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Show LONDON CROOKS! POSE AS HIGH NOBLEMEN Scotland Yard Hat New Field of Endeavor in Pseudo Titled Clan LONDON, Sept. IS fBy A. P.) London's Lon-don's underworld numbers mora "nobis-men" "nobis-men" than all the crook realms of other capitals In Europe combined, police po-lice statistics show. Crooks, like many ether . men of profession, pro-fession, are known to suffer from thla. The latest In crookdom Is to Impersonate Im-personate a baronet, a duke, or a lord, sccording to ataate. No ae If -respect lng crook would think 1 of dubbing himself plsln "Mister." nor ; for that matter would any high class j woman sharp style her.elf plain "Miss", , if there were a convenient Handle In the shape of a title handy. The criminal Investigation depart-rent depart-rent of Hrotland Yard Is crammed with records of bogus barons, dud dukes, phony lords, knights, who never felt the sword of knighthood, spoof duch-countesses, duch-countesses, marquises. The first "titled" crook to be reunAetf up was s Jewel thief who startled 1-on-doa about a year ago by perpetrsttnc sn ainastna; series of impersonation crime. He posed as the son of a baron entertained lavishly, snd at the bouse far ties which he gave to vociety tnei and women, "looted" the bedrooms of his guests of valuable Jewels. TORT FOR CI HI.. He wss ffooeVlooklna;. tall, fhsrmlng of manner and all the girls fU In love with him. Indeed after his conviction tr.ere was more than one female victim who came secretly to the ollce snd begged that "Lord X be et down lightly. A few months later the lavish enter-tsinments enter-tsinments of a socalled Hcnttish noble-nan noble-nan In a highland castle bgan to attract at-tract the attention of the society news-pspers. news-pspers. Photographs sppeared of The wonderful house parties on ths great Scotch estste. But the I-atrd made a little slip. In the excitement of entertaining a real, live, honst-to-s-oodns princess, tt,e latrd so forgot himself as to wesr the kilt of the Gordon rlin with the slocking, of the Montrose clan shout ss pardonable an error as a .abbl wearing wear-ing a crucifi. A few real lairds derfdej : question the "Ialrd." They found rheir host. I sHghtl the worsa for his t wr Scotch whisky, with an arm around the prin- 1 cess' maid. , YARD LANDS "LAIRD." That settled It and inrldently the eird. Scotlsnd Yard waa communicated communi-cated with, and the spoof nobleman turned out to be a convict with a Ions record of crime. Kike the spoof bare 'a aa, he toe. had made pilgrimages to the bedrooms of his gueta, and this, coupled with some Judicious swindling In the city, had kept him coins. Then there was "Tady Eileen." Her rsme was plain Mary Banks te start with, but she sooa grew tired of her rightful profession behind a barroom counter snd branched eut :ate a dance hall butterfly, where she mads acquaintances ac-quaintances among young c(ty hoys 1 with more money than trains. Hut Mary cultivated them. aped thir speech, and In the dart! me watched the ral women of society in the stores snd at the theatre. Twe .years later there was little of the Msry Hanks shout "Ls1y Ktleen" ae she stepped from her limousine to the skiewaiK. Kveryone was completely tsken In by her. Siie would so to a htg jewelers snd order Isvlshly snd pay a small sum down on receipt of ths Jewels. Of course, she never paid more than ten per cent, but Iondon ewelera sre very trusting, and It was snms years before "Lady Eileen" waa discovered |