The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-17
A $4,000 HAUL.
EXPRESS SAFE ROBBERY.
The American Express Robbery at
Cincinnati.
CAPTURE OF ONE OF THE ALLEGED
THIEVES.
ESCAPE OF HIS AccoMPLIcE.

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ESCAPE OF HIS ACCOMPLISH.
Superintendent Sloan of the American
Express Company received a tele-
gram from Cincinnati Sunday evening
telling him of one of the most daring
robberies ever committed. and to arrest Abe
Monroe and his accomplish. The former is
one of the company's messengers. The
telegram stated hat they were on the train
that arrives here at midnight over the /. G:
and l.. road. Accordingly the police were
notified and all precautions taken to pre-
vent the escape of the two men. Messengers
and agents OF the company boarded the train
at different places and kept watch of the
two men. At Greensburg the enc who is a
stranger to the managers OF the express
company got up from The seat in which he
and Monroe were sitting and left the car.
From that time he has not been seen. Capt.
Hennessey, of the police force, boarded the
train at the Indianapolis, Cincinnati Il La
fayette shops, and soon dis
covered Monroe sitting quietly in
one of the seats. He Immediately took hold
of him, and held or to him and his
sstchel until the train arrived in the depot,
where the officers of the company at this
point were in waiting. Monroe was very
pale and repeatedly asked what the arrest
was for. He was taken into the express
Office at the depot where he was
confronted by Mr.. Sloan. He again asked
for the cause OF his arrest, and hesitatingly
shook the proffered hand of Mr.. Sloan. He
was aiken into the private room to one side
and searched. Nothing of a guilty nature
was found in his satchel or anywhere about
his person. A search of the baggage car tailed
ogive any clue tothe
MISSING SAFE AND TRUNK.
He was then taken to the station house
by the police, at the direction of
Mr.. Sloan, and held until further
orders. OF course there is room for doubt
as to his guilt. He has been in the employ
of the American Express Company for eight
or ten years, part of the time as a
messenger on the 1. G. q j.. road
and of late in the same capacity on the
Great Eastern road running out of Cinciu-
natl. Several persons who know Monroe
were confident that he is not guilty. Others
say that he used to bear a bad character and
at one time had the reputation of a gambler
while he was travelling with a circus. AS it
is, however, the evidence is strong against
him. Just what was done with Safe is not
known.
After Developments seem to show that it
was one of the boldest operations ever
known. The day Waterman at the general
office in Cincinnati says that yesterday
afternoon he saw two men come
into the Office carrying a trunk.
AS she knew at least one of the parties he
paid nc attention to them and, as he stated
to a messenger of the company, let them go
about without asking them any questions.
1t seems that after they carried the trunk
into the room, and very deliberately |
up the safe of the
who run OIL the Great Eastern
railroad, and putting the safe, which was
a small one, into the trunk, walked out
it. As the man Monroe was a messen-
ger on this line, the Waterman supposed it
was all right. When the messenger who
used this safe came to the Office he could not
find. it, and asked the Waterman if he knew
about it, and was then told
what had been seen. This was told to the
by one of the messengers on the
run from Cincinnati to Chicago, and may
be a mistake, but it is given as it was re-