New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-08
DETAINED WOMAN TALKS
TELLS STARTLING STORY.
Oiled" after Isasuring Life for
81. 000-Mag Be Insane.

s,,r now that she is Mrs Caroline Fisher
Ms Caroline Farhome," who arrived here last
T7nesday i. the first cabin of the steamer Neckar
r-or, Naples, and who was subsequently detained
:. rgIis Island through cable advices from the
&c government, consented TO tell something
- herself to Commissioner Watchorn yesterday
AZ Ellis Island.
a, woman wiIted under q severe cross-examina-
- ard surprised the board of special inquiry ny
.aIo-fr- that she is the sister of the Rev. Dr..
~15,,,icl Fisher, rector of the Church of ST John
- T,iz-ine in London. She blamed him for all her
,,5ae5s but declined TO tell wherein ne was re
s,onsible for them. All through The examination
80 wore 8 heavy black vel, which she refused t"
remove.
sbA adhered closely at first to al the statements
he had made before the board last Wednesday, bu
-, her replies became inconsistent she broke
s.-n and declared that she would tell a stTalSAi-
s-ra-d story. She toId Commissioner Watchor"
~ her real name was Caroline Fisher, and th3
-, FOR T. 600 francs which she had given TO NJ
sonD the owner of the Park Hotel at Lucernc-
..e a forgery 1t was drawn Barclay & Co.
n London she met Mr.. Bonn later at Genoa. she
ia and taking pity on him returned 100 81
-o,id have turned over d larger sum- she SAID.
but I could not find it convenient TO give him
any more
After q close examination regarding her move
rnents IN London and Switzerland and a demand
n know why she came TO this country, the woman
declared that through her attorney in London she
had given out the statement that she was dead
Then she told Of having taken out a life insurance
-olicv for 1900 with the Royal Exchange Society
~ London with herself as beneficiary After com
rIa+i7g this transaction she made will bequeath-
ing Ler entire fortune to a Lady Fftzwilliam' OF
London who. she said, had befriended her on
many occasions.
q saw no harm in insuring myself" she said,
and giving it out that I was dead thought II
q Too6 way to clear myself Of debt Lady tItz-
william could pay my past Indebtedness and never
T sill al Before leaving SWlTZ-
GRAND I sent a cable message TO my attorney 10
announce that I had died.
Mrs.. Fisher also confessed TO the falsty OF the
statement she made yesterday saying that she
had forwarded a check of f4.00 from the PARK
Hotel al Lucerne 10 the Hotel Asto' OF this city.
The line of questioning was suddenly changed
and Mrs Fisher was asked who sh9 intendea TO
visit I? she were permitted TO land
II intended to visit Robert NcAdoo OF Yonkers,'
came the quick reply. I met him in Switzerland
and he invited me to visit him should I ever conTs
The frst emotion displayed by the woman who
throughout the inquiry had maintained a CAIN az
tItu5e was noticed when II was, suggested ina
her maid. Anna Pennington. would be sent pacA
40! win have it So she cried ifSl;n My Ii maid 7ja
must remain with me- She can return Win ., ne
when go back. met with accident some tliiie
sEo in which my side was severely burned ana Il
Is impossible for to dress without the assistance
,1 nay F5sber said that her maid had entered her
service at LUcerne through an employment as t
in London. and that the assumed name 81 iis
was not The maids fault -
Chancellor Herman Handrich, OF the SWISS con
r7,ete N this city. who was present at the near
ing said.that Mrs Fisher was the most dangerous
woman in Europe, and that she shoulo DC S0i'
- The woman is permitted TO land here" he
said 1T viii mean the recalling Of the SWISS con
sui general ..7- - q mar,
zrbo sald his name was SUn3meTyllie, AND VINO W4S
ore Of the party Of National Civic Federatl2n oeg-
gates who visited Ellis Island last HeoneSQas I1e
eT-99s-ea MAT he had given up engagements IN the
supreme Court IN NeW-York to appear to-day Tor
Mrs Fisher. -. -,
1t vas thought al Ellis Island yesterday that Jle
woman might be the notorious female swlnoieIs
Florence Meyers. After convincing the oOaIo oL
special inquiry that she was not the woman. Mrs
Fisher then admitted that she had known FloIsHce
Meyers some years ago. -,
The maid Anna Pennington. will be prop44Dls
sent back to her parents in England, who nave
written through the Travellers Aid Society OF Lon
don 70 have her fare paid -,
tralia where she can be away from her alles7 3
brother, the rector OF the Church or ST yohn Llle
Divine in London. Commissioner NaIchoIu De
iisves that the womans mind IS impaired