The Millionaire And The Mad French Maid
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Episode 444 is the strange story of a double tragedy. On one side we have a woman apparently driven insane with the desire to avenge crimes that exist only in her own mind. Her obsession has serious consequences for an innocent man.
Culled from the historic pages of the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other newspapers of the era.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | San Francisco, California, June 7, 1911. |
| 0:12.0 | C. Frederick Cole, club man and social leader of San Francisco, and Frank A. Miller, owner of the widely known |
| 0:23.5 | Glenwood Hotel of Riverside, faced a jury in a Superior Court courtroom yesterday, where they |
| 0:30.3 | are being sued for $30,000 each by Miss Adele Verge, French maid. Slander and malicious prosecution are the two charges brought against Cole and Miller. |
| 0:43.0 | Miss Verge declares that in her five complaints filed in the case, that the defendants |
| 0:47.5 | not only tried to have her declared insane, but after she was examined and dismissed, have |
| 0:52.7 | kept up such a persecution that she has been unable to keep a position. |
| 0:58.1 | Cole and Miller state that Miss Verge suffers from a well-known type of mania, and that she imagines people are talking about her. |
| 1:07.1 | They produced the statement of Judge Bloodsoe of Riverside, who presided at the examination of Miss Verge, |
| 1:13.9 | in which he says he believes the woman to be a menace to the community. |
| 1:18.5 | He explains that as one of the physicians who examined her was not convinced of Miss Verge's insanity, |
| 1:25.3 | although the other doctor pronounced her insane. It was his duty as |
| 1:29.9 | judge to dismiss her case. He declares that he did so reluctantly. The facts on which the plaintiff |
| 1:37.8 | has based her suit are as follows. About three years ago, Mrs. William Cole, mother of C. Frederick Cole, the defendant, |
| 1:47.9 | brought Miss Verge to this country from France to serve as a maid. |
| 1:52.8 | While staying at Riverside at the Glenwood Hotel, she was arrested on the complaint of Mrs. Richardson, |
| 1:59.7 | manager of the hotel, who said the guests were frightened by Ms. Verge's actions. |
| 2:05.6 | Miller, the owner, summoned Ms. Verge to his office, where she was arrested by three deputy sheriffs. |
| 2:13.6 | After four days in custody, she was examined and dismissed. |
| 2:18.3 | When she was placed on the stand, Miss Verge recounted the incident of her arrest. |
| 2:24.3 | She said she came to San Francisco soon afterward and obtained employment with the City of Paris Department Store. |
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