The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-13
DRUG AND ROB WOMAN
IN MIDNIGHT MELRY
She Wanted to See the Bright
Lights and Ended in
Inconsistencies.
FOUND THRILL GOBS
Beautiful Wife Of Buffalo
Merchant Loses $50 Cash,
$4,000 in Jewels.

Kansas City. Mo.--A desire to ex-
perience some of the thrills of the
night life Of Kansas City. including it's
accommodating chauffeurs and high
balls. cost Mrs. Nan Driscoll, the young
and beautiful wife Of John Driscoll, a
wealthy merchant of Buffalo, N. Y,
$1,000 worth Of diamonds, $50 in cash.
which she carried In her stocking. and
the embarrassment Of being stripped
Of her clothes and put to bed by an
unknown man.
Mrs. Driscoll, who arrived in Kansas
City for short visit. complained to
the police Of the result of her impulse
to personally investigate the city's
naughtiness.
She arrived from the east. travelling
alone. and registered at the Kupper
hotel. At o'clock she gave way to
an impulse, she says. to be unconven-
tional. She telephoned the Shaw Taxi
CAD company for taxi and, when
Robert Adair. a Shaw company chauf-
feur. responded she made known to
him her desire TO hit the high spots"
valuables Missing:
Adair drove her to the jefferson no.
tel cafe. recommending 1t as the best
exponent Of night life the city affords.
She appointed the chauffeur her escort
for the evening and took him with her
into the hotel paying the walters
checks throughout the evening. The
walter served highballs exclusively, she
says.
At midnight. Mrs. Driscoll says. she
left the cafe with the chauffeur. order
ing him to take her somewhere else
where the fun is good"
After getting into the taxicab. she
says. she remembers nothing definite
the police be sent for Immediately.
when she awaken in a room at the
Holland house. at Twelfth street and
broadway. and found herself in the
bed. nude. The hotel clerk, she says.
was In the room when she awakened.
She discovered Immediately that her
diamond rings valued at $4,000, one of
them four and one-half carats. and the
money she had carried in her stock
ing were missing.
Has Haxy Memory.
The clerk explained his presence in
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II she was Ill, Mrs. Driscoll says. She
told him her jewelry and money were
gone. and demanded that detective
be notified. Then she relapsed into
unconsciousness. she says, and did not
recover until late in the afternoon.
Some one. in the interim. had partially
dressed her. she says. She summoned
the house manager and demanded that
the police ben sent for Immediately.
She appeared at police headquarters
and told of her experiences in detail.
She says she remembers hazily that
when she entered the taxicab after
leaving the Hotel jefferson cafe a
strange man was in the car. She does
not remember anything else. however
nor can she give a description of the
stranger. The hotel clerk says a man
and a woman were with her when she
appeared at the hotel. the man takine
her into room shortly after. The
chauffeur says she did not enter his car
when she left the cafe. but insisted
upon getting into another car standing
ut the curb. He says he did not fol
low the other car TO see what became
Of her.
DR.. Roy Gerstenkorn, who was called
by the Holland house manager when
she recovered consciousness. found
evidence Of chloral knock out Drops
he said. He also found bottle OF
whiskey on the dresser. from which
about one drink had been taken.
Mrs. Driscoll told the police she was
separated from her husband five
months ago. and that she spent her
time travelling from city to city in
search Of excitement.