The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-11
AMERICAN FAMILY
MEETS TRAGIC END
Unhappy History OF Three Bril-
liant Chicago Girls in
Paris.
DEATH BRINGS REVELATIONS
Approaching Season Will Be a
Shakespeare Year at
Opera.
ny VANCE THOMPSON.

Especial Cable to The -Dispatcn.l
Paris, September 1o.--one daughter
lies buried in the Cemetery of Pere
la Chaise, a second daughter has been
twice shut up in hospital for NOR
phine fiends. and third is now Sc
questered with the object of getting
her locked up in a lunatic asylum
Such is the tragic end of three beauti-
ful and brilliant Chicago girls who
were brought over to Paris in ch>rge
of their mother, with the consent Of
their father, some dozen years ago.
Their names were Bebe. Anis and
Carrie Phibbs. the daughters OF DR..
end Mrs. John L.. Phibbs, then of Chs
cago. Later. DR.. Phibbs, retiring from
the practice of medicine, helped to
build UP the terraced city of Seattle
md made himself millionaire. His
children came to Paris to study music
Ind the modern languages. In order
that the three girls should run no dam
gers in European capitals, DR.. Phibbs
insisted that their mother should SUI
perintend their studies. Both in Paris
and Berlin these Chicago girls made
great progress in their studies and
took high position socially. Mrs.
Phibbs's musicales We're attended by
the smartest people of Paris and Ber-
lin. AS the girls were said to be rich.
they We're sought III marriage by the
best and worst to be found in Europe.
The eldest daughter had IAN affair
of the heart with young nobleman
and the end of it was for her grave
in the Pere la Chaise Cemetery,
stones throw from the tomb of Heloise
and Abelard. After her romance with
the scion of a French noble house, she
married a German naval constructor,
WHO was, l am told, u nephew of Oscar
Hainmerstein. the impresario She
died shortly after her marriage
Fntc of the Second Daughter.
girls was called married the - most esst
dashing Partisan Of his day. He bought
the first siNty-h horse. power automobile
ever made, and whirled Miss Bebe
through space. He literally swept the
whole family off their feet by his bril-
liancy. Later they learned to their
cost that his brilliancy was due to
drugs His name was Herr Carries, a
wealthy Austrian who was spending
his fathers fortune in Paris.
He married Bebe after two weeks
Of whirlwlnd wooing They went tc
Monte Carlo in his motor car and the
honeymoon cost 100000. During The
honeyInoon Carries taught his bride the
morphine habit. Both of them became
slaves to the drug They were the
they were locked up in asylums. The,
pawned their Jewels to buy drugs. This
girl is now divorced and is a physical
wreck.
The third of this tragic family was
Miss Carrie Phibbs. who is now MADAME
Claude Berton. the daughter-in- law OF
Pierre Berton, who wrote the once
famous play OF "Zaza." He recently
charged that Pierre Bertons wife tried
to poison her. 1t Is well known af-
fair which is now being investigated
by the French criminal authorities.
\ Prisoner by the Sea.
But what is not known is that at
a prisoner in the house of her hus-
band. the Villa Antoinette at Saint
Brevin. on the Normandy coast The
alleged attempt to poison her was
i33lled, y Is said. by the vigilance OF
that they had seen her mother-in law
place poison in her food and drink
The ,Bertone declare She is mad. and
she is now Kept prisoner. The next