Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-06-16
SHE GOT HIS MONEY
At BRIDGE Whist

New York, June 3.-When the Pan.
ANA Railroad steamship Advance.
from Colon, got to her pier well.
dressed passenger told Policeman
jackson, who is stationed at the pier.
that he wanted a woman on the boat
arrested. The man said he was Otto
c. Kersgood, a banker of San Francis.
co. He pointed to an extensively
dressed woman who stood on deck.
When she left the boat Jackson ar.
rested her. She said she was Mrs.
Catherine Hartridge of San Francisco,
and that she was on her way to Eng.
land to visit relatives and at the same
time see the coronation. Kersgood
said he, too, was bound for England.
According to the story he told the
ponce, Kersgood and Mrs. Hartridge
Left San francisco about month ago
on the steamer for Panama. On the
same boat were two sisters. Mrs. Nc.
GInley and Mrs. Ross, who were trav.
cling from Vancouver to their home In
Valparaiso. The police say that the
three women and kersgood had be-
come acquainted in the Tivoli restaur.
ant, San Francisco.
! No sooner was the boat outside the
Golden Gate. Mrs. Hartridge says. than
Kersgood and she and the other two
women began playing bridge whist. II
appears that the stakes were high and
the game fast. Not oniy money was
put up, but also iewelry Mrs. Hart.
ridge says. For two days this went
on, and the game was so warm that
the captain objected. He told the
players that they would have to quit.
1t was then that Kersgood. accord.
ing to Mrs. Hartridge. said he had
been robbed. II f. not Just clear how
he was robbed, but at all events he
accused Mrs. Hartridge Of having TAX.
en- 1910 from him. 81 didn't take
your money" Mrs. Hartridge says she
replied, but am looking at some ono
on board who did"
This caused some unpleasantness
with Mrs. Mckinley and Mrs. Ross.
Then, according to Mrs. Hartridge,
Kersgood offered her one.half the mon
ey he had lost II she would get it back
for him. She didn't pay any attention
to this proposition, and then apparent.
ly the matter was dropped. Mrs. Nc.
Ginley and Mrs. Ross parted from the
others in Panama. Kersgood and
Mrs. Hartridge crossed to Colon and
took the Advance for this port.
Kersgood was very reticent about
the robbery. He said: Il know that
Mrs. Hartridge took the money from
me and that is enough. will appear
in court against her.
Mrs. Hartridge was taken to the
West Twentieth street station, and
from there to the Charles street sta.
ton. where there is a matron. She
said that in San Francisco she had
been employed as private secretary by
Frank NJ. Stone, an attorney. She said
that Stone was now in this city and
she thought he was stopping at the
Waldorf.Astoria or Holland House.
She was trying to find him, she said.
so he would appear as her counsel in
court in the morning. Stone is not at
the Waldorf-Astoria or Holland.
Mrs. Catherine Hartridge was EN-.
pioyed as private secretary to Frank
N. Stone about three years ago. and
ever confidence was reposed in her. In
speaking of her last night Mrs. Stone
said: Mrs. Hartridge was member
OF wealthy English family, and was
as one of our household. While I was
away she had full charge OF the house
and all that was in it. cannot be.
lieve anything III Of her and feel Ger.
tain that there Is some mistake"
The name of otto G. Kersgood does
not appear in the San Francisco direc.
tory.