The evening world., 1911-09-23
SOCIETY GIRL HELD
FOR BUYING F|NERY
IN NAME Of FRIEND
Pretty Yonkers Miss Seeks Re-
lease Here to Face Theft
Charge at Home.
IS ARRESTED IN STORE.
Engaged to Aviator and Had to
Have Nice Clothes Mother
Wouldn't Provide.
is ARRESTED IN STORE.

Miss Dorothy Palmer. the pretty nine
teen-year-old Yonkers society girl who
IL charged with obtaining goods by
fraud from the Altman store in Fifth
avenue. was tearfully engaged early to-
day In trying to think of the name OF
somebody who would bail her out OF
Jefferson Market Prison so she could
go back to Yonkers to be tried for
stealing H.o5 from one of her mothers
boarders.
Though the Palmers have excellent
social standing in Yonkers. they have
been In somewhat straitened circum-
stances since the death of the girls
father. c. b. +. Palmer. who died OF
his injuries after he was sandbagged
n robbed in Canal street five years
ago. He was secretary to the late
president Walker of the Santa Fe.
In an effort to define her social po-
sition to a reporter of The Evening
World to-day Miss Palmer gave the
remcs OF the following persons as in
timate acquaintances OF her family:
Miss Edith Haas. Mrs. Eugene Clark,
Mrs. Ransom w. Diedrick. Howard
Skinner, manufacturer of aeroplanes;
Harold Bart,ia and John Brady, both
prominent In lonkers politics, and
John ]. Sloane. w. II. Palmer. the
young woman'- brother, is an cleo
trical engineer Cor the New York Gem
trail.
DIDN'T THINK LOVELLS WOULD
CARE IF SHE PAID BILL.
THE Altman people say I took from
them more than $40. which l had
charged to the account of Mrs. john
X. Lowell. who used to be our next
door ~neighbor. That Is exaggeration.
did have about s2l worth OF goods
charged to Mrs. Lowell. l meant to
10 in and pay for them before the bill
was sent to her. I had the feeling that
II the Lovells found it outthey wouldn't
mind so long as the bill was paid.
you see / had to nave nice clothes.
I am very fond of a young man up
IA Yonkers who Is an aviator and am
practically engaged to him-though I
D II will all be broken off now.
No, I won't tell his name. Everybody
WHO knows me knows. It's not the
business Of anybody else"
IL simply had to a nice things My
mother has never lone anything except
to give me a place to sleep and feed me
and l couldn't so about with the people
w know up there looking shabby"
II have sent for Mr.. william H..
Porter, who is In the office of J. p.
Morgan and Company. and Herber.
K. Twitchell. vice president of the
Chemical National Bank. They were
both classmates OF my father at Mid
diebury College. Vermont. But / have
not heard from either of them yet.
ARRESTED WHEN SHE BOUGHT
SHOES IN STORE.
The arrest of Miss Palmer at the
store followed a checking up OF the
Lowell bill by Mrs. Lowell. She found
herself charged with things she had
never bought and asked the store to
put detectives on the case. Yesterday
the salesgirl, to whom Miss Palmer
gave the name OF Mrs. Lowell In buying
a ak dollar pair of shoes, sent word to
John +. Larkin. detective OF the house.
and she was arrested.
The charge against the girl IN Yonkers.
she says, amounts to nothing. She bOr-
rowed $l.05 from the family boarder and
when she was not able to repay It
promptly was charged with stealing It.
John X. Lowell. whose wife's COM
plant started the charge against Miss
Palmer, Is employed In the claim de-
partment of the New York Central.
He visited the girl in prison yesterday
and told her he couldn't understand
now she could nave used his wife's
name, but that he would try to help
h>r ont OF her trouble.