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Adventurer About To Be Deported
Gained Money and Jewels
by Trickery.
By SELFRIDGE HENNEGAN.
(Copyright, 1919, by the International
News Bureau, Inc.)
LONDON (by mail)~/The British
authorities are to be congrateulated
on the rapidity with which they are
clearing out the scum of the German
and other nations who found refuge
in Great Britain in pre-war days., No
city in the world has ever had to tol
erate what London submitted to be
fore 1914, and the passing of the
aliens bill will make it impossible for
expelled foreigners ever to set foot
on English soil again
Among the latest of the deportees s
a German waiter who played many
parts in his time, his most successful
role being that of “Baron von Brock.-
er,” a cousin of the ex-Kalser. His
real name was Strett, and into his
three-and-forty years crowded more
adventure and episode than many
men do in a whole lifetime,
Well spoken, with nice manners and
rather handsome features, he had a
passion for women, and in the space
of a few years he claimed no fewer
than 100 wives and sweethearts all
over the country. Whether he ever
went through the actual form of mar
riage with Ralf this number of his
victims lawfully, I can not say, but it
is pretty certain that many of his vie
tims lived with him at some time or
cther. He spent money to make
money, for robbery was the real mo
tive which inspired his amorous en
terprises.
In the West End he held jobs at
geveral restaurants, and in this way
he became acquainted with those on
whom he had designs. Unsuspecting
visitors to London fell into his hands
and he had no difficulty in establish
ing friendship.
POURED LOVE IN VICTIMS’' EARS.
Like Landru, the French Blue
beard, he spoke loftily of his family's
wealth, and of estates to which he
was heir in California and other dis
tant lands. If asked why it was that
he followed the menial occupation, he
replied that this was the ensiest way
of acquiring the language of any
ecountry.
His methods of fleecing the unpre
pared of their savings and valuables
was not original. He simply poured
Jove into thelr ears and captured the
hearts of his vietims. Then he pitched
the usual tale of the family cheque
which never arrived, and by a varlety
of plausible excuses and apologles so
ueited aid from his girl friends.
Domestic servants fell an easy prey
to his stories and fictions, and from
time to time he amassed considerable
sums, which he took care to bank.
Jawelry, too, found its way into his
safe, and he had a tidy bit put away
when he was thrown into grloon. ‘
Like all adventurers, trett be
‘ljeved in fashionable dress, and those
who met him outside his working
hours could never believe that he was
one and the same individual. He
usually wore a moming coat, silk hat,
patent boots and spats, while a daz
zling imitation pearl pin was con
spleuously displayed on his tle.
How he managed to masquerade as
& modest German walter one week
and the next as Baron Brocker, a
cousin of the ex-Kalser, is his own
socret, for through all his escapades
':\e managed to stear clear of the po
ice. .
It was In his own country that he
first started’ on his career of decep
tion, and after putting pald to tho ac
counts of numerous women in Berlin,
¥Frankfort and other German towns
he tried his luck in Paris. Strett was
& great traveler and a cautious one,
at that,
His courtships were invariably con
ducted on fairly legitimate lines. His
promises, however, were always oral,
unlike the majority of suitors, he
never wrote a letter. Thus he de
prived his dupes of an important clew
for identification &ndrponl, and when
he disappeared nobody had the slight
est idea as to his whereabouta,
When he eame to London he worked
first of all in Solo and afterward in
the Suand. A striking feature of hw
methods was that he never had any
use for women withdut money, no
matter how prepossessing thelr ap
pearance. To gain confidence he fre
quently entrusted his victims with
sums of DO‘IU: which he asked them
to mind for him till he wanted it
Then when the moment came to carry
out his plans he would borrow a hun
dred or two and in this way regain
m own cash with substantial inter-
A VICTIM'S EXPERIENCE.
