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WOMAN JEKYL AND HYDE DISCOVEREDChambermaid Passes Herself Off As Rich Woman.ACCUSED-SHE ADMITS ALLNEW YORK, March 10.—Surprised in her. Hue apart men Is embellished with ajloged loot from a hall’ dozen ol’ New York's wollesl hotels, Mrs. Caroline Flower was arrested as' Thelma Paulsen, a former chambermaid .-at* the St. Regis. When the detectives. found . her at the flvo-Riory flat, building- at 225 West Eight y-ihird street, which she owns, she was in i'.veiling' dross and ablaze* witli diamonds. U she. is. .convicted of theFlower fold flic hotel people Unit her mistress liad linen with (he St. Rrgis nmrlc on it, and (hoy found it when tlioy descended upon her homo..A dual Wo. was not suspocted unlit one of the hotel cl whs Iwrt confronted her * and ho immediately identified her as Thelma Paulsen, a chambermaid, who had worked atthe hotel a short time. She had come with strong recommendations from the very Mrs. Flower who was then under arrcsl. Thelma Paulsen had given them an address on Quo hundred and Tenth si reel, where Mra. Flower's mother lives.Mrs. Flower drew herself wj and denied Unit she was Thelma Paul-sen. -Why, Thotna was my maid,” sho said. Bui. hev mother adiuUtod that Mrs. Flower had told her sho liad been working In hotels -between concert engagements.Mi*?. Flower was released on bond. IShe denies hysterically that she stole anything and (hat she will! satisfactorily explain the possessionitCa-olime, T*lowe-rcharge against her, it will establish her i a remarkable example of a female Dr. Jekyll and Mr IJydfl,”In musical life of the metropolis, Mrs. Flower is known as an accomplished composer and artiste. As Thelma Pauisep It is charged she worked as a menial in the great o-tols of New York and carried off silver and linen to deck her rooms iu tho big building for which she is trying (o pay a final intBflmcnt.Mrs. Flower Is 30, and was born iu Mankato, Minn., Katrina Pow, so her aged mother says. The aid of relatives and a small income of her mother from Norway made it possible to send her to Berlin to study music, and since then she has made . ,JG1‘ oivn 21 ring as a concert pianis(e and at teaching music. She performed under the name of Caroline Mu ben, she having married r man n.~ucd Mabcn in [he west. She Is divorced from him and is now the wife of Frederick B. Flower, or Brooklyn, from whom she lives apart. She is described as very am-Ntious to pay off the debt on her lint biilldlug and tu gain namo as a bo foist.A former housekeeper for Mrs.of soware.much hotel linen and silver-CRUSHED BY AUTOMARCHIONESS OF CORSINI INSTANTLY KILLED BY OVER-turning of huge car.LOME. March 0.—Tho Ui avnhJojws* of Cordial, formerly rr;iu:*.-s IUrli«riuii.... waskilled taut wi£h* hr the overturning or nn nutonjnbile In ulifeh nlie w\ ridingwith her Im.shnnil, who Is Ivin,: VictorFinn Duels master of horse. Toe roar-ehioneps, wbo was fr2 roar? of njrr, was ^driving ilir autotnolillo, her misb.-.uO. o»od K years.a sitting heckle her. lnifle crossing a bridge In the suburbs seeing a carlJipproiicblu^, ihe nurchloneus cssaj'cJ toturn cut to jfive lie curt enough voad-way but ran tb* *utomoW1o ln(o (be lavap*t of Uie bridge with siicli force llint flxo parapet cave way nult;! the aiKoiuohilc wsj.- thrown from the bridge into tbo ditch nr I ecu ifici. below, timing c-aiiir'''?•**• as it fell. The marquis and the chauffeur escaped Without a sci'iitru but the marchioness was crushed to death.nr.UT rnunDonui
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Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 09, 1906
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