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A New Cassle Chadwick. Vtejnan Found Poisoned in New York Apartment Had Many Names ; and Posed as FrienrJof Great Personages j ' Who Say They Knew Her Not. Facing the prospect of Imprisonment for contempt of court, process servers and angry bill collectors crowding in upon her from every direction, bereft of her livened servants and literally at the end of her rope, a beautiful wo rorm who called herself Mrs. .John iVan Ness Roberts and Mrs. Catharine Stuyvesant Roberts, but who is said to have beeu none other than Louise (Vermeide, alleged shoplifter, died of poisoning in her elegant apartnieuts at 227 Riverside drive. New York. For several months she had been "tehlud In her rent, it is said, and to ward the last she was afraid to ven ?ire out on account of duns and proe ss servers. Considerable mystery surrounds the circumstances of the woman's death. She had been ill for some time of a weak heart and had been attended by Dr. Edward Peterson of G7 West Six ty-eighth street, who had been pre scribing strychnine tablets. Belle Ken nedy, the maid, the only one of the woman's retinue of servauts left in her directory of Harvard graduates failed to discover any oue of that name. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish says she uever kuew tile woman who posed as her friend. It was also said that while acting in a business capacity for the Mutual Life Insurance company she so Im pressed the officers of the concern wit!) the story that she could greatly in crease Its business through her wide ac quaintanceship with prominent mem bers of society that she secured ad vances on her commissions to the amount of $o.?"00. For eight months she drew f>."0 a week as ber salary and in that time never earned a commis sion. Her clever tongue won the con fidence of (he hard headed business meu who were officers of the insurance company. In getting her position as insurance solicitor she said that she was related 4o the Stuyvesant family, thai she was a cousin of Stuyvesant Fish, that she had gone to school with the two daughters of the late Senator Fair, now Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Jr.. and Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs. and 6HE WAS AFRAID TO VENTURE OUT BECAUSE OF PROCESS SERVERS. employ, told the coroner she bad seen her mistress take as many as six of the strychnine pellets at one time. The attending physicians said this might account for her death. , After}funeral services at the Church of the Holy Name the dead woman's body was taken to Long Island City. The stories told by the woman's friends and acquaintances reveal her as a worthy rival of Cassle Chadwick. Colonel Robert J. Haire. who was counsel for Louise Vermeule when she was arrested, tried aud acquitted on account of her extensive operations among dry goods merchants in New York city in 1S97, said: "Some time after llie acquittal of the Vermeule woman I met her on the Street, and she told me she was pass ing under the name of 'Mrs. Johu Van Kess Roberts' and 'Mrs. Catharine Stuyvesant Roberts.' Both names were that she had two policies about to be concluded for $50.000 and $100,000 which she would take to the Mutual. At tbe Mutual Life offices Mrs. Roberts is remembered as a "woman of mar velous personality." It was said there that she possessed the ability to tell the most convincing stories, but she brought forward a mythical seeker after insurance, obtained $150 on a note on the strength of that aud her connection with the company ended. Mrs. Roberts showed one of her friends a gold cigarette case which she said E. H. Harriman bad sent as a girt to her. She attended Prince Henry's ball, where only a handful of (he elect were present. When she met Prince Louis, according to a man who was present on the liagsblp Drake, she talked to him as if she knew him well, and It was said at the time by the prince, says this friend, that he had purely fictitious, nor had the woman.{ met "Mrs. Roberts" in London. so far as I ever knew, the slightest relationship to the Stuyvesants tnaiden name was Mabel Tinley. She was born In Philadelphia aud became the wile of Richard W. Roelofs. Her Bon by Roelofs Is now with his father In Cripple Creek, Colo." Mrs. Roberts appeared in the New York City Social Register, the blue book of the elite, as Kalherine Stuy vesant. She was well known In ex clusive circles and was a guest at the famous ball on the flagship of Prince touls of Battenberg. On that occa sion, it Is said. General James Grant .Wilson was her escort. She claimed to be an intimate friend of the Grants, und en her table were found the visit ing cards of General Frederick Dent Grant and Lieutenant General Corbin. Photographs of General Grant. Priuce fCantaeuzene. General Miles and other Eminent men were found in her rooms. Mrs. Roberts often stated that Jacob Riis. President Roosevelt's friend. \jfwas executor of her mother's will and Jfcad Treated her badly. Mr. Riis de Sclareu be never even heard of her. I One of the stories Mrs. Roberts Is {other means to get them. She would jCiedited with Is that she had at one [borrow money in her husband's name, [time acted as the secretary of Mrs. pawn any articles she could not wear |S>hoel)e Hearst. This has been denied