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The Washington times., 1922-04-16
Little Miss Elizabeth, Daugh.
ter of Countess de Conturbia
and Granddaughter of Mrs.
Griswold, Who Was Entirely
Forgotten I'm the Will.

v.HE butchers wife who inherited Mrs
Alice Gerry Griswold's 100000 es
tate will have to give Il all back
Charlie Miller, the chauffeur, must turn up
his gift automobile and his cottage and
the sparklers that gave him the compare.
lively new sobriquet OF Diamond Charlie. :
And the butchers wife's relatives must dis
gorge valuable property recently and mys
teriously possessed
Countess Anna St.. Clair da Conturbla
has seen to all that. The Countess broke
her mothers will in an Atlantic City court
a few days ago
From Mrs. Griswold, her mother, she re
ceived as a legacy paltry $500. The rest
OF the fortune went to Mary M. Drischman,
who made her first money over a washtub,
rose to the dignity of presiding genius be.
hind a butchers block, and ended by be
coming known as the "petticost realty
genius" OF Atlantic City, N. J.
How we'll she deserved that last title Is
open to question. In court she actually
became "a witness against herself" con.
Tossing that during the four years or so
she administered Mrs. Griswold's estate
It had shrunk, under her watchful care
from 100000 to $4,000.
The wealthy Mrs. Griswold was the niece
of Elbridge Gerry. related by marriage to
the Vanderbilts and allied to the Napo-
leonic line in America by marriage to Mel
vile Patterson. nephew OF Betty Patter-
son, the wife OF Jerome Bonaparte, one
time King of Westphalia. Thrice married,
once widowed. once divorced and separated
from her last husband, Mrs. Griswold left
many unexplained questions to be cleared
up in her personal history
Seldom has any court been confronted
with such mass of contradictory evidence
as Judge Robert H. Ingersou listened to-
He Aas faced with the perplexing problem
OF trying TO decide how It was that the
aged Mrs Griswold expressed her love and
layished costly gifts on those who gave
her drugs and afterward accused them OF
keeping her prisoner and plotting to de
priye her Of all her valuables.
The wealthy, educated and aristocratic
Mrs Griswold literally gave away a peck
of jewels. One day the shirt front and
ring finger OF Charlie Miller. her chauffeur,
blazoned with valuable diamonds that
shortly before hung from his mistress's
ears. Not long after, this same Charlie
Miller was condemnG, by her as a jailor
and accused OF binding her with ropes until
blood ran from her wrists
She purchased an expensive automobile
and dressed up the none-too-dashing mid
dle-aged figure OF Mr. Miller to conform 10
the dignity of the equipage, only to give
him the automobile for keeps a short time
afterward, with house thrown into the
bargain.
With the broad.featured. heavily.built.
somewhat dowdy and fifth class"-as she
called her-Mrs, Drischman, the former
Baltimore society belle was most kind,
why. look at the beautiful presents she
gave me-" said Mrs. Drischman; "a $4,000
ermine coat from Revillon Bros, endless
clothes and other valuable things, includ-
ing diamoBd-studded5 wrist watch, the
smallest of It's kind in the world. On one
The Washington times., 1922-04-16

titled daughter in
Italy about the
time Mrs. Drisch.
man took charge,
in spite of the
ia ct that her prop
erty was paying
big dividends?
My dear Clair
Il have not writ
ten you for a long
time, as l have
been so worried
over my business
affairs. I found
that | was being
robbed at the rate
of $4,000 a year,
and l had to take
the advice of a
lawyer. He ad-
vised me to make
a deed OF trust,
so that all their
noses would be
cut OF and you
and the children
would be proyid-
ed for"
The Washington times., 1922-04-16

