Show MYSTERIOUS WOMAN I HAD MANY tANY fRIENDS Said E. E H. H Harriman Gave Her He Case Worth I ACTRESS OR IMPOSTOR Prominent New Yorker Gives J Story of Many Social Conquests I- I I II I New York Jan 5 4 today tody the bod body of or the b beautiful a. woman of ot t my mys mystery Ys- Ys I tory tery Katherine Van Ness Roberts In lay In tho die apartment at No 27 Riverside II Drive where she sho ha had ended ded her life lite w with ith arsenic Friday night Ight Facing her 1 from the tho top of oC the piano were Ui till the photographs of th tho thio lrI princes es generals ono i social queens on anti ami l millionaires wi used to welcome her to their homes a and nd court her at their functions All An Allday Allday Anday day long a st steady fy stream of fur- fur gowned owne men and women passed to tn anti and from waiting automobiles to look upon uon her hor face Yet tonight n no one had come forward to put aside tho the mystery that cloudS cloua both bolh her name and her tier strange career The piano viano top alongside alongside along along- side the bier Is 19 crowded with the pictures pic plc- tures and calling cards calaS of tho the men met women Mrs Roberts claimed an as friends Among mong them thorn are those of oC General Fred Grant Prince Cantacuzene zene Major General Wilson General Count the tho Russian Rosslan re reformer reformer reformer re- re former General Miles 1109 General Corbin Cor- Cor bin Mrs Irs Flab Fish and a Q halt half hundred others Mrs lUrs Fish has hos denied dented that she know the woman Mrs r Grant win will not be be interviewed Mra Roberts was vas either the mos most consummate actress that tho the world has ever seen or sho abc Is a much maligned ma ma- woman said sald a a. prominent wo man mart today who for some soma time was a u. frequent pallor allor at the womans woman's house TRe and nd who says aas sh she met many prominent ent eat personS persona there thore I J mot met hot her first at Governors Island and ond wa was Introduced her bel by Frederick Grant salt said this prominent person Sho She attended tho the reception to Prince Henry Sho also so attended Prince Henrys Henry's lien Hen rys ry's ball by the tho Invitation of or the tho prInce himself Her for prominence bc began n at General Genera Frederick Grants Grant's reception to Princ Prince Henry Sho She claimed to be the widow of oC A well known n officer in the tho German berman Oer Ger- man army She Sho said sald that this officer office was at ono one time connected with th the German legation Uon In London an and that tha it was in tho legation that she me met mft Prince Henry Sho She told mo me that IK- IK her husbands husband's mother was a woman o or of large largo wealth and that she ha had provided pro pro- vided for Cor her hor after atter the death of M Mr Roberts Later there thero was a n disagreement disagreement disagree disagree- ment mont and when the in mother died diet she sho left lert an income of a year lar to tho son of oC the woman oman who ha hat hall reached such a n. tro tragic Ic oat and The he bo be nho sho said sahl was as 1 12 years old when h lie he died In Germany 7 whore hare I J ho nd n been Leon to iio a i i J 9 9 al u fi w rr n lofto Itt lof to the tho boy with the tho u that ho lie was to be bo educated b by the th executors of hl his grandmothers grandmother's will A Mrs Roberts told mo me that Jacob A A. fills nus was one of or tho the executors of or th thelder the theelder elder Mrs Ir Roberts' Roberts and and- that ho lie ha had always been Inimical to her anti and hat had made no effort to allow ollow her ber to hav have control over h her l. l son It was he hc anthe an and the other executor whose name nam sh sh did not mention who sent her son t to lu Germany to 10 bo be educated Mrs Irs Roberts Roberta claimed to be bc exactly the same ago o as Julia Julla Grant the daughter daugh daugh- ter of General Grant and I know of or IP mj y yown own knowledge e that tho the Grants w were rc her friends I 1 have havo met at her house Colonel and his and his wife Colonel Colone Is General Grants Grant's tl adjutant and military secretary I 1 have h also Been seen Mr Ir Patton Patten hoe her attorney and business busl busi- ness neBS partner there thore man many times j bUSI-j his lila wife and another visitor was as Colonel Colonel Colo Cola nel aol Frank Morehead son of or a r former governor s of Kentucky and ll a a. bachelor well vell known about town Last Christmas a year ear ago Mrs Roberts Rob Rob- erts ens showed mo me a gold cl cigarette case of ot exquisite workmanship that sho she said ha had been beon sent to tn her as a gl gi gift t b by E. E H. H Harriman She said saif that Tiffany hu lint had imported on only five of oC cases cases anti and Mr 11 harriman had hail bought them all allas allas allas as gifts girts for his Ills friends Tho They cost OO each cacti Mrs Airs Roberts Roberta claimed to know ninny many prominent men in social and political life in Washington where she sue had spent several so years cars She Sho has told me of or luncheons at th the Lawyers Lawyers' club with Senator and sho she spoke frequently fre fre- of or Mr 11 McMillan lc and Mr 11 liar liar- to whoso whose offices sho claimed to have ha access at all aU times Mrs Irs Roberts was a a. woman of or charming personality Sho Simo spoke C French and German with gre great gret t fluency and was remarkably well read and posted poste on many matters Her IIer friends 1 admired her hOl as a woman of pluck and am brains who was making malting her own living and arid I believe bellevo that there was ncy never r a 0 doubt in the minds of or an any of oC them that tha sh she w was s not all she professed d to b bf be |