The sun., 1919-02-26
ROBBED AND SLAIN
NEAR MORGAN HOME
George H. RObee Is Victim of
Midnight Caller in His
Boarding House.

An old fashioned sandstone dwelling
ut Madison avenue and Thirty Sc enth
Ftreet-for half a century no neighbor-
hood In New York has borne so high a
reputation for tranquil responsibility
was the scene yesterday of as bold and
brutal a robbery and murder as any the
police have dealt with IN many years.
George II. Robee was the victim. and
the murderer escaped with $500 in
money and rings. which Robee wore
valued at $1,000 The murder took place
very carly yesterday morning, just after
midnight, II IS believed. The police UT
to last night had found no worth while
clue to indicate who did the killing.
Rotee was IL years old. a bachelor or
vidower-it has not been learned which
and for the last four years had con-
Quoted boarding house in the old fash
Toned residence where he was killed al
22S Madison avenue. His enterprise
ever since he established It had beer
prosperous and It is not known that he
had an enemy In the world.
The house. which at one time was the
city residence of the Wetherbee family
Is four stories high and more than forty
OF Robee's boarders were asleep in Il
when he was killed. None OF then
heard any cutlery during the night
Most of them had dressed for the da.
and many were at breakfast a few fee
from where his dead body lay before
they learned that he had been killed.
Robee's kitchen and dining room EN-
ployees were all negroes and all Of then
slept out of the house. One OF them
George Mccain, a cooks helper, dis
covered his masters body in small
bedroom. He notified the police.
Slim Clues Prove Unavailing.
Capt. Carey. head Of the homicide de-
partment OF the detective bureau, was al
the house within an hour. and twenty
detectives under his direction spent all
of yesterday running down slim clues
Robee was killed with some heavy
weapon which the murderer carried
away with him. There was a cash and
a bruise upon one of the temples and
| marks about the throat showed where
Robee's aesailant had held him down
| while he beat him to death.
BY the police II was stated yesterday
that Robee had been an intimate friend
of Winfield S. Philhower. whose mystic.
rious murder in his apartment at 14s
East Thirtieth street last January ha.
| never been cleared up. Philhower, who
was a bachelor, lived alone In an apart
ment. in which he kept many works o.
art, among them collection of an
| tique weapons. He was killed in tn,
| night by some one who stabbed him with
| sword which had hung above his bee
and who after killing him robbed tn,
apartment.
Against the statement that Robee ant
Philhower were friends Robee servants
and friends say they never heard o
| Ph,lhower until they read OF his murder
| The only thing to make the murders lool
alike was that Robee also had a collec
ton OF weapons and a sword hanging II
| his ROOM
Robee came from Ohio to New Yorl
four years ago He was described yes
terday as genial. hospitable and fond o
| getting up various sorts OF entertain
| mNut for his boarders. He rarely wen
out at night. His establishment wa
opposite the home of J. p. Morgan anc
as near an approach to the fashionabl,
as 1t is possible for boarding hous,