MAY HAVE USED CLOROFORM.
Thief Took Mrs. Prouty's Money, but
Missed Watches.
It was reported to the police yesterday morning that a burglar had entered the home of Mrs. W. F. Prouty, 3842 East Tenth street, and after attempting to chloroform Mrs. Prouty, had stolen a chatelaine bag containing $40.
The burglar entered at a kitchen window and made his way to the room where Mr. and Mrs. Prouty slept. Not twenty feet away in a room with only portieres between slept Grover Cook, a son-in-law, and his wife. She thought it was her husband, but found him asleep beside her. Then she called her daughter. As she did so a chair was overturned. Then she aroused the household with her cries. Her pillow and night dress were wet with a liquid which all took to be chloroform.
Physicians say that a sleeping person can not be chloroformed, the odor of the anaesthetic being so pungent as to awaken one at once. It is only on the stage that it is a success. The burglar left a valuable watch belonging to Mr. Prouty, who is a Missouri Pacific engineer, and another belonging to Mrs. Prouty.
