New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-06
Mrs. Criswold's
Friend Showed
all OF Jewels
Kitchen Utensil Heaped Full
Of Diamonds and Other
Gems in Keeping Of Mrs.
Drischman, Witness Says
Asked JeweIer for Value
Mother Planned to Leave
Family Her 100000
Estate, Countess Swears
Special Dtspqtch 10 TIE 7,ss4sao

ATLANTIC CITY. Oct. 5.~Countess
Anna st. Clair Ga Contubia, who IS on
testing the will by which her mother,
Mrs Alice Gerry Griswold, left $780,
600 TO Mrs. Mary II. Drischman and
only $500 to the countess, testified to-
day that when she last saw her mother,
eight years ago, Mrs Grswold had said
her entire fortune was going to her
daughter and her gYandc hildrcn.
More testimony was given concern
ing the alleged >cstrains exercised
upon Mrs. Griswold by Mrs. DriSchman
and others which is said to have made
of her house a virtual prison, from
which Mrs. Griswold could emerge only
upon written permit. Frank Roche and
his wife, who had an apartment at the
time in the same building with Mrs:
Drischman. testified that the latter had
exhibited an agate wear scrubbing pail
full of icwelry in January. 1918.
Mrs. Drischman had come to their
apartment, they said, with her apron
draped over the pail. When she fiicked
this covering aside, the Roches saw
that Che humble utensil was full to
the brim of sparkling diamonds, emer-
aids, rubies and other precious stones
You wouldn't think n Sob like me
owned anything like this Mrs. Drisch
man said, according to Roche, s she
whisked the apron from her hoard
much more casually than q stage con
juror removes the green cloth from the
goldfish bowl She said, according to
Mrs Roche, that she wanted to get
some idea what the stuff was worth
and had dropped in with it because
Mr.. Roche used to be b jeweller.
she poured out on the dining room
table" said Mr.. Roche, "a collection
OF jewclry such az | had never seen
before. There were diamonds, pearls,
sapphires, rubies and emeralds. Some
were set and some were unset They
covered the entire top of a fifty-two.
'nch table. There were necklaces and
a tiara. rings, earrings and everything.
Most OF the settings we're old-fashioned
Il asked her where she got then,
and she said from the estate of her
father. told her to take them out of
the apartment as | was afraid some
might get lost. She also told me THAI
her father had left her four sealskin
coats and an crmine coat. | asked her
how her father had had such things. az
they were women's coats, but she did
not answer"
Edward W. Dewey, a retired civil en-
gineer, testified to conversation wifi
Mrs. Griswold in which the latter said
that Aifs. Drlschman was robbing her
and depriving her Of the use of her
money.
Mrs. Griswold told me-" said Dewey
that Mrs. Drischman was liar and q
thief, that she had stolen everything
she had possessed, had torn the rings
from her fingers and the diamonds
from her ears, and that she had not
had new gown in five years"
He said that he advised her to CON
suit another attorney, as Carlton God
frey. her counsel at the time, was at
torney also for Mrs Drischman. At
her suggestion, he said, he made an APP
pointment for her with another LAWYER.
only to receive shortly afterward let
ter from Mrs. Grswold in which she
oidcd him for living to her" and
protested her confidence in the good
Intentions Of Mrs. Drisehman ard her
present attorney.
81 am certain she was forced TO write