RED-HAIRED SIREN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10587, 17 October 1910, Page 2

RED-HAIRED SIREN.

TALE OF BEAUTIFUL OIL TRUST SPY.

The strange story of-a "Titian-haired beauty who exercises her extraordinary powers of fascination to extract the secrets of prominent American millionanes in the interests of the Standard Oil Trust" forms the subject of a remarkable controversy among the financiers of America. . It' was Lord Cowdray who some months ago shed a curious light on the methods which, it is alleged, arc employed against the enemies of the Oil Trust when he narrated how a sextet of spies dogged his footsteps m JNew York. According to Mr Thomas Lawson, the author of "Frenzied Finance, j»he" Trust' adopts far more insidious measures against 'the American financiers whose secrets it desires to learn. It has in its service a "red-haired siren" whose "blandishments have supplied' the oil which smoothed the troubled waters of many a mighty complication." . • Mr Lawson, states that "this flaming marvel of womanhood" has proved her•self a potent factor of recent years in State, national, and even in international affairs. "1 can imagine, he says, "no more interesting national episode than any happening which might bring this woman with her storehouse of knowledge on big affairs into the limelight." , , _.. The existence of the Standard Oil sireu was first disclosed by Mrs Lillian Hobart French, who states 'that during the progress ot a great war in which a celebrated copper magnate was against the Tiust financiers the siren met the magnate at ' supper and wheedled the secrets of his campaign out of him. Then she promptly communicated them to the Standard Oil Company, enabling them to dictate their terms ot peace. Mr Lawson asserts that this statement is quite correct. He adds: "Owing to this woman's power in a three days -and nights' seance in an apartment of an hotel in Union Square a few years ago* a United States Senatorship -was decided." Numerous incidents dealing with the siren's intigues on behalf of the Oil Trust are cited. - ' The stories are denounced as a tissue of falsehoods by Mi- John D. Archbold, vice-president of the Trust, in-an official statement issued " recently. "The Standard "Oil Company," ho declared, "does not employ red-haired sirens in its business."' % , , - Notwittistandirfg this denial, the iden- , tity of the alleged siren is the subject , of eager discussion in the financial district, where the following travesty of I verso has been circulated under the s title, "So enemies, beware!": — 5 Like spies of old as false 'as fair, ! This siren with the flaming bair. When. Standard Oil had first begun To speak "with glib and oily tongue, „ They called her in and let her know' 3 " The way financiers should go. ] She knew the rest, and secrets got 1 That put all kinds of men to pot. - - So, let the System's'dupes beware 3 This siren with the flaming hair.

"Wall-street is teeming to-day with alleged descriptions of.' the mysterious siren. She is said to be a native of Boston'-to have enjoyed a good mtisical education,'and to possess "the daintiest sort of freckles" to match her marvellous hair. 'V' •" ''•'".'..';