Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1911 — Woman Swindles Rich Men [ARTICLE]

Woman Swindles Rich Men

Wealthy French Colonial Officer Latest Victim. Mffle. Germot, a Parisian Beauty 'of American Parentage, Uses Clever Rftse to Defraud Her Admirers. i Paris.—After promising to ’marry three men in order to swindle them of presents of Jewelry, Mme. Germot. who says she was born at Wilmington, Del., in the United States, but who ordinarily resides with her busband and three children in the Rue Basse-Dingre at Orleans, now occupies a prison cell in Paris. Some weeks ago Mme. Germot, an elegantly dressed and refined looking woman of 25 years, became acquainted at Viehy with a young French colonial official, to whom she pretended that she belonged to ohe of the most aristocratic families of the Bourbonnais district of France. An accomplice wrote her several letters, making constant references to her property and aristocratic relatives. Finally the official became engaged to Mme. Qermat-'and presented her with a splendid ring, valued at 8,000 francs. The next day bis fiancee left Vichy and diyappeared. She went to another pleasure resort, however, and there pursued similar tactics with an officer from a garrison station in the vicinity of Paris. Having again

elry she decamped and reappeared in Paris. Here she made the conquest of a wealthy Russian. As she was engaged with him in attentively examining a Jeweler’s window in the Rue de la Paix yesterday morning two men approached and politely requested her to step into an t&xi-auto with them. They were detectives, who arrested her on the charge of swindling the colonial official and the army officer. Brought before M. Hamard, he ordered her to be detained pending trial. When informed of the arreßt of his wife M. Germot refused to do anything in the matter. “My wife does aB she pleases,” he said. “I don’t Interfere In her affairs.”