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secured Position at St. Regis on Her Own Recommendation—Linen Disappeared and Woman Was Arrested.ipeciAl to The Washington Post.New York, Feb. 27.— On the last day )f December a woman of medium height, with re-d hair, and well dressed, but far :'rom being beautiful, applied for a place is chambermaid in the St. Regis Hotel. •She had the most laudatory kind of letter rom a Mrs. Caroline M. Flower, who livid at 225 West Eighty-third street. She irave her name as Thelma Paulsen. On .he strength of the letter of recommenda-ion she was hired and went to work. She leemed accustomed to'her duties and did lt;ot attract, any especial notice among the unployes of the hotel, but she was in a vay unsatisfactory in the place, and six lays after she had been hired Walter H. foung, who had general charge of that art of the help, paid her off and she left. The fact that the St. Regis has about .000 pieces of linen constantly in. us* •auses a continual loss. In spite of tlie veil-developed checking system. So the louse detective is always on the watch or its appearance outside. Word reached ilm a short time ago that some linen vith the name “St. Regis’* worked in its exture was used in an apartment house »f Mrs. Caroline M. Flower, who rented apartments furnished to her tenants at 23 west Eighty-third street. The namemd address was the same as that or thevoman who had recommended Thelma aulsen. The detective bureau was notified yes-arday evening, and Detective Sergts. Op-enheimer and Dowling were sent to the ddress on Eighty-third street with Air. oung to identify the goods. They were rested by a little woman, who said she ras Airs. Caroline Fowler, and who, while le detectives were talking to her flitted round from apartment to apartment Peking for the linen which bore the St. teg is mark. Altogether they found some nen sheets, a table scarf, a towel, some illow slips, a table cloth, and a napkin, fr. Young waited outside. When the nen had been found he ivas called in to lentify It.Instead he looked at Mrs. Flower for a to men t, and said; “'Why, that is Thelma 'a ul sen.”The detectives and Mr. Young say that iie admitted this identity as well as that f Mrs. Flower. Mrs. Flower, owner of ie apartments at 225 West Eighty-third Ireet, had written a recommendation for helma Paulsen to work as chambermaid t the St. Regis Hotel. A quantity of ?welry, amounting in value to nearly ,000, was found, as well as other linen '.arked with the names of other hotels, he said that she had bought the linen at n auction in a salesroom on Thirty -urth street. In the list was that mark-f with the monograms of the Edgemeie. ‘ endome. Grand, and others.She was taken to police headquarters,II the time protesting volublv.
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Washington Post
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Wed, Feb 28, 1906
Page 11
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Onondaga C.
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