The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-25
BURGLARS BY USE OF DRUG GET $80,000
Robbers, Who Garry Off Loot in Auto, Work Un- molested in Country Home, at Roslyn After Stupefying Millionaire, His Wife and Her Daugh- ter, Miss Mary Cass Can field. Vt

field. H ! New York, Oct. 25-Following a
 series of robberies of the homes of l wealthy Long Island residents, minor | in the amount of loot obtained, but
 alarming in their number, burglars I got into the country home of Frank
 Gray Griswold, sportsman and mill
 lionaire, between 4 and o'clock yes- | terday morning and plundered it of $7O,O00 to sS0,O00 worth of jewelry.
 They got away without leaving | single clue, save where tire tracks quarter of a mile from the house,
 which is at Roslyn, gave proof they
 had used an automobile in making a swift departure.
 Robbers Work as She Sleeps. | Five men servants and seven maids slept all undisturbed on a third floor. On the second floor in three adjoin- ing rooms were MT. Griswold, Mrs.
 Griswold and her twenty-year-old
 daughter by former marriage, Miss
 Mary Cass Garfield.
 l In Mrs. Griswolds room on a pillow
 on a chair near her bedside was her
 brown Pekingese, Sing Sing. known | to bark in the night at the mere rustling of, the trees in the woods l fronting the house. Yet Mrs. Gris- wold did not awaken, and the little
 dog, as far as known, made no sound, | the while the thieves jimmied open
 the doors of a tall Louis XIV. ward | robe in the bed chamber, and took | out six jewel cases, which they found inside the antique piece of furniture. | Similarly MT. Griswold slept soundly
 while the burglars were at work, not | only in his wife's bed chamber but | his own.
 l The only member of the family to | awaken was Miss Canfield. But she | did not then discover that a robbery | had been committed; did not realize | until later in the morning that she must have stood in peril of deadly attack. She recalls awakening with a | feeling of being stffled, of feeling so | dazed that she was frightened. She | arose and switched on the lights. She told her mother and stepfather l that, although she had heard no sound, she had sensed the presence of some person in her room and when l she turned on the lights expected to
 see some one. But the lighted rooms disclosed no other person and she 1 listened a minute or more and heard
 nothing. -ss Girl Was Half Nauscated. | ,- The sight Of her gold watch atop her dresser gave apparent assurance | that burglars had not been in her
 room. She remembers that it's face
 showed the time to be 4:45 o'clock.
 She also remembers that the condi-
 ton of the dazedness did not leave her and that it was a. far different state
 than the mere drowsiness of one new l ly awakened Her head felt heavy, l she was half nauseated. She dis 1 missed the idea that she was i'll, how ever, turned off the lights and fell
 back into slumber as soon as her head l touched the pillow.
 | It was MT. Griswold who discovered l the visit of bandits in the darkness | of the early morning hours. He
 awakened at 2 o'clock. about an hour ahead of his usual time. He felt as wretchedly as had. Miss Garfield. His vision was blurred, his head heavy. | But his room was so markedly disar- l ranged that he instantly realized that | there had been an invasion of thieves. | The drawers of the dressers had all | been pulled out, closet doors stood open and toilet articles and trinkets on top of the dresser were lying about | confusedly.
 He went quickly into his wife's | room. She was sleeping heavily, and | the little Peidngese, instead of start
 ing up with snappy barks and wag- | ging tail in his usual fashion, blinked | up at his master with dull eye. The | open doors of the French wardrobe l told MT. Griswold that the burglars | had found the place where his wife | kept her jewels. Later the half doz- l en jewel cases, emptied but reclosed l and the clasps snapped back in place, | were found on a deep windowsill be- | hind chdntZ curtain.
 Mrs. Griswold was also feeling half | i'll and abnormally drowsy after her 1 husband had awakened her. and Miss | Garfield, to whose room MT. Griswold | promptly went, felt very much as she | had some two hours before, when l something had disturbed her sleep. In short, all three were certain that they ! had been drugged.
 But there was no odor of drugs l such as chloroform or ether-about the apartments. At the foot of Mrs l of cotton cloth which the thieves mad l Griswold's bed was found a square l left behind. If it had been saturated | In any drug, all odor had departed. Gems of Small Value Ignored There was every evidence that the I burglars took considerable time in
 their plundering. A few valuable
 pieces of jewelry had been exposed on | dressers in the rooms. These pieces
 were gone. Bits of jewelry of minor
 value had been ignored. They had
 taken time to sort things out under
 the glare of their electric lamps. And there was further evidence
 that, having possessed themselves of
 the jewel cases, they had evidently gone to the ground floor and into MT. | Griswold's study, or den, for the rug
 there was found to be filtered with
 the ashes of MT. Griswold's cigars l Undoubtedly Miss Garfield had
 been awakened by the presence of
 one of the thieves in her room. For a
 drawer of her dresser was open. But
 in it remained her jewel case, con-