The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-02
'RAFFLES' BETRAYED
BY JEALOUS WOMAN
Shandau. Caught in Philadcl-
phia. Admits $40, 900 HO-
tel RObbcries Here.
ONCE VANDERBILT DRIVER

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Feb. Ernest
Shandau. who was arrested here last
night on the charge Of robbing guest
OF the Hotel Savoy in New York 81
s.. Ooo worth Of iewelry recently. to-day
confessed to New York detectives, who
have been following him for several
months. that he had cleaned up an ag-
sregatc OF $4,000 In money and vaiu-
ables in series OF New Yorl, motel rob
horles. He was betrayed to the police.
he said. through tho Jealousy OF one Of
two rival women admirers.
Shandau's confession was made IN
city Hail to John Maddox. detective
sergeant Of New York. and several OF
his assistants. who mad trailed the man
from New York to Ann Arbor, Mich.
from there to Paterson. n. J., from there
10 Baltimore. and thence to this city.
Maddox says that when list Of the
New York robberies WAS placed before
Shandau he said:
"All right. | admit them all | did
those Jobs. but the women were the
cause uf u all. | received nothing my
self. and out Of all the money and jew
clry ! took ! have nothing 10 snow for
t."
TO commit the robbcries and thefts II
was necessary for Shandau 90 pose as a
man Of high social position. and this he
was abb" to do, he said. through the
training he received while in the employ
of william X Vanderbilt as "A chauffeur
two wears ago He was arrested and
sentenced 10 one year IN Jail at that time
for signing Mr.. Nanderbilts name to
orders for automobile tires.
Discussing his downfall Shandau said
he had been lavishing gifts of money
and iewelry upon two women In New
York city, and when one Of them learned
that she had been supplanted In his
affections by her rival she notified the
police Of his movements from city TO
city, enabling the detectives to trace
him and finally to arrest him in hotel
mere The woman tclephOncd TO the
Philadelphia police last night That
Shandau was coming to Philadelphia and
would stop AZ certain hotel. Acting
on this tip the detectives entered his
room with drawn revolvers and took
him to a cell
Following the confession Shandau was
arraigncd and held without bail to await
geluisitiou papers from New York
The robbery on which Shinddu was
indicted was that Of TIE apartments OF
surgeon ALBEIT journal I. = ~ NHO
lives at the Hotel Savoy DR.. Good
mans apartments were entered on No
vember s, 1914, and about $4,000 worth
OF jewelry was taken.
ON January :. Il is alleged Shandau
robbed the home OF u. y. Hanson. a
member of the firm Of Mason q Han
son. wool merchants. New York. About
500, 600 worth Of jewelry was taken.
The police have seized Shaudau' :
wardrobe consisting Of about twenty
eight suits of clothing Part OF IL Is in
this city and the remainder in Wash
. nEtou.
The New York detectives say that
Z Shandau outdid the Rallies Of fc-
ton In the refinement OF his operating
methods II, stopped only at the hest
hotels. where he made his appearance
at dinner always In evening dress. Dur
ing dinner he would learn the names
OF the women In the hotel who wore
the finest jewels. and. whenever possible
would obtain introductions to them
After his third evening. the police say
he would absent himself from the dining
room. and with skeleton keys would
enter the apartments Of those whom he
/ had marked as his prey, secure their
valuables and decamp