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“SOCIETY MAID” WHO IS ACCUSED OF f HEFTMr ft. Caroline Miben Flower, Charmer of the §,400M Under ArrestOWNS APARTMENT HOUSEPay* for It by Singing for the SmirY Sot irtd Working Under an Assumed Name a* a Hotel Maid.K«w 'York, March “Th* nervous* flees of yesterday has all left me. I am Innocent or the charge* made by that man from the St. Regis hotel before Magistrate Whitman, and the case will never come to trial. It will be settled out of court, and the dreadful charges Mill be withdrawn.Mr*. Caroline Mabeu Flower. allart Thelma Paulson, hotel maid. at her home, No. 225 West Highly-third street, made this statement ycaforrlay In talking of itei arrest and neleu.se on ball on charges of petty larceny.She feels assured that the friend* ■who h.ivc been her.s dining the days of her irlumphs, those who hnvc known Caroline Muben. not Thehna Pnutson. will overlook the grave incident and. iv[U receive her with their woiiLed aml-ttbiHty.“Friends Don't Doubt Me.M “I have never done any thing Rial would cause iny friends to doubt nw tot lt;i moment, she raid “My life is like an open book. I fe.u nothing. ( know I bat my loal friend:* will always bemy real friends—the others, \vht theytire tieict worth v hlleIt was very graUfiiig to me this morning when I svcjil flt; my bankers i to hear them expre^n their confidence* 1 In me. in spite of the horrid sories totd ’ in the papers. They shnok my hand 1 warmly and told me I hat my credit was Just as good ,is it e\t*i v. as. Don't think Mrs Hlowei/’ Uu» Utah f pi: said, ‘that we ii111 let Inat prejudice us In any wav, for we hare done business with you too long not tu have every confidence in jou/“Then again, when I vent to my fur-tiUure dealer* they wnre so very con-tilde rule mid were billing lo let m« have much credit as i needed. They, too, know that I have always been ■ scrupulously honest, and LhLa police in- k cideut has not shaken tlieh faith. ,“And, by the way, they were willing to sell trie swmft jdeee-i of furniture that ' were ordered by tiic Algonquin, and I rang up my attorney and told hStti, foe It showed just how these different firm.* «el] things made especially for various , liotols, in spite of the I act that the hotel steward who identified the linens In my house as having come from the St_ Regis said Ihar the linns who make such things for hotels make them only tutd excluslvelj fur those hotels.“Bought Silver at Auction.Now. there a case that hap- ’Tjeruid lo me today that proves that ■ such things ate done, and that fs ex-acUy how 1 got hold of those different hotel pieces of linen and silver. I ■bought I hem at auction sales in tots Yon know ihEs whole miseidble thing ;\vau ttarled by .i vlHuu.s and vlndicllvq j aid tress whom I was forced to discharge hoi .ius« she would not take her children .nuiy lioin my b.JM-mvrn.mt\\ livu asked If sihe vwukod at iho various hotels which the police named, ris il 1)1,1111. Mis Flowf. i shook Uei head stud said that those Uilugb were pme-1 pcirtnnal malLers and .she rrTustd lu deny or nlhrin l.ho *latotuVmy.“My n.tlorricjrt luu* requested me not 'to talk about I lie matter .it all I \JL is iiei.o-ttaky latlt; r 1 will tell tie1 truth about cvei thing lly that J iiq iiol mean to say Lliai I have not told the truth at any time, hut I will then tell nil lh.it iiij ntLornejs think nccu;-•‘fl.iry lo lhe clisc.Tiio Jirmse in tthii.li Mis Flowei Hvt-s1s partially owned by hei, Mni It \\?a . In her anxiety to moke payments upon • ft, her mother hiijs, that she might 1 liaie been led Into her mistakes/' a* 1 fh€ CttUcd them.Ad Mrs Flower talked of her trouble* -lt;hc carelessly fondled a richly silk 1 worked sofa pillow, on vhlch w*a pti ■ turcil a fountain, with thi.s legend pre- ' rented !n embossed work The R. F. tFlower Fountain. Watcttown.
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Correctionville Sioux Valley News

Correctionville, Iowa, US

Thu, Mar 08, 1906

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