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' iiJVTj * / : . , . - ' * \ ' V DESPIC/ PERSE of an Ame tn T+^ 11L 114. SS582K I,' ROME.?International complica- j; tions are likely to ensue as an b aftermath of the contemptible persecutions of Signora Mos- \ ehini. who was arrested and afterward released by the only too pliable s courts of Italy. 1 Until two years ago tho signora, f who is twenty-four and a rare beau- s ty, was Miss Olga Lulu Davis of Tex- v as. Though courted and petted by I many of the eliglbles of America, she a became in 1910 the wife of Slgnor f Vittorio Moschint of Rome. The n signer is a deputy in the Italian par- n liament and a man of great influence ami power in his own country. 11 There was some difficulty about tho wedding "dot," and soon after the n nuptials Moschini sued for an annul- (i nient of the marriage, alleging that v certhin legal formalities were not t complied with. The court refused the v annulment, but granted a separation. p ordering Moschini to pay his wife $200 a month for support. '' It is alleged that to win his suit J' Moschini persecuted the lone Amerl- 1 can girl unmercifully. According to " her testimony, he had her dogged by 1 detectives for months, and Anally s caused her arrest, charging that she ( was too intimate with Lieutenant .' Count Hellegarde of the Italian navy. ( Wanted Her Birth Certificate. The flexibility of courts then be- ? came apparent. When her attorney. Sig.ior Vanai, tried to have her released the police denied that she was , their prisoner. The lawyer estab- f lished the falsity of this claim and of- j, rerett nan. when he was met with the c objection that Slgnora Moschlni was c unable to produce her birtli certili 0 rate, as required by Italian law. The ^ American embassy was appealed to, but declared itself unable to act be- t cause the prisoner lost her citizen- s ship when she married Moschlni. h After several days' incarceration, t however, the lady was released, and li it is said, will sun her husband for ! c defamation of character The Italian n press is a unit in bitter denunciation a of the manner in which the Ameri- a can girl has been treated. Kvery pa- t per attributes it to tho powerful political influence exerted by Moschini. s As soon as the signora was re '1 leased she caused the arrest of Count j ; # T-oSagH, who was no count at all. but j I a waiter, who had been annoying her v with his attentions and striving des- c perately to strike up a flirtation. The t stgnora says that for weeks he tried to inveigle her into compromising t herself and that he was in the employ c of Moschini. I The lady declares that she has al- fi ways led a blameless life and that li her husband has used all his personal and political powers to degrade her. in the hope that the courts may ? finally annul the marriage. j, What Her Lawyer Says. c The glamor surrounding foreign ^ princes, dukes and whatnot in the ? eyes of ambitious young American c girls, wore away from the vision of 'J v&LE ICUTION rican Girl it I COUNTED MO^CKIMI ilL: >retty Olga Lulu Davis in recordireaklng time. Signor Vanal, in discussing the case villi a correspondent, said: "Deputy Moschini is entirely reponsible for this unfortunate affair, le practically drove his wife to a ast life. The only alternative was tarvation. Since the separation suit vas decided in her favor in June, )eputy Moschini had her followed nd watched by detectives. He reused to pay the alimony of $200 a nonth ordered by the court and made icr life unbearable. "Signora Moschini had to leave a Irst-class hotel and live In a cheap oaraing nouse. She lacked clothes .nd was still wearing a summer Iress. She was without money and fas threatened with expulsion from he boarding house. The unfortunate roman struggled bravely and resistd many temptations." When Signora Mosehinl was re eased from prison she wore a scapuar of the Sacred Heart, which had leen pinned to her coat by the. prison tuns. She seemed to be weak and ired, but happy over the fact that, he had secured her freedom, espeially when she realized that owing to ler husband's political and financial nfluence she ran the risk of indeflnte imprisonment. In an interview after her release lignora Moschini said: Signora Moschini's Explanation. "Last Saturday night 1 went to a noving picture show with Lieutenant lellegard and 'Count' Lesage, who, 1 lave now ascertained, was a detective mploved by my husband merely to ompromise me. When the show was iver It was raining hard and I was Iranched. "As I was suffering from a sore hroat Lesage proposed that we seek helter at Lieutenant Ilellegard's muse, which -was dope. Lesage left ho lieutenant and myself alone and instened to Inform the police, who ame in and found that I had removed ny shoes and was warming my feet t the fire. ' 1 had dolTed r.iy wet coat ind reolnrofl it u.