The evening world., 1903-04-20
Mrs. James \. Shakespeare Ac-
cuses Broker and theatrical
Man Of Stealing Diamond
Sunhurst While Dining.
she HAS THEM LOCKED UP.
In Her cheekered Career ehe Fla.
ured with that Areh-swIndler On.
equI, and Her Husband, Once a
Noted Lawyer, Died q Madman.
Mrs. Natalie Shakespeare OF No. 6,

West sixty-ffth street. who accuses
James g. Dunn. n broker, and Leonard
w. Giles. a theatrical man, with the
theft, Of a 800 diamond sunbui st. is a
woman with q remarkable record.
She entertained the men at dinner OH
Saturday and claims that after they
had left she discovered the disappear
ance OF her Jewel. The men deny the
charge. but are prisoners in the West
SIDE Court Jail. owing to their inability
TO secure bail in the sum Of 81, 900 each.
Giles said to-day that the charge
against him was astuated by spite
s'Mrs, Shakespeare has not owned a
seven-hundred-dol:ar Jewel for many
years" he declared. IF she did II
would be In pawn. She has friend
who Is being sued for divorce, and she
Knows that / am the husbands best
witness. Mrs Shakespeare sent for me
and tried to persuade me not to appear
az witness. When I refused to make
any such promise she threatened that
she would fix me. didn't imagine she
would have the nerve to accuse me of
theft, but I'll make her regret this. ]
am very sorry for my friend Dunn.
met him While l was on my way to
Mrs. Shakespeare's. asked him to ac-
company me, and he has had forty
eight hours in jail as a suspected thief
In consequence
Five years ago Mrs. Shakespeare OBJ
taineti International no.oriety by eloplnE
to Europe with Sir" Henry onequi, a
palniist. who swindled victims In .his
city iout OF over s2oo.ooo and fed to
avoid arrest. He abandoned Mrs.
Shakespeare in Paris. and later was ar
rested in London for swindling a bar
maid and sent to prison for FIVE years
One year ago Mrs. shsKespeare's hus-
hand, James II. Shakespeare. who had
been ssleader Of the Philadelphia bar
died q paretic In Pennsylvania asy-
lum.i HIS friends say that his wife's
conduct wrecked his brilliant mind.
beginning of Romance.
Shakespeare was al the climax of his
professional career when Mrs. Natalie
Reinbardta a beautiful young widow,
went 70 Ms Once for legal advice. He
fell inEloye with her and they married.
They 1Ivedi in. fashionable apartments
and iMrss Ebakespesre, who came or
a p4oHainent fenilys 10 Tsiehmond. VA.
soon becanis PROMINENT In Philadelpf.. u
society. She found that city rather
dull, however, and moved to New York
where she occupied an expensive SUIT
at the Hotel Imperial. Later she took
an expensive fiat in the Sloane apart
ment house. at No. 40 West Thirty
second street. and then rented the fur
nisbede home of prominent actress
at No. 205 West Thirty-fourth street.
Shakespeare sent her an allowance OF
$l,o00 IA month and cume over from
Phiiadeiphia every, saturday to see her.
She gave expensive dinners at the WAL
doif and Imperial and was, attaining
social prominence when she fell under
the spell of the arch swindler, Onequi.
onequi wasTunning school OF palm.
? istry" and swindling his victims by tell
Ing them their hands indicated ap-
proaching wealth and then selling them
bogus mining stock. He gained complets
mastery of Mrs. Shakespeare and wen,
to livefin her home.
Had wife in England.
Thoug lad a wife and family In
England ...,T nad married a Miss Sadie
Crookss OF Lnicago, whose father was a
partner In one of Philip ID. Armour's en-
terprisss.. he took Mrs. Shakespeare L
Hoboken land married her. Shortly az
tArward his victims became too trouble
some and ne skipped the country.
He diped Mrs. Shakespeare Into &C.
oompanyins him. telling her that he
was going TO hds father's home in St
Petersburg 10 get the millions thai
awaited him there. When ne got 10
France he spent the money he had
taken from his American dupes al
Monte Carlo and then abandoned Mrs
Shakespeare and her son Leroy. OH,
pawned her jewels and returned to this
city.
Though he admitted that he was stil
infatuated with her. Shakespeare would
not take hAs wfc back. and shortly
brother had him paced in an asylum
Mrs. Shakespeare was not heard from
for several years. but last February
she Med a petition in bankruptcy. He
principal creditor was a dressmaker
She sWore at the time that she had nc
real or personal property and owned
nothing but wearing apparel valued a
A month later Shakespeare died II
the Friends Asylum, at Franklin. Pa.
Mrs. Shakespeare is still strikingly
handsome woman and, despite hel
statements in the Bankruptcy Court. Il
always exceedingly well dressed. At tn,
time of her husbands removal to an In
sane asylum she made a public state
ment. denying that her extravaganc,
and Indifference to him had wrecket
mis- mind. She sad that his brother hat
gone insane and that she was wealth,
when she met Shakespeare and had los
her fortune In taking care OF him Afte'
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