tage Which Mrs. Girls o.
void Generously Pre-
sented to Him, Together
with The Automobile.
occasion she paid SIS for
dinner for Just us two And
] have seen the time when
$1,000 for flowers was q
small bill for her to pay
whenever a few friends. in
cludine myself were to,
gether for a good time
And yet this is the same
Mrs Drischman whom she
afterward denounced as
liar and thief
or her daughter the Count
ess da Conturbia she wrote:
my daughter my own child.
has broken my heart. She
has taken sides openly with
my enemies" And opposed
to this Is a letter to the
Countess reading "AlI my
property goes to you and the ~
children
What mysterious motive
wrought such sudden and
contradictory changes in Mrs. Girls.
wolds mind? Why did she love a per.
son one moment and hate the next? DR..
Roy WoolbeTt, who attended the former
distinguished society woman, supplied the
answer in his testimony at the trial OF the
suit to break Mrs. Griswold's will
"She possessed a dual mind. She was
Jekyll-Hyde character In real life.. Two
widely different personalities struggled
within her. Under the one she was her
true self, faithful to her education and
exclusive society training. When the other
was in ascendency she turned against her
own flesh and blood and looked upon
strangers, servants and people below her
social strata as her true friends"
DIR. Woolbert gave 1t as his opinion that
veronal, a drug Mrs Griswold first took
as sleeping potion, set up a dual men
tality In her brain. "Veronal," he said,
leaves scars on the body and in the
brain which cannot be eradicated even by
the lapse of years"
Mrs. Griswold often took as rIuch as
25O grains a week.
DR.. Hutchins. who once attended Mrs
Griswold after she had taken an overdose
OF the drug, was compelled to apply heroic
measures to keep her awake; and Dr. Mad
den, OF Pleasantville, near where she
passed her last days, acknowledged that
he prescribed IT'S ivegrain tablets OF
veronal for Mrs Griswold IN two months,
and that she had so accustomed herself to
Its use that denying Ter the drug would
have been dangerous.
"A vacillating mind" according to DR..
Woolbert, 'is the distinguishing character
istic OF the effects of veronal, creating a
kind OF dual personality. Under its sopo-
rihc influence the passions, hatreds and
loves OF one personality act through the
body, only TO give way soon after to the
likes and disiikes that accord with an en-.
tirely different type Of character"
The Washington times., 1922-04-16

girls, from whom
Mrs. Drischman's
benefactor inher-
tied S250,000 a
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

Obscure individuals belonging TO the
jetsam OF Eastern Europe. which col
iects here. are able often to carry out
their fiendish outrages with personal
impunity as shown by the recent muir
der Of two Turks. supposedly by Arme-
MANS
People who go out after saloon clos
ing time do so at their own risk, for
holdups by might hawks" are frequent,
even in the central streets. The police
crime squad Is greatly troubled in trac-
ing the miscreants. who seem to find
less difficulty In crossing the made
quately controlled Russian frontiers
than other borders, where bothersome
passport formalities vex even bona fide
travellers.
The police for the first time this week
tried new method of Identifying a
young man who had been shot in the
head In West End street. They pla-
carded description of mis- body with a
reproduction of his death mask, so that
the ghastly picture stared at all behold
ers.
One sardonic newspaper commentator
points out that an easy way to get rich
quick would be to solve half dozer
crime puzzles and reap rewards that
have been offered aggregating quar-
ter of a million marks
The New York herald., 1922-04-30
SOVIET FORMS TRUSTS
TAKING 81 PER CENT.
German Manufacturers Get
49 in B0lsheUist Plan.

specioi Cable 70 THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
Copyright, p92g. bv THE New YoaK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Berlin. April 20. !
The Bolshevki and German manufac-
turers are working together on the pro-
gram for the formation of large COM
mercial combines and industrial trusts
for facilitating trade and restoring life
to Russian industry.
A member of the German commission
negotiating with the Bolsheviks said
that they have reached an agreement
whereby German investors will supply
40 per cent. of the capital and the Boil
sheviki 81 per cent. in serious effort
to build up Russia's basic industries.
But the Germans will not risk their
money until private property has been
given such legal guarantees as other
Powers have recognized as ample
The New York herald., 1922-04-30
If Miners Win Lewis Will
Probably Renew Combat
With Gompers.
UNIoNIsM FACING CRISIS
Conservatives, With Backs to
Wall, Blame Radicals for
Unsatisfactory Situation.
spscid: Dispatch to THE NV YouK HmALD.
New York Herald Bureau.

