New-York tribune., 1922-09-30
Flat Thieves
Get $4,000
In .Jewelry
Four Men Rob Home of
Mrs. I. E. Bowles, Near
Schwab Residence, and
Injure the Horlsekeeper

Burglars early Wednesday evening
rifled the third floor apartment of Mrs.
| Thomas e. Bowles, at 3o6 West Seventy
first Street, escaping with jewelry val
ued at $4,000. The apartment build
Ing is directly opposite the side en-
trance Of Charles M. Schwab's home in
Riverside Drive. -Four men partici-
pated in the robbery, according to
night watchman employed on the
premises.
| Mrs Bowles was dining out with
party Of friends, she informed The
Tribune last night. Her housekeeper,
Miss Paula Goodwin, returning after
tshopping tour. surprised the intruders
at their work and suffered severe in
juries in endeavoring to detain them.
| Details Of the robbery were refused
last night at the West Sixty-eighth
Street police station, though they ad-
mitted that report OF the burglary
had been received and that Detectives
Tiernan and Connors had been assigned
| to investigate. The detectives had
made no report, 1T was said.
One-Half of Her Jewels Gone
Mrs. Bowles is the wife of Thomas E.
Bowles, silk importer, with New York
headquarters at 1853 Fourth Avenue and
warehouses in Atlanta, Ga. She for
rnerly was Virginia Bronson, member
of the Bronson family of oil operators.
While she talked Of the robbery, Mrs.
Bowies wore an emerald ring, which she
said cost $4,000, and other Jewels
valued at more than $4,000. The total
value Of her jewels, she said, had been
| approximately S155.O00. About one
| half, she thought, had been In the
stolen Jewel case.
Il was entertaining friends at din
ner in the Colony Restaurant, Sixty
| first Street and Madison Avenue, when
| some one telephoned me from West
Sixty eighth Street police station of
the burglary, Mrs. Bowles said.
| Dining with me were Mr.. and Mrs
Mrs. Lynn Jones, of Texas. They
are intimate friends Of my hus-
band and myself. We left our dinner
and hurried home in taxicab. I
found that the entire door casing had
| been removed from the rear entrance
to my apartment and the door lifted
out. Miss Goodwin, my housekeeper,
was thrown down fight of stairs by
the men as she tried to detain them
| Although injured, she pursued them to
the street They ran to Riverside
Drive and escaped.
Had Little Insurance
"It is my opinion the robbery was
miliar with the premises and aware
that I owned large amount of lew
elry. ] have been instructed by the
police to say nothing until they have
had an opportunity to follow up clews
IN their possession. / hope that the
scarcely any insurance. Some time
ago insured several of my rings for
$4,000 when l was travelling That is
all the insurance | ever had. and T
think that policy has expired. Mr.
Bowles warned me before he left for
the South Tuesday evening that 1t was
unsafe to keep so much jewelry in the
apartment while. Railways were unpro
tected. ] planned to remove most of
my Jewels Thursday morning to safe f.
deposit vault. | wish 1 had done that
Wednesday morning."
The theory on which detectives are
working is that Mrs. Bowles had been
spied on for some time by diamond
thieves.
The story told detectives by Marino.
the watchnlan, is that four well-dressed
men accosted him about $3.50 Wednes-
day evening, inquiring for the Bowles
apartment. He believed them guests
Of the Bowleses and gave them no fur
ther attention until attracted bv
screams a moment after Miss Goodwin.
Mrs. Bowles's housekeeper, had passed
him in the hall. Marino started up the
stairs to learn what had alarmed Miss
Goodwin, he said, when three of the
men who had made inquiries half an
hour earlier rushed past him and were
joined outside by the fourth man All
ran down West Seventy-third Street
toward Riverside Drive. Marno was
able to give detectives a detailed de-
scription Of the burglars.