Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-29

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there seemed 10 be no getting at it. During
the ensuing litigation to break the viii. the
love Of Rosie and young Mortimer began 10
sour and finally curdled completely in 1892
she obtained Florida divorce in that year.
1t is well known fact that twins fire.
quently suffer from the same diseases the
case of Martha and Marjorie Hines. identicals
OF Philadelphia being an outstanding example
All through childhood they were subject to
simultaneous sieges of Group chicken box.
measles and so forth.
One year both got tonsilitis. went 10 the
hospital together identical temperatures
and were finally discharged on the same day
Next year 1t was mastoids and again their ex-'
perences conceded, even TO the scars which
AFTER the operations, assumed identical shapes
Much the same sort Of thing seems to have
happened to the Dolly sisters only IL was bad
luck they snapped instead of disease-the bad
luck Of Rosie's experience with Mortimer
And there was one other difference. Jennv
caught IT In much more serious form than
her sister did; in fact it proved to be chronic
with her, like malaria
She fell in love with an Italian youth
young enough to be her son, whose one desire
IL was said was not Jenny but Jenny's million
dollars worth Of jewelry.
According TO Cholly Knickerbocker. the So
man and party of Italian friends abducted
Jenny and the car in which she was being
uriVen along at 70 miles an hour crashed
against tree near Bordeaux France
she emerged from the accident with severe
internal Injuries and badly mutiated face
Her Italian abductors then demonstrated the
same kind OF humanity which has of late char
acter1zed the behavior of the italian dictator
10 silence her cries OF pain and anguish. thew
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in filthy hut y
1t was Rosie who after moving heaver
ana earth, finally found her and set her free
she bore little resemblance to the dash
ing be-Jeweled figure that was the toast OF
Farls few years earlier" Mr.. Knickerbocker
says. Her shocked sister hurried her off N
vienna for series of plastic operations in
the hope Of restoring at least some portion
OF her good looks of happier days"
But there was greater problem than
damaged looks-drugs.
SO persistently had poor Jenny been given
habit-forming drugs by her captors that il
was necessary to send her away for a cure
Her fortune in Jewels was found beneath
pile of rubbish in the house where she had
been kept prisoner but, when she recovered
from the operations on her face and emerged
from the cure, Jenny was to meet with still
more mirfortune-" this time at the hands NJ
the French Government, which also has not
been distinguishing itself in the humane lin.
lately
1t undertook to finish what the italian.
had begun, swooped down on the unfortunate
Jenny and claimed fantastic amount OF duty
and taxes on the jewels she had just recovered
There was but little Jenny could do" Mr.
Knickerbocker concludes but let them be
sold at auction to pay off the claims And.
as there was some sort CT chicanery among
the government officials, Jennys great gem
collection was knocked down for prices that
barely paid the claims $500 leaving little or
nothing for her"
Meanwhile, Rosie had acquired a new hus-
band, Irving Netcher. wealthy Chicago mer-
chant This was stroke of good luck. and
she did her best 10 make restitution by pass-
ing 1t along TO her afflicted sister nursing her
tenderly and even, in one of the darkest hours.
swearing to disfigure herself so that, IL Jenny's
beauty could not be restored they would still
resemble each other
For a while her efforts seemed TO have
been successful. With two little girls she had
adopted from Vienna orphanage and as the
only visible evidence of her misadventures a
slight scar on one cheek. Jenny returned 10
this country and began TO move again i'm the
same orbit as Rosie
The latter was married to a rich Chicagoan
therefore the former married a rich Chicagoan.
Bernard W. Whisky, an attorney. To all
appearances their identicalness had been re-
established. But hidden deep in Jenny the
germs of her long spell of i'll luck may have
remained, becoming active again on the after
noon she telephoned her aunt and then twisted
the heavy draperies around her neck.
Though the report Of Rosie's prostration
does not suggest 1t, it is just possible that
coming now the tragedy will affect her less
than IT would have done few years ago.
before the glittering cosmopolitan world OF
which she and Jenny were two Of the rarest
ornaments had fallen to ruin
The daily papers. which have been pitilessy
recording the death Of everything she knew
and loved and stood for. may have so injured
her 10 grief by this time that she will be able
to bear this last greatest blow