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

A fraudulent Sister OF Charity was
vigilance Of Detectives Delaney and
Dale, of the West Forty-seventh street
squad. She proved to be Kate Arnold,
a widow, thirty-six years old and gave
her residence at 46 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 Sister Of Charity, enter q
saloon. Delaney at once thought that
she was 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 scme
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
threw q hasty glance backward, and see
ing the detective still on her tracks,
turned east towards Broadway and then
SSwS stopped sS ea snd ' ss where De-
Madam, pardon me IL have made a
derstend that IT. is for the good OF the
be yisilant to see that there are no i'm
postors.'
Turning Indignantly upon the detective.
she said sternly, What do you mean,
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.
Francis was the Mother Superior OF the
convent and said: You must pardon
me now. 1 have. l hope answered your
questions satisfactorily and am at lib.
erty to return to my convent, to which 1
must now hasten. as l am late"
She was then taken to the Holy Cross
Church. which was but two blocks away.
men by her direct answers. Finally
she referred to a directory, and dlscov-
cred that she had erred In the exact
location Of the convent, but she still
Charity. She then turned to Detective
Dale and said: You are a kind man.
Take me to the convent and I'll prove
Mother Superior will identify me-"
Dale's answer to this was: 81 am sure
that you, are an impostor. You are
She then burst out weeping and. fall
ing on her knees, admitted that she was
not a Sister of Charity. In her defense
she said that she was q widow with a
n FIVE ys n,e, daughter Being poor and
porting herself and child.
Under her skirt the matron at the
station-house found a white straw hat
lieu Of the hood. She was made to re.
move the white sash that covered her
forehead. and the change in her appear.
ance"was wonderful.
100 which was found in her possession
She carried the money in bag at
tached by string around her waist
In In the bag was found also he' wedding
played the role of a Sister OF Charity
After she was locked in a eel, the
detective went to the storekeepers
had been in the habit OF coming to each
once week for money. She was
known to them as "the little Sister"
Among the compliments who ap-
peared against her at Yorkville Police
Court to-day were Alderman Frank
Rim. of the Eighteenth Assembly Dis.
trict, who keeps a saloon at Forty-sec.
McCabe, TIC Ninth avenue; William
Dunn. Of 1858 Ninth avenue, and a doZer
others also doing business on the same
avenue.
On a charge of obtaining money un.
der false representation, Justice Meade
held her for trial