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•dv.\WOMAN JEKYL AND HYDE DISCOVEREDchambermaid Passes Herself Off As Rich Woman.ACCUSED—SHE ADMITS ALLNEW YORK, March 10.—Surprised jji her. fine apartnionls embellished wiih alleged loot from a hall' do/.on of New 'York's swollcSl hotels, Mrs. Caroliue Flower was arrested as' Thelma Paulsen, a Conner chambermaid .-ai' cbo St. Itegis. When the detectives. found . her. at the Avert orjr flat, buiklhig m 225 West Eight y-ihird street, which she owns, she was 5u r.veiling' dross and ablaze-with dla-moutfs. ' U she. is .convicted of theFlower told the hotel people llmt her mistress liail linen wltli (he St. Rests nmrlc on it, and I hoy found it when I hoy descended upon her homo..A dual tifo.wMS not suspected unlit one of Die hotel • clerics hud eon-fronted her ‘ and ha immediately identified her as Thelma Pnulseu, a chambermaid, who lind worked n* the hotel a short time. She had come .with strong recommendations from the very all's. Flower who was Uieo under a ire si. Thelma Paulsen had given them an address on One hundred and Tenth si reel, where Mm. Flower's mother lives.Flower drew herself „„ aridMr*.denied that she was Thelma Paulsen. -Why, Thoma was my maid,’* sho said. Bui. her mother admitted that Mrs. Flower had told her «ho had been working Jn hotels ‘between concert engagements.Mrs. Flower was released on bond. She denies hysterically that site stoic anything and that she will saiisfaeiorily explain the possessionfc.C^*oline, TUo vrs-rcharge against lior, it will establish her a remarkable example of a female “Dr. Jekyll and Mr HydeIn musical tile of Use metropolis, Mrs. Flower is known as an accomplished composer and artiste. As Thelma Paulsen It is charged she worked as menial in the great o-tols of New York and carried off Silver and linen to deck her rooms iu the big building for which she is trying to pay a final mstaflment.Mrs. Flower Is 30. and was born •n Mankato, Minn., Katrina Pot, 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 her own living as a concert pianiste and at 'teaching music. She performed under the name of Caroline Muben, she having married a man n.--ied Mubcn In Hie west. She is divorced from him ami is now the wife of Frederick R. Flower, or Brooklyn, from whom she lives apart. She is described as very ambitious to pay off the debt on her Hat buildiug and to gain name as a bo foist.A former housekeeper -foiof so ware.much hotel linen and silver-CRUSHED BY AUTOMrs.MARCHIONESS OF CORSINi INSTANTLY KILLED BY OVER-TURNING OF HUGE CAR,LOME], March 11.—Th* marchioness of Cordial, formerly Pr;iu:e.lt;s JLulwrrmj. was killed Inst Dish; lr the overturning of nn aiiio»jriDlc hi «hir-iv she rldiujwith her husband, who Is King Victor lCuinnuel’s lansie- of horse. Too- marchioness, who was TcarF Gf ngr, was driving the autou;olil1o, her husb-nO, aged C! vcL2-s. alt tin jc hi'.'-ldc her. Whllo crass-ins R bridge in the suburbs seeing a cart approaching, ih* msvrchionvtss essayed to turn out to give lie curt enough roadway but ran ?blt; jmtoiiioblta Into the parapet of the lirldge with such force thnt fiio parapet cave wuy and the aiiloiuobikwa* thrown from the brMgo into the ditch fifteen feel below, timtn-as il fell. Tlic marquis anlt;l the chauffeur escaped without a arriitrsi ;»:it tiJ(. ,,nr-rb'ontsa was crushed to lt;tenthIr.mOi:‘J-\erooi happ when I har mom AI noton st‘‘ItCICUT munnnouiporti. with •It probj can i little hntfe pullli from pochc As glifte noted ami a iriu in was i. table.
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Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 09, 1906
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