Evening star., 1925-03-09
TRIO BEATS WOMAN
IN $4,000 HOLDUP
Gag Her Escort and Silence
Her Screams With Gun Butts
Before Looting Studio.
By the Associated Press.

SfStS I0otnIS StuOfOs
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. March 9. Three
masked men broke into the studio apart-
ment Of Mrs. Fay Perkins in West Fifty
eighth street early today and escaped
with jewelry valued at $4,000 after
beating Mrs. Perkins and binding and
gagging her escort, Milton Abbott,
wealthy cotton broker
The robbers chopped down the
doors of the apartment in making
their entrance. They are believed by
the police to have been members of
the same gang that robbed the apart
ments of several women well known
on Broadway. including Louise Law
son and Dorothy keenan,, who were
murdered.
Beat Her With Revolvers.
After choking Mrs Perkins and
biting rings from her fingers and
taking bracelets and necklaces from
her, the robbers beat her with re-
volver butts until she revealed the
location of the rest of her jewelry.
Mrs. Perkins was a frequenter of
Broadway cabarets, as were the
victims in the other apartment rob-
berries. She Is separated from her
husband, Benjamin Perkins. who is
the wealthy proprietor of a cafe.
Mrs. Perkins and her companion
had just returned to her apart rtment
after dining in one of Broadway's
fashionable supper clubs and making
the round Of other night resorts.
Make Use of Crowbar.
A crowbar and other tools found
at the scene were used IN break
ing into the apartment.
abbott was seized by the robbers.
gagged with a pillow and bound to
a bed with rippedup lengths Of
sheets. The robbers then attacked
Mrs. Perkins and stripped her jew
elry from her. The three men wore
silk handkerchiefs across their faces,
the victims told the police.
The jewelry taken by the robbers
included several diamonds which
were collected by her husband from
famous lapidaries of the world, Mrs.
Perkins told the police.
The last robbery of similar ma
ture was that in the apartment of
Edith Bobe, fashionable modiste, who
was waylaid and robbed of $4,000
in jewelry by four robbers last Sep
tember as she was entering her
apartment, accompanied by Robert
Hague, marine superintendent of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.
OF all the robberies of a similar
nature only one was ever cleared up.
That was the robbery of jewels
valued at approximately 100000
from Mrs. Charles P. Hugo Schoell-
kopf wife of Buffalo broker, after
apartment in 1923. Two men now
are serving Sing Sing sentences for
that robbery. The jewelry was re-
covered.
With Abbott securely bound to the
bed, the intruders took small
amount of money from his pockets.
Mrs. Perkins screamed and one of the
men struck her in the face and then
grasped her by the throat Another
robber then grabbed her by an arm
and threw her to her knees. The
first bandit tried to remove one of
her rings with his hands, but failed.
He then put her finger in his mouth
and forced off the ring.
Threaten to XIII.
When Mrs. Perkins continued to
scream the robbers threatened to kill
her.
She still screamed and the robbers
then beat her in the face with their
revolver butts.
During the struggle one of the mems
handkerchiefs dropped from his face
The bandits prepared to torture Mrs.
Perkins by fire when she refused to
tell where the jewelry was hidden,
she told the police. One robber struck
match and then a confederate
knocked her prone to the floor with
kick. All three then went to a Dress
ing table and emptied a jewel casket.
The robbers then tied pillow over
Mrs. Perkins face and escaped. The
womans clothing was torn to shreds
and her face and head were covered
with blood when police arrived. Abb
bott had freed himself within a few
minutes after the robbers left the
apartment.
Dot keenan, Case.
Dorothy keenan,, artists model, was
found dead in her apartment on the
morning of March Is, 1923. An empty
chloroform tphial was found near her
body and the apartment had been
ransacked. The police never ascer-
tanned exactly how much jewelry was
taken. During the investigation of
the case 1T was brought out that
John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadel-
phia, capitalist, clubman and son-in-
law of E. T. Stotesbury of J. P.
Morgan & Co.. was a friend of the
slain woman. The police were never
able to find the robbers.
Louise Lawson, a former motion
picture actress, who came to New
York from Walnut Springs, Tex, was
found strangled in her apartment on
February s, 1924. The jewelry taken
by the robbers, so far as the police
could ascertain, was in excess of
$4,000. In that case 1t was brought
out that Gerhard NJ. Dahl, chairman
of the executive board of the Brook
ly-Manhattan Transit Co., and vice
president of the Chase National Bank,
was friend of the girl. He assisted
the police in their attempt to clear
up the murder.