The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-08
Detectives Tried 10 Starye Her
Out but Did Not Succssd.
TOOK HER MEALS ELSEWHERE
Her Room In the auditorium Hotel SAID tt
Contain 100000 Worth st Diamonds.
PaTsImsnisus as TO Food

Chicago. April S.--Mrs. Celia w. wall
lace, the diamond-bedecked queen of tho
sixth floor OF the Auditorium Hotel, is
in which she outwitted the efforts of the
Foxy ouillers OF Judge STEMS court
They want To take her before an ordi-
nary tribunal to answer an attachment
suit by a clock company for $780,
The deputy sherifrs established them.
selves guard over Mrs. Wallaces
rooms, Win the avowed intention oc
starving the lady until she should ba
compelled 10 emerge from her treasure
chamber and surrender.
While the stern enforcers OF Justice
were executing their strategic starvation
scheme she was dining In the Wellington.
She Is still in hiding and defying the,
court.
For seven years. the time she has been
stopping I'm the Auditorium, no beliboys
have found entrance to room s12 nor have
any chambermaids ever dared TO use a
broom In her hallowed apartment. She
does the sweeping and caretaking OF it
herself.
Distrustful of any safe-deposit vaults,
she prefers to carry her diamonds
around I'm her garments when not dts
playing them on her dress at the opera
or at a charity ball.
She bought the Tiffany chapel at the
Worlds Fair and donated IL 10 a boys
school
Though princely in the matter OF Jewels
and dress she is parsimonious on the food
question. Fifty cents is as much as 1.
meal is worth TO her, therefore she does
not dine in the Auditorium but In modest
restaurants on side streets.
An acquaintance OF Mrs. Wallace. who
lives at the Auditorium, declares there
are 100000 worth OF diamonds in her pos
session at the present time.
Her few callers are received, II they
are received at all, i'm the guests parlor
On one occasion the doctor who attended
her was not allowed admittance but was
forced TO feel his patients pulse through
partially opened door.
She likes lawsuits. The Harvey e. Moss
Plumbing Company have three unpaid
bills OF hers. the smallest OF w.-.ch is
5000; William Pugh has another, Spald-
ing & Co. have one for $4,000 w. p. Nell
son a Co. and William Elkhart have each
one, and W. j. Haynes, a lawyer is SUI
ing for $500 for alleged unpaid services
Mrs. Wallace is past fifty years old
! and dresses with picturesque originality.
She wears gay costumes which would be-
| suitable for woman OF twenty wears.
and her picture" hats are models OF the
milliner's skill.
Some time ago she purchased from a
Chicago dealer diamond worth SOS, ,0o0
While she wears jewels now and then.
she collects them because she takes Pc
cuiar pleasure in their possession.
One OF her fads is for laces. and she
is said TO have the finest collection in
this country. She paid $4,000 for lace
shawl at tho Worlds Faid. Then she
bought the Idaho State Building and had
II moved and set up on tract OF land
near Lake Geneva. She never furnished
or lived in it. and recently traded the
property for a pink pearl valued at $l5-
600
She has also fad for adopting grown
persons. Once she tried TO take the place
OF mother 10 Evangeline Cisneros, the
Cuban girl, and on another occasion she
insisted on establishing maternal rela-
tions between herself and young Italian
artist, Carlo Guadiigussi. who had con-
tract 10 paint her portrait for $4,000.
When he preferred TO be satisfied with
his original mother Mrs. Wallace prompt-
ly reduced the price of the painting to
$1,000