New-York tribune., 1920-11-18
Gag Woman,
Get $50O,OOO
In Jewelry
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stairs. She leaped it's entire oepth to
the floor below, she declares. Two
padlye sprained ankles and heels ripped
from her slippers bear her out. At
the bottom she collapsed. Inside Of
two seconds the burglars were sur-
rounding her.
We might as we'll hit her over the
head for luck" one said A sweep of
his hand to his hip pocket convinced
the terrified woman that he meant it.
1t was at this juncture that the gal
liant Frenchman came to the succor Of
lady in distress.
dame will not give trouble again"
The others grufiiy agreed to abstain
irom violence, but they lost no time in
blindfolding and gagging Mrs. Palmer.
lhey bore her to the bathroom on the
top floor, only few feet from where
Sanzone and Margaret lay bound. and
proceeded TO tie her hands together.
they had torn sheet into strips for
this purpose and were about to bind
more interposed. He went to couch
IN the adjoining room and returned
with a heavy blanket.
Madame would be more COM fort
ab-lc, he began, at the some time
wrapping the blanket about Mrs. Pal-
mcrs shoulders and body.
"Wouldnt the frog give yuh pain -
cne of the others asked his pal, but
they permitted him to have his way and
tied the rope around Mrs. Palmer,
blanket and all.
210 Pearls in Necklace
Sometime during the few moments
that elapsed between her leap down
the stairs and her being carried UP
again Mrs. Palmer had succeeded in
removing the necklace and showing it
down her bodice, which was the first
place the burglars looked for it when
they say it was no longer about her
throat.
The necklace contains go pearls Of
graduated size, with large pear shaped
they took from Mrs Palmer's person
were two tortoise shell hairpins, set
with square diamords flexible plati-
mum bracelet with diamonds and sap
phres, q platinum wrist watch with
square diamonds SGT along the edge
and in the stem winder, gold mesh
bag with two sapphires in the clasp.
a platinum horseshoe brooch with
gold lock, gold pin with four centex
stone diamonds set in platinum, small
gold mesh purse and a gold pencil.
The remainder Of the loot, obtained
from the floor below, consisted of a
dressing clock with gold trimmings
and set with diamonds, a gold and
silver clock. a Russian sable stole, l2
feet 10 inches long; a smaller sable
stole. gray squirrel stole, feet in
length a silver fox and a gray fox
neckpiece.
Something that may help in solving
the crime dropped from the lips of
one of the burglars after he had de-
manded that Mrs. Palmer tell him
where her diamond collar was.
81 haven't any she managed to say
in the brief interval the gag was re-
moved from her mouth to allow her
to reply.
Bandit Talks of Chauffeur
"Wat till see that Dago chauffeur"
the bandit exclaimed, "I'll knock his
bean off"
Mrs. Palmer has no chauffeur of her
own
Her denial that she possessed da-
mond collar did not satisfy the des-
reradoes, for tv of them returned to
the bedroom Oh the second floor and
turned everything upside down in their
search for it.
Meanwhile the Frenchman played the
double role of guard and cavalier at
the side of Mrs. Palmer.
"If there is anything Madame re-
quires--?" he asked after an hour or
so had passed. He loosed the gag for
a moment.
Mrs. Palmer said her throat panied
her.
"a lozenge?" he inquired, and took
hov of fbo,,, frop, hic pockot
She shook her head.
"A cigarette, maybe ?"
"No."
"A drink"
Sprays Throat Of Victim
Mrs. Palmer told him that on her
dressing table there was an atomzer
she used to spray her throat. The
petite burglar bowed, replaced the
gag, went downstairs and returned in
q iiffy with the atomizer.
Then he gently and expertly as any
trained nurse sprayed the throat of
the woman he was helping despol of
d fortune. He performed the operation
not once, but six times, between then
and 1880 o'clock.
All this time the Frenchman's con-
federates were looking high and low
for the diamond collar they had been
enormously Informed Mrs. Palmer
owned. In their search they gathered
up the valuable furs and other articles
they later made away with, but their