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Through rimless glasses, large, innocent eyes met hers. "I've come to see about the accommodations you have for rent," he said. He agreed to take the room and then settled in a chair to talk about himself. "My name is John Hurly," was the alias La Raviere had chosen for his newest conquest. "I'm an engineer for a gold-mining concern in Alaska." He went on to tell that he was a widower and had recently lost his only child in a fire, concluding mournfully, "I'm a very lonely man." Mrs. Martin admitted to loneliness too. Then began a whirlwind courtship as La Raviere leaned forward to pat her hand and murmur, "You need never be lonely again. I would be happy to take you back to Alaska with me." Mrs. Martin thought he wanted to hire her as a housekeeper but he quickly added, "I will make you my wife." Before she could recover from her astonishment, La Raviere made a dinner date with her for the following evening at his hotel. Mrs. Martin was so excited that she stayed away from work the next day and went shopping for a complete new outfit. But before we condemn her as a foolish woman, it would be well to remember that a widow's life can be cold and barren. And remember, too, that La Raviere was an experienced operator. That night he showed off his expensive luggage and thick money belt, then took her to a good restaurant. He pressed for an answer to his proposal, promising her the world. Overwhelmed, she consented. "I want you to have only the best," he told her when they went trousseau shopping, but added that it was bad luck for the groom to pay. Then on the fourth day, he took her across the Minnesota state line into South Dakota for a quick marriage. Next in order was a honeymoon in Manhattan — but Mrs. Martin never saw the skyscrapers, for the time was ripe for plucking. "What's mine is yours, and vice versa," was the sum of his little speech about money. From a savings account of $9,600, Mrs. Martin withdrew $9,000 and as fast as the teller passed over the bills, La Raviere stuffed them in his wallet. She cashed bonds worth $3,200. La Raviere allowed her to keep that money until they boarded the train for New York, then transferred the bills to his money belt for safekeeping. At the Chicago terminal, where they were to change trains, he seated her in the waiting room while he went to check their tickets. "I'll straighten it out in a minute," he said. Two hours later, when he hadn't returned, Mrs. Martin began to make inquiries. The station police discovered her new husband had left the depot long before with his handsome luggage. Not only had Mrs. Martin lost most of her life savings but the dream of happiness she treasured most had turned into a nightmare. She had the courage to notify police in spite of her embarrassment and the FBI entered the case. Eight months later, La Raviere was picked up in Minneapolis. At the moment he was eating a double-sized steak, his luxurious Lincoln Continental sedan waiting outside, and he had just purchased a magnificent home in California with the money he had swindled from women. He himself admitted to marrying fifty-five women and taking them for more than $300,000. In January of 1948, he was convicted and sentenced to eight years in Leavenworth. All the women who testified admitted they found his technique devastating and one even insisted that he had used some sort of drug. She said, "He made me feel that everything was all right no matter what was happening." "Love deceives the best of womankind," wrote Homer — but just to keep the records straight love deceives the best of men, too. Red-haired Korine Buckner, of Detroit, was imprisoned for two years after confessing that she married fifteen or sixteen men for their money. A Denver woman went to the altar seven times because, as she said, "I like to travel." Mrs. Inez Brennan, of Dover, Delaware, met two elderly men through lonely hearts letters, then killed them and burned their bodies so she could collect their pensions. As heartless a love pirate as any man was Mildred Hill, of Washington, D. C, who chose her victims from the mailing lists of friendship clubs. She swindled a psychiatric patient in a New England veterans' hospital. She bilked a fortytwo-year-old millworker in Massachusetts, a widower father of four children ranging in age from three to ten. He submitted records showing that he had bought her a diamond-studded wrist watch, a gold necklace and locket, two diamond rings, a cedar chest, a clock, an Easter outfit, gifts of candy and flowers and cash totaling $1,265 — all on her promise to marry him. All of the lumberjacks, farmers and other bachelors who became infatuated with Mildred's letters responded generously to her written pleas for cash to cover doctor bills, rent, mortgages, train fares and operations. But Mildred never dared meet the more than one hundred sweethearts who contributed $50,000 for her keep. She described herself, usually, as: "Age 22, weight 130, height 5 ft. 5, blue eyes, dark brown natural wavy hair, very fair complexion, considered very good looking. I am a high school graduate with some office training. I now serve as a fashion model." The little sweetheart, when picked up by postal authorities, turned out to be a sixty-five-year-old woman with ten children. In July, 1946, she was sentenced to twenty months to five years in prison in one of the most fantastic cases of mail fraud on record. There is something humorous in an unattractive, elderly woman posing as a helpless, beautiful girl, but it is my opinion that the public and press sometimes treat these cases too lightly. The savings these crooks take represent security to their victims. It may be bread and butter money or savings that in old age will mean the difference between living in dignity or on charity. And is it a laughing matter when a woman shares love and intimacy with a bridegroom while his mind is on her money and the next train out of town? People don't think of these things when they begin to chuckle as they did at Sam Engel, self-styled "the world's greatest lover." About seventy-four years old, it is estimated that this Casanova swindled roughly two million dollars. Engel got a sentence of two to ten years in Illinois State Penitentiary.