The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-21
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Although n great rleil u Icwolrv q spnlc
rUmrs krti ~ lhp rlub by mrmiria u was
p%asrt,cl positively to-day tl,nt lhi. was the
0fs' ,ewrl fubbety that tie olub has ever
sruVn Mr. Neycf il the founder and
IIrsidnnt u The club, and The fact that he
'l.uld Ia the victim Of this unusual Uo-
,N'rnuoo IL aid IA have pccatipnrd uo end
~ .Irrri-e aud n great deal ~ regret among
thr uembere. II was aaid to-day that any
Cur who knew the interest Mr., Meyer takes
Nv the club would know how keenly he would
feoI such ~ thing apart from the loss the
oWclry would mean In itsclf. The stun was
AIKEN ont Of Mr.. Meyers level Ca- while
his valet was out Of the room. The Jewel
,asa was rifed Of everything 1t contained.
The jewels were not memorandum goods
nlt we're Mr.. Meyers personal property.
MIR. Meyer II one Of a dozen members
who have regular apartments at the club
In the summer. He has a suite on the
md Annr TI,,,Yb In r1ItI hna IA ar.p
era valet for those members who alta
overnight, Mr., Meyer keeps a personal
valet and one of his duties was TO look
after his employers iewelry.
There ha We been some very rigid rules
regarding the proper costumes to be worn
by members at the club. and one member
was expelled for drinking highballs on the
veranda without u coat. but there has
never been any rule forbidding members
tO bring iewelry into the clubhouse or to
keep it there. According to the police who
went up to the club to investigate the rob-
berry, some of the members have ROW
very careless in this respect and hay been
e ving their jewelry around very improp-
rely guarded, considering the amount there
seemed to he Of it.
Mr.. Meyer, for instance, kept his iewelry,
80 the police learned, in his jewel case In
the top drawer of his chiffonier. When
the jewelry was not in use the dra wer with
the jewel case would he locked and the key
placed in an ad Joining drawer, which would
be left unlocked.
Mr.. Never was at the clubhouse on Sun
day, al the last seen of his jewelry was at
73O Sunday evening when his valet, John
Mccullough, say that lie put it all away
in the case. Mr.. Meyer does not take of
his rings upon retiring and consequently
the stuff stolen consisted entirely OF pins,
chains and studs, about thirty pieces alto
gether.
Mr.. Meyer, according to the police, was
about the club in the evening, but he was
not wearing any Of his jewelry. The fol-
lowing morning, while Mr.. Meyer wa in the
tub, at 6 o'clock, his valet took out his jewel
case to see that the jewelry was all there.
The key was in its proper place all right =,
but when he opened the case there wasn't
even a chip diamond left. Everything
valet screamed and Mr., Meyer jumped out
Of the tub and started an investigation.
Fortunately he still had his rings and his
watch is said to have been left under the
pillow.
The police of White Plains were called
TO the club on Monday. They had an ex-
animation of all the club SER ants, number
ing about fifteen, including three Wallets.
They found hat a chamEermaid visited the
room every evening just before Mr., Meyer
retired in order to III n down the covers for
him. They also learned that another
visit is made by a hallboy, who brings water
to the room before Mr.. Meyer goes to led.
The chambermaid and the hallboy both aid
they knew nothing Of the robbery. The
police were told that Mr.. Meyer had abso-
lutte confidence in his valet, whom he had
had for three year,. Thee were about ten
members sleeping in the club on Sunday
night. Despite the amount of .iawelry That
the police we're told was in the club at the
time, no attempt seems to have been TRde
to steal any besides that belonging t" Mr..
lie er.
A partial list of the stuff comprising the
Meyer collection was given GU by the police
to-day. There We're Sc 'ernl Inc diamond
pieces, according to the police. One was a
woman's head encr1Isted wit h diamonds. Mr..
Meyer occasional y wore his in his cra"at.
Another piece, also worn as a scarfpin, as
described by the police, was "a fine goose,
all diamonds These pieces We're described
to the police bv the va let, Among the other
pieces, all scarfpins, We're a gold polo club,
diamond collar n whip, gold trumpet,
gold buckle set with diamonds, gold safety
pin, horses head set with diamonds, heart
get with diamonds, two dogs heads. rough
Tearl and diamond pin and a lot of OF her
jewelry, such as cuff buttons and collar
buttons. pearl studs and IN like. Despite
the attempt made at the club 10 minimize
the loss, the police understand that it was
one Of the finest collections of its kind at
the club, excluding of course large stones.
When the robbery first became known
the idea is said to have been advanced
that possibly Mr.. Meyer had lost the iewelry
while playing golf, but the valet is now
positive that he put all the stuff In the jewel
case at 7:30. 1t was also suggested that 1t
might be a joke possibly by a member who
wanted to get even for being made to wear
his coat when he didn't want to.
As the creator Of the club MIR, Meyer has
taken more or less charge o. it and has been
a pretty strict censor when it came TO what
costumes should be worn The fact that
one never sees a coatless man now on its
verandas is due more to Mr.. Meyer than to
anyone else, il is said. Ii was two sum-
mers ago that the report was brought in
one hot afternoon hat one of the members
had gone 70 far as to sit on the veranda
with his wife and a woman friend in the
shirt in which he had been laying golf
and without his coat. Mr.. Meyer is said
to have been the person who took II upon
himself, hard as it was, to go out and remind
the member that he was costumed in viola
ton Of all country club etiquette and that
he must put on his coat Immediately.
The man refused, and a great deal OF
u~npleasantness arose in the club Tor a
time. 1t resulted in this member. is said,
beng asked to leave-which he did, Since
then nobody has tried to break the rule.
Members are permitted to be seen IN shirts
on the grounds If they are indulging IN
sports, but coats must be worn in the club
house. II was observed by visitors to-day
that all shirts or the verandas were COW
erod.
The club superintendent said today
tha' Mr.. Meyer was taking a bath. and nat