New-York tribune., 1922-05-09
Victim Says A. T. Robert
son of BloomfeldIsN Not
Man Who Robbed Him
at British Veterans Club
Senator TO Make
Statement TODAY
Promises Full Details
of Why He Opposed
Marriage of Daughter

ne question Of Identity entered yes
terday into the case of Alexander T..
Robertson. British war veteran. now of
Bloomfield, ~ J., who has complained
TO the British Embassy that an attempt
was being made TO force him to leave
the country because Of his interest in
Miss Mary Culberson, the twenty one
year~old da' ter Of United States
Seaatcr Culbersor of Texas
Richard Wa also British war
veteran and .omber Of the British
Great War Vel MS Club, at Thirty
eighth Street and Lexington Avenue,
( said last night that the Alexander +.
Robertson he had aided upon arrival
IN this country P year ago without
funds or Job and who several weeks
later, according to Waller, made off
with most Of his clothes, is not the
same Robertson described III ncwspa-
per accounts Of yesterday and Sunday.
Waller Explains
"Thc Robertson | met in the Brit
ism Great War Veterans Club is not
the Robertson now at Bloomfield, \.
j. declared Waller. "Thc Alexandc =
T. Robertson whose name appears in
tho press accounts regarding a love
affair with Senator Culberson's daush-
ter is man over six feet tall the
| Robertson who disappeared from this
! club about year ago. taking nearly
! all the clothes had except those on
! my back, was q chap not more than
/ five feet five inches in height. The
! Robertson whose name has been CON
nocted with that Of Miss Culberson
was here to SEQ me last Friday. | ha d
never seen him before"
Mrs. F. A. Andrews, sn aunt of tho
Bloomfield Robertson, with whom he
makes his home in New Jersey. cx-
pressed no surprise when Tribune
reporter telephoned her home last
night and told her what Waller had
! said
"Of course Mr. Robertson was not the
, Robertson who stopped at the British
{ Great War Veterans Club" she said
My nephew visited the club last week
and satisfied the members there as to
that Mr. Waller had never seen him
before, nor had other members of the
! club. That is sufficient to exonerate
nlln Of the charge, never really made,
that he had stolen clothing that be-
longed TO Mr.. Wallor.'
Detectives ON Wrong Trail
1t thus appears that the detectives
who were shadoWjnc Alexander t. Rob
crtson, of Bloomfield, and formerly Of
| the University Of Texas, where he met
and formed an attachment for Miss
/ Culberson, were on the wrong trail
when they followed cleWS leading to the
British Veterans club. Walters state
ment however is the first information
that throws any light on the reason
why the Burns detectives saw fit to
drop their Investigation because Of
certain Developments" One Of the de-
tectiVes continued on Robcrtson's trail
after leaving the employ Of the Burus
agency. lie has been arrested as the
result Of charges Of attempted kidnap-
ing made by Robertson and is out on
bail pending trial.
About twelve months ago" said
Waller in his statement II met a
Young veteran of the way in the Brit
ish Great War Veterans Club His
name was Alexander +. Robertson. a
bad fix financially no funds and no
homo. The secretary. William A. Dun
nett, found him employment and ad-
Vanced him altogether about SIS. To
help him little took him to my
room and told him to make himself at
home until his bad times were past. He
stayed with mo for about eight weeks,
and on the last Wednesday in April,
1921. when returned from work at )
p. m. ! found that all possessed was
the clothes that had been working in.
1t was then found that he had not
been working. as he had led me to be-
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