The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-09
BRITISH EMBASSY AWAITING
COMING OF A. E. ROBERTS ON
Action to Be Taken Will Depend
on Information Received by
British War Veteran.
tsy The Associates Press,

" HASf1iNGIONs May 6-BritlSh en-
bassy officials indicated tonight that any
action the embassy may take in connec-
tion with the Kidnapping charges of
Alexander E. Robertson, British War
Veteran. would depend on the informa-
tion received tomorrow from Robertson
who plans to come here and Law before
the embassy the whole matter growing
out of, so he charges. his affection for
Miss Mary Culbertson, twenty -one-year-
old daughter of Senator Culbertson, of
Texas.
Officials at the embassy were plainly
inclined to suspend judgment in the mat
ter until after they had heard Robert
son.
senator culbertson throughout the day
cosstinued the silence he has maintained
since the matter was given publicity He
refused TO see newspaper men in connec-
tion with the case Mrs. Culbertson was
! said by friends OF the family TO be nearly
PROSTATE at the Cufbertson apartment,
on Sixteenth street. Miss Culbertson
could not be found in Washington, and
at Holton Arms, the fashionable finish
ing school, where she has been a stu
dent, it was said she had Withdrawn
some time ago
Robertson charges that the detectives
who attempted to get him out Of the
country represented themselves as agents
of the Department of Justice. brought
this statement during the day from
William ]. Burns, chief of the Depart
ment's bureau of investigation:
IF this is found to be the case, would
prosecute them. But as far as we can
learn this is not the case.
The charges made by Robertson also
brought statement from G. w. Ander-
son, in charge of the Washington off n
OF the w. j. Burns Detective Agency.
Mr.. Anderson said operatives Of the ag-
sency had been employed 10 shadow the
British war veteran but would not say
for whom they We're acting. He denied
the kidnapping charges and declared
there was no truth in Robertson's declara-
tion that the detective had instigated a
move TO send the Brtisher to Argen-
tina.
As a matter Of fact the proposition
emanating from Robertson himself" said
Robertson. He said he wanted chance
TO make good and that he had friends in
South America who could help him. He
selected Boston as the port of embarka-
tion as it was from that place that the
first ship wosuld sail to bring him to his
destination.
Several trips were made between
Bloomfield n j., where Robertson was
staying with his aunt at Newark, to
make arrangements On Friday night,
April 21, while awaiting the midnight
train for Boston. Robertson and his aunt
were left alone in the dining room of the
Robert Treat Hotel for more than an
hour. 1t is during this time, l under
stand, that he claims he was being kid
mapped. II he wanted to get aid all he
had to do was to call for it from the
many diners at tables thereabouts
THE ship was to sail from Boston,
Saturday, April 50 Robertson, John f.
Ellis. (the detective whose arrest on the
kidnapping charge. has been caused by
Robertson), and the other operative were
in Boston from Saturday, April % to-
Monday night. April "a Then having
heard Of the visit of Mrs Andrews, the
aunt of Robertson, to Washington, we
dropped the case and broke or arrange
ments. Ellis and the other operative ac-
companied Robertson to New York where
they shook hands in entire good spirits
and left them
"on Tuesday, April 25, Ellis resigned
from this office. His resignation was
entirely because OF his own personal