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Show HEIRESS FORCED TO SIGN RIGHTS NEW YORK, June 21. Charges that Miss Gertrude Claypoole. niece and heir to one-fifth of the $10,000,000 estate left by John W. Bookwalter of Columbus, Ohio, had been drugged, held as a prisoner pris-oner in a Newark hotel and forced to sign away certain of her rights in the estate were laid before District Attorney Edward Swann today. The complaint was made by J. M. Sheets of Columbus, Miss Claypoole's attorney, as an outgrowth out-growth of a contest over the estate. According to the charges. Miss Claypoole, Clay-poole, who is 42 years of age, was taken from her hotel here to the office of an attorney by a woman who administered drugs to her and at the attorney's office was Induced to sign a revocation of power of attorney she had given a lawyer and also a revocation of a will. Miss Claypoole was then taken, she avers, to a hotel In Newark, where she . was held a virtual prisoner for two days. , Her friends traced her there, they say, , and telephoned the woman who accom-: accom-: panied her that unless Miss Claypoole was restored to them within twenty-four : hours they would notify the police. At 3 o'clock the following morning, according accord-ing to the story, a woman friend of Miss : Claypoole's in New York was called to her" door by a taxicab driver, who said , he had a "woman to deliver." Miss Clay-: Clay-: poole was In the bottom of the taxicab, ' clothed only In her night clothes. She I alleged she had been carried down eleven I stories on a hotel fire escape. I NEWARK, N. J., June 21. An emergency emer-gency session of the grand jury was called late today by Judge Martin to consider the story told by Miss Gertrude Claypoole of being kidnaped from New-York New-York and brought here; of a hasty exit from a hotel down a fire escape in the dead of night; a fight for the possession of valuable papers and other articles left ' behind in the hotel here. It was reported unofficially that an indictment in-dictment was quickly found. |