-itli nn.. m' ?i... n,... enant's. "The police arrested us and we pent, the night at the station house, rhe next day f was taken to prison ,nd held five days because, although was sufficiently identified to con inco them that a crime had not been ommitted, I was not sufficiently Idenifled to be released." Count Moschlnl is a scholar, an oraor, a crafty politician, a man of influnee in high circles, one of the most lowerful members of the Italian confess. He counts nis wealth in the mndreds of thousands of lira. Olga's Early Life. Olpa Davis had neither money rior tocial position. She spent most of ler girlhood days on a ranch in Brown :ounty, Tex. Her father, James Maris was a "gunrtghter," and sheriff, ind in attempting to round up a ping >f horse thieves was shot and killed Phe widow moved to Austin, and the MAY PICK O'GORIN! MR. WILSON SEEMS LIKELY TO MAKE THE NEW YORK SENATOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. I I \ I aaughter, in order to help her mother who was practically without au in j come, obtained a place as clerk in a dry Roods store. Her beauty attracted much attention, and through a friend she procured money to go to New York and study for the stage A wealthy woman whom Miss Davis met in New York hired her to go to Kurope with her as companion for two years. In a hotel in Vichy. Slgnot Moschini. then on a vacation tour, caught sight of the western girl and fell in love with her. He sought an Introduction, and, passionate Latin that he is. proposed marriage at once j Captivated by his graceful manners and blinded by the glamon of wealth and visions of high court life. Olga Davis accepted. He bundled his pret ty fiancee to ltome, where the mayor performed a marriage ceremony. Signora Moschini became at onc? one of the most brilliant figures at the Quiritial functions. Her social success was remarkable. She became a friend of Senator Greppe. dean of the world's diplomatists; Prince Casaffa and tlie Marquis Rudini, and rode in the exclusive lioirtnn fnv limit gradually the horrible fact was re vealed to her that it was only an or nanicnt not a wife?that the wealthy deputy had sought. Says He Fights for Good Name. In a letter to the local press Signer Moschini says: ? "I purposely remained silent while I that person called Lulu Davis re mained in prison. I now ask that a check he put on the stories circulat ed till justice has spoken. "Without departing from necessary reserve I will merely state that th< j reasons for my action are not mono tary. I have something I value n thousand times more, namely, the pur ity of my name. "My legitimate desire would he ron dered useless did 1 not seek with proofs that which justice will know how to deal with?to annul a tie which was a consequence of error and <le ceit." Slgnora Mosclilni was released frorr jail on November 17 through a courl order. Moschini sued for an nnnul nient of marriage last March, but thr casp was thrown out of court, and In was ordered to pay Ills wife $2()u ali niony monthly. KEEP THE CLERK GUESSING Patrons of Hotel Make Odd Requestj of the Man in Charce of the Desk. "Nothing with a seven in It," wa> a remark made to a clerk at thr Raleigh by a stylishly gowned woman who had registered and been assigned room 72:1. The clerk, of course changed the lady to another room says the Washington Post. "Ret she's an actress," remarket! the clerk to William Ounnell, an oW time hotel man of Virginia, who was at the desk. "That's a good bet," remarked Mr fjunnell. "In my experience In the hotel business 1 have run up against I many peculiar superstitions. In this case the woman undoubtedly is super stltious about the number 7. Why. am sure I do not know, for 1 nevet heard anything unlucky connected with 7. I uaed to have more trouble with persons who objected to occupy ing a room with the number 12 In It and wo found so many persons whc would not take such room that wt finally had to ?ut out the number al together. In most of the larger hotels now you will find that there arc nc thlrteens. "Perhaps the most annoying thine to the clerk of a hotel is the man wlir wants a room high up or low down Generally it is a person with generous avoirdupois who desires to be given a ! top story room, where the windows can be thrown open and