The evening world., 1908-10-02
CHAMBERMA|D'S
TRUNK HID JEWELS
WORTH $4,000
Miss Elizabeth Chalmers, off
Duty, Dazzled Theatres
and Restaurants.
DEMURE BEFORE GUESTS
Got Her Wardrobe at the Mar
ragansett and Imperial
Hotels.
DEMURE BEFORE GUESTS

The Hotel Narragansett, at No 25oS
Broadway, likes its servants to be neat
and we'll dressed. but when Elizabeth
Chalmers, one of tho chambermaids
elossomed out two weeks aEo in a rose
colored Directoirc gown. gray suede
shoes and silk stockings, and hat
with what looked like the Years rro-
duct OF an ostrich farm blooming and
waving on II. not to speak of 1ewelry.
with which she glstencd like an cleo
ton parade, the management expert
enced a mild wonderment as TO where
she got It.
\ watch Vas placed upon the move
rlents OF Miss Chalmers and hotel do
tectves ira ed her every night They
saw her sc, into ;axlcabs and ride down
30 the theatre district. Their chase led
them into theatres and restaurants
where Miss Chalmers WAS escorted hv
young man aS well dressed n herset
At ordering VI IS Chalmers was a
wonder said the detectives and III.
check didn't seem to bother her escort
= bit. When II came Miss Chalmers
Just slipped him some; hing the detcc-
tives say was Vol. Of money while the
waiter was figuring the hill before pre-
serting it with a flourish. Then back 20
the hote! came Elizabeth. the same re-
spect,ul maid with downcast eyes ana
meek manner II another sunse. brought
her release from her toll
Mrs. Gurshee's Lost Jewels.
A few days ago Mrs. Edward Gurshee
who is a guest at the hotel, lost some
Jewels worth about secs She worried
about 1t a good deal and she spoke 10
Elizabeth who did" her room. about
IL Elizabeth's great hazel eyes opened
wide when she heard of Mrs. GursheHs
loss.
"Oh, ma am. who could have done !t?"
she asked.
Mrs. Gurshee couldn't help it. She
confessed that for a fceting moment
she had thought 1t might have been
Elizabeth Perish the thought. said
Mrs Gurshee as E!izabc;h's expressive
optics filled with tears as large as the
pearls in Mrs. Gurshee's missing brace
let.
The hotel people, however thought OF
Elzlbeth's W ndertul tinery and sum
mpned Detective Lieut.. COnrOv from the
branch detective bureau. Conroy went
70 the young womln's room last night
while she was n The theatre and broke
open her trunk. What he found there
would have stocked q small jewelry
store and had the makings OF a pre.en-
tous lace and hlmy uNdo sarment shop.
All the stun In the humble working
girls trunk was worth $1,000, and much
of It was recognized IS having been
missed from rooms If the %arragan-
set;'s guests during Elizaheth's month
Of service there. The visits Of Eliza
beth had been profitable ones.
Then She Confessed.
when Elizabeth entered ne. room
after midnight with swish OF her
sllken skirts, h.r tall. hiless-curSette
form swayed as she saw the detective
and the open trunk. Then she broke
down and told Il MI. She said she had
been ut the Imperial before She came 70
there revealed that Elizabeth he'd taken
much fine ra!m"at. and jewcIrv while
she wa. working there
In the West Side Court today the
young woman's slender figure was
draped in what the fashion writer's call
an exquisite creation of blue something
or other that the lady probation officer
said must have cost at least $40, but
Elzaheth's little snuS nose was red and
MagiS rate Ste merit held her N Sl,m1
bail for fur. her examinaticn Tomorrow
when the detectives nTOm. sed To nave
moro evidence against her than tho
robbery of Mrs. GurShoo. The want 10
md the escort too, as they think he
NAV know something about the where
wlthal thai paid for the theatres and