 She had returned home after a day trip to Put-in-Bay to find her house "ransacked and the floor strewn with empty boxes, books and other articles".She claimed the diamonds were a gift from her son, who had recently died in Seattle.She commented to reporters, "I have no idea who did the 'job,' and I am unhappy to think that men would do such a thing to an old woman who devotes a large income to prison relief work."