the air al lowed to circulate. The lower floors are the ones wanted by timid persons or persons who have some time 01 another been in an accident or a fire They don't seem ever to get over theii fear. "Rooms with baths are much more in demand than a few years ago. 1 don't know whether it is because th? people who patronize hotels are mor< prosperous or because the populace h getting cleaner. In Kurope, you know there are few hotels that are provide* with a great number of rooms wit! private baths. Over there the peoph don't seem to care so much for bath ing as the Americans do." ; 1? uiscoveries at Home. Centuries ago Plutarch interestet himself in the question concerning tin date when the old Homans first math acquaintance with the camel. The mystery has to n great extent been cleared up by the discovery ir the imperial palace, on the Palatini hill at Home, of a fine terra cott:. masterpiece in the form of an Arabiar camel's head dating from the second century before Christ. Ink-pots stoves and lanterns are among flu | various other relics of the same pe riod that have been brought to light j while excavating the tortuous corri 1 dors that lead to the cisterns and granaries, which apparently raved ir or fell into disuse. Family Affair. Johnny, age four, accompanied hit father to a bakery. The* lad was snf fering front a severe cold "I have just the thing for that coir right here In this case," said the bak er. "It is a stick of horehound can dy." Johnny put the candy in his pocket and started toward the door It. stopped for a moment in a pensive mood and returned to tlio cand> counter. "Please, sir," he said. "I have a lit tie brother at home who has a bad cold, too." I TRUST PROBLEM IS HIS STUDY | ' This, Democratic Leaders Privately Admit, Is of Greater Importance Than Even the Tariff, Except in Politics. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington.?James A. O'Gorman, junior senator from New York, is civ lag his attention to the matter of trust legislation under the coming Democratic administration. No one knowr definitely whether Mr. O'Gorman has been asked by Mr. Wilson to devote his attention to a study of a subject which is certain to trouble his party, or whether the senator is at it of his own will, but the fact that he is directing his legal knowledge and his common sense to the matter makes Washington believe that James A. 0*Gorman as the next attorney general of the United States is far frotn being an impossibility. The New York senator said that there is an undeniable demand for amendments to the Sherman anti-trust law, and that the demand should bo heeded and the matter given early consideration. Senator O'Gorman is uot an eVtremist on the subject of regulation of the great business corporations of the country. lie has a good deal of the conservatism of the oldtime judge about him, but he is willing, it is said, to go just as far as Mr Wilson is willing to go to check the evils which have manifested themselves in great business. There are Democrats who ssy that. If Mr. O'Gorman Is entrusted with the work of framing amendments to the Sherman anti-trust law business need not tremble in its boots over the outcome. The Democrats who say this , are men who think that Mr. O'Gorman belongs to the reactionary element. in his party, but. there have been little perhaps in the judge s record or in his speeches to prove that the criticism is just. Mr. Wilson's silence on his cabinet selections and his cutting loose from importunities by taking himself to foreign soil for a while largely stopped the tonguca of prophets about the composition of the next cabinet, but there are many things which point to James O'Gorman as the likely choice tor the positiou of attorney general. Wilson Would Restore Competition. During the last campaign there were three distinct plans ottered "to bring the trusts to terms." Mr. Roosevelt was for regulation through a body similar to the interstate commerce commission, alhough, of course, having a different line of duties. The Progressive candidate denied that he was in favor ol' the destruction of competition or of the maintenance of noncompetitive conditions. Mr. Taft a views of the subject are perhaps bt st shown by the results of the prosecutions instituted and carried through under his administration. In discussing Mr. Roosevelt's plan of regulation, Mr. Wilson said that competition must be restored and that, he would use every means to that end. There lias been a dissolution into integral parts of some of the trusts of the country, but there has