El Paso Morning Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 32, Ed. 3 Thursday, February 1, 1912 Page: 4 of 12
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RACES
COMMENCE
PROMPTLY
AT 2 P. M.
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JUAREZ S. A.
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From Plaza, El Paso
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Woman With Luring Eyes Rises From Ashes
of Dead Loves in Orient to Tempt Western Men
Special to The Times-
Ban Francisco, Jan. 31.—Fresh
from a Shanghai prison, where she
was sentenced to serve nix months
at hard labor for .seeking to kidnap
the roan with whom she was In love,'
Mabel or Marion Bennington, whose
name will light A torch of livid mem-
ory to many of old San Francisco, hits
come out of the Far East again with
u new cluster of lives of wrecked men
hanging from her slender wrist.
She was a passenger on the strain-
er Mongolia last Saturday under the
name of Mrs. E. Gocke. and the fame
of her adventure In the Chinese capi-
tal and other places followed her
across the ocean, as the trail of un-
derlying light fdllowtng a comet. For
her life, even after she left this city in
1905, Is like a chapter out of the Ara-
bian Nights combined with the most
melodramatic episodes In th^ six best
sellers.
Horn Willi Subtle Power.
If there could be soma Sargossa
Sea where the souls of the men who
have died or tried to die for her, could
is
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go and commune together, something
of the ancient mystery of woman—•
especially of her whose feet take hold
on the depths—might be understood
by us humdrum, timid folk.
Not many women are horn Into the
world that have the subtle, compell-
ing. undisputed power over men that
Mabel Pennington has. Good or evil—•
the power is there.
it is the same thing that led An-
tony to forsake his fleet when vic-
tory might have been his and to fly
to the arms of the Queen of Egypt.
One man has died for her. Ills
name was Beverly Letcher. He was
a respectable and wealthy financier
and clubman in San Francisco until
Mabel Pennington looked Into his
eyes and led him on a dance of death.
It was us though his feet had sunk
in quicksand. Nothing could stop him.
His old mother wept over him, but It
did no good. When the girl finally
refused to marry him he took poison
and she went away.
Would Die for Her.
She went to the Orient, It now de-
velops, and there two men thought
that life was not worth living without
her and sought to end it for them-
Belves. A third man, a highly respect-
able man In the Gorman consular of-
fice In Tien Tsln, embezzled money
for her and Is now serving a term In
a German prison.
The last man, the man that brought
about her downfall, seemed to have
some resisting power about him. Ho
put her away after awhile, after a
child had been borne to them, and she
went after him like a tigress balked
of her prey.
Bhe besieged him in his walled
house and led a party against him at
night to kidnap him, shooting at him
when he turned on her. Bhe was cap-
tured by Chinese servants and put in
prison after a long tflal under the
English law.
She feigned insanity and she was
sent to an asylum, where American
missionaries took an tnteretst in her
and secured her release a short time
ago.
And now returning on the steamer
Mongolia a smile on her lips and In
the dark pools of her eyes and a weak
plaint against the unkind fate that
seems to be following her. she told
her story to those fellow passengers
who were In her confidence.
"I want to forget It all.” she said.
"I seem to be pursued by an evil for-
tune. I cannot understand why men
make such a fuss over me. I am sure
I do not want them. I am tired of
them and want to be quiet and alone.
"I have never recovered from my
grief over the suicide of Beverly Let-
cher. .1 did not know he loved me so.
I loved him, but 1 could not marry
him.
"My whole life has been a night-
mare and It seems to be my fate to
have men Infatuated with me. I surely
cannot be blamed for all they do and
yet the world has blamed me. ,
“I had a very unfortunate experi-
ence In the Orient, but I did noly
what any woman of spirit would do
when a man deserts her. I tried to
make that man marry me. My only
Idea in coming away is to put all that
life In the Orient behind me forever
and to live at peaco.”
Taunting Smile Still Lives.
But can she do it? That Is the ques-
tion. She Is young and beautiful and
there Is that lurking, taunting smile
kindling at the bottom of her eyes
that says she Is not through with life
and adventure yet. There Is no des-
pair, no longing after a nun’s veil i.
that smile, no matter what the plaint-
ive voice says.
