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CHICAGO POLICE DO NOT BE LIEVE THE STORY. Housebreakers Would Not Have Tried to Use Chloroform Sen sational Incidents in Which the Potter Family Have Figured. Chicago, Nov. 15.—Neither the police nor the Potters are doing any real hard Sherlock Holmes work on the trail of the burglar who woke up the Potter household between 1 and 2 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mrs. Potter's wound is now very slight, instead of very severe, and a look of disgust crosses Captain Colleran’s face when the case is mentioned. This burglar, it is known, must have entered the house through Miss. Mar garet Potter’s chamber window, passed by her bed without disturbing her maiden shambers, gone by five bed room doors and entered Mrs. Potter's room. Where, Instead of taking the jewel case which lay in full view in the moonlight, he wasted his energies in trying to chloroform Mrs. Potter and struck her a blow when she ob jected to the drug. Lieutenant Perry, who has handled criminals for thirty years, said yester day: “No robber, who has sensed enough to get into a house like that, is foolish enough to try to use chloroform. Every burglar knows that it is impossible to choroform a sleeping person. The first breath of the drug will awaken the sleeper. No one can be chloro formed unconsciously. ‘He or she must either consent to it or be forced. «I do not believe there was a robbery or attempt at robbery. 3 The Potter family have queer things happen to them at frequent intervals. Miss ‘Margaret Potter holds the lime light in recent years. When her novel, “A Social Lion,’ came out a few years since under the nom de ‘plume of “Robert Dolly “Williams,” Chicago swelldom had a duck fit. Seventeen-year-old girls are not ex pected to know one-tenth ‘part the knowing things that got into that book —still less to hang them around the necks of their most intimate friends. Miss Margaret's “coming out” was de ferred, and Papa Potter went to buy ing up the edition on a bull market. The last 26 copies cost him $25 apiece. Mrs. Potter herself is a very beauti ful woman and is an aunt of the very lively Princess, Chiinay, who was, be fore her marriage to the Prince, Clara Ward of Detroit. The police hint that it might be well to look up the whereabouts of Eugene Dunnivant in the present episode. Ev eryone will recall the story. Eugene Dunnivant,a schoolboy, newsboy, convict, was 4 ° fair-haired Scotch boy, peddling papers about the North Side. He left the papers at the Potter mansion. Gertrude Potter, daughter of the rich rolling mills man, learned to love the newsboy and he learned to love her. They were children, and the parents frowned of the attachment. One day Eugene went to the peni tentiary, on a charge of burglary. The girl who lived in the big house appar ently forgot him. Then friends inter ceded for Dunnivant and secured his release. . He came ‘out of Joliet and immediately. gave notice that he would start suit. for $100, 000 against Orry W. Potter. He asserted that he had ‘been sent to ‘the penitentiary in order to make it impossible for him. to‘see little Ger trude. The suit was hushed up before it reached the courts, ‘but it served to startle Chicago, and was the talk of the town, for years. The latest information obtainable is that when a young Donnivant gave up his suit he went to California. _ It is hinted that, since his departure a year ago he has returned to the city. Herman Moecker hied himself ‘to Polly's Landing, up the river, yester day afternoon to join the ‘illustrious Will Watson and the other local celeb rities, who are hunting in the surround ing country.
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Quincy Daily Herald
Quincy, Illinois, US
Thu, Nov 15, 1900
Page 4
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