spscid: Dispatch to TIM NV YouK HmALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
WAshlngton. d. c., April 20.
Radicalisn is preparing to battle
conservatism for control Of the policy
Of organized labor ut the annual con-
vention OF the American Federation of
Labor scheduled 10 open June 10 at
Cincinnati.
President Samuel Gompers and
members OF the executive council. who
represent the conservative wing of the
organization, VIII draw up their plan
of ,:efense at meeting May 10.
Radical leaders. Socialists from the
garment trades and some of the dele
sates from Cleveland, Detroit and the
Pacific coast will organize at a caucus
which probably will be held during the
opening days Of tho convention.
President Goanpers. Il he wants to be
reelected. may be obliged to fight for
tho position. as no did last year at the
1,onvcnt,on :is Denver, when he defeat
Ell John L. Lewis. president of the
United None Workers os America,
Supporting Oompers are Matthew
Vol Of Chicago. John Tooin of Indian
Apoiis and James Duncan. vice-president
os the federation and head of the
Granite Guitars Union.
t:cmpers thus far has rot indicated
whether he will be a candidate for re-
election, hu. Il is generally beloved he
will be nominated as matter OF course.
With the exception OF one term he has
Sulled the federation since its begin
nirE. more than half a century ago.
Probably never in the federation's
history has organized labor been go
little supported as now. Assailed on
every side the organization is flghting
with its back to the wall. In numerous
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

arbitration. the open shop movement
and the coal strike.
Should the coal strike still be in
progress when the convention meets, the
miners delegates will seek to obtain all
and moral support from the delegates.
The form in'which this will be requested
may precipitate struggle. although the
convention is logically bound to support
almost any strike undertaken to advance
the principles of trade unionism.
Should the coal strike result in VIC
tory for the miners before the opening
Of the convention, John l.. Lewis would
be in a very strong position. it Is pointed
out, to battle Gompers again for ma
tional leadership.
The New York herald., 1922-04-30
BERLIN NOW. CENTER
OF MYSTERY MURDERS
Both Sexes Supply Victims for
Night SIayings.

BERLIN. April 29 (Associated Press .
Mysterious murders OF both sexes
have been occurring almost nightly in
Berlin. The motives generally are at
tributed to robbery or to political jeal-
ousy. or both.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-23
Town OF Paramount
Show. Progressive
Spirit IN Many Linas

Paramount, N. D., Feb S1.-1SMS
residences and public places AZ sthieN
place are. rapidly being conneetAds to
the water and sewer systems, newly
The town already enjoys excellent
railroad service, being ats2the juno
ton OF four railroads which give u
thirteen passenger trains daily. These.
~conveniences and an up-to-dake elsc-
trio lighting and power system, which
operates at very reasonable rates give
the people of Paramount the advAn-
tages Of the modern city, local people
maintain. F4t nc M
These features arc attracting the At
tention of capital and industrial con
Germs, it is believed, and the Gamble
Robinson Wholesale Fruit company
and tho Standard Oil company arr
operating thriving branches here,
headquarters at this place, has already
extended its furnishing business into
four different states. The operation
of a Wholesale grocery enterprise
from this point Is practically assured
for next summer, and a heavy volume
Of business is also iii prospect for the
large flour min and creamery the
coming season.
Following thep olicy Of the better
and more progressive city school sys.
tens, the local board Of education
has rendered a ~.three-year contract.
at d graduated yearly salary increase,
to the present superintendent, e. 0.
Durocher, and to the principal OF the
high school. The school system en-
ploys thirteen teachers and includes
4 first, class state high school which
is accredited to the North Central as
| ISOLATION, but 1t is already ,~overtaxed
and very 1naterial engagements are
being planned for the next year.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-23
TOWN OF HANNAH
HAS FIFTH SERIOUS
FIRE IN TWO YEARS

Hannah. N. d., Feb. 23.-This VIII
lage suffered its fifth serious fire in
two years when a blaze starting In
V~incent's grocery store n restaur-
ant destroyed a large portion of the
business section of the town Wednes-
day forenoon.
The buildings destroyed were:
Vincent's grocery store and restau-
rant. George Bullock's residence, the
post office, Sprague's restaurant, and
Mcknight brothers meat market
There was a heavy northwest wind
and absolutely nothing was saved x
cept the books and papers from the
meat market.
No statement as to the amount OF
loss and amount of insurance carried
has as yet been made.
The first Of the five fires VISITING
Hannah in he past two years like
wise occurred on Washington's birth
day, SCOTS hotel being destroyed at
that time.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-23
State TO Lose Money
Through Imperfect Law

