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Show j"e Vampire"Radyard Kipling's Poetical Characterization of the Heartless Woman ' ' . ft)1 A fodl there was, and.hc made hiB nravcr A fnni . . j u j . The fool was stripped to his foolish hide SA(HHHbC ' V. 1 mk V, j ts I'ajcr A tool there was, and his goods he spent t? j t 'vjtri -- H Jf' Mi CEven as you and I). (Even a8 h UB Ml- BI c,u (Even as you and I). HHraH, '"'' V : I To a rag and a bono and a hank of hair-- I Honor and faith and a sure intent- Whic fsht hare seen when she threw. HBh1BH M: (We called her the woman who did not (And it wasn.t thc Icagt what the lad Wm as,de- HPlP99A fr. care) meant) (But it isn't on record the lady tried) Bs91lfi&r nflB&& ' J'?- H But the fool, he called her his lady fair But a fool must follow his natural bent So some of him Hred, but the most of him BIBjr ' i Shocking Revelation -of How a Young Cashier- B1. ' I 1 1 Was Lured to Destruction by the Cunning . 'jM I Wiles of a Professional Vampire mnmSwS ': I MTBut the Fool, Me Called Her His Ladv Fair" : ' i'" jp ' I IRDN Kipling wrote of the woman he characterized as. 'A rag, a bone and a hank he might well have had in &s Effie Taylor of New Bhe is a vampire. John Schlldknecht ia In 33 Prison awaiting trial. Ho twenty-dollar-a-week cashier ge New York Arm. Through 3 and blandishments and in-aeviccs in-aeviccs of Miss Effie Taylor ng cashier was induced to-i,000 to-i,000 or more .from his em-a em-a leas than a year, is a curious fact that the did not get this money.. The - truth is that Effle Taylor hired employe of a gang of rultures who make it their to pray upon the weakness ; men who- hald positions of oughout New York City. Effle vaB the bait upon the hook aught young Schildknecht. ey Ire Btole was passed over to heir wretched employers, y beiAind the scenes of how cbUdkuecbt .was deliberately d and driven to ruin by the and the machinations of the o employed her casts a light i of the durkest. corners of k's underworld, ewspuper has frequently re-ow re-ow tue underworld lays its catch honest bank clerk's, treasurers and unsuspecting men and lure them to ruin nre several gangs in New inderworld engaged in 'this Industry They' use good-clever-spoken girls as decoys i men who handle large sums Having selected their vlc-e vlc-e girls, like the human vnm-y vnm-y arc, proceed to bleed him only escape lies In suicide or uthfuT cashier, Schildknecht. dp stated, is now in the ?t?Ison awaiting .trial. The sponsible for his plight is irge. Will the people make a iffort to break up the gang? nrticular gang consists of an cle of ten and an outer circle p or thfrty gorillas. Only the prising the Inner circle are Qto the confidence o the if the gang and know just iterprises the gang is en-iventy en-iventy or more gorilla., who i the outer circle nre simply i who do just what they are io. It may -be a robbery or lit or a murder. It may be lonw17 gSDS flgbt' It maJ If and 11-3 11-3 it In a U He a behalf era and a which igs are intly inch has ploits oS these girls are used in a similar way, particularly- in the vicinity of the hotel In which the gang makes its headquarters. Tiie .Schildknecht case is a typical example of the work of J his gang. From an inside source information lias been obtained which discloses exactly how this boy was led to ruin nnd how other men who handle considerable con-siderable sums of money are being constantly victimized in the same way. Schildknecht Is twenty-three years old. He comes from a respeclablo family of CnnnrsieLong Island, his father having been a, respected employe em-ploye in a Brooklyn savings bank for years. Two years ago young Schlldknecht obtained a position n3 cashier with the Washburn-Crosby Flour Com-'pany, Com-'pany, a millionaire concern. His salary was ?20 a week, his hours from 9 to 5. It was his duty to receive re-ceive and deposit the dally collections made by the salesmen of the Arm. These suihb aggregated between three and four thousand dollars a day. For a year Schlldknecht managed to get along very nicely on ats $20 a week. None of the thousands of dollars dol-lars he dally handled for his firm ever stuck to his fingers. Last Winter, In company with a companion, he entered a well-known resort on Fortieth street, one of the most notorious places in New York's Tenderloin. He was always well dressed and presented rather .n dapper dap-per appearance. He didn't, spend much money, from the standpoint of the underworld, but his appearance and self-posseted manner might very well huve indicated that he had money nt -his command. At any rate, he was unfortunate enough to attract the attention of a young woman known in the resort ns ' Effie Taylor, but whose real name is ElDe McGinn. This girl lived at tho time in a luxuriously furnished apartment In Harlem, maintained for her by a man The "Fool"-Who Called Effie Taylor "His LadyFalr." who was known