Evening star., 1925-03-22


in the aggregate between $3.50, 600, coo
and $500, 900.
Picture the innumerable wearers of
that precious raiment as feeding in a
pasture dotted with innumerable
clumpS of bushes-and behind every
bush some avaricious wretch, armed
with sharp and cunning scissors, ly-
ing in wait TO snip or shear and fill
his pockets with the golden spoil.
Those sheep are our foreign born,
resident and immigrant. Their wool
is the vast sum of money-ha1d cash
which they carry or send between
their old homes and their new. And
the men in the bushes are the sharp
ers who shear them.
In New York City alone frauds
perpetrated against aliens have
mulcted them out Of an amount con-
servativeIy stated aS many thou
sands Of dollars by Mrs. Lillian ID.
Sire head of the Division of Aliens
Of the New York state Department of
La hor.
They are victimized right and left,
she says, retail and wholesale. Pri-
vate bankers, steamship ticket
agents. lottery ticket vendors. real
estate promoters. all take toll of
them. In maaY instances they have
neen swindled out of the savings of
years And some of the schemes they
have fallen for are fla grant almost
beyond relief.
Even sorcery is included among
the methods employed to befuddle
their credulous minds, and no less
storied and public a spot than Trinity
Churchyard on Broadway, where
Wall street debouches, has been made
the scene of at least one such in
cantatfon," which netted its perpe-
traitor a substantial number of dol
lars.
The victim. as Mrs. Sire recounts
the strange tale. was a Polish immi-
grant girl While on her voyage to
Join two sisters already in the United
Srates-one of them married. the
other still single-she was approach
ed on the ship by personable wom-
an who manifested friendly interest
and easily learned her history and
her future address.
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HARDLY was Anna off Ellis Island
and settled in her first job than the
woman looked her up. The sisters
were lodging together, and their
benefactress was panied TO find them
; in somewhat humble circums ances.
II was high time, she observed, that
they were getting themselves mil
lionaire husbands.
peasant girls echoed. staring at her
round-eycd. with their mouths agape.
But yes. had they not heard? New
York was full of millionaires on the
uui ViVe for wives, and who wanted
European girls s spouses, b cause
European girls are so much nicer
than American girls, who are cold and
frivolous. not warm and devoted.
1T will be the easiest thing in the
world for two such nice girls as you
TO secure wealthy husbands, their
self-cons stituted mentress assured
them. ESPECIALLY" she added. in
casual sort of way, "as / happen to
be a sorceress. If you choose to en-
gage my services, my magic powers
will bring YOU exactly the husbands
You desire.
Anna and her sister were no fools
They flung their door wide open 10
golden opportunity's knock, and the
Services" of the witch were forth-
with engaged.
Not all Of what ensued can be re-
counted in print. Not all OF II coulu
be told even in open court where the
ruth was brought out The woman
sold her dupes some unspe&kably OBJ
scene pamphlets which in all Good
faith they studied as text books IN
the mysteries of love. She also IN
troduced them to man who UNDER
tool, tn train them in the art of cap
tfyatfng American millionalres AS
a result of those episodes, there are
four white slavery charges now OUT
standing.
But those maneuvers were mercy
incidental Money was the chief OBJ
iect of the harpy. and she bled her
Victims white. Anna and the unmar-
riad sister trustingly paid her the
major rart of their wages ana the
married sister, who was at odds win
her husband and hoped to nave her
domestic happiness maStcaiN re-
stored. also came across TO the pes'
of her financial ability. But sun the
millionaire sultorS laiieu ~
their appearance.
-, .nnaars'' the sorceresS remarked
+o Anna then. that / have not been
using strong enough magic. Go ana
Luv a live chicken and YOU shall see
my powers ~ ht
Thns was brought about the all but
;ncradihle scene in Trinity church-
yard The hapIess fowl bought, Anna
and the harpy carried II down 70 ~
historic burying ground IN q qu,e
,.nrncr unobseryed. they stood above
= grave. Strange incanlatiohS
,nuttered in an eerie way that put the
doc The witch" drew long Mss
;na9 breath and took the chicken from
Anna. oripe inn
,,a,inuslv into the eyes. of her trighleheu
dune and grasping the feathereu say a..
fce to the gods OF darkness U!
.scrawny neck. now you shsll SEE VIC. .he
my real powers are. Watch ""'NH
tombstones
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WHILE Anna gazed about Iei mr
w unwilling eyes the woman Wruns
tho fowls neck At the same time she
called ont sharply. Then. while the oF :
ING bird still fiuttered. she spoke again
to Anna. tho
gravestones. See them moving ~ '.e
dead folk beneath them turn over a.
my command Another word from me
nd they would be thrusting their hands
up through the earth to grasp yours
told YOU | was sorceresS. Look Looh
at the graVestonesi See them move.
And Anna saw them move. in the m
stant longer she was able to look at
them. Whereupon she fell victim TO a
violent attack of Mysteries.
1t was fortnight before she was
herself again With restored health,
some common sense came back, and the
AaeII the "sorceress' had established
over her mind was broken. One WORD
led to another. Complaint was made 10
the authorities. The woman was arrest
ed and the whole fantastic tale was
brought out in court
One touch of comic relief was fur
nished by the harpy's husband, self
STYLED Polish "aristocrat" of impress
sive airs and graces. who claimed to be
a motion picture director. He was ar
rested with his wife. having had share
In the dealings with the girls. There