After living some time in London,
he appears to have made his way !o‘
Lancushire and then Scotland, not in
the guise of a German aristocrat, but
as a Swiss waiter, Everybody who
met him was impressed by his genial
digposition, behind which he cloaked
his nstive caprice and cunning. No
body ever doubted his sincerity, and
his campaign was so cleverly engl
neéred that when he vanished after
his usual custom, having enriched his
go&tu. it was generally thought that
e had gone on some business en
gagement abroad and would tern up
again in due course,
One of his London victims to whom
he was engaged for several months
and who found herself very much
poorer for the attachment, gave me a
picture of Strett and his tactics,
“He seemed” she sald, “to be a
very decent fellow, good lm?lnx and
jolly, and the sort of man sou could
trust. I first met him In Bhaftesbury
avenue, where he was employed as a
head walter in A restaurant. He asked
me to see him again, and 1 agreed to
do sO. After a while we became close
friends and appeared to spend a falr
amount of money.
“When we had known each other
about & month he asked me to marry
him, but I thought it was a rather
rash suggestion and I told him it
would Dbe ‘better to walt for a littie
longr. in case he changed his mind.
“Shortly afterward he told me he
had had some bad luck, as he had
rht his mo::z into worthless’ shares.
sympathi with him, whereupon
he appealed ho me to try to help hlm.l
1 gave him all I had, 500 pounds, ana
& weck later when I went to call on
i, 1 found he had left his employ
ment and gone to another part of
¥Fngland.
“While 1 was making inquiries I
met three other women who were alro
scarching for Mr, Strett, and |
Jearned for the mmt he was
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if you were master of the lmworld ! @
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in the next room; if all the natural scenery of five
continents were within your reach—and the seven seas
and all the ships that plough their waves?
You could then make motion pictures exactly as a super
«man would make them, difficulties vanishing at your
touch, romance taking shape at your merest beckon.
Dramatists, directors, stars, technicians, scenery, oceans,
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in your plan, would contribute to a photoplay that
would be a masterpiece.
It you wanted an active volcano in your picture you would ask
your geographers and geologists which was the most
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despatch an expedition across continents to “shoot” it.
[t you wanted to show in one picture for a few moments
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you would cable your European representatives to
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The leasing of & tropic island, the renting of a railroad, the
transplanting of ten thousand palm trees, would be
trifles in your eyes. Always you would be offered the
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would be a foregone conclusion!
This is the sort of thing you might do if you were master
of the world. j
What will you say when we tell you.that now—
after seven years—)
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of production; dramatists, directors, artists, technicians;
and is equipped with world-wide facilities and
unlimited resources to make for you, to be shown in
your theatre, exactly the kind of motion pictures you
would make if you were master of the world.
“Great power carries with it great responsibility. We owe
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any picture marked Paramount-Artcraft,
Tremendous Changes are Impending
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kinds. You have noted in the great national magazines
and newspapers, that Paramount-Artcraft has focussed
the attention of people everywhere upon those better
pictures. ,
These two facts have created a world-appreciation of the
sheer tmportance of motion pictures in enriching the
. life of the community
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able seating, better music and better presentation gen
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thousand centres—is the direct result of Paramount-
Artcraft policy
All this Makes Possible the Next Great
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You are about to become the deciding factor in the success
~ of a new and audacious producing and distributing
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Miss Hobbs
Mother
Peg O' My Heart
Sadie Love
Sick-A-Bed
Speed Carr
*Stepping Out
The Black Bag
+The Cinema Murder
The ‘Fear Market
The Female of the Species
The Lottery Man
The Market of Souls
9 The Miracle Man
The Misleading Widow
*The Other Woman
1 The Restless Sex
The Sea Wolf
The Teeth of the Tiger
The Third Kiss
The Thirteenth Commandment
The Valley of the Giants
The Witness for the Defense
The Young Mrs. Winthrop
Told in the Hills
Too Much Johnson
* What's Your Husband Doing?
* Whistling Jim
Why Smith Left Home
Widow by Proxy
* Thomas H. Ince Production
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