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“SOCIETY MAID” WHO IS ACCUSED OF THEFTMrt. Caroline Mibsn Flower. Charmer el the “400” Under Arresta •OWNS APARTMENT HOUSE ■Piy» for It by Sinking for the Sm«n I Sot irtd Working Under an As* turned Name at « Ho-til Maid.New York, March C.—Til* nervous* i ness of yesterday hlt;»s all loft me. I am ; Innocent of the charges made by that mart from the St. Regia 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 It will be settled out of court, and the dreadful charges Mill be withdrawn.”Mrt. Carol! he Mdbeu Mower, a I Isjh ■ 'Thelma Paulson, hotel maid. at her 1 home, No, 225 West Highly-third street, , made this statement ycaforrlay In talking of hei arrest and neleu.se on ball on charges of petty larceny.She feels assured that the friend* 1 ■who have been her.s dtiling- the days of her triumphs, those who have known Caroline Muben, not Thelma Paulson, will overlook ihe grave incident and : ivIU receive her \\Uh their uouLed aml-n.bihty.Friends Don't Doubt Me/*“I ha\e never done anything that ’ would cause my friends to douht. me fot .t mnoiniV she pm id “My life is like an open book. I ftsu nothing, X know • that my ical fiiend.s will always h* my real friends—the others, \vh, tliej ,ore ticict worth v hileJ II \va» very gratlfing to me this morning when I wem Jo my bankers i lo hear them expro^i their confidence* K In me. in spite of the horrid series totd 1 in the paper*. They shook my hand: i warmly and told inc I hat my credit • vjh Just as good as it even v. us. “Don't , thh'k Mrs Flowei/’ the cashier said,'that we v.111 let ln.it prejudice us In any wav, for we hare done business with you too long not lu have every confidence in jou/“Then again, when I went to my fur-tiUure dealer* they wnre so very con-alderul? und were* filling lo let me have as much credit as 1 needed. They, too, know that I have always been ■ scrupulously honest, and LhLs police In- k' cideut has not shaken tlieh faith. ,“And, by the vs ay, they were willing to sell me ssvinft picee-i of furniture that ' were ordered by the Algonquin, and I rang up my attorney and told bltn, for It showed just how these different flrm.1 well things made especially for various , liolels, in spite of the fact that the hotel steward who identified the linens In my house as having come from the St. itegis Raid thar the firms who make such things for hotels make them only and exclusively fur those hotels. “Bought Silver at Auction/1 “Now, there wag a case that hap- 1 Tjened lo me today that proves that ■ such ihLngM are dune, and that fs exactly how 1 got hold of those different hotel pieces of linen and silver. I ■bought ihem at auction sales in tols “Yon know this whole miserable thing jwau ttarled by .i \lduu.s and vhidielKq j aid tress whom I was forced to discharge EiCi .iuM she would iml take her children away Uom my b.JM-mem.“V. lion asked If s*he worked at ilio various hotels uhlch the police named, as ;l maul. Mis Flout i shook liei headand salrl that those things were puie-1 j0i scum I mailers and .she rrTustd iti deny or nJIirln the *1 a ten ferny.“My iLtlornejs have n*q u^sled me not 'to talk about the mutter ,it all i( it is nc»c.e«:.Stit latlt;r 1 will tell lie1 truth about cveiUung Uy lhat 1 hq iiol mean lo say Lliai f have not told the Irulli at any time, hut I will then tell all that mj atLornejs think neceb-In I he clisu/' tTJi»v Jmiisr* in which Mis PUiwn Hvm 1s partially owned by hei, and It y\m In her auxJPty to make payments upon ■ it, her mother smjs, that she might liaie been led into her “mistakes/' a* 1 fh€ called them. ..Ad Mrs Flower talked of her trouble**he carelessly fondled a richly .silk worked sofa plHoiv, on which nitg pii • turcil a fountain, with UiLs legend pre- ' rented fn embossed work “The It. F. (-Flower Fountain. Valet town.
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Correctionville Sioux Valley News
Correctionville, Iowa, US
Thu, Mar 08, 1906
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