MAY HAVE USED CLOROFORM. ~ Thief Took Mrs. Prouty's Money, but Missed Watches.

April 5, 1908
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.