The evening world., 1894-08-30
IN A SISTERS GARB.
A Woman Claiming to Be from q
Convent Begs Money.
Visits Merchants Weekly and Is
Very Successful.
when Caught She Admits that She
Is q Fraud.

A fraudulent Sister of Charity was
caught yesterday afternoon through the
vigilance of Detectives Delaney and
Dale. of the West Forty-seventh street
souad. She proved to be Kate Arnold,
a widow, thirty-six years old, and gave
her residence at 70 Sackett street, Brook
lyn. The widow Is of medium height
and fairly good-looking.
Delaney and Dale were having their
shoes shined at the northeast corner of
Forty-seventh street and Ninth avenue
when they saw the woman, attired in
the garb Of a Sister Of Charity, enter a
saloon. Delaney at once thought that
she was a fake.
After she came out Of the saloon De-
laney entered and asked the bartender
what she had said. The bartender
seemed surprised at being told that scrne
one had been in the saloon, saying:
II was fixing the pumps behind the
bar and did not see any one"
Fastening to the street, Delaney saw
her going up the avenue, entering all
the saloons on the route and securing
quarters and dimes from each place.
The detectives proceeded to shadow
her with the intention of taking her to
the Paulist Fathers Church. at Fifty
ninth street. and have her confronted by
some Of the priests. At the Fifty-eighth
street corner the woman found out that
she was being followed and turned to
Eighth avenue, and down that avenue
back to Forty-seventh street without
entering a single place.
At Forty-seventh street corner she
AhrAx h SrfA -
Ing the detective stili on her tracks,
turned east towards Broadway and then
down to Forty-first street, where De-
laney stopped her and said:
Madam, pardon me II have made a
mistake: II have, you will readily un-
derstand that 1t Is for the good OF the
church that you belong to that we should
be vigilant to see that there are no i'm
Turning Indignantly upon the detective,
she said sternly. What do you mean?"
Her actions did not shake Delaney's
she was a fake" Sister. he said: '" Il
don't think you are :he person you rep
resent yourself to be-"
she then said that she was a sister Of
the Franciscan Order OF Brooklyn,
where she Is known as Sister Bernard.
She added further that Sister Mary
convent and said: you must pardon
me now. l have. 1 hope answered your
questions satisfactorily and am at lib
erty to return to my convent, to which 1
must now hasten, as am late ~.
She was then taken to the Holy Cross
Church. which was but two blocks away.
For time she puzzled the clergy
she referred to a directory, and discov-
cred that she had erred In the exact
location Of the convent, but she still
insisted that she was Sister Of
Dale and said: "You are a kind man.
Take me to the convent and I'll prove
that what ! have said II true. The
Dale's answer to this was: 81 am sure
that you are an impostor. You are
She then burst out weeping. and. fall
not a Sister of Charity. In her defense
she said that she was widow with a
five-year-old daughter. Being poor and
>~t of work she took this means of sup
Sng herself and child.
jnder her skirt the matron at the
station-house found white straw hat.
which she then placed on her head In
move the white sash that covered her
forehead. and the change in her appear
ance was wonderful.
.. Her collections Yesterday amounted to
G.50. which was found in her possession.
She carried the money in a bag at
tached by string around her waist.
IN the bag was found also he:' wedding
played the role Of a Sister Of Charity
After she was locked in a eel, the
in the precinct and learned that she
had been in the habit of coming to each
once week for money. She was
known to them as "the little Sister
Among the complainants who ap-
peared against her at Yorkville Police
Court to-day were Alderman Frank
Rim, OF the Eighteenth Assembly Dis
trict, who keeps saloon at Forty-sec-
ond street and Ninth avenue; James
McCabe, ZIG Ninth avenue; William
Dunn, of 1853 Ninth avenue, and a dozen
others also doing business on the same
avenue.
On a charge of obtaining money un-
der false representation, Justice Meade
held her for trial.