there ns John Taylor. Taylor, as a matter of fact, was Nicholas Vaccarelli, brother of the notorious Paul Vaccarelli, otherwise known as Paul Kelb', leader of the Paul Kelly gang, paid to have been disbanded, but which Is, nevertheless, still in existence and stronger and more active than ever. Effie Taylor is a soft-spoken Southern South-ern girl, rather pretty, neatly dressed, a decldej blonde nnd with very fesei-nntlng fesei-nntlng ways about her. She was fitted In every way for thc function she was engaged to fill in the resort In which young Schildknecht happened hap-pened to enter on tho night in ques-tion. ques-tion. In other words, she was there to npprnlse the men who entered the place and to select the most likely victims for the gang to which she belonged be-longed to blackmail. . On this particular night the most promising victim In the "place seemed to be young Schlldknecht. He had the appearance of a bank clerk, and bnnk clerks make excellent material for this sort of work. Bank clerks and cashiers draw small salaries," but they handle thousands thou-sands of dollars every day. Sometimes Some-times these clerks are deliberately cultivated and lured Into the clutches of the vamplro women of the gang. More often the vampires who flutter about the resorts of the Tenderloin select their own prey, and slowly but skilfully enmesh them In a net of disgrace dis-grace nnd dishonesty and deliver them over to the real leaders of the gang. ") Introductions jire not absolutely essential es-sential in resorts of this character. Within fifteen minutes after .Effie had first laid lfer, eyes on young Schildknecht Schild-knecht and decided that he would be a promising prey, she was at his table and drinking his wine. Very cleverly the girl toyed with the young cashier, teasing him about his stinginess, but cleverly conveying the Impression that she was very much captivated with him. Flattered by the girl's attentions, which he was more or less at a loss to understand, young Schlldknecht asked for an opportunity op-portunity to meet the girl again. He was accommodated. Night after night he frequented the resort or similar places to meet ihe girl. The acquaintanceship soon ripened into a very close friendship, Schlldknecht Schlld-knecht becoming more and more Infatuated In-fatuated with the girl. Foolishly ho had invited his own undoing by representing rep-resenting from thc first that he had a very responsible position with a millionaire concern. While his salary was not very large at that time, he explained, he hopbd for early promotion. promo-tion. Having satisfied herself that Schildknecht Schild-knecht was really infatuated with ''piVreioW , , - n- . r -pffie Taylor Accompanied by Nicholas Vnccureii. V m1' o? the hff PlCFUrie Nntorious Gangster Paul Kelly, with Whom She As. :-JPer. BrotheroftheNoJrk.8ig Schildknecht, the 23-Ycar-Old -m felem 80c,ated' caahief Who to Now in the Tom V Ysal K f tter, she suddenly began to ignore him. She made appointments ap-pointments which she didn't keep. On one occasion, hnving arranged to meet him at Forty-secondstreet and Broadway, she waited untU he was within a few yards of hcroand then stepped into a. taxi, accompanied accompa-nied by a well-dressed well-dressed young man. At their next meeting Schlld--knecht protested. Ihen Effle declared declar-ed that aho could hardly be expected expect-ed to waste her time on a mere clork when there were a lot of "live spenders" simply crazy about her. In a dozen different, differ-ent, ways she soon forced home to tho young cashier tho fact that If he . wished ' to compete" com-pete" with Etfic's other admirers he would havo to make a plunge. How could he take her automobillng and buy her wine suppers on his siiinry of $'20 a Week? He. was bo captivated by the girl that he soon decided to go to any lengths to retain re-tain her affections. affec-tions. It. was then that tho cashier began to use Ids firm's funds. This was Copyrlsht. 1013, p l accompanied him. Effie Taylor, a New York Vampire, the Professional Decoy Used by a Gang of Blackmailers to Ensnare & $Z0 a wcck as other "ladles" Cauhicr Into Robbing His Employers of $5",000, Which the Vampire Delivered- Over to Her Employers. , jH were to bo there. The poker game was preceded by an elaborate wine supper, and then, the party adjourned to the card room for the game. By means of cold-decks and other crooked gambling devlce3 young Schlldknecht lost upward of $3,000 that night Now at last Effle was doing some real work. Three thousand dollars from Schlldknecht to-night and another an-other ?3,000 to-morrow night, and again thc next; night that was worth while. Efflowas at laston thejob. If Schlldknecht protested, or had glimmerings glim-merings of suspicion, never mind: that was the vampire's end of, the job tonttcnd to. .The main thing u bear in mind was that this little cashier 'hud S3.000 passing