New Britain herald., 1916-06-23
MILLIONS THELURE
 IN DRUGGING GAME
lleged Woman Confederate Sud- enly Disappears from New York

Aear up the mysterious circumstances N der which Miss Gertrude Claypool, Swealthy niece of the late ex-Gover- Sr Bookwalter of Ohio, was induced @l1le under the influence of drugs to 8n important papers in connection #th her estate, Detectives Gallagher #d Culiff yesterday raided the apart
 nts of Mrs. Margaret Hill, POS West # ty-fourth street. Mrs. Hill, now M der indictment, in Newark on a #arge of assault and battery upon Mss Claypool was not to be found. @ far as. the detectives could learn # - her negro maid, Frieda Johnson,
 G. Hill left in haste on Tuesday, W aout saying where she was going # }rhen she would return.
 ga Inc detectives seized a lot of pho @ Taphs, documents, and drugs which
 y found in Mrs. Hills rooms. The # .d was also taken into custody and
 be held as a material witness
 t word could be had from her @ tcrday as to the whereabouts of NJ mistress further than that Mrs. # NJ, before leaving. had ordered her # #niture to be put into storage. Ac-
 ding to the detectives, this fact
 z Heated Q sudden desire on the part M Mrs. Hill to leave the jurisdiction, @ause only two weeks ago she had Manged for an elaborate renovation Mher apartment as though she in
 ded to stay.
 @ he district attorneys office at
 nes great importance to the ma | al found in Mrs. Hills apartment H the documents are believed to a pw much light on the methods by } oh Miss Claypool was induced to | er into a contest of the will of 3 Governor Bookwalter under which @ inherited only $100,000. although # left an estate of about SIP, 2,000,- N The drugs are said to be similar |shose found in Miss ClaypooPs room. #S# he Robert Treat hotel in Newark, R Ire Miss Claypool is alleged to
 ae been held a prisoner for two zzsss after revoking her own will and z ing a power of attorney to Alex # er Sidney Rosenthal a lawyer, of @ Broadway.
 Drugged InsidiousIy.
 @ Recording to the information re- s&*#Cu ny kAcolSbCillI DlSIL LlCI AIIol llCJ
 Sling, drugs were administered to As Claypool in, a way to make her H stoned to them, without know M that they were injurious. It is
 ged, for instance, that powders @e put into flowers on her dresser @ into the hems of her skirts, so @ the strange quality of their odor $ Id constantly pursue her and ren- 3S less repulsive their actual admin # tion. -## 8 mong the documentary evidence sS d in Mrs. Hills partments were M@ o graphs of several persons of
 8ninence in whom Mrs. Hill and @@e associated with her seem to se been interested for some reason
 other. One photograph revealed S Hill and a man who is alleged
 b ave played an important part in @ ming affidavits defaming the
 racters of certain legatees under |A will of ex-Governor Bookwalter, sS ng them being J. w. Baxter,
 S in of Miss C1aypoo1. His mother 3 rited a much larger share of the kwalter estate than did Miss Clay
 and, according to information in s3## llSlIlCG AllOII IlCy D olllCSs1 rl1lC ALS~
 #atory affidavit was to be used as NE eapon against Baxter if he con- }se ed Miss ClaypooIs attempt to con- aN the will. s z2his affidavit was found among
 IF papers in the room occupied by
 ClaypooI at the Robert Treat @ in Newark. It was signed by
 @ Johnson. an actor, who made a E8z Tn statement to District Attorney | m that he made the affidavit in a @ lken stupor under the instigation sSs man named Hunter or Hum- @ es.
 a esides copy of this affidavit, Dis ga Attorney Swann obtained from 3 Newark authorities yesterday s es of documents found in Miss
 pools rooms in the Robert Treat a T. They were agreements for lH pensation between Miss CIaypool @ persons who seemed to be most rested in the success of the Book M CT will contest namely, Mrs. Mar
 et Hil, Alexander Sidney Rosen- the New York lawyer. and Lee
 teha11, a lawyer of Attica, Ohio. # one agreement Miss Claypool #a anised to pay Mrs. Hill 10 per )S of the proceeds of the contest
 xcess of $100.000. She also made @ ral although indefinite provisions ss the lawyers who were to manage aa litigation in four states. Accord ||a | to RosenthaFs admissions to As & mt District Attorney Dooling he sH his associates meant to produce sS15 ibseduent will of ex-Governor
 kwaltor which gave Miss Clay s# $4,000,000.
 zas sosentha1 who was indicted with az Hill in Newark, on the assault @ battery charge, was to visit As 3 int District Attorney Dooling yes
 8 ay. but failed to appear. From s uel Sobel, a lawyer associated
 Rosenthal in the BoOkwalter