Almost every client on the books of this marriage-fostering concern claimed to be worth from $5,000 to £1,000,000 sterling. Many of them were alleged to have large incomes. Some were said to have children and are not to be divorced, but still seek life partners. WITNESSES NEED A SHEPHERD. Then, from among the queer little party huddled together on the benches at the rear of the big court room--a helpless, shepherdless flock--Mr. Shirer began to call out his witnesses. First of the hungering souls who sought life companions through Mrs. Scott came Mrs. Mary Quinn, of Trenton, Ill., a short, dumpy little person of about thirty-five or forty, who was chiefly remarkable for the white hat she wore. "I saw the ad.," she whispered--it was with the greatest difficulty that Judge Bethea induced her to talk so she could be heard ten feet away--"and I answered it. They sent me back a circular and a photograph of a nice-looking fellow who was said to be rich. "I sent my $2 and wrote that I would like to get into correspondence with him. They sent me back word that he was corresponding with another lady just then, and didn't want any more names at present, but there was another one just as good. NICE LETTERS LACK RICH TONE. "I corresponded with him until three weeks before I remarried my divorced husband, last December. He wrote very nice letters, but he certainly didn't sound rich." "You got what you asked for, didn't you?" asked Mr. Murphy. "Oh, yes, I guess so; I'm not complaining." The uncomplainingness of the alleged victims is the odd feature of the case. [Illustration: JAIL FOR CUPID'S AID Marion Grey, Pretty Love Broker, Who Was Sentenced to a Year in Prison] Dr. Montgomery Porter, a graduate of the University of Arkansas, came all the way from his home in Pine Bluff, to say that he had answered one of Mrs. Scott's advertisements but had not paid the $5 fee, "which she charged the men members." Porter C. Dyer, a graduate of the Ohio State University, who lives in Austin, O., said that he paid the fee and was disappointed, "because the names sent were not those of refinement and culture, as promised in the circulars." Mrs. Flora Scott, a restaurant keeper at Middleport, O., tall and not particularly stylish, couldn't recall what any of the circulars said, but she was quite sure she hadn't landed a rich husband yet. SOUTHERN BEAUTY SENDS $2. The handsomest of the witnesses was Miss Avis Christenberry, a stately brunette from Memphis, who rather liked the looks of the rich young man's photograph used for bait and sent in $2. "They told me he was corresponding with some one else just then," she testified, "and I corresponded with two substitutes, but they didn't entertain me much."