land finally began making friends *t the Hearst offices in New York city.. among wealthy mining men. Those as'ellber General Grant nor his wife men were fascinated by the woman's Can recall, they say. ever having eu-J beauty and were willing to advance jtertalned Mrs. Roberts at any of the I her money as long as she smiled upon Jifuncfions on the island, and Mrs. J them. LGrant says that neither she nor the; In a leh jjgeneral ever visited the apartments in (Riverside drive. Wheu search was xuad1.' in Yonkers for Mrs. Roberts' summer home. Cloud Rift, mentioned In V:o Social Register, it proved to be It was also said that "Mrs. Roberts" Her I introduced one of her friends as Colo nel More-head, son of a former govern or of Kentucky and a friend of her mother. "Mrs. Stuyvesant." "Mrs. Roberts" was also often seen at studio receptions. Richard Roelofs when seen at the Cressou mine in Cripple Creek, Colo., said: "All this is humiliating to me. but tbe incident is uow closed. I don't care so much for myself, but my heart simply bleeds wheu I tbiuk of my little son. who has l>een kept iu ignorance of his mother's eccentric conduct for years. I have done till that 1 can when I sent money to provide a deceut fu neral for her. She was not in her right mind for at least fourteen years." Roelofs went to Cripple Creek lo carve out his own fortune. lie entered the grocery business, and laier his wife went to Colorado and joined hiui. Mrs. Roelofs bad an inordinate desire for fine clothes and jewels, and when her husband acknowledged bis inabii i itv to supply her wants she adopted ram to the New York au thorities .Mr. Roelofs said be wanted the body of his wife buried in Phila delphia by the side of that of ber mo; her, Mrs. Tin lev. Tile Union Trust company of Phila as elusive as a cloud. Residents of I dolphin, the executor of the estate of iYon;rers never heard of any such i Mabel Tlnley's mother. Und recently ?place, they say. According to Mrs.I made the last payment of the income ^Roberts' friends, she told them her! of the estate t?> Mrs. Roberts.. The iiusband was John Van Ness Roberts,I company sent one of its officers lo graduate of Harvard, gentleman of! New- York city to arrange for the ?.eis':re. Diligent search through the j transfer of The body to Philadelphia. emocrat les iS NOW PUBLISHED Twiee-a-Wee $1*50 Per Annum. - It Frenchman, Unable to Eear Odor of Parents' Pet Fromage, Shoots Himself In Stomach. ' Some queer things have been respon sible for suicides and attempts at sui cides, but it is doubtful if anybody ever tried to rid himself of life for a stranger reason than that which has just led Pierre Dnfrcsne. a young Paris locksmith, to seek a speedy exit from this world, for Pierre Dufresne now lies in a hospital in a critical condition because he preferred death to a life in which his delicate olfactory organs were frequently assailed by the odor of a certain variety of cheese of which his father and mother were inordinate ly fond. This cheese is called marolles. The smell of it closely resembles that <.f limburger. Pierre's parents ate of it at every dinner. Pierre always pro tested ?'hen it was brought on the ta ble and said nasty things about the fas'es of people who would load their stomachs with such offensive stuff. An gry discussions followed. The father would bang his fist on the table and declare that he intended to keep on eating that sort of cheese as long as he liked it and could afford to pay for it. and. furthermore, he didn't carp a hang what his unnatural, utifllinl son' thought of it. When a big marolles cheese made its appearance on the Dufresne table the other day there was a more violent scene than usual. Pierre said that a self respecting pig would not eat such nauseating stuff. The elder Dufresne avowed bis belief that porcine progeny were possessed of truer filial feeling than Pierre. Mrs. Dufresne stopped eating the cheese long enough to in dorse her husband's opinion. An elder brother joined in the reproaches of father and mother Dufresne against Pierre. The young man arose from the ta ble and declared.that he could endure the disgusting smell of marolles cheese no longer. Life was no lomror worth living if he was to be confronted with it every day. He fled from the room, banging the door behind him. A few minutes later another bang was heard. It was a pistol shot. Pierre had fired ?I bullet at his heart, bur his aim was bad or his knowledge of anatomy de fective, and the bullet lodged in his stomach, with the result that even if he recovers his digestive organs will be in a far worse'state than if he had dieted himself steadily all his life on nothing but cheese of the marolles va riety. Risks Life For Her lover. Austrian Lieutenant's Sweetheart Takes His Place In Duel With Hussar Officer and Saves His Honor as Well as His Skin. Most romantic is the tale which comes from Ofert. in Austria, of the latest thing in duels. A young ac tress after promising the mother of a youthful admirer to save him from a challenger found no way but to take his place. This she did successfully, dressed in her admirer's uniform. The The actress at-once went to the caral ry barracks at Ofen and sought on; the Ritter. For the sake of her boy ad mirer ami his sorrowing mother tin actress made a