The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-16
Dis De Bars Career in Rome.

| Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Disnatcb
ROME, May 15.-[By cable to the N. Y.
Herald. Last Sunday night Nine. Dis De
Bar ordered carriage to go to the Ameri-
can church on the Via Nazionale. She told
the servant to let her out near the church
and to call for her at later hour When
the carriage returned the fair deciver had
fled, and Rev. DIR. Nevin, rector of the
church, had letter which she left for the
hotel proprietor, inclosing a draft for 500
francs drawn ON Mr.. Pierre Morand, No.
| 1,O3I Walnut street, Philadelphia. and
signed IN. A. Holland" Signor Frontini
had her box opened and found an old pet
tlcoat and two stale crusts of bread.
A general investigation discloses the fact
tnaI tne adventures had been as busy as a
beaver IN Rome. She had tried TO en-
tangle many distinguished Catholic
churchmen. One day she called on Mon
slgnor Campbell, rector of the Scotch COL
lege, and wanted to confess to him, saving
she had great case of a burdened con-
science. Monsignor Campbell suspected
her, Tor the reason that she claimed to be
English while he was certain she was an
American and notified Archbishop Corri-
gan, OF New Ork, and all the officials of
the American college to look out for her
Ihen she went to DR.. Nevin, of the Amer
lean church, and said she was a novitate
nun and that there was Catholic conspir-
acy with Monslgnor Campbell at the head
OF IL, TO drag her into the nunnery against
her will. DR.. Nevin advised her to annIv
for protection to the British ambassador
she then called on Lord Dufferin and told
MIN she had escaped from a nunnery and
wanted England to protect her from them
QUESTION. The ex-vicerOy of India asked her
II sne mad anything TO show that she was
BRUSH subject. why, certainly" re-
P Plletl MS 81 VISITOR pulling out photograph of
Queen Victoria from her BOSOM 's1here
is picture of our Queen" Lord Dufferin
was unmoved by this patriotic business.
InaG is portrait of our Queen'1 ha
said, "but would prefer to see a British
passport" That knocked the lovely Ophelia
out ana she retired IN confusion. She had
met her match
This afternoon the police learned that
she had gone 10 No. IS Via DELI Artist. bnt
when the gems d'armes arrived she had
again vanished. The police learned TO-
night that she had taken refuge in the con-
vent OF the poor servants of the Mother of
Cod She engaged two rooms and talked
grandly of taking the whole suite. When
the delegates OF the police entered the con-
vent Mrs. Dis De Bar had gone to bed. The
mother superior agreed to De responsible
Tor the prisoner until morning The police
We're then stationed about the building and
that was the situation at midnight. The
mother superior gotfrlghtened and ordered
Inc decelVer to leave and she tripped ont
of the nunnery into Via San SebasfianeIIo
where she was bagged by the police and
hurried off to the Roman prison She was
wearing a ring which she said the Pope
had given her. This she showed to the
guard and detied them. In the morning
When the princess was searched the ring
was gone Her property consisted of a
COMB and book on money and the black
art, by Hartmann, with many passaoes
From papers found on the prisoners
person 1t looks as If she had come to Rome
With some game in view. Monsignor
campbell VIII be victim. She had told a
com paEy invited to her Dr. Neyin,s of the
American church, that Monsignor Camn-
Oell was IN the conspiracy to force her into
a nunnery. In her pocket the police found
4 letter in her handwriting addressed to
Monslgnor Campbell and signed I'M A.
Holland" When the prisoner was
brought before the police in the morning
she confessed that her name was not HoI.
and and she was not British subject.
She said she would cut her throat rather
han tell her true name, as she had solemnIv
promised Monsignor Sullna, another vic
i'm, to keep 1t secret. The only one she
would give her name to, she said, was the
American consul She almost tainted
when her real name was mentioned
II won't give my name," heard the
prisoner say. II demand to be heard
through my counsel" When | entered
he room with a priest the adventures
Jared like tigeress. She was finally
AIKEN to prison to await trial for swindling
he Hotel Bristol with false drafts. cheat
ng boarding house keepers and cabmen.
While Nine. Dis De Bar was at Hotel
Bristol, MIR. RobertsG Garrett, of Baltimore.
nd wife had rooms on the same floor
'wice Mrs. Garrett found the princess in
er room and ordered her out. There were
,wels scattered about and Mrs Garrett
ras very nervous. The Roman police have
Iritten to Inspector Byrnes and the chief
+ the London police