New-York tribune., 1916-06-23
Lawyer Also Indicted in
Claypool Case Fails to
Meet Swami.
DETECTIVES FIND
MRS. HILLS MAID
Discover Powder Like Cocaine
Attorney Says He Is Willing
to Appear When Wanted.

Mrs. Margaret Hill, indicted Wednes-
day in Newark on the complaint of
Miss Gertrude Claypool, niece and leg
aztec Of the late Governor John w.
Bookwalter, Of Ohio, who says she was
drugged and taken to the Robert Treat
Hotel in Newark and forcibly detained
there, has disappeared.
District Attorney Swann's detectives,
who went 10 her apartments. 20s West
Fifty-fourth Street, yesterday TO arrest
her for the Newark authorities. found
she had decamped suddenly on Wednes-
day. Everything in her rooms was
topsy turvy, but Detectives Cuniff and
Gallagher ransacked the place and
found number Of papers and guam
tity of white powder resembling CO.
caine. Assistant District Attorney
Dooling will have the drug analyzed
to-day.
Although Cuniff and Gallagher missed
Mrs. Hill they brought back with them
Frieda Johnson, a colored maid, who
admitted she had accompanied Mrs.
Hill and Miss Claypool in the taxicab
from the Great Northern Hotel to the
Hotel Cumberland, thence to the law
Offices of A. Sidney Rosenthal, 299
Broadway, where Miss Claypool is said
to have been induced to make new
will and revoke the power OF attorney
vested in DR.. l.. l.. Seaman, OF 247 Fifth
Avenue.
Lawyer Falls to Appear.
Mr.. Dooling expected to have a talk
yesterday with Rosenthal, who was also
indicted for assault and battery, but
he did not appear. Samuel Sobel, Of
800 Broadway, who said he was en-
gagged in the litigation, started in four
states, to break the will Of the late
Governor Bookwalter, turned over TO
Mr.. Dooling a file OF papers bearing on
the probating Of the instrument.
Mr. Rosenthal assured Mr.. Dooling
that he would waive eXtradition TO New
Jersey and appear there for arraign-
ment when wanted. He also told Mr..
Dooling he would eventually turn over
to the authorities a later will signed by
Governor Bookwalter, in which Miss
Claypool is the beneficiary for $4,000
600 instead of 100000 under the will
now being contested
Among the documents Mrs. Hill left
in the Newark Hotel after the weird
midnight exodus with Miss Claypool
down eleven flights of fire escapes TO
avoid private detectives, were several
agreements signed by Miss Claypool.
These were turned over TO District At
torney Swami yesterday. In one, Miss
Claypool promises to give TO Mrs. Hill
10 per cent of her share of her uncle's
estate under the alleged later will. As
sstant District Attorney Dooling fig.
ured that this agreement would net
Mrs. Hill about 100000.
Another paper assigned to Rosenthal
power Of attorney for Miss Claypool
in all her interests in her uncle's
estate This was attested by Lee
Whitehall. lawyer Of Attica. Ind, said
TO be a cousin Of Miss Claypool. Mr..
Dooling believes these papers were
signed in New York and subsequently
taken to the hotel.
Detectives Find Chauffeur.
Detectives yesterday found the chauf-
feur Of the taxicab which took Miss
Claypool TO Newark. His name is being
withheld. The chauffeur who brought
her back to New York by a devious
route before daybreak On June :, was
William Carney, of 40 Norwood Ave
nuc, Newark. He told Mr.. Dooling yes
terday that he left his fares in front
of l06 East Eighty-hrst Street and was
paid by Mrs. Hill.
Miss Grace II. Cannon. Miss Clay
POOLS dressmaker. at whose house the
wealthy spinster was taken in an al
legged drugged and helpless condition,
says Mrs. Fill rang her doorbell at
o'clock in the morning and got her
down 70 the door TO ask her 10 take
Miss Claypool in her house. Miss Can
ION said she refused to open the door
then. but later assisted Miss Claypool
inside.
Among other things which Detectives
Cunif and Gallagher found in the
apartment vacated by Mrs. Hill were a
number of photographs OF men and
women of apparent means and refine
ment. Mr.. Dooing examined them
carefully or the theory that they
might he photographs of persons with
whom Mrs. Hill planned 70 become ac-
quainted in the future.
lie was certain last night tha. the
Investigation of Miss ClaypooPs charges
against the persons who were impii-
Gated in the alleged kidnapping" affair
will be in shape to be presented 20 the
grand jury early next week.
THIEVES DISTURB COPS