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Show L WOMAN ACCUSED OF FAKING $50,000 ROBBERY Scheme To Collect Theft Insurance, Bared By Bandit LONG BEACH. X .1 . Fob. 22 (By the Associited Press J Alleging, Alleg-ing, police say that he was paid $1000 by Mrs. Sarah EL Robert-son Robert-son to stage the "holdup" in her home at Deal last Saturday night liu which she claimed to have- bem robbed of a handbag containing $50,000 in jewels. .Inhn Bailey, was arrested here toda on a charge of conspiracy- Police authorities announced they wore sfnd-ing sfnd-ing to Asburj Park foi a warranl for the arrest of Mrs Robertson. The bag supposed to contain the - ; jewels, Bailey aW. was In reality filled with while tissue paper and the I "weapon ' which Mrs. Robertson's dln-I dln-I ner gue-sts had described as a "pearl i handled automatic pi-itol equipped with a silencer" was actually a pipe caae. The bag and Its contents and the pipe case were turned over to the local po-l Una I Bailey declared he was approached ; last November by a man whose name ! he pave, who told him that Mrs Kob-, Kob-, crtson would give him $500 to take part in a fake holdup, ostensibly to aid in a Bphcme to collect burglury insurance. in-surance. He refused- wr-i . 'SaMirdny. h told the police, t he offtr was renewed and the price was Increased In-creased to S 1.000 He accepted and 1 the fake holdup, followed. I Mrs. Robertson told the police, thai She w:is ill. d to the front door Saturday Satur-day night while entertaining dinner 'guests and there confronted by the 'robber ' whose face was masked. The man leveled his revolver at her. she said, and ordered her to hold up her hands and keep silent. Ho tore a diamond sunburst from her throat, she asserted, and with the weapon pressed against hi-r body forced forc-ed her to return to the .lining room. in the dining room her four guests wero ordered to put up their hands and not make an outcry. While the intruder commanded his victims Lo turn over then valuables, Mrs Robertson Rob-ertson aiid she tried to ukpneeul the handbag containing her jewels which laj on a sideboard. The robber observed ob-served her, she told tho police, and snatched It from her. Gatherinc up the loot that had been placed on a table by the fright. -ued guesu-i. the Intruder In-truder then backed out of tho room and fled. OMAN ARRESTED ASBURY PARK. N. J.. Feb 22. Mrs sai' ih iVolx rt.son, ho t lalmed to have been robbed of $50,ooo in Jewels last Saturday night and who was implicated im-plicated by John Bailey In an alleged plot to - rake" the robbcrj in order to collect burglars Insurance on the Jewels, was arrested today on a charge of conspiracy. |