Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-07
SAY PHILADELPHIA
HE|RESS HAS BEEN
HIDDEN IN CONVENT
Relatives Silent on Report That
Roberta de JanOn Is
Found.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. Z. - Rumors
are still In the air that Miss Roberta
b. de Janon, h young heiress who dis
appeared from this city about the same
time that Ferdinand Cohen, a hotel
walter, dropped from sight on Deem
Der 20, has been found and taken to
some quiet place away from the scene
of her alleged escapade. The report
that the girl had been returned to the
apartments of her millionaire grand
father at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
are incorrect. Another report that the
missing girl was on the farm of w.
Atlee Burpee, a wealthy personal friend
of Robert BUST. the grandfather, was
also said to be ~unfounded. Another
story in circulation was that Miss de
Janon had been located and secretly
aiken to a convent.
All these reports arose from the mys-
-erious and secretive attitude assumed
~ high police officials and others close
~ identified in the search for the girl.
some of these refuse to confirm or deny
anything, while others merely disclaim
knowledge of the finding of Miss de
Janon, who, with Cohen, were searched
for in many cities, including Newark,
n. ].
While those interested in the extraor-
binary case decline to talk of the ru-
mored finding of Miss de Janon they do
not hesitate to say that nothing is
known of the whereabouts of Cohen.
Following the report of the recovery
of the heiress there was a secret con-
ference in the Union League Club be-
tween Mr.. BUST, Henry F.. Walton, his
counsel; Atlee Burpee, Howard Earls
and Detectives Scanlon and Emman-
uel. They showed considerable agita-
ton when told of the report, but re-
fused &c make any comment.
Both here and at New York police
headquarters 1t was declared that the
officials had received no information
concerning the discovery of the girl.
This led to the belief that Miss de
Janon had been found b.. private de-
t~eetives engaged by Mr.. BUST and that
efforts were being made to suppress
the news until Cohen had been appre-
hended.
It was openly stated by those work.
ing on the case that there was a con
spiracy that had blackmail as its OBJ
ject in OBTAINING h girl.
Cohen, it was reported. finding that
detectives we're close on his. trail. had
deserted the girl n was making a
desperate break for liberty.
NEW YORK, Jan. If Roberta de
Janon, the young Philadelphia heiress,
and Ferdinand Cohen, the waiter who
strangely disappeared at the same
time, have been found in this city, as
reported, the police profess ignorance
of the fact. Ferdinand de Janon, father
of the girl. today declared that SO far
as III knew his daughter and the
waiter had not been found.
The report that Roberta de Janon
had peer found was based on an al
legged long-distance telephone COM
munication which Ferdinand de Janon
is said to have had with Robert BUST,
the wealthy grandfather of the girl, in
Philadelphia. In this communication
the father is reported to have informed
the grandfather that Roberta had been
and that he expected the ar
rest of the waiter tomorrow. Mr.. de
Janon denies that there was such u
telephone communication.
An entry on the Hotel Bayard regis
ter of IF. II. Cone and wife. Boston,
on December 81 in handwriting identi-
by Mrs. Cohen. the deserted wife,
as that of her husband. has led the
detectives to believe that Cohen and
The heiress were in this city. But three
lays later this couple left the Bayard,
called a taxicab to take them to a
Boston steamship pier, left the cab on
he way and boarded an uptown ere-
train. That is the last heard
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