The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-10

Z Repaid 10 her husband in six
months ......-............ $500
Mrs. Cieberf's net profit. .$IO,9OO.I4
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ContentedIy residing at the county
jan while six wholesale millinery es-
Establishments strive to place charge
Of fraud against her name. Mrs Frieda
Giebert. motherly looking woman, 45
years of age. who for six months con-
Quoted "a millinery store al 969 Market
street under the name of Mrs. Frieda
Gilbert is chuckling at the thought Of
s10q00 that has rewarded her industry
during the last half year. The money
is thought TO be safel ystored in safe
deposit box. but, though private de-
tectives Swallowed the woman for two
days prior to her arrest, no one knows
where the safe deposit box is located,
and Mrs. Giebert swears she viii not
tell its whereabouts.
DEFIES CREDITORS
You can cut me into such small
pieces that they viii be hardly visible,
Mrs Giebert cheerfully informed Her
bert Phillips. secretary Of the HIM x
Landt. Inc. millinery house, yesterday,
but YOU won't find anywhere the secret
of where the strong box is.
Him. & Landt, Inc. the Simon MILL
merry supply company. the Holm milf
merry company. the Muller & Raas COM
panv. Holm & Nathan and the Beck
millinery company all mourn the day
that ushered Mrs. Giebert into their
sight For they supplied her retail
store with a stock that six months Of
active trade required to deplete, and
only Muller & Raas received any pay
for it, That firm was given 800 on
bin 81 Sl,297.
lost on THE RACES
Twice Mrs Giebert has appeared be
fore superior Judge George Cabaniss
since her store was attached by the
sheriff April % and she again will be
brought before him next Thursday
morning The wholesalers presented an
affidavit telling of their customers
course. and pleaded that an order for
her arrest be issued. This his honor
granted. and she is now in the county
Jail while opposing counsel argue
over the fine point concerned in the
sufficieucv of the affidavit charging Mrs
Ciebert with fraud. in that she con-
tracted her debts with no intention of
paying them
Mrs Giebert retorts that she did not
pay the millinery firms because she
could not; that she did not make any
great amount of money and lost this
while At the racetraclz, in an endeavor
to double her fortune.
Yet she refuses steadfastly to tell the
location Of the safe deposit box
The manner in which Mrs. Giebert
operated speaks the experience of a
mind familiar in every way with the
millinery trade. and the very method of
her business dealing lends some color
10 the statement that she has had sim
liar encounters in the east
SOUGHT 4 POSITION
1t was last summer that Mrs. Gle
hort Mrs V7riadH Arnold cha
informed the firm of Him. & Landt. ap-
peared in san Francisco and applied
for \ position as forewoman of de-
partment in some wholesale millinery
house. She told Him. & Landt that
she was recently from Paris and full of
original and French ideas in regard to
the manner of trimming headgear. But
the position was not forthcoming. and
tho woman disappeared for A time
In October she appeared again. this
time as Mrs. Frieda Giebert. having in
the meantime married Jacob Giebert, a
Pinkerton detective. Giebert said she
borrowed $4,000 from him to start her
millinery store. that she paid back 5000
and then, TO avoid his opportunities for
the balance. left him in April. The two
lived at the Elda hotel in Seventh
street
BILLS PARTLY PAID
But the store must be stocked, and
Mrs. Giebert, who called herself Gilbert
because she thought the name more
euphonious. called at the six well known
wholesalers and obtained goods totaling
in value about $4,000. All this stock
was paid for UP to the first Of this year,
presumably chiefly from Jacob Giebert's
$4,000.
Then on January 1 the era of non
payment began. The milIiner had es-
tablished a good reputation for hon
esty by her actions during the fall
months, and upon this she traded in
dustriously. From HIM & Landt she
Obtained goods to the value of 81 1925:
from the Simon millinery supply com
pany, S56e89 N millinery; from the
Holm millinery company, stock worth
s666.15: from Holm & Nathan, goods
valued at SS62.39; from Muller & Raas
hats and accessories worth 81 297; from
the Beck millinery company, material
priced at s202.Ss.
PAID IN PROMISES
Only to Muller & Raas was any pay
ment made, and this was but $40. The
other firms were smilingly promised
checks but these never arrived April
IS. the date of spring payment came,
but no funds accompanied the date.
Statements were sent around, and the
10 days Of grace allowed to elapse.
Then, April %, Mrs. Giebert became
suddenly III and was not at her store
The Beck millinery company had the
place attached, and April 30 the stock
was auctioned for $305. Experts esti-
mated its value at not more than $500
al the most.
What had become of the s5,o27.14
stOck2
$4,000 MISSING
The wholesalers say that Mrs. Giebert
sold it and pOcketed the money. They
say, ia the affidavit submitted, that the
average profit of the retail milliner on
goods bought is about 100 per cent. -
and that therefore $4,000 must have
been realized and disposed of some
where. They ask where, and wish they
could see that safe deposit box they
know exists.
Mrs. Giebert comes back with the
spirited statement that the stock sold