Bismarck. N. D.. Feb. 23.-An over
Nght in tho 1919 session OF the legis-
lhture win deprive the state OF North.
Dakota ct tax on state. bank stocks
estimated to amount to $4,000 in.
1920 and $4,000 in 1921.
The supreme court, in the case Of
the Farmers State Bank OF Page.
against the state tax commissioner
and the treasurer and sheriff Of Cass
county, holds that. stock in state
banks Is not taxable.
Tho 1919 session Of the legislature
repealed the money and credits act,
which provided that money and cred
its, including stocks and bonds. were
exempt from taxation. An. income
tax was substituted. Through what
Is believed by tho tax commandments
office to have been an overnight on
the part of legislators, the law was
left in such shape that the supreme
court holds that bank stocks still are
exempt from taxation.
A QAse somewhat similar is pend
ing in federal courts in which the
right of the state to tax national bank
stock is questioned.
Judges Christiapson and Bronson
disqualified in the case, because both
own stock, and District Judges Nuessle
and Berry sat in the case. Judge
Grace dissented from the opinion of
the majority.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-23
ONLY TWO FREE MEALS.

Murphysboro, Ill. - Unemployed
transients are given two free meals
by the city and then told to move
on"
Residents of Murphysboro have
been asked to send anyone begging
for food at their doors to the city
Jail where the meals are served. May
or Davis and the city council decided
upon the plan. Money to provide the
meals comes from municipal funds.
Police authorities declared that the
plan was put into effect to prevent
numbers of unemployed men from
spending the winter here and begging
food from the people. Each applicant
is required to register for the meals.
The plan also aims to prevent crime,
the police saying hat a person with
food is not likely to turn to crime to
obtain nourishment. Homeless mel
sleep in the city Jail at night.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-23

Bismarck. NJ a., Feb. 23.-Justice
] p. Robinsont OF the supreme court,
ID not certain that he will retire from
public. Office with the conclusion of
hts-term next January. I
Replying to queries AZ to truth OF
rumors that he would not be aicandi-
date to succeed hinntelf. Judge Robin
son said that he had intended to res
tire at the conclusion Of his six-year
term, but that recently many friends
have insisted that he should run and
that he-was uncertain what he would
do,
ut depends a good deal. upon who
the candidates are" said the Judge.
'Iflthe candidates wonld-make good
Judges I probably would not let my
name be entered"
Judge. Robinson is nov much en-
crossed in several proposed Initiative
laws, for whichvh has prepared and
is circulating petitions. He wants the
laws voted on in tho June pRimaries.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-23
Northwestern NeWS
Farmers Week Program
In Progress AT Maddox

Maddox. n. Dr. Feb. c3.-Max
Morgan and Franklin Page and Presiv
dent John L. Coulter are the leading
agricultural workers addressing meet
ings here today in connection with
the farmers short course held at the
Benson County Agricultural school.
The short, course began, Tuesday.
today follows:
$3.50 Music - Agricultural college
orchestra.
$3.50 Address, Introductory Ar
thur Dixon, Rolla.
1880 Care of the Dairy Product
Franklin Page. Hamilton.
11:10 Music, Clarinet" Sclo-Alma
Foss.
1920 More Milk for Benson County
Max Morgan. Fargo.
AFTERNOON.
1880 Music Agricultural schoo'
orchestra.
1850 How Benson co. Can Get More
Dairy Cows-Max Morgan. +,
2:2o Community Dairy Herd Devel-
opment-Franklin age.
500 Sons, Mighty Like a Rose"
-Quartette.
$40 Forming a Cow Testing Akso-
ciation-Max Morgan,
$40 Crop Rotation and Dairyine
Arthur Dixon.
4:00 Lunch. @
4:30 a General Dairy Discussion
Max Morgan. leader.
Evening.
1880 Music - Agricultural Schoo
orchestra~
1850 Address. Farm Credits
John Lee Coulter. president
of the Agricultural college.
$3.50 Butterfly Dance-Mabel Yves.
trum, Gertrude, Bickle AND
Pauline Thorson.
900 Basketball Game Maddox
High vs.. Darlington.
The short our will close Friday
afternoon.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-23
Newspaper Plant Burned
In Small Manitoba Town

