The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-03-06

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a Clerk Gets Away with e75.o 900 in
Money Packages
ST.. Louis Marsh 3 -Prenllss TlIler
money clerk of tae Pacific Expr, Is com.
| paDy here, whose father is Louisville
/ detective, disappeareS. about 3 O'Clock
yesterday asternoon, taxing with him
one CT two SaAses iuii Of money
! packages, tie total anoubt being
| very nesriY So 900 Ii Is the custom
/ of the company t. keep g money CLERK
ana day wsichmsn n duty ia the office
on Sunday. the doors being secured by
u chain losk an no on. being admitted
except the messengers who arrive On the
| morning iraii anu have money paIka-
ages 10 turn over. Yesterday afternoon
Tiller was on duiy sud the watcnma re-
NAMED IN thu bsck room tend
ing to the door, the front
doors bejng kept licked. About
2 O'Clock the Aafcbman went out to
lunch, having three messengers sit
ting by the stove While he was gone
FILLER welt outs End returned with a
stranger YsaoaI The messengers took to
be new clerk or messenger. TiIler
and the stlagger went INTO the front
Office and wer-. thought No more If. An
hour later Tiliert anne iuto the back
office tn wash his hands and remarked
II the waicbmaH, who bad retnrFeI, thar
he believed he would go and &c: some
lunch. After washing his hands he re-
entered The front office and was not set
Bgain. Half an hour aittrW ard
tbs watebmsn walked into the
front offise 10 get something
and was sur. ,ris. t. find the front dsor
eft1soks d anu Tilar absent He spoke
If il ~ the messengers wilt were sitting
bV the stove III The rear loom, and they
told nIm of the stranger. This alarmed
him, d he summoned the supeTin-
tendeni, who soon discovered that aboui
bushslof money packages were miss
ing. Inc Geiectiv, 5 have /. aroed MOTH
ing as Yet.
r. u Buil1r, agent oil tue C mpany,
says there can be NO dUuot that Tue mas
brought 10 the Uftl by Iitl,r Was
confederate and that he and IIlieT took
ali the packages from tut s-le, examined
them AID selected such rs they Oeolfco
or w.rt the easi 5. 10 dispose III.
Several enV,Iog.s have beet tound
which had been cut at one end. tut as
they CONTAINED checks they were noI
taken. Other Packages, conIaIuIt g sill
yer, were also lett. BatiIr LniuAs, now
ever, here u ust have been neatly d bush
eI OF packages taken, and that there
Was probably d taIId cdaE drTaie on the
uut=iie, rs the weight OF Inc packages,
many oil which C.5utAIn Il gsId con,
was 100 heavy 20 HAYS brtn easily and
quickly handled by t"o persons.
FILLER and lis pal must bave
worked over an hour in
procuring their piunde:, during which
time the WaIchman entered The front
office IN which hey were engaged two
Or three line5, but 1t MAS easy Tor the
confederate To Tide Himself behind
the close boarded parts If the mes5en-
gers pens, IN which they did
their work When everything WAS
ready the front door was unlocked and
Mr.. TlllIr Went IL the rear room OStsns-
ibiy to wash his bands but really TO learn
the position of the Waterman and mtS-
sengers, and fading tGem favorable to
the safe exit, of his confederate. He
gave tue signal Ia 60 shortly Afterwards.
The watcbmaa Went to the front office
aud finding she door unlock aud Til
Ter not pIesebt, he tlephoned Mr.. But
Ter, also MIR. Fuller, genera man
ager of the company, and they
came to the Office at once.
While il Was evident Il robbery
| bad been committed they could not get
| into the safe TO ascertain " hat WAS miss
lug as Tillar Lad taken eff the key uni
it Vas uCt ill after midnight that the
safe was opened and consider
ably later before information
| of the m alter was given out TIE police
| were promptly Eo;ified d, however, ard
| kilograms were sent To cundnt tors on the
trains OF all railroads leading olt of the
| city, giving descriptions of Tiller. 1t is
| learned this N ,rning that 1'iiler
| brought to the utlice Saturday alter
| noon a large leather valise, which
| he pvt IN Il e basement It could not be
found to-day, and irum this fact it is be-
| lieved the preparations for the robbery
were made Saturday,.
a visit 10 hIs room, i12 Olive street
| to-day, disclosed a number of unused
money envelopes aud printed slips,
| articles btlui ging 10 the company,
and as he could have ha1 no honest
purpose in having tbs sc ia his room,
\ Mr.. Butler thinks he has been rObbing
the company for some time. Tier is a
young man 20 years old and W As former
| ly with The American Express at Louis
vile. He has been with the Pacific
| company tWo YeaTs and he
had the entire confidence If bis employ
ers, he being steady and quiet man, at
tenilSe to business. He is described
as twenty-five years old, brown
mustache and hair, pimply face
| unobtIusive features. OF slender build,
and weigh, d about hundred aud thirty
five pounds His conferate is entirely
unknown, the express PEG
pie rot hating the slightest
| conjecture as To who he IS The COM
pany off. red reward of $1,000 for the
arrest OF tie MN and recovery of the
money. and il the csT tGre is made the
prosecu Will be IN the full extent OF
the law.