The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-29
ALMOST STAR, SHE
TURNS ON TEACHER
OeIuded New York Woman
Tells the Court All of
Her Troubles
A PROMISE UNFULFILLED
DIAMONDS" STAGE INSTRUCT
OR TOLD HER-sUT THE GEMS
FAILED TO ARRIVE.

New York. Aug. 2S.-"And had
wine on the ice and hot birds in the
kitchen for them. but when l saw he
didn't have my 1900 diamond ring On
l just went all to pieces. and l guess
I said damn to him and ordered him
and his friend out of the house"
yes. she did that" said Bessie. the
maid. And when he turned to me
and said, Don't / look honest, Bessie p
l just let him have it. and said. I've
seen many a burglar with an honester
face than yours and he couldn't say
anything to that"
Thus, amid tears and sobs. ended a
recital by Mrs. Charles A Ryan and
Bessie. the maid. of Mrs. Ryan's trou-
bles with Hunter de Bowler, who was
held in the West Side court by Magis-
| trate O'Connor in $4,000 bail on a
charge of defrauding Mrs. Ryan of 81 :
her second Bernhard
| "'Stick to me and you'll wear dia-
monds,' was his motto" said Mrs.
Ryan. land l stuck all right, but it was
he who wore the diamonds, when he
didn't pawn them. Now, please don't
ask me to say any more. for l am so
flustered l can hardly think
1T was this way" said Bessie. the
maid. determined that nervousness
should not suppress the account of
mans deception and woman's guile
lessness. He told her he would star
her in a play called "The United
States Cigar" and that if she made a
hit it would be worth $4,000 to her
And it would. too, if she had appeared
in tights" added Bessie, the maid.
Vision Of Big Profits.
Mrs. Ryan, her confusion getting the
better of her nervousness. "He talk
ed about that only at first. 1t was as
Lady Julia in 'Pompeii,' at $3.50 a
week, that l was to make the big hit,
but before we woke up he gave me a
vision of not having to appear on the
vulgar stage at all and drawing half
the big profits We were to make. for
just travelling with the company"
There wouldn't have been any
trouble If my husband hadn't tied uD
his money in an annuity" explained
Mrs. Ryan. when we sold our house
at 325 Maitland avenue Brooklyn he
gave me half what he got for it, and
put my money into jewelry thinking
could save it better that way. We
moved up to 172 West Ninth
street, Manhattan, and there l began
to wonder what l would do if my hus-
band died. l thought of the theatrical
business and was directed to De Bou-
vier as a man who would put me in
right.
He surely did. First he got $1,000
for expenses, and l spent another 500
on tights and things. Then he got
some more. and finally gave him my
81 800 diamond ring to make a flash
with as he put it, but he pawned it
for 5000.
Wanted Furniture Mortgaqed.
That's where l drew the line, that
and when he tried to get me to mort
gage my furniture"
While Mrs. Ryan was nursing her
wrath and telling her troubles in her
apartment at 40 West Forty-Third
| street, De Bowler, who lives at the
Hotel Woodstock in West Forty-third
street was trying to raise $500 bail.
He assured the magistrate Mrs. Ryan
was in partnership with him and had
given him the jewelry to raise money
for their mutual advantage, but when
| he failed to produce partnership pa
pers the magistrate cut him short He
had other papers signed by Mrs. Ryan
the nature of which she said she did
did not know.
81 signed anything he asked me to-
she declared. Il cannot explain it,
unless he had a hypnotic influence
over me. 1 only recently came from {.
sanitarium, and don't always know
| what I am doing"
Mrs. Ryan's husband. who lives at
/ the Catholic club, declined today to
comment on her trouble with De Bou-