Plumas, Man, Feb. .3.-Fire to-
tally destroyed the Office and plant
of the Plun.as Standard. the local
weekly newspaper. Wednesday,. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
The conflasration was first noticed
about s O'Clock. and the flames had
then gained great Roadway in the
storeroom over the print shop. !.
strong wind was blowing and in a
very hort time the entire building
was a mass Of flames. There Is nc
f1re-fghtins apparatus here, and j
was only the strenuous efforts of the
citizens which saved surrounding
buildings. including the Maple Leal
hotel and the residence Of A. C. Nun.
roe.
The Plumas Standard Is owned. b.
w. H. King. formerly of Winnipeg
who took over proprietorship abou'
three years ago. The plant, paper
stock and building were insured fol
$4,000.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-23
DIVERSIFIED
FARMING WEEK
! PLANS READY
Stuts1nan County Has Mod
Ell Program Outlined;
Nestos to Speak.

Fargo, N. D., Feb. 2S.-"Plans for
Diversified Farming Week to North
Dakota, March 6 to IL, indicate that
at that time the most thorough and
intensified campaign in the history OF
the state will be staged to put the ag-
ricultural industry on a permanent
and more profitable basis" was the
statement made today by Gordon w.
Randlett, director of the North Da-
kotA extension division.
information received from the
county agricultural agents in 35 coun-
ties of the state show that they are
planning programs which will include
every community at which the neces-
sary notifications in the farming
practices of that particular district
will be presented
Plans Model Program.
County Agent r. s. Goodhue Of
Stutsman county presents a. typical
program for the week in a letter to
County Agent Leader John w. Haw.
Ny. Goodhue plans a meeting for each
day. to be held at Windsor, James
town, Eldridge, Pingree, C~lementsville
and Ypsilanti. Dairying. potatoes and
forage crops will be the subjects en-
phasized at these meetings. In addi-
ton to the county agent, Edgar L.
Olson, state superintendent of demon
strajon farms, will speak at all of
these meetings, also n ,ocal farmer.
The big meeting of the week for
Stutsman county will be held at
Jamestown the second day, Tuesday,
March z, when it is planned to have
Governor Nestos for ,the principal
speaker of the day. N. N. German, of
the Agricultural college. chairman OF
the state committee which is investi-
eating complaints, regarding the mar
keting of potatoes from North Dako-
ia, will give a. report of the facts es-
tablisfed in this investigation.
All Counties Plan Program.
Similar programs are planned for
, the week in each of the counties
which employ agricultural agents
and at all of the meetings the Names
of the formers who are interested in
the different projects will be taken sc
that the agent may cooperate with
them during the yea in a practica.
way. !
The state farmers institute force.
will have charge of the programs il
n 15 counties of the state which DE-
not employ county agents.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-23
Seed Lem Mortgage, To
Be Renewed IN Bottineau

Bottineau. n. D.. Feb. 23.--The, Bot
tineau county treasurer has been au-
thorized blythe board Q f+county com-
missioners to release all scotland feed
liens on land on which mortgages are
to DC renewed after the Bottine eau
County Abstract, company died with
the treasurer a statement showing the
amount of the original mortgage and
the amount Of the new mortgage,
which shall not be greater than the
original mortgage plus taxes and in
terest due, it being understood that
the seed and feed liens are to be re.
filed Immediately.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-23
GOVERNOR MADE SCOUT

Plerfe. 8. D., FEB. 22.-lmpressive
ceremonies held in the governor re-
ception room in the state house
marked the occasion Of comforting the
degree Of honorary tenderfoot scout
upon Governor W. Fl. McMaster by
Pierre Troop No. l of the Boy Scouts
Of America
Governor McAaster repeated the
scout oath and received tho pin of
that organization while the entire
troop stood at attention. Following
the ceremony the governor expressed
his appreciation Of the honor con-
ferred upon him, promised to adhere
to the scout law and extended an in
vita&ion to his fellow scouts to make
his private office informal calls at any
time.