Gave LuxuI,ies to Guimares.
To provide these luxuries-for
Guimares-she lent herself to richer
acquaintance. But the swarthy
contemptueuS fellow who beat her
when he was annoyed. and took
her money at all times. was the
best she could do as a love object.
Men ~ like Guimares thus have
leisure to lounge about hotels.
along Broadway, at seaside resorts,
and be admired for their expensive
swagger by foolish girls who mis-
take them for something desirable.
This, then, was what Dorothy got
out OF life as far as love IL to be
reck0ned with
AS far as friends concerned, her
former intimate, Hilda Ferguson,
said Dorothy had become Of late SO
unbearable that few could tolerate
her. Her. restlesSness was finding
vent in Continual quarrels and you
may be sure Dorothy wore a chip
on one Of her white shoulders.
MARSHALL Pays Literally.
Marshall" paid we'll for his at.
tentions to Dorothy King-latest
reports say about a thousand dollars
a visit. Proportionately, Guimares
demanded toll from his benefactress,
which she was only too glad to
give.
Just as Dorothy King, a poor,
pretty girl. used rich men to get
the furs and jewels she wanted, a
scheming young man used her.
Furthermore, q band Of crooks
meant to make her useful as the
object OF a clever robbery. The
trapper caught. The girl dead and
the gems gone. Marshall" sixty,
benevolent. out for q lark, embar-
raised. Guimares arrested for
owning q gun.
Who might know something about
the death of Dorothy keenan, King?
Some man. evident. And what
men were associated with her life?
John Keenan,, her brother, a chauf-
feur.
Jack Lannigan, owner of 1.-THE
Tent"
Sir John Griswold, a prosperous
Englishman.
Marshall" identified as a we'll
known manufacturer.
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