The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-30
RoLDAND INGENIOUS ROBBERY

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The New York World gives the par
~ticulars of one of the boldest and best
planned robberies that we have heardo OF
recently
A we'll planned, bold and most succes-
fuI robbery was contaminated in Car
mine street Yesterday morning, by
which the bank porter of the Greenwich
Savings Bank was robbed Of q casll-box
containin SO, 900 in United States Treas
ury national bank notes, The ingen-
ioHs manner in which the robbery wa
executed renders the case n OF pecu-
liar interest. The thief was attired In
the full regulation uniform ofthe Me-
tropolitan Police, and, strange to say,
the police officer on post at the lint wal
made an unconscious instrument In the
crime. The circumstances Of the case
are as follows /: About8t o'clock yester-
day morning, as officer Stellges, OF b
twenty-eighth p~recint, was patrolling
| his post along Carmine street, he was
accosted by a man wearing the full p.o-
lice uniform, who informed him that he
was then engaged in working up q case
against a counterfeiter, whose arrest ne
was about to effect. He further stated
the counterfeiter was known az o desper,,
ate character, and that he 1.-THE pretended
officer would probably need his assis-
lance in making the capture. Omcer
Stellges believed the statement OF tnls
man and agreed to render all the assis,
tencs in his W AS they were still
conversing together a man approached
carving on his arm a tin eash-box, who
was passing along on the opposite side
of the street. The unknown man direc-
ted the attention of the officer to him,
and told him thatthere was the cOunteI-
feiter. but said that it would not be
policy to arrest him there, as he was
only going to o house near by TO get the
counterfeit money, and that he would
soon return, when they would take him
into custody. In about an hour after the
mar pointed out as the cOunterfeiter
again approached, apparently returning
from where he had been still carry
ing the tin cash-box which hung
on his arm by a leathern strap
lined with copper. AS he ap-
preached the officer the two men sprang
} ut him and arrested him on q charge o.
3 dealing in counterfeit money. The man
! stoutly denied the charge, and attempt
ed to explain, but he was soon hand'
. cuffed. The pretended policeman ther
{ directed the officer to take the prisoner
to the statiol-house in Greenwicf
: street. while he took possession OF tn
" ~cash-box, which he stated he would tax
Q to the police headquarters and make
: report of the arrest to his superior ON
Q GERS. The officer, who Ii a German, AM
a new man, stupidity obeyed all the In
structions of the unknown man, VIII
coolly walked off with the cash.box
d Officer Stellges took his prisoner to tn
st station-house, where he Of course ha'
d no charge to make. The prisoner wa
], there allowed to make his statement
" from which it appeared that his nam
M was Thomas Quinn, and that he ma
he been in the employ of the Greenwich
he Savings Bank, situated at the corner {
le sixth avenue and Waverly place
8. Every morning he had been in tn
tie habit of going from the Savings Ban
er to the Greenwich Bank, corner {
Sc Clarkson and Hudson streets, making
le deposit of checks and bills of large d
e, nominations, and receiving in exchane
In small bills for the use of his employer
,h When arrested he was returning to Il
IT. bank with the cash box, containing
the time $1,000 in United States Ire:
sury notes and National Bank bills,
DIT ones, tWOs II lives.
This statement, which rather 81
49, prised all those interested, the officer
IS particular, was communicated to Car
Dickerson, of the Twenty-eighth Pr
ng view with Mr.. Charles Gilbert, 4
Treasurer of the Savings Bank, vi
CIV c~orroborated the statement of their bal
porter. The whole matter was tn
All laid before Superintendent Kennedy,
las the Police Headquarters, who immet
ed. ately gave the necessary orders to sect
IF. the arrest of the pretended officer al
ew thief.
The officials ut the Savings Bank sta
at that Quinn had been in the habit
nv. going between the Savings Bank O.
ok the Greenwich Bank, as before state
the The money and checks were careful
me- locked up in the cash box, q sui
varying from ten to thirty thousa'
tor dollars were generally conveyed by hi
ted The pretended policeman had no dot
ZEN been watching Quinn, and was cog
zant of all his movements. When {
ant porter left the Savings Bank, the ca
wo box scarcely contained any such, |
,ev principally checks, etc., but on
nd return he would generally have SIN
bills, which were, of course, more ef
/ a of disposal, and could not be trac
Yesterday morning, Quinn carried
So. 900 to the Greenwich Bank, and v
to have returned with $4,000 in OH
on twos. and fves. Owing, however,
#, the inability of the cashier to give h
the small bills required, but 81, 600 '
vas given him, and he was told tn return
an hour for the balance of 81, 600. I
police are making every effort to fer
mo nut the hold thief.