Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1911 Page: 4 of 12
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EW YORK.—Reginald Mont-
morency, son of one of
PlttBburg's steel kings, hnd
lost his month's allowance
of $4,000 In a Forty-third
street gambling house. He
had also given notes for
$20,000 more. To make matters worse,
MisB Daisie Twinkletoes of the chorus
had notified him that unless he gave
her $10,000 she would sue him for
$100,000 for breach of promise of mar-
riage and make public his love letters.
"Old Man" Montmorency learned of
his son's predicament through his
wife's appeal for more money for their
boy.
"Reggie's in trouble!" pleaded the
mother. "We must help him."
"Yes, wo must help him," said the
steel king. "We must send for Roger
O'Mara."
So Roger O'Mara was sent for. The
situation was explained to him. The
same night he left for New York.
A week later Reginald Montmorency
■was back at Yale. The notes he had
signed, as well as the fervid love let-
ters, were in Roger O'Mara's posses-
sion. Miss Daisie Twinkletoes was
devoting all her time to a Chicago
pork packer. All was serene in the
Montmorcncy household. Roger
O'Mara's work was done, writes Karl
K. Kitchen, in the World.
Perhaps you have guessed it. Roger
O'Mara is the shepherd of the black
sheep. When the sons of rich Pitts-
burgers get into trouble Roger O'Mara
Is called upon to get them out. For
43 years O'Mara has been a detective
In Pittsburg. Thirty-four years were
spent on the police force, where he
was head of the detective bureau for
the greater part of the time. While
he has naturally taken an active part
In all the big criminal cases that have
developed in the Smoky City, the most
Interesting part of his work has been
In getting the gilded youths of Pitts-
burg out of difficulties.
Employed in Thaw Case.
Newspaper readers will recall how
Harry K. Thaw summoned him to New
York the day after the Madison Square
garden tragedy. Nobody worked hard-
er to extricate the young Pittsburg
millionaire from his difficulties than
O'Mara, but of course his efforts were
hopeless. Today O'Mara is Thaw's
trustee and his most valued adviser.
Less than two months ago O'Mara
was helping young Griscom, the son of
George Griscom of Pittsburg, out of
his difficulties. Young Griscom, it will
be remembered, was the fiance of Dor-
othy Arnold, the New York heiress,
whose disappearance was and is a
great mystery.
Too much money is the ruination of
most of the rich young men in Pitts-
burg, he declares. With an endless
supply of money It is only natural
that they full into all 6orts of dissl
patlon. Drinking, gambling and wom-
en sooner or later involve them one
way or another, and exposure and dis-
grace are inevitable. And the sons of
rich parents !n Pittsburg, he declares,
are typical of the rich young men in
every large American city.
"The first thing I do when 1 am
called upon to help get a young man
out of troubie is to make his parents
promise to cut off his supply of cash,"
enid O'Mara to the writer, who found
him In his office in the Oliver building
In Pittsburg the othf-r day. "The r<>a-
I sou the so-called gilded youth of this
rountry are continually getting Into
^ trouble Is that their'parents give them
ten times as much money as they
need. If they were put to work and
forced to earn thenr own money they
would be far better off—and I should
probably have much less to do.
"Cut Off Supply of Cash."
"Of course there is another side to
this. There are schemers who make
a business of preying on the sons of
rich men. They try to involve them
in all sorts of difficulties. , And of
course there are adventuresses who
seek to trap the gilded youth. A young
man sometimes becomes Involved
quite innocently, but no matter how it
has happened or what difficulties he
may be in, the first thing to do is to
cut off his supply of cash. That will
bring him to his senses more quickly
than anything else, and unless he has
committed a felony he can then be ex-
tricated from his difficulties and put
on his feet.
"Dlackmailers are to be found every-
where, and every year they get scores
of rich young men into their clutches
Especially if the rich young man is
married he is threatened with ex-
posure. Our rich young men have a
habit of being indiscreet—especially
when they go to New York—and black
any real work. It is no wonder the?
cause their parents so many heart
aches. Of course there are many ex
ceptlons to what I have said. Nc
generalization is wholly true—not even
this one. But thq. rich young men ol
this country would be far and away
better off—mentally, physically and
morally—if their parents made them
go to work and earn their own spend
ing money. The hard-working young
man rarely has bad companions.
"Sometimes a father realizes these
things and cuts off the Bon's allowance
i3ut mothers always take their sons
part. They will continue to send them
money without their husband's knowl
edge. In fact, the more dissipated the
son the more money the mother will
send him
Lure of Broadway.
