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May Dugas de Pallandt van Eerde (23 May 1869 to 10 March 1937) is reputed to have earned an estimated $2 million from blackmail schemes and various business ventures during her life.〔Wendt, Lloyd. ("Queen of the Blackmailers" ) series, Chicago Daily Tribune, November 10, 1946, p. B8-B9; November 24, 1946; December 1, 1946; December 8, 1946; December 15, 1946; December 29, 1946; January 5, 1947; January 12, 1947; January 19, 1947; January 26, 1947. 〕 She was sued by long-time friend Frank Gray Shaver for extortion〔"Baroness Accused of $125,000 Swindle," The New York Times, January 10, 1917.〕〔"Baroness Answers Charges of Fraud," The New York Times, January 13, 1917.〕〔Callow, Janet. Baroness May de Pallandt van Eerde. Presentation for the Upper Peninsula Michigan History Conference, Menominee, MI, June 2010.〕〔"Baroness is Sued for $100,000," Menominee Herald-Leader, September 16, 1916.〕 and pursued by Pinkerton detectives for numerous blackmail, defrauding, and extortion incidents.〔 The Pinkerton detective who hunted Dugas across three continents told the story of her blackmail and extortion cons to Lloyd Wendt, reporter for the Chicago Daily Tribune in the 1940s. Wendt published that report in a series of Tribune articles running from late 1946 to early 1947.〔 Dugas herself did not leave any written record of her life. == Early life == She was born May Dugas on May 23, 1869, in the Chicago area.〔 Her French-Canadian immigrant parents, Eugene and Sophie, had two other children, older son Paul and younger son Eugene. At the time of Dugas’s birth the family was living in the Chicago area but by 1880 had moved to Muskegon, Michigan.〔 Dugas’s father worked there as a saloonkeeper and died between 1883 and 1885.〔 After his death the family moved to Menominee, Michigan, where Dugas graduated from high school.〔 By all reports she was a precocious student.〔 In 1887, when Dugas was 18, she left Menominee for Chicago.〔 There is no record of her early months in Chicago but within a year of her arrival she took up residence at the city’s most infamous bordello, Carrie Watson’s at 441 South Clark Street.〔〔Kendall, Todd D. "Carrie Watson—Come in, Gentlemen." The Chicago Crime Scenes Project. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「May Dugas de Pallandt van Eerde」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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