The sun., 1915-07-21

salary and more recently. adding
another promise to present him with sl.-
100000 outright as soon as she received
her fortune because OF his "kindnesses
90 her in loaning her from time to time
che money he now claims Is due
At the Hotel Msrseille II was said last
night that beginning with June last
Q woman from time to time came to the
hotel and registered at Mrs. II. Flag
Ter. ". Y" She usually remained at
the hotel only a day or two and then
disappeared with her baggage, of which
she had a great deal
"She appeared to be about 40 years
old and was IA blond. II | remember
correctly" the clerk al the hotel said
'She hasn't been here for a week or two
but she was expected to register here to-
night"
Her story of Marriage.
Henry " Flagler of the Standard Oil
and builder of Florida Sailroads I am
his third wife" the woman, who was not
blond haired but of a grayness that was
almost white and who owned to hfty in
stead of forty years. told the reporters
after her arrest
"Mr Flagler's first wife. who was .
Miss Hardness, died. the prisoner con-
tinued. Then his second wife. who
WAS Miss Ida Shrouds. became insane.
Special legislation was passed and un-
der the new law Mr.. Flagler divorced
his second wife.
81 was married to Mr.. Flakler June
~. 1899. which was after his divorce
Mr.. Flagler and ! lived together for
year and four months and we then
separated. ] know. of course. that at
present there is . Mrs. Flagler. widow
Of Henry NJ. Flagler. but as Mr.. Flag
Ter never divorced me--in fact, he told
me so himself after his fourth mar
riage-1 am therefore his lawful widow"
There are discrepancies I'm some of
tho prisoners statements. She said. for
example. that she married Mr.. Flagler
IN 1899 after he had divorced Ida
Shrouds." Mr.. Flager got his divorce
from Mrs. Ida Shrouds Flagler. accord
ing to newspaper files. more than two
years after the date on which the pris-
oner says she was married to him The
Flagler-Ida Shrouds divorce decree was
announced from Florida by telegraph on
August Is, 1901.
Furthermore the Mrs. F'lagler arrested
last night said that Henry NJ Flagler
had the special legislation passed in
Washington and was divorced there
for divorce" The Flagler divorce in
question was obtained in Florida under
Q then recently enacted Florida statute
Warrant Out since May.
The woman became hysterical when
arrested shortly before . o'clock in the
evening in drug store at East Fifty
eighth street and First avenue. She
nrOtQSta1 "A nf mr.
the outrage" as she called 1t.
The compla inant. Mahoney, came 10
the Second Branch Detective Bureau at
o'clock In the evening and said that
he knew where woman whose arrest
he had been asking for some time might
he found and he requested that de-
tective accompany him.
Some time last May. the police say, a
warrant was issued for the woman's ar
rest by Magistrate Ten Eyck at Ma
moneys request. The detective who
had the warrant with him last night
still unserved was out on another Ease
Detective William II. Van Twistern was
therefore sent with Mahoney last night.
The prisoner was found at the First
avenue drug store waiting for a woman
friend. as Mahoney had told the police
she would be. According to the Head
quarters blotter Detective Van Twistern
Second
Branch Detective Bureau II was said
that the arrest was made virtually by
the complainant and that Detective Van
Twlstern merely had accompanied Ma
honey to see that there was no breach
of the peace.
Complainant Tells Of Loans.
~On April last" Mahoney, the DO
haf hay
n detective with him last night while
] was working as "A telephone operator
at 10 Dey street, this woman came in
and said she wanted to talk over the
Jong distance to her brother. Charles
Howe. In Pittsburg.
''When she finished talking she sud
denly said that she had not sufficient
money with her to pay for the call
Then she told mo she was the widow If
Henry Flagler of the Standard OIL At
her request ! lent her s35 on that first
touch.
''Then on May 7 she engaged me as
her secretary on a promise OF paying
me $4,000 year and present me with
S1,000,000 outright AZ soon as she came
into the SIS, ,000. 900 which she said
would soon be hers out of her late hus-
band estate. ! fell for her touches
NJ various times after that until I had
lont neT TWO months tS,tJO.
Most of the money ] handed over to
her In parlor at the Waldorf. The
largest amount ! ever lent her n tanv
one time was 1915. I've never got any
Of II back
"Why, all this Is outrageous cried
he woman when told that she was ar
rested on "A grand larceny charge. Even
after Mr.. Flagler and | separated he
provided for me, and there is no doubt
hat ] would soon come into the fortune
7 am entitled 10. The first thing
would have done would have been to pay
his man here who now has me ar
ested any money thought due him.
ITS only six weeks ago that turned
over s250,000 IN Florida railroad stocks
o Daniel Leroy Dresser. who killed
himself the other day, to convert into
tash for me. After Mr.. Flagler and
/ parted he gave me 325O.O00 In cash
and the $250,000 in stocks. the same
iailroad stocks ] turned over to Mr..
Dresser TO sell for me