Mabel Pennington is a San Francis-
co girl, and she was unknown until
she blossomed Into her flaming night
earner as Mrs, It. W. Pennington.
At the time of her last public esca-
pade she was living with her mother,
at least ostensibly, at 311 Mason
Street. The mother's name was Mrs.
Marlon Halle.
Insisted on Marriage.
Beverly Letcher was a ; opular
young clubman. >i widower, r siding
at the Hotel Biggins, on CTarrell
street. He was confidential ■ ,ent of
the Savings Union iiank of San Fran-
cisco. Ha and Mabel Pennington had
been "affinities” for about two years
when the story opens.
The girl wanted their relations to
rest there. Letcher insisted on mar-
rying her.
On July 13, 1905, Letcher killed
himself with opium In his apartments.
The night before he had begged the
girl to marry him and ho had told her
that unless she agreed to do so with-
in twenty-four hours he would kill
himself.
He lingered for several dpys. The
girl haunted the ante-room oif the hos-
pital and was with him almost as
much as his mother. She wlas greatly
affected by his death and shortly aft-
er disappeared.
No Shadow of Remorse.
Nothing has been heard of her since
until now when Is revealed'her subse-
quent remarkable history, which
shows above all things that Letcher's
death had put no shadow of remorse
on her soul that dulled the vampira
spirit In her blood.
It appears the she went to Shang-
hai soon after Letcher's death. There
she well in with a promoter named
John Hoffman, a wealthy man, who
became Infatuated with her and fol-
lowed her like a shadow. She treated
him as she had treated Letcher—that
is she refused to marry him. As a re-
sult he shot himself one night and it
was thought for awhile that he would
follow her other lover into the grave
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She fled from Shanghai and went to
Tien Tsln, where she attracted the at-
tention of Karl Von Bergen, an atta-
che in the office of the German con-
sul.
To keep up the pace Von Bergen
embezzled a large sum of money, lbs
crime was discovered before the mo-
ney had been spent on the woman and
he was tried and convicted and sent
to a German prison, where he Is to-
day.
So much for Tien Tsin. Mabel Pen-
nington went to Honk Kong, where
she met a tea merchant, Jahn Har-
mer, who did as the other men had
done—loved her and wooed her—and
when she would not have him turned
a pistol against his forehead. He di 1
not die, but the woman left him and
went back to Shanghai.
Is Roused at Last.
And now In this chapter we show
where she was aroused at last and the
kind of spirit she had. If the men
who loved her had the same kind of
Iron souls they would have kidnapped
her and fled with her Into a cave, as
the men of the first races gained their
women.
Hugo Reiss appeared. He was a
wealthy broker, and he and the girl
became Infatuated with each other.
She. it appears, was as badly hit this
time as the man was. He took her to
travel. They journeyed around the
world, spending some time In Paris
and theo ther capitals of Europe. He
gave her et one time $40,000, a con-
siderable part of which she sent homo
to her mother, who bought a farm
near Petaluma with the money.
Finally Tired of Her.
Finally the man tired of her. He
was the first man that had ever done
that and it stung the girl Into action
as nothing else could have done. She
made a trip to this country, but could
not forget Reiss or give him up. and
when she returned to Shanghai she
was infuriated to find that another
woman had supplanted her in his af-
fections.
There was a child born by Reiss
and this probably had a great deal to
do with her future plan of action
against him. She determined to have
him or die.
She hired two Chinese servant^ antp
cut their queues and dressed them in
European clothes. She got a pair of
handcuffs and a bottle of chloroform
and began the campaign which landed
her In prison.
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JAPANESE TROOPS
WILL PROTECT RESIDENTS
Associated Press Dispatch.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 31.—A Mukden
dispatch says that in consequence of
the arrest ot several Japanese sus-
pected of being revolutionary propa-
gandists,, a detachment of Japanese
troops has arrived there to protect’
Japanese residents. Thirty-seven
revolutionary suspects were executed
in Mukden on Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
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BANKER STEFFENS DEAD.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 31.—Joseph
Steffens, banker and father of Lincoln
Steffens, died at his home here today.
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