St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-14
TILLER TRAPPED.
The Robber of the Express Com
pany Captured at Milwaukee.
Sixty Thousand Dollars of the Stolel
Money RecOv cred.
Bad Lock on His yalise Gives His Snap
Away.
TELLER TRAPPED.

MILWAUKEE, March 13.-Prentiss Tiller,
the Pacific Express company's agent at St.
Louis, who decamped with nearly S1OO,OOO
few weeks ago, was arrested at 10, O'Clock
this morning by Milwaukee detective, and
$50, 900 of the money recovered. young
man, looking like a tramp, with small
mustache, brown hair, slight build, unob-
trusive features and about 135 pounds weight,
bought trunk at the store of Carpseles
Schram on Tuesday, and asked to have it
shipped to E. H. Pachen, Detroit, Mich. He
left valise, which he asked to have
placed inside the trunk to save him
the trouble of carrying it. When
about to put the valise in the trunk the clerk
dropped it and the clasps dropped asunder,
the bulging contents rolling out upon the
floor. On gathering up the bundles, he
found them wrapped in Pacific Express Com
pany's labels, and closer examination dis
closed that every package contained prize,
the total amounting to nearly 100000. The
police were notified, and with description
OF the man traced him to cheap boarding
house in the third ward, but he was not at
home. They found his trunk and seized it,
and as the boarding house people said the
man was frequently out all night the police
| continued to search the city, thinking he
| must be ON a spree. This morning he re-
turned to the trunk store to ask
about the valise and was arrested.
He has been at the third ward
boarding house since March s, but it is not
known whether or not he boarded anywhere
else before that Besides the money, there
was large amount of valuable jewelry in the
valise. The money was placed in the Mer-
chants Exchange bank.
| The arrest of Prentiss Teller caused great
crowd to gather at the central police station,
but the prisoner was carefully guarded and
could be interviewed only very briefly. He
was loud in saying that he had no accomplish,
but at the same time added that it remained
for the company to prove that he stole the
money. He was very happy, and proposed
to the police TO shut the outer doors and
charge the crowd an admission price to see
him as a curiosity. He was identified by
Chicago and st. Lous agents, who were in the
city, having been called up from Chicago last
| night when the money was found yesterday.
DETROIT, Mich, March 13.-The directory
shows no such person in this city as G. II.
Pacher, to whom Tiller, the fugitive st. Louis
express clerk. directed the trunk to be ship
ped from Milwaukee. The presumption here
is, that it is an assumed name for Tiller
himself, and that he intended to call for the
| trunk here in that name. Inquiries at the
express Office show that no call for anything
| in that name has been made as yet.
| ST. LOUIS, March 13.-An inquiry of the
Pacific Express company's officers here, re-
| garding the arrest of the man at Milwaukee
| this morning, supposed to be Prentis Tiller,
| throws very little light upon the matter.
| They are very reticent and but little informa-
inn 10 ntf ,a6 4 he coi1 hArr
that the officials here, believe that after the
robbery Tiller's accomplice took charge of
the plumber, which, he being stranger, was
easily taken ont of the city. The arrange
ment was, evidently, that Tiller's accomplice
should divide the spoils and send Tiller's
portion to him by express to Milwaukee,
addressing him, of course, in an assumed
name. Tiller reached Milwaukee on the
morning of the 9Th, but there made the
troublesome discovery that he had forgotten
the name he was to assume in inquiring for
the express packages. In this emergency he
telegraphed McFadden, at Sherman, Tex,
asking what was the name the valise was to
bear. The telegram was intercepted, and
McFadden, who had already been located,
was carefully watched, to determine whether
he sent an answer. He did not, and his ar
| rest occurred few hours later.
The express authorities here were notified,
and on Wednesday evening detective
started for Milwaukee. 1t would appear that
Tiler succeeded in recalling the name he
was to assume and got possession of the
valise before the detective arrived, but met
with disaster few hours laier through the
trunk store episode, which occurred at the
time when, it is said, the whole detective
force of Milwaukee were looking for him,
knowing him 30 be in town. The express
officials here will not acknowledge or deny