Mabel Tinley, alias Lasca Vega, alias Mrs. John Van Ness Roberts

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #76, part 3

 

Mabel Tinley was a Philadelphia-born con woman with a hypnotizing gaze who worked her way into New York Society with boldness and beauty. Fellow cemetery historian Tom Keels tells her remarkable story and suggests an inscription for her stone - should she ever get one.

Here Lies

MABEL TINLEY

AKA

Mrs. Richard W. Roelofs, Fickle Wife and Inattentive Mother,

Lasca Vega, Vaudeville Vamp,

Louise Vermeule, Serial Shopper,

Mrs. John (Catherine Stuyvesant) Van Ness Roberts, Buddy of Big Apple Bluebloods,

And a host of other aliases, too numerous and transitory to mention.

R.I.P.