been little sign of a revival of competition. it Is Mr. Wilson's desire, and it may be Mr. O'iioruian's work to llnd means to divide trusts into separate companies, as Mr. Tafl has divided some of them, and then to force competition. How this is to be done does not yet appear. Senator O'Dorman is a lawyer who has been a judge, and it may be that he will find a workable scheme. If he does, and as attorney general of the 1'nitcd States can prove the worth of the plan, the Democrats here believe that lie will do more for the party than the party will do for Itself through tariff revision. Tariff Not Really First. In speaking of the forthcoming legislation under the new administration the Democratic leaders in congress al ways put the tariff llrst in place and first in importance. When they talk privately about legislation it appears that few ot them think that Hr<i iii real business importance belongs to the tariff. The tariff, in the minds of the Democrats, seems to have the iirst place in political iinj; irtanco only. The Democrats admit that the work ol' revising the tariff will not be as hard as the work of regulating the trusts, although generally they do not use the word regulating. Through n long series of years the methods of tariff revision have become well known. The attempts finally to settle the trust question all have failed, a fact which perhaps is equally true of the tariff, out at any rate so far as customs are concerned, the Democrats know what they want to do, while they do not know dcfinitely w hat they want to do with the trusts, j and they know nothing at all as yet about how to do it. The trust legislation problem will be studied, not only by Mr. O'lJorman. ?jui ii> mil' : iM*niocrai8 m UK- Hon.si: and senate whose legal training is supposed to make them lit for the work. , Thet'3 will be a hard winter and a bard spring in t lie chambers of the students of the problem of big busi- ' ,iess. What to do and how to do it? ' The Democratic party is anxious to know If Mr Wilson, Mr. O'fJorman and the rest can answer the questions. I ' " : ''l ? \ ' K ' IN0KH! 9^fejJ isg^asrifflffi Distinguished Children I i ? "IH W\SI 1INGTON.?Washington is full of parks and the parks are full of a perfectly democratic bunch of v?n~~ sters, but nevertheless prouaDiy the most distinguished aggregation of little folks to be found in the world, certainly the most distinguished to bo found in the parks of any American city. Among the children in whom everybody Is interested are the two little granddaughters of William Jennings Bryan. Young William Jennings, junior, is in Washington attending the law course of Georgetown university and living with his young wife and his two baby girls, Mary S. and Helen V llrvnn nnt r?r> I street. Another very, very distinguished little lady In the matter of ancestors, past and present. Is chubby little Edith Grant, child of IAeutenant and Cupid Goes Out Window A S REV. W. J. Howard was about to r\ say "I pronounce you man and wife' to tlfteen-year-old Elisabeth Walker and Frank TolBon, nineteen years old, the other evening at the clergyman's home, a policeman entered the room and arrested them. The bridegroom and Elizabeth, with tears in their eyes, begged the police man to wait a few minutes before arresting the bride. They showed him the license and the ring, but he remained obdurate. The next day the principals in the near-wedding scene appeared before Judge De I*ucy in the juvenile court, and they stoutly maintained that they intended to be married anyhow. It developed in the hearing in court that a previous attempt to marry Tolson had resulted in Elizabeth's arrest on a charge of incorrigibility for which she was placed on probation for three months. Tlie judge tried to show her that her life, married to young Tolson, would not be all roses. "Can you make bread, Elizabeth?" the court inquired. "Yes, sir." she replied, hopefully. "Biscuits, too?" "Yes, sir." Wanted Only $20,000,001 11711 KM a Chicago nttorney walked *Y Into the office of the secretary of the treasury the other day Francis \V. Taylor, Secretary MacVeagh's private secretary, was prepared to do anything in his power for him. Chicago is Mr. MacVeagh's home town, and, besides, Mr. Taylor had heard of the caller as a prominent attorney. The private secretary managed to keep from showing his alarm, however, when the visitor said In a matter of fact way that he wanted a check for $',.'0,000,000, which he declared the government owed him. "The secretary Is very busy and I would not dare act on a big affair