The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-16
TILLER'S TALLY.
II Fails to Agree With q Careful
Count of the Recovered
Ducats.
Did the Missing Thousands Go to the
Accomplices He is So Eager
to Shield 2
The Attempt to Throw Suspicion Upon
the Milwaukee Trunk Seller
Weak Invention.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March l5.---The money
stolen by Prentice Tiller and recovered by
Mr. Sheppard and Detective Thiel at Mil
waukee has been counted, and a COMPARE
son made with the books of the Pacific
Express Company shows that there is
shortage of between $1,000 and $4,000.
Tiller, it will be remembered, stated
on the train between Springfield, H.,
and st. Louis, and also to
Messrs. Sheppard and Thiel, that his
entire expenditures would not exceed
500. He still sticks to this, and says all
the money he took, with the exception of
his trifling expenditures, should have
been found in the trunk and valises
Mr. Morsman said this mornings "The
exact amount of the shortage we do not
know, but it is about $4,000. Tiler still
refuses to tell us the whole story and
am almost out of patience with him. We
will find out where this money has gone,
however"
q" He will not lmplicate McFadden?"
"No; his invariable answer to ques-
tons referring to McFadden is: Il don't
want to talk about anybody but myself.
You've got me and you've got the money.
That's enough for you"
STILL AT THE LINDELL.
Tlller slept in a room adjoining Mr..
Morsman's in the Lindell Hotel last night.
A policeman sat by the door, and was re-
lieyed by another officer who will remain
on duty all day or until such time as Til
Ter is removed to the jail. Chief of Po-
.
Express robber endeavoring to pump him;
but while he talked freely of his own con-
necton with the theft, he was silent on
three important points to be settled viz;
Where did he take the satchels and valses
on the day of the robbery; where did he
spend the following Monday, and who
were his accomplices? He maintains that |
his kilograms to McFadden do not in any |
way implicate the latter in the robbery, |
and that McFadden knew nothing about
It,
A SENSATIONAL CHARGE.
gentleman who talked with Tiller this
morning asked him how he accounted for
the shortage in the amount of money re-
covered. Tiller said if any money was
missing it was taken while the valise was
in the trunk store. 81 did not spend or
give away any such amount of money"
he said. "Perhaps some of those Mil
waukee people may be able to tell some
thing about it," The inference is, there
fore that Tiller will charge the clerk who
opened his valise with extracting the
amount of money missed and putting it
in mis- pocket. 1t is a settled fact now
that the yaise did not burst open, as the
clerk is said to have stated when the
matter was first reported to the Milwaukee
police. The lock was sound one, and !
undoubtedly prompted by curiosity,
opened the valise with key in the reg
ular way.
NEW PAIR OF SHOES.
Tiller was still moving about the room
this morning in his stocking feet. The
brogans which he boughtin Chicago were
coarse and ill-htting, and have raised
blisters on his toes Mr.. Morsman sent
out to-day and bought him a good pair Of
shoes-No, seyens
TIILER ADMITS IT.
Officer Bill King had chat with Tiller
at the Lindell, when the prisoner con.
frmed every detail of the story told by
car conductor Sheehan 1t will be re-
Inembered that about three O'Clock on the
afternoon of the robbery, Sheehan OBJ
served young man carrying two heavily
laden money bags, such as are used by
express companies, walking North on
Fourth street from the direction of Wash
ington avenue. At the corner of Morgan
street he stopped and rested for mo-
mont, and then moved North out that
street. Tiller admits that it was himself,
and says that he knew the conductor by
sight.