through his now guilty lingers every day. and Effle must see that. It reached thi gang. Frequent, poker and crap games followed fol-lowed this experience. Almost iu- ( variably Schlldknecht lost. For thc purpose of securing more definite information about him, and at the same time maintaining n closer watch on all his movements for it was. feared that his peculations mighl4 at any time be discovered and result, In his flight tho Sang resorted to a very Ingenious ruse. Eflie Induced him to buy her two expensive bulldogs. A day or two after the dogs arrived she explained thnt It would be necessary to have some one take care of the animals, as her own maid wasn't competent to do so. , An advertisement was accordingly inserted in a newspaper and Effie interviewed in-terviewed the applicants who responded. re-sponded. The man she selected was a member of the gang. HIs position as a member of the Schildknecht household made the espionage more eomnlote. a knecbt was running two a'utomoblles one of them a racer, which he entered en-tered In the Vnnderbilt Cup race. Hi had a chauffeur whom he paid 535 a week, although both he and Effk'o could drive the cars themselves. Every day he drove to his place of business and at night his auto called for him. Last August SchlUlknccht's employers employ-ers asked him to select his vacation dntc. Ills peculations had now bocn going on for seven months. As long ns ho kept to his desk be felt -'that he might keep, them on forever Accordingly Accord-ingly he told his employers that he wanted no vacation, but would like to take half a day off every now and then. He bad began to gamble more heavily, heav-ily, hoping thnt he mlu'ht possibly get back the large sums lie had squandered squan-dered and sel himself right on his firms .books, but his gambling was done solely with Effle's friends, pf( whom he uever entertained the , slightest suspicion, and he Invariably lot. Last August, through a statement unwittingly mailed to the company's head office by "a clerk who temporary ily took Schildknccht'a place on his afternoon off. Schildknecht's defnlca tlons came to light. He was summoned sum-moned before the board of directors. Excusing hlm,self for a moment, the young niajn left thc office nnd at onco got Into communication with his "friends." Itealizing that the caBhler had a last been "sucked dry,'.' .the gang de termlned for their own -safety to got him out of the country. They sent him to Montevideo, supplying hlra with funds and assuriug him that while it was unsafe for his "wife" to accompany him, she would surely fol-a fol-a low. During all this tlmq younff Schlld- Once In South America, the gang by the Star Company. Great Britain nights Reserved. figured, thc defaulter would never re-' re-' turn nnd they would be out of dagger. dag-ger. As a matter of fact, tho William J. Burns Detective Agency, which had been retained iu the case. wa In constant con-stant communication with the police authorities in Moncvideo, nnd the de faulter would have been speedily ex tmdiled but for Mils sudden determination determi-nation to ix! turn voluntarily to New York. The gang hud ignored all hi pleas for money, figuring thnt with' out funds he would never be able to return, but they overlooked the fact that the lad might be so desperate as to work his way back. That, at any nit, was what ho did, and when he prrJycd he was at once arrested by ,1 nines W. Carter, the assistant rami-ngar rami-ngar of the Burns Agency, who had complete charge of the case, nnd was turned ovrr to the New York police, authorities. It was then for-the first time thm the defaulting cashier lenrncd thnt he had been the victim of blackmail-. ITS'. Subsequent investigation of tho case hua brought out the .startling Information In-formation that It was but one of hun dreds perpetrated by the same gang j1 and Blmllar gangB year in and year 1 In a Harlem hotel, In which thlft k partlculur gang makes Its headquflv- ters hardly a night goos by in which some transient guest is not robbed or blackmailed by thc gang's vampixea who infest the district. . Not always does the victim Innd in prison as In this case. Sometimes he rH is fortunate enough to be able to rales enough to satisfy the gang's demands. :H This may impoverish him, but it saves him from disgrace. Sometimes tho viotlm Is driven to suicide. Not infrequently when he has been sucked dry or exposure thrcntons him nnd may Involve tho gang, he.lsqulot-' he.lsqulot-' ly done away with. To tho efforts of the Burns detec-lives detec-lives are due thc revelation of such facts as have been brought to llch-t. But thc Burns detectives are not po; llcemen; their work ended when the door of the Tombs Prison snapped shut on the trembling form of young 'H .Schlldknecht. Will the police author-Hies author-Hies take up this case where Burns has left it nnd break up thc gnus . wlw employed Effle tha Vampire? |