"Broadway is the Mecca of the gild
ed youth. A young man can get into
more trouble in New York in a day
than he can in Pittsburg in a month
But it takes money to get into trou-
ble—don't forget that."
"What precisely was your connec-
tion with the Thaw case?" was aslced.
"Well, I knew Harry Thaw evei
since he was a little boy. I knew his
father well, too. So when he got into
trouble it was only natural that he
should send for me. I did what I coulci
for him, but his lawyers spoiled all
his chances of freedom. He's as sane
as anyone in America today. The
trouble with Harry is that his parents
gave him too much money and always
allowed him to have his own way. He
was a spoiled boy from the time of his
birth!"
Record Is a Distinguished One.
Few detectives have had so many
adventures and been connected with
so many celebrated cases as Roger
O'Mara. He became a detective the
f
mailers are always in readiness to 'get<f®rB* year he joined the 1 iUsbuig po
something on them.' My advice to '^ce f°rce> back in IMm. In 0,<jl'r 101
round up a gang of crooks O Mara,
then only nineteen years of age, had
himself publicly discharged from the
polico force. He then joined / the
crooks and when he had obtained all
the evidence he needed he placed them
all under arrest. He was the detective
who arrested Alexander Berkman. who
shot Henry C. Frick, and it was large-
ly through his efforts that Laura Big-
gar, the actress, was prevented from
getting the Bennett millions. It will
be remembered that Laura Biggar o(
"A Trip to Chinatown" fame, claimed
she was Millionaire Bennett's widow
and jthe mother of his child, who had
died. O'Mara, retained by the Ben
nett heirs, succeeded in finding evi-
dence which prevented Laura Biggar
from establishing her claim.
Back in the eighties he captured
"Shoe Box" Miller, the famous crook
who escaped from a Pennsylvania pen-
itentiary in a shoe box. Miller had
robbed a family named Connors, 11 v
ing at Catfish, near Pittsburg, of $21,
000. By torturing Connors' wife Miller
succeeded in learning the hiding place
of the money, and with it he fled te
Canada. O'Mara tracked him ail over
the country and finally brought him
back after one of the most remarkable
man-hunts In recent times.
These are only a few of the cases In
which O'Mara has figured. Since he
resigned from the Pittsburg d( tective
force nine years ago he has been In
business for himself. The greater part
of his timo has been spent in getting
the rich young men of Pittsburg and
other cities out of troubl" This la
his specialty.
"Boy8 will be boys," ha Eays, but
he adds that they will be better boys
If their parents give them lew? money.
A fine, kindly old r?r.n is Roger
O'Mara, the shepherd of the black
sheep.
I
them is never to pay a cent of black-
mail no matter how badly they may bo
involved It is better to risk exposure
first as last, for if blackmail be paid
once the payment has to be repeated
as often as the blackmailers wish
Blackmailers can frequently be bluffed.
Typical Case Quoted.
"Just the other day," O'Mara con-
tinued, "a well-known Pittsburg man
called me up and said a woman was in
jown who was making trouble for his
'son. It seems the young man had met
her in New York, given her a few
costly presents and perhaps been a lit-
tle too carelessly free with his terms
of endearment. At any rate here she
was in Pittsburg demanding that he
marry her. A scandal seemed immi-
nent. Well, I went over to her hotel
and had a talk with her. She was a
beauty—there was no mistake about
that. I* asked her If the young man
owed her any money. She said he
did not. So I told her there were two
trains out of Pittsburg which she could
take, and 1 would let her choose be-
tween them One was the 9:40 train
for New York, the other the 11 o'clock
train for the workhouse. She said she
would not take either and hufried off
to the office of a prominent lawyer
Half an hour later she emerged from
his office, werft to the hotel and packed
her belongings. One of my men re-
ported that she had taken the 9:40
train for the east. So the next day I
dropped around at the lawyer's office
and asked him about his fair client.
He laughed and told me she wanted
him to bring suit against me for or-
dering her to take her choice between
the two trains. 'What did you tell
her?' I asked. 'I told her she had bet-
ter choose the 9:40 for New York,'
said the lawyer, 'for I knew you'd see
that she'd take the 11 o'clock for the
workhouse If 6he stayed."
The Old and the New Rich.
"Thirty and forty years ago, when I
! was a young man in Pittsburg, a man
| who had $100,000 was accounted rich.
The young men of those days, even
| those who had the richest parents, had
i comparatively little money to spend.
And, what is more, most of them
were put to work by their parents.
Nowadays the sons of our very rich
men not only receive enormous sums
to spend, but are not required to do
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Herbert, H. S. Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1911, newspaper, July 14, 1911; Carney, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc87794/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.