Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1909 — Girl Worked Oklahoma Lover But Landed in Indianapolis Jail. [ARTICLE]

Girl Worked Oklahoma Lover But Landed in Indianapolis Jail.

A girl living at Jndiarapolis under the name of Florence Alden placed an advertisement In a matrimonial paper and secured a correspondent named 5 Herman Schroeder, an Oklahoma farmer, who used an ear trumpet and had defective eye sight. But The waa a good Ibve maker by mail and so enthusiastic did he become In his rapture for the Indianapolis girl that he sent her sums aggregating $125 withj which to buy her wedding trousseau and to relieve the immediate needs of the promised bride ,and her "invalid” mother. Finally the light-hearted farmer journeyed from Oklahoma to Indianapolis to claim his bride and whdp he called at the house he was met by a woman in apparently perfect health. Finally on the third call he met the daughter, but she had qhanged her mind and told him he did not look good to her. He asked to -See the “invalid” mother and the girl excused herself for a time and then invited him to a side room, where her mother lay in bed. Although his eyes were weak the disappointed swain could distinguish that the woman, was the robust lady who met him at the door, and he determined to try to recover his money. Failing to receive its return on his demand he called at police headquarters and caused the arrest first of the girl and later of the mother. After the girl had plead guilty to a charge of petit larceny, and been sentenced to two months in jail, it was learned that she and her mother were Violet and Garnet Lancaster, a notorious pair from Evansville, who had conducted a "matrimonial bureau” in that city in 1907 and whose eonduct got both arrested. They escaped then by the girl marrying a man whom they had duped and she moved with him to Nebraska but later left him and coming to Indianapolis assumed a new name. The postoffice department is after the couple for using the mails to defraud. t