The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-01
GANG POSES AS
CENSUS men,
GET $4,000
Count Won BueIoW and
Estranged Wife Are
Bandits Victims,
RAID MAY END RIFF
Robbers Gain Entrance {.
RuSe; COoIIy Loot Chi
Cago Mansion.
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CHICAGO, April 1.-The daring
$4,000 jewel robbery of their Sheri-
dan road mansion by bandits who
posed as census takers and bound
Count Enrique Won Buelow, his
estranged wife, Mrs. Lottie Bremen
Won Buelow, and four other men,
bers of the household with adhesive
tape, furnished the couple a melo-
dramatic topic for their scheduled
farewell today.
Count Won Buelow had gone to the
home he left when discord arose
over what his wife termed "his
harem," to say good-by before leav-
ing for New York late Monday. He
arrived Just in time to become one
of the victims of the holdup.
Mrs. Won Buelow, who obtained a
settlement of $750,000 from her first
husband, Alderman Nathan T
Bremen, shortly before his death.
filed suit for divorce from Won Bue-
low, German war ace, only few
days ago.
Buys Count New Auto
But she had bought him a new
automobile in which to make lie
journey to New York, so he would
be in a happy frame of mind at
parting" as she explained, and the
couple went together to detective
headquarters Monday night to look
over photographs OF criminals in an
attempt to identify the trio of gun7e
men who executed the holdup with
the GOODNESS and efficiency of vet
Grams.
Friends predicted Won Buelow
might not leave until the robbery
was cleared up, ard maybe not
then"
Mrs. Won Buelow was in the second
floor sitting room Of her luxurious
home when two of the bandits ap-
peared at the door. With her was
her sister, Mrs Mary Gross. Chris
topher Gross, the latter's husband,
answered the door and was told the
callers had come to take the CEN
SuS."
Victims Bound to Chairs
"Show them up here" called Mrs.
vor Buelow, overhearing.
Ely the time the group reached
the second floor, the third bandit
had joined it and al three had
donned handkerchief masks and
whipped out revolvers. While two
cowed the two women and Gross,
the third robber rounded up the
chauffeur and the Negro maid and
then the intruders bound their VIC
Tins to chairs and blindfolded them
with adhesive tape.
A photograph of Won Buelow on
a dresser caught one bandits at
tention.
Ushered in; Trussed Up
Here's your husband. We ought
to bump him off," he said.
Don't you do anything of the
kind" Mrs. Won Buelow warned.
GO ahead and take anything you
want, but don't bring my husband
into it."
At that moment the doorbell rang
and Won Buelow was ushered in by
a masked stranger who blindfolded
him and trussed him up like the
others. From the count the robber
got sos, wrist watch and a pocket
watch.
Attempts to break into wall safe
failed so the bardits went about
a leisurely search of the house,
which Melted them some $4,000 in
jewels.
Did Object to Harem'
Included in the loot were a laval
liere, containing twenty-eight dia-
monds and valued at $500, a pair
Of diamond earrings worth $4,000,
a diamond ring worth $500 and
number Of necklaces, brooches and
bracelets. All was insured, Mrs. Won
Buelow said.
The Won Buelows met in Central
America after she was widowed two
years ago. They were married last
May when he was SO and she some
twenty years older.
II didn't mind supporting him,
but did object to supporting his
harems," Mrs. Won Buelow said at
the time she filed the divorce suit.