New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-17
TIE LEXINGTON A VENUE ROBBERY.
NO CLEW YET OBTAINED BY THE POLICE.

SUGGESTIONS OF A CONFEDERATE IN THE BREWERY
STRANGE CONDUCT OF TWO MEN WHO VISITED
TIE PLACE ABOUT A WEEK AGo-THE ROBBERS
WORK MOST CLEVERLY DONE.
The audacious hghwaymen who succeeded in
Wrestling Sl00 900 from a bewildered young German
in lexington-ave. Friday, have thus far euded the
policemen and detectives who are endeavoring to
get on their track. 1t whispered yesterday
afternoon that some information of an important
character had reached the police but when Captains
Hooker and Mount and other officers were questioned
about it they affected to know nothing of it what
ever The wagon, which so accurately described
Friday, became a decidedly uncertain factor in the
case yesterday One person who saw it said it was
a butchers wagon another maintained that il had
steps which extended down behind; still another
that ii had yellow runnng-gear and a red body in
| stead of black runnng-gear and white body, as
before described and others denied that there WAS
any number on IT at ALL
In the absence of DEVELOPMENTS Yesterday
| there was great deal of speculation re-
| garding the manner in which the robbery was so
successfully carried out. Some of the police are i'll
cllned to believe that there must have been a con-
| federate employed in the brewery, by whose assls-
lance the thieves were enabled TO learn the habits
OF the proprietor in respect to making its depo its
| IN bank. Another theory that this information
| was gained by weeks of watching outside, indie
pendent of any inside help. The objection to
| on the brewery's regular banking DAYS. is
met by the suppostion that the highway
,~s,c, ana may nave aye kept themselves ON the
Owing TO the situation of the Office which has side
| d"or opening INTO a yard, IN plain view from the
sidewalk, ali OF the preparations made by the clerk
lof his journey 10 the bank could have been easily
| seen from the opposite side OF the street.
About week ago. ii is said. "A man attracted some
attention by sitting IN the beer shop attached 10 the
| brewery, ana closely observing everything that was
interested III reading anewspapcr. lie is described
as short man, quietly dressed, with "A blonde
lnt't3che ana Hond complexion. The first time he
called was Friday morning about halt past o'clock
| Taking position near the window. ne kept MP his
reading and observations until o'clock in The after
noon no" ana theh taxing "A glass of beer at the
Dal. Inc next morning about the hour he
came again, TOOK the same seat and occupied HIM
sIi ia 'l' same Nah'~ Between ) and o'clock in
the afternoon NlllanuuS- ing man. with n red
plnplN face and Scrunhy sandy mustache and
wearing a soit nat, came INTO the shop and pro-
posed a gas OF rum, after which the two
went out together: did not like the looks
OF that man, SAID the bartender yesterday, speak
ing of the man who had spent the greater part of
two days IN the shop " 1t was PLAIN that he was
tapcrlng fingers like womans." Very ht,le impor-
lance Is attached, however To the clew by the police
VINO say th1t expert thleNcs-as the robbers doubt
les, wcre-dolng such wcll-planned work would not
have run such risk of exciting suspicion.
NO suspicion, apparently, Is attached to Charles
MeSNcr,chmdt Who Is said TO be the son of
a nch banker in Bunberg, Germany. and IA par
tcular friend of Mr. kuppcrt's cashier Aching
under the instructions OF has employer. MesstIss
schmidt declined yesterday to or any questions
the su uiect one of tie emploves sid tbat tbe
clerk sometimes went the bank on the elevated
road and sometimes he drove down in the buggy
which he used Friday. The last time that he made
lhe trip IN the buggy was the Saturday previous.
ms person, when asked what route lac took replied
that he always turned into LeXingt have as he did
Friday, to avoid the crowd and the noise OF the ele
waited trains
The clever way IN which the crime was committed
IL the subject OF Il great deal of comment among
Policemen and detectives Half of the work Was
DONE they say, when the robbers confused their vic
inns by running INTO them, and no but an eNpe-
rienced ana cunning thief would have thought of
oaiinS pursuit by cutting the reins of the horse
tached 10 the clerk 5 buggy. They showed a wise
discretion IN wearing laIse boards and masks and IN
not being induced TO delay their ii ght by the tempt
ing bag of silver dollars.
AT midnight, Captain Hooker and his detectives
were still securing the city in pursuit of some cew
the nature OF which was carefully concealed
Captain Robbins i'll consultation with
MI kuppert at the brewery; neither had heard of
any new Developments in the case and the conyic-
ton Is growing among the police that even shonld
the thieves be arrested positive proof
could be brought TO hold them One clew
has been followed TO barren end
Suspicion of completely in the outrage
Tell from the hrst on a man who has been in similar
crimes, but upon inVcstiga il was found that he
had been steadily at work on the day the robbery
was committed and indeed he seems to have for
sahen evil ways.