The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-15
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CABMiN GETS MRS. GRAHAM TO
BELLEVUE AND HURRTES OFF.
Knockout Drops. the Doctors say-IIatIsi,t
Been Drinking. Tells Her Husband
Rings and watch said 10 Re Missins
Recalls Riding About In . Cab.


Rings and watch Said 10 Re Missing
Recalls Riding About In = Cab.
Mrs. Nellie Graham. wife Of Clarence
Graham. OF Graham a Hammond, manu-
facturers OF computing scales at siI West
Forty-second street, was brought to Belle
vue Hospital alone In a cab at o'clock
yesterday morning apparently suffering
from knockout" drops
She was unable to account for her condi-
ton, and DR.. Frederickson. In charge OF the
women's alcoholic ward. to which she was
sent. declared she had been drugRed.
He Immediately notified Roundman
Smith at the prison ward. and a search for
the cab driver who brought the woman
to the hospital was started. The cabman.
however. had driven away Immediately
after his charge was helped out by the hos
pital attendants
Late in the forenoon the woman revived
sufficiently TO ask for her husband and to
tell where he could be found. He was sum
moned by telephone at once.
When he arrived he said he had been
searching for his wife since Monday night.
She had left their apartments. at 81 West
I03d street, shortly after noon to do some
shopping. She telephoned him, he said,
from the Greeley Square restaurant, at
1921 Broadway, at o'clock saying she
had been to o number Of stores and intended
to get luncheon before she started home.
When she failed to return Graham spent
his wiie's friends. hoping to find her he
said.
Graham had an hours talk with his wife
before he took her home in a cab. He re-
fused to cay anything when he left the
hospital. He told Roundsman Smith that
his wife remembered nothing after she had
eaten her luncheon in the restaurant. ex-
cept riding in a cab through Madison ave-
nue.. She had noticed the street signs there.
he said.
He said she never used liquors and did
not remember drinking anything ycster-
Mr.. Graham asked the police OF the East
Thirty-ffth street station not to continue
INSTRUMENTATION Of the case.
At the hospital 1t was said that when Nlrs.
Graham reached the hospital she had on
several rings, but that the stones were miss
ing from two Of them.
Neither Mrs. Graham nor her husband
could be seen at their home last night, but
c. j. Hammond, who is in business with
Graham, made a statement for them. He
said:
Mrs. Graham says that when leaving
the restaurant she felt Ill and called a cab,
telling the driver to take her TO her home.
Mrs. Graham remembers looking at her
watch when she got into the cab, and it
Shortly after. she says she tainted and
the next thing she remembers is that some
time in the night she awoke in strange
room in which she thinks there were two
women. Mrs. Graham says that at the time
she was very weak and faint and she soon
went to sleep.
Next abe recalls being in a cab some
time in the early morning, and the cabman
drove her to a saloon and tried to persuade
her to 20 inside and get drink. She was
too weak to get out Of the cab and she re-
members the driver bringing her some
liquor to the door Of the cab. After that
her mind was a blank until she recovered
consciousness in Bellevue.
According TO Mr.. Hammond. Mrs.
Graham had about 81 500 worth of iewelry.
including q diamond-studded watch.
which hung by a crescent pin set with
containing diamonds and rubies were on
her right hand, while on her left was an
engagement ring which was set with
solitaire diamond worth $500. This ring,
he said, 1T tight on her finger.
The gold band, he says. still remains on
her finger, but the stone has been torn
out. An the other jewelry Is missing,
Hammond says, with the exception OF the
crescent pin that held the watch.
Mr.. Hammond says that both he and
Graham came to this city from Columbus.
Ohio, last November and went in business
together. They brought their families
with them at first. but later sent them back
home until they secured suitable house.
His family, he says, went TO Columbus. as
did Mrs. Graham's six-year-old son. Mrs.
Graham, however, insisted on remaining
here and keeping house for Graham and