The San Francisco call., 1904-11-19
EntertailS Actress
on Very Costly
Scale.
BUYS AN AUTOMOBILE
Friends Plead That Young
BOOkke0p0T'S Mind Is
Not Right.

Miss Fanny NJ. Colby, bookkeeper.
found sher stipend Of $50 a month in
sufficient for giving theater and auto
mobile parties at a pace that wns
lavish and she gave way TO the tempta-
ton OF making inrOads on the funds
that were entrusted TO her care by her
employers. Private detectives now
have her under surveillance while Le-
carl, Para & Company, commission
merchants at AS Davis street, where
the young woman has been a trusted
employe for four years. are having
their books exported TO learn the
amount Of the shortage.
Louis Lecari, the head OF the firm,
refuses to talk OF the matter, for he
hopes that Miss Colby's mother will
make good any loss IL he will not
prosecute the daughter. and II was for
this reason that he engaged private
detectives. But Charles Lecari, a
son, declares that during the past
fourteen months the bookkeeper has
appropriated at least $1,000 This
il regarded as an unreasonable esti-
mate however.
Miss CoIby's friends. among whom IS
Supervisor John COnnor, declare that
she is not mentally responsible for what
she has done. They say she seemed
to be possessed with a strange infatua-
ton for Dorothy Morton, who was the
leading woman at F1schers and who
left for Los Angeles last evening to
take the place Of Isadore Rush in the
Glittering Gloria Company. It appears
that 1t was Miss Colby who sent many
Of the costly floral offerings that were
nightly handed over the footlghts TO
the actress Night after night the
bookkeeper purchased a box at a cost
of IS. She gave theater parties sup
pers and automobile trips on a lavish
scale, and her hand was more than free
with money.
MADE PRESENT OF AUTOMOBILE
It is understood that Miss Colby
never revealed her humble occupation
70 those she entertained almost regally-
Her particular object on every occasion
was to entertain Mrs. Conger. whose
stage name Is Miss Morton. The ac-
tress was invariably the guest OF honor
and the good things were shoWered
1lpou her. Many dollars were expended
for candles Of the choicest sort There
were gifts Of this and OF that. and Miss
Morton had found a friend whose kind
lv attentions were most surprising. And
to can the climax, Miss Colby pur-
chased an automobile for s1700 and pre-
sented 1t as a gift TO Miss Morton
Miss Morton has been preparing to
take the machine with her 70 Los An
sti1I 5000 due on 1t and Lercari, Pera &
60. viii also have a claim against IL.
Miss Colby was in hiding last night
and stanch friends whose sympathy
has been aroused rather than cOnden--
nation We're helping her to keep out or
the way. Several kilograms were sent
bv Miss Colby to her mother in Los
Angeles yesterday TO come 70 TINS elty-
ADMITS THE SHORTAGE
Il admit that there IS something
wrong with the accounts, was Hiss
Colby's answer TO her employers a
what has become OF the money!"
Il don't know" and then she tossed
her head as il she were bored very
much
But when the detectives were
brought into service in the hoe that
they might recover some OF the missing
money Miss Colby made denial OF be-
ing short in her accounts II have
made any mistakes she said, and the
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