The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-19
MRS. PALMER
ROBBED TWICE
IN EIGHT DAYS
Whiskey Stolen From
Home at Long Beach on
November 8.
MANY CLUES PURSUED
Professionals Were in Gem
Crime, Says Detective
captain duane.
SUSPECTS NOT DIVULGED
Victim of Burglary Confined
to Bed With Ankles
Fractured.
MANY CLUES PURSUED
SUSPECTS NOT DIvULGED

The police and the private detec-
tives who have been devoting all their
energies toward solving the jewel RIB
berry last Tuesday at the home of Mrs
Charlotte King Palmer, in SO East
any Of the Jewels, but they have had
their task complicated by the dis
covery that Tuesdays robbery was the
second suffered by Mrs. Palmer within
eight days On November 8, 1t was
learned, thieves invaded Mrs. Palmer's
place at Long Beach and carried away
81 900 worth Of whiskey. or rather that
was what it cost before prohibition
set in
According to the information OBJ
tanned yesterday. the whiskey was
stored in closet on the second floor
OF Mrs. Palmer's house. A man who
said he was Lieutenant-Comrnander
Phillips Of the United States Navy
engaged the Guardian Bureaus. a pri-
vate detective agency of 305 Broad
way, to investigate, and Frederick
Kuhne, one of Its officers. took charge
OF the case. Kuhne. who IS finger
print expert and q former New York
detective. went to Long Beach. He
found finger prints and had them
developed, but has not succeeded In
Identifying them as belonging to a
criminal
At various times during the day diff
ferent persons called up the police and
the detective agency which Is working
In the interests Of the underwriting
company that will have TO pay the burg
larry insurance on Mrs. Palmer's prop
erty. and offered information, most Of
which was found 10 be mlsinfor1nation
and suggestions based on nothing.
The detectives were advised To lock
up various garages. pawn shops, fats
In The Bronx and PERSONS alleged to be
receivers OF stolen goods All these odds
and ends were traced and examined ana
then discarded.
Duane Has Theory.
Capt. John Duane. In charge of the
detectives Of the Fiftf district, in which
Mira. palmer's homo is located. said last
night that he has his own ideas as 20
who must have taken the jewelry, but
that he could not say who was suspected
ior fear OF spelling his case. He in
sisted. however. that there was no ques-
ton that the robbery at Mrs. Palmer:
was the work of professional burglars.
He is fully convinced that no one In
Mrs. Palmers house or having access
to II could have had any hand in the
crime. He has been in touch with every
person who ever carried n key to the
house. has looked into their histories
and checked them all up. and feels GER
tain none Of them was in on the rob-
berry. Every servant Mrs. Palmer has
had in her house for the last three years
has been accounted for. SO is every
friend Of hers who carried q key.
II was hoped that naval officer who
called at Mrs. Palmer's yesterday and
who was there previously on Tuesday
might be able to help solve the mystery.
Capt. Duane feeling that Mrs. Palmer In
her excited state after the burglary
might have forgotten some details which
the naval man might know ana which
would be OF help in deciding who the
Surglars might be.
No Clue From Omcer.
II developed. however. when the officer
arrived yesterday that he had come only
on Tuesday because Mrs. Palmer had
telegraphed and asked MIN and that mis-
call Tuesday was the first he has made
at the house since Mrs. Palmer closed II
last June and went away for the sum
mer.
Mrs Palmer. who explained after the
burglary that she had injured both
ankles In falling down the stairs leading
from the first to the second floor of her
house, was still under the care OF
surgeon yesterday. The fall injured her
ankles severely. according to the sur
geon, who said that he had had X-ray
pictures taken and had satisfed himself
that a bone In each OF HIS patients feet
had been fractured. RE could not say
how long It would De before she would
be able to walk again.
In the meantime no one. not even the
most astute detective on the case, has
any notion how tho men who bound and
gagged Mrs. Palmer and then went
through her home al their leisure gained
access to n. Obviously. since none OF
the windows or doors was unlocked, they
must have come In by the front door
They left by u. anyway. and that is all
the clue they did leave