Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-21
HELD A PRISONER
BY HIS F|ANCEE
American Millionaire Is Duped
by Pretty Paris Model He
Planned to Marry.
CHAINED IN BARN 7 MONTHS
Meanwhile Samuel Slater's
Housekeeper and Chauffeur
Lived in Luxury.

For seven months, shackled by
dog collar and heavy chain in the
barn of the French estate which he
had rented at the request OF pretty
Paris manneQuin whom he intended
to make his wife. kicked. beaten and
starved into signing checks for large
amounts by this woman and his chauf-
feur, Samuel Slater, eccentric Amerl-
can millionaire, paid the price OF his
nfatuation for the model. He was
freed only when the rustic who had
guarded him durinT that time, under
the impression that he was a ma MAC.
talked of his charge in the village
while under the influence Of liquor
In telling his story. however, the peas
ant embellished II with the statement
that his prisoner was German spy.
and this aroused the interest OF the
superintendent of police who searched
the chateau and liberated the Amer
lean.
Samuel Slater's life for many years
has been one OF almost fictional ro-
nance, and this was the third time in
twenty years that he had been duped
by woman. More than two decades
ago, while walking thru the great
wooden mills of his brother at Web
ster, Mass, he noticed among the l, 200
girls employed there one who seemed
TO him to be above her surroundings.
He took her away. educated her and
later they were married. Soon, how
ever, the millgirl bride had her hus-
band adjudged insane and committed
to an asylum. from which he escaped
and sought haven in Europe. On the
steamer which carried him across he
met a woman whom he married soon
after their arrival in London. They
went from England to Monte Carlo.
and there he separated from the sec
and Mrs. Slater after her filtration
with a young British officer
Just before the war in Europe start
ed, Slater, while on fleeting trip to
America. employed Andy Bissaye a
Swiss. as his chauffeur The influence
OF the Swiss over his eccentric en-
ployer soon became apparent and rap
idly grew until soon Slater was sub
ordinate to his servant in his own
household.
one day shortly after war was de-
clared Slater, strolling alone thru the
Rue de la Paix. noticed a beautiful
diamond lavallere in the window of
n teweler He stepped inside to price
| II. remarking to the jeweler that he
didn't intend to buy it. but II 1t had
been shown him by pretty shopgirl
he might have bought II and given it
TO her.
Manncquin Becomes n HOusckccpcr.
Come back tomorroH and the pret-
| tiest girl in Paris will wait on you,"
responded the ieweler.
The next day Slater returned and
met Aimee Roosmale- Nepveu, who
told him she was of Dutch birth. but
that her father had committed suicide
following the failure of his tulip crop
the year before and that her mother
| had died from the shock. She had
come to Paris to earn her living as
model, she said.
An engagement for dinner was
made. and the following night. when
the model lifted the serviette from
! her plate she found beneath 1t the
| 20, 0,000-franc lavalliere. After she had
thanked him, Slater, who had been
coached by Biscaye the night after
| his first meeting with the girl, asked
her to become his housekeeper. She