New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Mrs. s.SarahRobertson.Who
Beat v all Streetin 1915.
Held Up in Deal Home
by White-Mask Cunman
Sunburst Snatched
From Her at Door
-Four Guests Lined Up in
Dining Room as Rest Of
Her Jewels Are Taken


NJ. Sarah Robertson, who wa find
ins adventure IN Wall street, in her
Domestic surrounding and N the courts
'ew years ago, had another adventure
forced upon her at Deal n J., Satur-
day evening, it was learned yesterday.
robber III Il white mask rang her
front doorbell and robbed her and four
guests she WAS entertaining at dinner
q $3.50 ~ cash and iewelry said to be
worth more than $4,000
Adventure has greeted Mrs. Robert
soD At tho door before. In her divorce
acton Sic testified that once when sho
ope,ei Nor bedroom door she found
her husband. DR.. Joseph A. Robertson.
Of this city. standing there with an ak.
about 20 use it ON the panels.
When she left her guests, Davis S.
Never Edgar N. Lazarus, H. c. Taher
snd olive Robertson, VINO is her niece.
at tie dinner table Of her home, at 90
Phillips Avenue, Deal, Saturday even
!nC. however. MIS-. Robertson was quite
unpreparcd for the figure which con
frontad her at the door.
1hrusts Pistol Against Her
Ii va that Of tall aud strongly
hulis man, whose face WAS concealed
by whlte mask. There was nothing
TO concea deadly looking pistol how.
ever winch he promptly poked into
Mrs. Robertson's stomach. Ny. Robert
son sent her hands aloft automatically
in obedience to the muttored command:
Hands Up"
While thcy stood there tho robber
saatched . diamond sunburst from Mrs
Roberts $ bosom and toep motioned
to hsr 10 retire toward the dining
room, whence came the sound of con
versa,ion
The conversation died at the strange
sgdt which confronted the four per
sons at the table n they looked IN
from tbeir plates. Tneir hostess in
her dinner dress was backing slowly
into the room with hoth hands raised
shove her head. After her. step for
step. came tail man, who wore
white mask beneath his drab felt hat
ana kept his revolver steady at the
leVel OF his waist
Lines Guests Along Wall
He ordered the three men and the
young woman at tho table to line up
seanst the wall with their hands up
Mrs. Robertson moving around the
tab. ostensibly merely to join them.
snatched from the sidcboard as she
ysssed 1t q silk handbag. which she
thrus, INTO her bosom. The bag con
tained iavelrN which she had brought
u Des Z riday from the Hotel McAlpin,
iutendinc 10 place it IN 4 safe deposit
BOX in long Branch. The value of
tho iewe.ry was reported TO the police
later as 10000 There was $500 in
TIE bag alao
Mrs Rob rtSon's surreptitlous move
ment had not escaped the eyes behind
the white mask. She was the first
whom he addressed when the line
against the wall was complete.
Just take that bag ont of your
vsist' LAD he said, 'and put ii on
the tablt
Then he ordered the others. ono by
oae to deNoslt whatever money they
had on the table Mr. Meyer. who is
real o. State broker in Long Brauch.
,arew down : wallet containing $50 I
OF Ls7aras. VINO is his partner. con
Kbuted nolhing. and neither did Mr. /
Zane mon Mrs. Robertson.
me nan in the white mask did not (
p"is these who failed TO give him
anythng. ror did he stop 70 search .
mem lio Gathered up what was on
.he tabie thrust it in his pocket and
packed o1' oi the room. He closed the
mont door o softly that the strained
ears o. those who stood ike statues
sgaln 'ee wall failed to hear Vt.
Snsad- Away in Motor
Their first intimation of his dcpar-
'ufe was the throb of motor in the
fosdway minshiug as the vehicle
galnea NeodUav Mr. Lazarus sprang
% the ephone and notified Chief of
'oicc Rogers, whose home is only
eoout tN" blocks away. Mrs. Robert
son satt fo the floor in Mysteries.
enc bosers and four Of his mon
sSere on tire spot within ten minutes
ne gro nd was frozen hard and they
were unable to trace the automobile
wen io the corner. A neighbor told
mem no -sd Seen 4 car in the vicinity
not loag before driven by a man who
wore ri hat. There was 4 woman
" " csr also. he said.
Mrs Robertson. still in 4 state Of
SSOAsp Mas taken TO the home Of
,,::iehqs Long Branch. Her condi-
s-oh vas such that it was not until
sss0efnay dat she was able 10 tell the
Y9.,ee fHe details of the hold-up. Even
a.. ~ nlget She was unable to describe
'Ne IN e iewelry definitely. There
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