Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-13
KILLED BY BURGLARS
Nurse StrangIed in Her Bed by
Intruders.
CHILD WAS By HER SIDE
Parents Left Girl in Her Charge and
Went to New York.
ROBBERS FRIGHTENED AWAY
Awakened Servants Scream-Search
Parties Hunting for Culprits.
Silverware Stolen.

| Special Dispatch to Tho Star
MILLBROOk, n. Y. January 13--Bur-
glars who forced their way into the resi-
dence of Barnes Crompton. millionaire
farmer of this place, early this morning
attacked Sarah Bramer, twenty-siN years
old, a nurse, who was sleeping with the
| fuur-ycar-old daughter of Mr.. Crompton,
and strangled her to death.
Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Crompton were at
home They had gone to New York yes
tcrday to attend an opera performance,
| leaving the house in charge Of the nurse,
j two maids and a coachman.
After stranglng the nurse. whom they
encountered in an open-air sleeping
apartment on the second floor, the bur
| glars ransacked the house, making off
with almost all the siIverware and other
valuables.
They finally aroused two maids sleep
| ing the third floor. At their screams
they fled from the premises.
Their motive in strangling Miss Bra
mer seemed to be to prevent her from
making an cutlery. Traces Of chloroform
were found near both her and the little
girl with whom she was sleeping.
| No Trace of Burglars.
Chief of Police McCabe of Poughkeepsie
and the district attorney of THAT place
were aroused at o'clock this morning
and drove in an automobile at top speed
| twenty miles to the Crompton home
They made a careful search of the prem
! Uses and the surrounding country, but
could find no trace of the burglars.
The snow had been beaten down along
the highway and across the fields until
| it was impossible to tell in what direc-
ton they had gone.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Crompton had not been
heard from for some time after the coun-
| tryside had been aroused
| Millbrook is a thriving little community
| There is located here large school for
girls.
| News that a murder had been commit
| ted by burglars spread rapidly. Sew
eral searching parties have been organ
| lied.
| 1t is twenty miles to the main line of a
| railroad. There is good chance tc
| overhaul the burglars before they Can
get out of the country. it is believed.
Finger Prints on Nurses Neck.
| The burglars. evidently two in number.
| only one of whom was seen in the house,
entered by means Of forcing a rear win
dow on the ground floor. They ransacked
the main living rooms without being
molested and then worked their way up
stairs.
| The nurse was sleeping an open-air
extension built on the second floor. The
little Crompton girl was in bed with her.
Whether she was surprised in her sleep
or was seized by the throat as she awoke
none knows. No outcry was heard by
the maids sleeping on the floor above.
Finger marks were found by the police
on Miss Bramer's neck. There were
bruises on her arms and hands, as If she
had tried to fight off her assailant.
The Crompton child, while old enough
to note what happened If she had been
awake. was so terrified that she could
tell nothing. She made no outcry for
some time after the nurse was strangled
| in bed beside her. 1t is thought that the
| child may have been chloroformed.
After leaving the sleeping room on the
second floor the burglars. or at least one
of them. went to the floor above. There
he aroused the two maids by displaying
flash lantern in their room.
| They screamed. The man they saw
| He'd downstairs.
a coachman living in a cottage some
| distance from the residence was aroused.
| He was the first man to head a search
ing party.