The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-04
HAAS HOME ROBBED
OF $4,000 IN GEMS
Detectives Say Theft Looks
Like Work Of the
Master "Fpnce."
HE RIFLES SUMMER HOMES
Credited With Burglaries at
Newport Last Year Of
Over 100000.

The summer home OF Harry l.. Haas
1u.t outside Long Branch was robbed OF
$4,000 worth OF jewelry on Wednesday
night. Although the thief was seen
leaving a room by a maid. he got away
and the police have only a faint descrip-
ton by which to trace him.
Mr.. and Mrs Haas and her mother in
law. Mrs. Louis Haas, were at a moving
picture show at the time OF the robbery.
The thief slipped in the back way and
had helped himself to the jew sls belong
ing to the two women when ne was seen
coming from the room OF Mrs Louis
Haas by a maid, Mary Kruger.
She screamed and called the butler.
John Tsak but when ne reached her side
the burglar had disappeared. The maid
says ne was tall and wore a gray cap.
The police think that he dropped from
a window after being discovered and
got away without injury.
Got . 100000 Necklace.
Mrs. Haas returned soon after and
when told Of the robbery rushed upstairs
to where she had left her jewel box.
Everything In It had been taken. She
had left in 1t her 100000 pearl necklace.
a pearl and diamond ring. two pearl
rinEs, one ruby and one diamond ring.
one amethyst square ring set with rubies
and diamonds. q gold mesh bag. dia-
mond studded vanity box and four cameo
rings over 200 years old and highly
treasured.
Mrs. Louis Haas's Jewel casket was
also emptied Of everything OF value.
She lost q pearl necklace valued at $1S.-
900. two diamond and emerald rings.
diamond bracelet and amethyst bracelet
and her wedding ring.
while regret my loss very much,
what pains mo most u tho loas Of the
SsVsis taken from Mr.. Haass mother"
said Mrs. Haas last night. This u the
first summer she has spent here in
tWUuty years. She = getting along
in years and unless her jewels arc
recovered she can never replace them.
I am young and can get others. It b
lucky foe us that We sent most Of our
jswsh to Q safe deposit vault before
leaving tor the shore. ! have the great.
ct faith In my, servants and believe
they are honest"
Tho HAAs homo II ono Of the Henry
Rothschild largo cottages. The night
watchman. who reports for duty at 10
O'Clock. had not arrived when the rob-
bery was discovered.
Robbery DireoteA ~ . Fence.
Mr.. Haas at once employed the Burns
detective agency. ana Capt Walling Of
tho Long Branch detective force went
TO work on the case also. Capt. Walling
80 Of tho opinion that the robbery was
done by some one familiar with the in
eide OF the house because Of the ease
with which he got around without being
seen by servants until he had secured
the 5ewels.
Detectives familiar With other sum-
mer home robherie0 which have been
reported recently think that the gems
were taken by . man who they think
= both 1eweller and fence. the big
sest fence in criminal history here.
They are not sure whether his head
quarters 10 In New York or Philadel-
phia.
This man differs from most fences
because he Is not content with dealing
only with what other thieves bring him,
but employs about twenty persons. men
and women. working for him. who get
Jobs a. servants In houses of the well
10 DO. They have immaculate records
Of employment. and there IL nothing to
connect them with series Of Jewel rob-
berries reaching into hundreds Of thou
sands Of dollars.
Can Handle Set Jewels.
This Jeweller has at his command the
IN ho
stones worth small fortunes. stones that
could not be negotiated by any one else
Were his workers to take one Of their
hauls into an ordinary pawnshop OF
jewellers establishment the proprietor
would know at once that something
was wrong. Recapture Of the stoler
gems and the arrest OF the thief woult
be easy.
Robberies from time to time al
through last summer at Newport ant
Narragansett Pier-robberies OF which
not much was heard but which totallet
5000 0OO-are credited to this thief. HI
doesn't bother much with gold and nil
Yer; he goes after jewels-diamonds
pearls. rubies. sapphires. emeralds. Al
Long Branch practically all that wal
taken were pearls and diamonds. TIVE
pearl necklaces worth $4,000 and SIC,
900, the more valuable one consisting O
sixty-three stones: diamond rings ant
diamond pins were the sum of the booty
Nothing that would need working owe
was bothered with. nothing that was no
too fine for the ordinary thief to dis
pose of was touched.
The detectives will try to recover tn,
= stolen jewels first and to catch the THE
afterward They hope they can trac
the gems from the hands of the robbie
into those OF his chief and 80 discOve
the Identity Of the jeweller who run
this splendidly organized system o
burglary. The thefts he conducted u
successfully at Newport and Narragan
sett all last summer are being repeate
this year all along the coast
Mr.. Haas Is "A lawyer at AZ Broadwa
and his city home In at West Seven
tieth street. The Long Branch polio
are doing what they can and the w. !.
Burns detective agency Is handling III
case AT Long Branch and elsewhere
Al every soda fountain ask for ANGOsTUR.
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