like this." Mr. Taylor said. "If you will call later in the day 1 will have the check ready for you." The man promised to do so and departed. Ho did not return. Mr. Society Women Roll and PitOMIN'FNT women rolling on the tlnor to aid the suppleness nnd beauty of their figure, prominent government officials seeking to reduce their weight by the same means, can be seen dally in many of the best homes of the national capital, if one could only see some of the prominent society folk within the sanctity of their private lives, according Dr. William ('. Woodward, health officer of the district. Nor only do many of the people do this. Doctor Woodward said, but they ! llkowls' derive much of the benefit | which they seek by this strange method and it is this habit which does much to give Washington women the name they have for graceful, wellformed figures. Another prominent physician of Washington, whoso largo practice among society lolk givca him a groat Insight into their private lives, differs wiih iioctor Woodward Dr. HtJtry j ' -vitpSBWM VtiQK^H m k * K ^ 1 T^rafi^l 'lay in Capital Parks Mrs. U. S. Grant II. She 1b .he great granddaughter of President Grant, the granddaughter of Gen. /"red Dent Grant and Senator Elihr. Root, Mrs. Grant being the daughter of the New York senator. No little girl In Washington attracts quite so muc' attention as does little MUlicent C .ange, granddaughter of tho thir .so minister and the onlv female v -mber of the minister's family wv wears American dress. Hut - .en little MIbb Mllltcent goes ner dally walk In the park there Is no smarter frocked little lady, and with her round, rosy face and her intensely dark eyes she Is a mighty attractive youngster. Washington doesn't see much of the McLean baby, for his parents are In deathly fear of his being kidnaped, letters threatening such a thing having been received by them two years ago in Newport. For some time thereafter the little heir to all John Walsh's millions went out with a nursemaid and a guard, his baby carriage of stout steel and the dear little fellow locked inside of what litorally wbb a cage. He is not among the children who run unhampered and only nominally watched by the gossiping nursemaids who speak every known language under the sun. at Sight of Policeman "Cook a steak?" the court asked. "Oh, yes. That's nothing." "Can you darn socks and sew on buttons?" "Yos, sir." "Well, do you like to do these things?' Elizabeth hesitated a moment, and then decidod that she did. "You seem to be better fitted for getting married than I supposed at tlrst," said Judge De Lacy. "But you nro silly to be thinking to be persistent In your idea of marrying this boy. I'm going to place you in care of the board of children's guardians." Mrs. Walker expressed herself as pleased with this turn In her daughter's fortunes. The girl was taken upstairs, and Tolson left the court I disconsolate. D of Unr.lfi Sam's Mnnpv Taylor telegraphed frlendB In Chicago and was informed that his visitor was mentally deficient. "That is only one of many queer experiences I Lave had since I have been with Mr. MacVeagh." Mr. Taylor said. "The 'conscience* fund' furnishes some odd episodes. One day a Catholic priest came In and handed me $l,f>00 in bills. 'This "Is for the conscience fund, ho said. 'I can give no other details.' "P-<. another occasion we received a money order for $32,000. No word of explanation accompanied this contribution. Only ihe other morning I received a letter with ten cents In stamps. The writer, a woman, said she had used live two-cent stamps which had not been cancelled and wished to make restitution. We often got letters inclosing a penny. Most of these, 1 believe, are from jokesters. "There is one man who faithfully sends $10 on the first of every month. He Is evidently employed In the t Portsmouth (N. H.) navy yard. He wrote saying ho had misused several hundred dollars of the government's money and would send $10 monthly until it was squared and his com science cleared." Crawl for Good Figures i A. Scllhauscn. attending physician at I man. o>' the embassies and legations. who was recently decorated by I Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria, | for his services to Haron Hengel| mullcr. the retiring dean of the diplo; matic corps. Is opposed to the rolling method of developing the grace of the | figure. He favors crawling on hands ; and knees. This method may not reduce the weight as well as rolling on *he floor, but it tends to strengthen tin muscles of the back and to add i the lmos of the waist ^ ^