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Show MRS. ATWOOD ADMITS SHE I IS goat; TOO Smooth Talker Gets Her $225,000 in Cash Also Jewels and Dogs t CHARMED BY YARNS When Discovered ''Broker" Talks Her Out of Arresting Ar-resting Him NEW YORK. Feb. 26. Mrs. Dorothy Doro-thy Atwood. listed by the district attorneys at-torneys office as ono of the lesser M, victims of Alfred E. Lindsay's alleged 'domino club" stock pool, declared today to-day she had run Mrs. Lillian N. Duke. H divorced wife of James B. Duke, "tobacco "to-bacco king." a close race for honors of "chief goat" In the broker's operations oper-ations Instead of the $97,000 she was re- M ported to ha, e contributed to the pool H with which Lindsay is alleged to have H said he and George F Baker. Thomas W. Lamont, James . .Stlllman and a f. -. ulher giants of Wall street wore going to make a big "killing" in tho , stroet. she put In $225,000 in cash. about $60,000 In jewelry and nearlv I $1000 In dogs. Mr. Atwood said. I VI TAKES DOGS j The missing broker, she declared. ' carried off two of her pedigreed Mexl- u:: dogs, after ho had got the last Of H her ready cash, representing that he H had goenl sale for thm. He tried to H i borrow a third, she said, but her sus- i. plclons had boon aroused and she kept ' the dog. a Mrs. Atwood has earned her living i I since by raising pedigreed dogs H Kimethlng that was Just a hobby bo-for bo-for the sauvs Lindsay came into her life. Mrs. Atwood said she had firSI met Lindsay through Mrs. Duke. tho H thought so well of him that she en- Hj trusted more than $350,000 to him TLl.Ls FAJJI LOl S STORIES Me v as the most convincing man in , I I the world." she said. "He should ha . " I ra : Keen a writer. He could tell the most ( fabulous stories In a wav that made on.- bellCVS them I never questioned - Mv honesty it fir;-i because of having (met b'm through Mrs. Duke He al-.v al-.v a . s acted very nice, and talked big." Finally, however, she began to sus- WR 1 poet him because his grammar wasn't ! up to tho Yule education he claimed. 1 Mrs, Atwood said, and she had a woman wo-man friend meet him who Immediately warned her that ho was "no good." JEWELS ON ANOTHER "The next day my friend 'phoned me I that she had seen Lindsay with a woman wo-man at the Astor hotel, who was wear- I ing the diamond lavalller I had given him to Invest In the 'domino club" pool" she continued. "I was about to go to the district ' attorney with my story at that tlnv-i tlnv-i but he talked mc out of It. saying if ho went to Jail I would never gel an -thing. " 'Don't kick a man when he is U do n ' he begged me. so I fet the mat- H . ter drop." |