Buffalo Courier from Buffalo, New York • 29

-vBOeTLEGGER. Coast Guard motor 1, i picket boat- No. -V frTipZf yX 2328 nemesis of ft The Strange Career of Gloria de Casares, Lovely English woman, Who Took Up Rum-Running for the Sake of the Thrills of the Game, and Whose Activities Led to Her ArresVon a Charge of Fraud waa tlaring" and resourceful Ijlayerjin the subterranean, game of liquor with its 8 risky; plotting and bold forays. From the secrecy of her perfumed dressing- i table she was a coolly schem to be -loaded with 20,000 cases of Scotch. American representatives took a hand in the game, the British authorities seconded theni and, with a legal paper graphically tacked to the foremast, the vessel was in cus-.

ins captain who directed the strat tody. the diplomatic niceties egy a rum fleet 'and planned au- 'iind entauglementsi involved, some-dacious manoeuvres along the em- 'thine of-a stir was caused, all the battled line off the North-American taore since a mutiny presently oc coast-where the blockading ships of. eurred aboard. In, the course of the. Vrohioition carry.

on-war with the long delay the crew -of the General Serrett' had not been paid their demanded m'oney from their Captain, and, he not being able to it the vessel 5 and 'lield it as security for She lwa4; the 'foundress and "direci tress of the.XJloria 'Steamship Com-- whieh has "been, rated; as ..5. OI me most irauonaiii umta w. vuc Tdf AU'noM -i 'it. uinr unite iuv'jw hquor smuggling with a and tori of thfetShip wero was I IE i II I 01 unioia Wf.rv rtf fnr llm. TnT irni'liTil (Mi.

Scotch whisky; for shipment, and a highly systematized. menand money. 'Ap unnamed Brit-' ish" lord js mentioned as having a 'potent place in limeade Casares rum running also an equally an- onymOus' wealthy who is credited -with baring built; a fleet "of speed boats-capable, of outdis-. taneing anything at the c'ommand the- Prohibition -forces, these for use in running 'cargoes from the ships to sliore. Only guessing have been offered by the British experts as'tdj the, quantity of Scotch smug- gled into the United States by the 'rum Tunning queen's forces, but each guess Is very large.

These things, kept secret. for a couple of years, came out with a blaze the; other A ship, the, General Serrett, had trouble yith its engine while at sea not long out from a British port, and after much drift-ing and attempts at: "repair liad to limp back to port." She was found BIme. Gloria de Casares, mysterious adventuress and alleged captain of the bootlegging buccaneers of the General Sterret de Casares stepped forth a characteristically dramatic 'At, midnight a boat 'put out to the 'ship, with its cargo of mutineers. were several liandsomely gowned; women and staid-gentlemen who, it Uter. ap- pea red, were praeUtioners of the law.

launch drew up, beside the General Serrett. Gruff, angry voices, bade be off. Here Mme, de Casares spoke out and demanded -that thcXsailors return to duty. seamen lined up sullenly at the rail and listened. She claimed the right to, come aboard and take.

command, of the ship, as the owner. They were obdurate, and when members of her party tried to board the deck, they were thrust baek; spoke the legal gentlemen, I Mme. de Casares attorneys, who explained to the recalcitrant mariners' the full import of the law, as they saw. -The seafaring men would have none of thisC The supposition advanced itself that they did not know enough English to follow the eloquence and reasoning Mme. de Casares had thought this; They were Russians, Letts, Maltese, and Greeks.

To meet the situation she had brought along the By F. F. Wctmore nate of some importance in America. The ceremonv. South which OVJSUNMbTAIj comph- datPH back to 1017 when th bride a very lnysteri- was twenty-one, was in itself a case ous wealthy of that ancient benediction whereby an equally mysterious lovely poverty and ragged beauty British lord, mutiny on are courted and carried to a palace by a golden bridegroom; Nor' is the' familiar figure of the Russian aristocrat, fugitive from the Bolsheviki, lacking in the romance of this peppery young person.

me. de Casares, so it is related, was born in 'England and reared 'in a convent shipboard, ah attempt to board deck at midnight, the experience of boing arrested for a department sfore fraud, and columns in the newspapers on both sides of the ocean -and surely the Itum Running Queen has had her fill of adventurous excitement. Her mother a Frenchwoman, her father Russian of wealth and It is true Ithat before becoming a I rum-running queen she had be'en a station whose fortune was swept motion picture actress with her bit away in the turmoil of the war, and vho, with the coming of-the Bolshe of fame in the British movies. She revolution, made an almost miraculous -escape from the Reds and their massacres and savage proscriptions and got perilously but safely across the Siberian wilds and to Japan, only; to die there ih'a commonplace street accident. It is true that another account makes-Mme.

de Casares not the' Gloria Vere of these romantic antecedents, but Mabel Davey, daughter of an English working man. But that version, if lacking somewhat of the lace and' ruffles, of' high lineage, a4 lost fortune and tragic death, only adds to the. point and astonishment of marriage with Argentine millions. She'rdemanded a more vivid and Was known by her melif luou3 maiden -name of Gloria de Yere, and sometimes by the equally tuneful "one of Sonia di Her photographs appeared splendorously int the British illustrated papers nearly as often as aiiy star could and: movie fans 'discoursed of her. To" the average young this will seem like he summit pf the thrilling life and, furthermore a "kind of joy and glory that nobody eould willing, ly renounce for anything-else," not even bootlegging.

Not so with Gloria de Vcrc, or Sonia di Iiage, or, as we also may call her, Gloria de Casares. This latter name she got in the Princess Kropotkin, daughter of the late Prince, Kropotkin, anarchist member of Russia's former ruling clan. The' Princess remonstrated ia Russian with the embattled tars. They still refused obediencej and the. intended boardjng party could only take their way back to.

shore Cer tainljr this' not in its outcome a glorious' expedition, but it did scrA-e bring! the rum-ruiining jfiieen into much: glory in the news-papers. -''V'k' She now was blazoned and suddenly jumped' into international prominence. Then, a few days as if fame were de-- terminedto invest her with the fullest, publicity possible, she wasv arrested on a charge of having triod to defraud the department store founded -London by Gordon Self-ridge of It was a matter of having purchased on credit seventy-five dollar goyin. charge the rum-ruhning quoen denounced as part of a conspiracy by rivals to wrest away from her the control of her whisky ship, the General Serrett.8 ft dramatic life, this beautiful young commonplace way. Indeed, there are ladies who have acquired several or Niivorcee, and sought it in a way un-.

nnmM tiA cnmA Timlin Tt known to Greece or Rome. was by marriage. The bridegroom in the case was a young Argentine The seized ship General Sterret, wi mutineers and Scotch whiskey aboard, lying in the Thames, near Icndoa To the general eye she was the fashionable lady, concerned with nothing more than the social graces, distinctions and frivolity. But underneath, all of that gay embroidery millionaire who was engaged in large commercial affairs in London, and whose father was a financial maj-.