There has been more than one similar scandal involving members of the
high nobility and rich American girls.
It will be remembered last year there was a stir created by The
broadcast announcement that Prince Hugo Von Hohenche-Oehringen,
Prince Heinrich Von Hanan and Baron Berhard-Muenhausen, accused
an Englishman, O'Brien, who was alleged to be the agent of Berlin
marriage brokers, of attempted blackmail.
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Among the Americans whose names are said to be on the list of this
marriage syndicate, without their personal knowledge or consent,
are the Misses Angelica and Mabel Gerry, the Misses Nora and Fannie
Iselin, the Misses Adeline and Electra Havemeyer, Mrs. Lewis
Rutherford Morris, formerly Miss Katherine Clark, daughter of Senator
Clark, of Montana; Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison, formerly Miss Mary
Crocker, daughter of Mrs. George W. Crocker; Miss Dorothy Whitney,
the Misses Beatrice and Gladys Mills, Miss Gwendolyn Burden, and the
Misses Florence and Ruth Twombly.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ROUSED TO MANY FRAUDS BY THE MATRIMONIAL AGENCIES
AND BUREAUX THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, "AGENCIES" TO PUT UNDER BAN THE
SWINDLING OPERATIONS.
MRS. JENNIE SCOTT, ARRESTED BY POSTAL INSPECTORS, TELLS SECRETS OF HER
MATRIMONIAL AGENCY.
The second blow has been struck against the affinity trust, of
Chicago, and the second member of the alleged trust in Chicago, Mrs.
Jennie Scott, a woman of many aliases, by Postoffice Inspector James
E. Stuart.
This woman was arrested at her home, at 214 Thirty-second street, her
"Cupid shop," where she received thousands of letters, descriptions
and photographs of affinity seekers from all over the United States
and Canada. She received them in the name of "Glinn's International
Corresponding Association," to join which from $2 to $5 was drawn from
each affinity. Thousands joined.