New-York tribune., 1922-01-11
Jewels and HeirIooms of
Syrian Widow i'm Brook. .
Iyn Stolen After Chill.
drcn Are Chloroformcd
Police Suppress
Story of Theft
Crime Revealed as Niclim
Offers $4,000 Reward
in Local Newspapers

burglars who entered the home or
Mrs. Regina Tarrab, wealthy Syrian
WIDOW, at 6Sla Bay Parkway. Brook
'yn. carly Monday chloroformcd Adele
'airab, seventeen years old, and five
younger children and escaped with
lcwclry and other property valued at
moro than $1oO.OOO
Mrs. Tarrab is the widow of Miguel
larrab, said to have been related to
lewfk Pasha, former khcdive of
Egypt, who died in Beirut five years
ago. She lives in The Bay Parkway
house with her nine children, ranging
IN age from eight to twenty-onc years.
Sunday night Mrs. Tarrab attended
thcatcr in Manhattan with three
elder children - Frcda, twenty-onc
years old; Amelia, nineteen, and Ra-
phael, sixteen. She left the younger
members of the family in charge of
Adele, seventeen, and did not return
until a. IN. She then found the po-
lice in possession, the children hyster-
zeal and the house looted Of valuable
hcirlooms, as we'll as modern jcwclry
The stolen jewels were valued by Mrs
Tarrab last night at Approximately y
S25 1000
Smashcs Window for Aid
According to a statement made by
Adele Tarrab to detectives of Bath
Beach police station, she said the
younger Tarrab children retired about
10 o'clock Sunday night. The Young
woman said she sat with her sister a
short time after going up stairs and
went to her own bed in another room
after II. Soon after midnight she
awoLc with a choking sensation and
was unable to move her limbs for sew
eral minutes. At last she succeeded in
reaching window, which she threw
open and threw hassock through a
neighbor's window to summon assist
ance.
Miss Tarrab told the police She found
cloth smelling of chloroform beside
her on the bed when she regaincd hel
senses. In another room she dis
covered the Younger children still un-
der Influence of an anesthctic. With
the aid Of neighbors she aroused them
all Later they were turned over to
the care of Dr.. Levine. of Coney Island
Hospital, who responded to an ambu-
lance call. Two younger children were
said last night to be still suffering
from effects of chloroform.
List of Stolen Property
search of the premises revealed
the following property loss:
One gold and pearl inlay card table
value $4,000.
Seven sets of nlet lace quilting
$4,000.
Three Syrian lace bedsets lined with
18carat gold tiligree, $4,000.
Jewelry and other property, includ-
ing clothing and furs. $40 900.
Mrs. Tarrab told detectives she
could not recall where all hcirlooms
in the house had been stored and that
she would be unable to estimate her
total loss for several days. She OK
pressed belief that the robbery was
perpetrated by persons familiar with
the family possessions and premises
Adele said that when she awoke hen
room was ablaze with light; five elec-
trio lights in a cluster had been turned
on by the burglars. She later found
thc cntlrc mouse llSnlcu, All IOolls
having been apparently subjected tt
search Clothes closets in several
rooms had been denuded Of contents
and trunks in the basement had been
dragged out and forced open.
Police Keep Robbery Secret
Police of the Bath Beach station last
night refused information concerning
the robbery. First news OF it came
when Mrs. Tarrab inserted an adver-
tisement in morning newspapers offer
ing $1,000 reward for capture of the
thieves.
Detectives Hcnne, Smith and Kelly
at work on the case last night, sat
clews to the perpetrators of the rob
berry had been obtained and that ar
rests were expected to-day.
Mrs. Tarrab and her children movec
to Brooklyn from Beirut five years ago
after Mr. Tarrab's death. The family
is said to have been at one time in
fuental in Syrian national affairs ant
10 have nOssessed great wealth.