Briggs Hall Girls Searched After $133 Dormitory Theft

Briggs Hall residents were searched individually last night after $43.50 was stolen from dormitory rooms. Robberies this year now total $133.50.

This was the latest in a fall-long series of Briggs Hall thefts. Prior to last night, girls had suffered losses of $90, despite repeated warnings by the head resident that they keep listings of serial numbers of their large-denomination bills.

At 6:55 p.m. yesterday evening four girls reported losses from their rooms of $28, $3.50, $5, and $7, respectively. The robbery could only have occurred during dinner.

Mrs. Mason Garfield, head resident, immediately rang the fire bell, summoning all 96 Hall-members downstairs. White she and other hall functionaries lined the girls up to be searched, their rooms were also thoroughly combed for the missing money.

The search had no definite results, Mrs. Garfield said.

A Cambridge police car arrived at 8 p.m. for a 20-minute stay. It was reported that the police took the ransacked pocket-books to the Central Square station for fingerprints, planning to return later to fingerprint all Briggs Hall residents.

All suspicion for this latest theft rested on members of the Briggs dormitory, residents said, since no one else was allowed upstairs at this time.

Complying with a request from the hall, Cambridge police decided not to list the robbery on their blotter. This was done, according to Miss Garfield, in the hope that the thief would return the stolen bonds and avoid the necessity for further police intervention.