The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-03
YEARNED TO Be A PRIMA DONNA
so SHEGAIE 4 CHANCE MET VOICE
CULTITATOR ALL she had.
Money. Jewelry. Furniture and Dresses
Got Look al the Metropolitan From
the Outside, Three Worthless Receipts
and Inc Line OF Promises I'm Return.

How Sherlock Holmes suddenly changed
his job from detective to voice oultivatol
and made the change profitable was OK
I planned in the Tenderloin police station
last night. Incident to the explanation
they locked up Mr., Holmes, otherwise
Hunter Dc Bowler. on a charge of grand
larceny made by Mrs Clara Bastian, the
/ wife of sculptor in Havana. Cuba.
/ Mrs, Bastian il ambitious to shine In
I opera. She went to Paris to study, she
says, and last October came here She
! then had more or less money, jewelry ano
clothing. Soon after her arrival she hao
occasion to go TO the Post Office, and In
the corridor she was approached by De
Bower, who discerned that she was seek.
| ing job
i asked him how he knew that said
| Mn. Bastian "and he told me he was d
! great detective. Then became interested
In him, He said he had unravelled some
! OF the greatest mysteries of the world
and had one on hand thon in which he
| needed the assistance Of a woman
After many conversations and meetings
he took her downtown TO an Office In Nassau
street and instructed her TO hand package
of papers to a man seated at u desk. He
explained that he was thus serving papers
on one OF the principals in his celebrated
case. She gave the man the papers and lie
said Thank you
when We left there said Mrs has
tian Mr. De Borier asked me how
much money | had and spoke about
taking me into partnership with him.
He said he had stable Of valuable horses
in Sheepshead Bay and they would be lost
II he didn't get money pretty quick. He
needed 5000. / said | wished had that
much TO lend him.
THAT day | told him | didn't think
was cut out to be a detective, and it was
my ambition 20 become a great singer
instead
Oh he said, now YOU have spoken
OF that, will confess to YOU something that
has been great secret. lam great singer.
sing only in Italian, because English will
ruin any good voice. Now, will tutor YOU.
and in short time you will be spoken OF as
is Nine Sembnch or Nine. Eames"
She was then living in furnished room
in West Ihirty-eghth street He went
there to teach her singing. The method
was 20 make her shout and MARBLE while he
criticized. lie said he had the quickest
ear in the world, and she believed him
because he found so many mistakes in he
singing
~One day the woman continued. -he
said he needed $40 quick. and OF course.
l gave it to him. | got a receipt in Italian.
A few days later he said he was in trouble
at his hotel The proprietor wanted him
to pay his bill He showed her a letter
which said that when a certain deal was
closed in few days $500 would be mailed
TO him. | gave him $3.50, all the money
/ had got another of his Italian receipts.
After several lessons he said / was
getting along nicely, but as | was soon
to become prima donna l ought to
occupy more spacious apartments. Then
he said there was hitch in the deal in
which he was 10 get his money and he needed
ready cash. He advised me to pawn my
jewelfy We went together to Sixth
avenue pawnshop and got S450 on my
jewels. / turned over 500 to him and
he gave me another receipt
TO show how operu stars wera engaged
he took me to the metropolitan 0psra
House. He told me 10 stand outside while
he went in and talked 10 Conried. | stood
outside and ne soon came out and showed
me blank contract Then ut my room
he filed out the blank part to show me how
it was done. He wrote on it.
Mn. Clara Bastian agrees TO bring
her own music. bring her own maid and
sing at three performances n week at a
contract price Of 81 500 each night
Then he spoke again about moving
10 more spacious apartments. You want
TO live in a studio he said On his ad-
vice | took rooms on the third floor Of EOS
Sixth avenue. He said | needn't take any
furniture, IA the studio was furnished, so
| gave him my furniture and curtains and
other things 10 sell moving van came
and took them away. He told me he got
500 for the things and would give me the
money later.
HE also got me TO dispose Of some of my
dresses which he said We're Of no use TO
me, as | was soon to become great sin ger.
All this time he had been giving me lessons
and telling mo how | was improving.
Finally. when | hadn't a penny left, no
clothes TO wear and was existing a best |
could, he told me he couldn't waste his time
on me any longer, ana left me
She appealed to the police then and
Detective Sergeant Rheaume was sent after
DE Bower The detective soon found that
the man didn't live az hotel but occllpied
a two room fat at 10? West Fortieth street /
with his wife. He had evidently found
the life Of a music teacher profitable, for /
he had recently got other pupils. one of ,
hem a Young girl, whose father expected I
great things of her. The father had been |
inducedEto advance De Bowler 500 on the !
pawn ticket for Mrs Rastan's jewelry
de Bowler had also got $50 more from the z
puHuDTohtis
Rheaume was about to arrest Dc Bower
when Mrs Bastian called proceedings off. |
explaining that her teacher had made up |
her losses
Last night she went TO the Tenderloln /
station and said that De Bowler had merely
promised 10 make good and hadn't
I'm nearly starved said the woman
That man has robbed me Of all had ]
have been deserted Toy all my friends and
| have been living on 10 cents day all
week
Detectives brennan and McIvor found
De Bowler hiding in his bathroom. He
vas indignant about his arrest
This il all a great mistake he repeated
over and over again. He is youthful.
la k eyed and has n lovely mustache
Mrs. Bastian charges him with having
got $500 IN cash out Of her She says her
.otal losses arc about 5000 One OF the
receipts De Bowler gave her reads when
translated
In return payment for the amount ire
,eived When Mrs. Clara Bastiau has be-
zone an accomplished singer and il fl f.. 4
he operate stage ! will secure for her
good saaTied position.
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