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Show Seeley Pinner Is Discounted in St. Paul Artists' Model Dances for Money Before Be-fore Six Hundred Prominent Hen . in Minnesota Capital. j I ST. PAUL, Minn.. March 26. Margaret A. Cody, tho original of. NIcllscn's great picture, "Spring," that received an award at tho New York academy, danced naked beforo an audience of COO of St. Paul's oung mop at Bowlby hall. Miss Cody Is 19 years old, tall, brunette and a very handsome llgure. She lives at 504 Inglc-hart Inglc-hart street and Is the daughter of respectable respec-table parents-Confessed parents-Confessed to Clergymen. She confessed csterday to a committee of St Paid clergymen, who arc Investigating Investi-gating the casu, that she was thc dancer and the members of the audience, consisting consist-ing of some of tho most- prominent business busi-ness men In St. Paul, aro in a state of panic. The committee proposes to take the whole matter up to the grand Jury and demand the Indictment of as many persons as may bu connected with the affair. Under a lire of questions from the preachers, she admitted It, and after that completely broke down and gave up all she knew about the affair that night end several other dances that sho took part in. Her confession sent cold chills up and down munv a respectable splno In St Paul. What the Girl Says. "Yes, I am tho girl who danced. I sup-poso sup-poso we are all in for It. but the preachers preach-ers who were here tell me that I will not be prosecuted because I helped them to some tilings they wanted to know. It was not so terrible for me, becauso 1 have posed as a model several times;' In fact. I have been a model since 1 was 15 years old, when I sat for my father In several pictures. I also was regularly employed for the body, foot and altogether at the St. Paul School of Fine Arts. Yes, 1 have danced before In St. Paul. Several times No. I will not tell who the gentlemen gen-tlemen were who hired me to do It. I needed the money; thut's the whole reason rea-son 1 appeared." What She Got for Exliibition. Miss Cody Is a graduate of the Central high school and is a native of St. Paul. At thc conclusion of her dance In Bowlby hall she passed the hat among tho audience, audi-ence, and when she had finished making her collection the hut was full to the brim with small money. She says she made over $200 by tho exhibition. The grand Jury meets this week and the clergymon say they will , have gone far enough with the Investigation of tho dance to havo some definite facts to lay before the body when It comes together. They say that they have eighteen names of men. who are all alleged to have been present at the show. |