New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
Mrs. Robertson
To Clear Old
Fake Hold-Up
Promises to Reveal Names
of Other Women Who
Fleeced Insurance Com
panies With "Robbcries"
Seeks Light Punishment
Bag Containing Gems Re-
covered by Ruse After
Jeweler Tells Suspicious

have confessed in the Jail at Freehold.
n. j., that she contrived the "hold-up''
In which she asserted she lost Jewels
valued at $4,000, has promised to tell
Ct other women who have arranged TO
: Rave insured jewclry Stolen" accord
Ing to Gerard Luisi, head of the Luisi
Investigating Agency. Luisi said YES
Verday that Mrs Robertson's promise
was additional upon his giving her his
Aelp In her present predicament.
Mr. Luisl said he was satisfied
Mst Mrs. Olive Pellotresu, in whose
ppartment at aEighty-sixth Street and
Broadway Mrs. Robertsons Jewels were
found, was IN no way mixed up in the
case. The jewolry Lusi said, was con-
eealed In her apartment without her
knowledge
Mrs. Pelletreau, a well to do widow
told detectives that she had known
Mrs. Robertson for sixteen years. hav-
ing met her at the seashore. Accord
ing to the story told to the detectives
Mrs. Robertson called on her Monday
and they discussed the "hold up" Mrs.
Robertson described in detail the meet
ing with the bandit" and told of her
feelings while facing the "robber" with
the supposed revolver. The "revolver'
IN reality was leather pipe case
Sought Appraisal in Advance
sir. Luisi, who in 1920 was appointed
by burglary insurance companies to
head their own Investigating bureau
following large losses by the many
companies, also said that they are in
vestigating along lines which NAV link
Mrs. Robertson with other schemes
throughout the country. The evidence
regarding these cases cannot be made
public at this time, he said
The first clew which led to the dis
covery of the Jewelry reported to the
insurance company as having been
stolen from Mrs. Robertson on Satur-
DAY night was mere coincidence,
Luisi said.
con Friday, the day preceding the
robbery, | was walking up Fifth Ave
nue. he said. Il met a jeweler whom
know, and in the course of the con-
versatlon he told me that half an hour
before met him Mrs Robertson
whom did not know at this time-had
called at his Office and told him that
she had taken her jewels from a safe
deposit vault at the McAlpin Hotel and
was taking them to her summer home
at Deal Beach. She had the Jewels in
sured, she explained, and being afraid
Of holdup, asked this jeweler to an
praise them for the same value they
were insured for. The jeweler looked
atthem and informed her that he could
not do that because they were not
worth anything like the amount named
IN the insurance policy
" did not hear anything further on
the matter until the following Mon
day. On that day Lloyds called me on
the phone and informed me that Mrs.
Robertson had been held up on
saturday night and robbed of $4,000
worth of jewelry.
Trap Arranged for Woman
IL was then informed by R. G.. Malt
bic and Joseph Morgan, brokers. of 81
Maiden Lane, that Mr.. Maltbie had
been notified of the robbery by Mrs
Robertson. Matbie and Morgan went
to Deal Beach on Sunday and obtaine d
statements from Mrs Robertson and
witnesses in the case and were salts
fed that everything was in order. The
brokers' said they had known Mrs
Robertson for about three years and
had found her to be honest and re-
liable in anything she said or did.
VI told Mr.: Maltbie and Mr.. Morgan
that wanted to meet her on the train
between New York and Deal. Morgan
introduced me to her on the train at
Long Beach, N. j. She told me I need
not worry sabout returning to New
York, as her home was very roomy and
she would put me up for the night
We went direct to her home for lunch.
There | obtained an affidavit from her
telling what she did on the 17th How
ever, she omitted the part about her
visit to the jewelry store. She told
about the trip from New York to Deal
Beach, and included the part where
she showed the gems to Gladys Brown,
TREND, whom she met on the train.
men she told me about the visit to
her home Of Alice Robinson, and about
bliss Robinson looking at the jewelry
ana trying on several pieces in her
bedroom"
"Hold-Up7 Witness Called
Gladys Brown and Alice Robinson
were simply brought into the case as
Witnesses in the plot, Luisi explained.
Following the removal Of the jew
S..I1y from the McAlpin," he continued,
the meeting with Gladys Brown on the
sraln and the display of the jewels in
tIsge was all set for the hold-up. She
{nen got in touch with David s..
Geysr, real estate dealer, and Edgar
z Lazarus, his nephew, and invited
nem to dinner at her home. They
Were TO be the holdup witnesses. She
o''N' Naiitd up the man LABOR and ne
Fss told to call with samples of avn
'ngs. The party had assembled at G
Hc,ock The door bell rang and Mrs.
robertson answered it and was met
Py John Bailey, who had been hired
GO the actual holding up. He told
yer to put up her hands and backed
Fer into the dining room where the
osg' from which the ,ewelry had been
Semoved, was lying on a sidebosrd.
fhe handed over the bag and Bailey
Et the house.
erilled her on Wednesday, and she
somltted the whole thing and told
ssnout having returned to New York on
monday morning and concealing the
}s@elry in the apartment of Mrs. Pei
Mrs. Robertson, Luisi said, also
GAINED e.s.med to have been robbed on Sep
ssmoer 80, 1920, by two men in Colum-
ous, Ohio. AT that time, he said, the
sNicles claimed to have been stolen
answered the description of many of
a. ae articles she listed in the Deal
hold-up"
signed statements by Samuel Gasn,
~" IN the jail at Freehold; a state
I'M I'M oy Harry c. Tabor, and one by
yyonn Bailey. are now in the hands of
s,us,. Each tells in detail the part
nc prayed IN the robbery.
DALEY, in his statement, says that
e was to be paid 81 900 for the part