secret compact wit! the hussar. But he insisted that tin duel must take place. It was lmpossi bit1 fur either party to withdraw. H duel occurred a few weeks ago, but! the Ritter shut in the air, the arrillerj the facts have only just leaked out. I officer would surely shoot to kill, ant Fraulein Loefler is one of the most [so some willing substitute trust tala bewitching of the younger actresses bis place. attached to the Orezy theater. She is A plot was hatched. The Ritter, the a great favorite With the younger ofli-i actress ami Mine. Zeska were the only cer.s and students and the toast at parties to it. The mother did her part many of the cafes. In "'Der Bettelstil-I well. She administered a sleeping dent" and other plays she enacts the'draft to Lieutenant Zoska and gave role of the young officer, the midship- the actress one of the lieutenant's uni Loite and youths' parts generally. | forms. At a noted cafe on the Andrassy ?' Lieutenant Zeska. an easy victim of ctrnsse the other night?so goes the) the potion administered by bis mother, tale?a party of officers were gathered j slept like a dead man all night, his sub <tt a late supper. The wine (lowed freely, and the talk was that of wom en and love adventures. Fraulein Loefler's name was mentioned. Ritter conscious mind linbauuted by dreams of mortal combat or premonition of impending decease at the hands of a bloodthirsty enemy. The lieutenant's zu Riehthofen of the hussars made aj uniform fitted the young actress "like sneering insinuation about her. In-1 the paper on the wall." A handsomer stantly Liot.tenant Zeska jumped to his j officer than Frauleln Loefler the Aus feet, called Ritter a liar and threw his glass of wine in his face. The Rit ter slapped the lieutenant's face in re trian artillery never had possessed. In the darkness of the early morning a carriage drove up to Mme. Zeska's THE "LIEUTENANT" RAISED HIS WEAPON AND FIRED IN THE AIR turn. A challenge was at once given and accepted. Lieutenant Zeska belongs to the artil lery stationed in Pesth, and as there was a field day next looming the duel was put off till the day after by imme diate agreement of the seconds. The lieutenant repaired to bis quar ters, [iiill of the matter, he sat down and wrote a long letter to his widowed mother, giving her all particulars. The lie..tenant left this letter on his writ ing desk. Next day he was on duty till nightfall. In the meantime Lieutenant Zeska's servant saw the letter and. as he fre quently lieforn had delivered similar ones, trotted off with it to Mme Zeska. She was in despair thai her only son, a mere stripling, was t" light with the Rh tor. a much older man and famous for his prowess on the field of honor. After futile attempts In sec her son she went to see the aiMivss. To her she told all and showed the lettrr. Ami save tier ?nlv she prayed t he act re sou. Fr?ulein Loeth promised to do so little villa. From the house there Is sued the figure of a youthful officer, his military cloak wrapped round him. the fur collar turned up because of the cold. He joined his second in the car riage, which drove westward to the woods. At the appointed place the Ritter, his secoud. the umpires and doctors met the two. Paces were quickly measured off. The opponents were given their loaded pistols. They drew off their ? leaks. The "lieutenant." however, kept on his fur kepi, pulled down well over his eyes. It was still dark, but as the first streak of light came up over the hori zon telling of the coming dawn th?: white handkerchief fluttered to th?. ground, and there rang out a shot. It was from the Ft it tor's pistol. lie bad missed. The "lieutenant" iai-<ed lii< weapon and fired in the air The Ritter saluted, announced his sat Isfaetlon and. advancing, shook hand with his opponent. P.oth were the" hustled lute their cloaks and into tin wuitiug carrinsres The duel wus over CABBAGE PLANTS. For the next few weeks I will fill all orders for following prices; 1,000 to 4,000, $1.25; 5,000 to !),()(>(), St.OO; 10,000 and upwards, ?0 cents per I, 000. fash with order or C. O. D. if preferred. 1 have ail leading varieties: The Early Jersey Wakefield, the most popular variety for early planting; The Charleston Wakefield, a few days later, but a very desirable variety, for garden planting as iL is a sure header and good size. In inter varieties! I haw the Succession and the Late Dutch, both producing large flat heads. Plants now ready for shipments. My personal attention given t W. F. CAKll, - - Cabbage Plants at the Mcggetts, S. C. LITTLE KATHLEEN VANDERBILT. Kathleen Vanderbllt, the little daughter of Reginald Vanderbllt, is one of the wealthiest children In America and probably has tbt costliest collection of toys in this country. 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AMUNITI0N, Etc Repairing of all kinds. L BENNETT. Sheriff's Sale. By virtue of a certain tax exe cution to me directed. I will sell at Orangeburg Court House, on Mon day. 3rd day of February, 1908, the same being salesday the following described property, to wit: One Lot in Pine Grove Township, bounded by \. F. Jackson, Jake Sandel and oth ers and Atlantic Coast Line Rail road. Levied on as the property of Adaline Johnson. .lohn H. Dukes, Sheriff Orangeburg County. January 1.'?, lOuS?1-17-3.