The Washington critic., 1885-09-02
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The most successful piece Of sncalt-thicv-
cry that occurred here In long time was
transacted at the banking house Of Bate
man IL Co. yesterday afternoon, between .
aud 3 o'clock. The thief got away with
SLIGO that Is known, besides other money
that cannot he estimated.
The bank is situated on + street, between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, and is u
quiCtly-conductcd place, there being seldom
u crowd around the premises. There Is
large business done In stocks, and while the
clerks were all around the ticker, in the
rear office, the sneak thief made the haul
There was u lull in the business of the bank,
aud everybody, except one clerk, was Ia the
rear room watching the narrow strip Of
paper MS IT rCclcd itself out and told It's tale.
There was strange young man, In flashy
dress, leaning against the casing of the front
door, looking idly into the street, as though
lac had no particular business with the
bank, hut was rather waiting for some one.
The last clerk in the bank stepped into the
back room and left the young man alone In
the Counting-roOm. The room was so ar
ranged that he could enter through the glass
door into Mr. Batcman's private Office with
out detection. by the people In the rear of
the house. When there he was among the
money. and he gathered all the bills and
walked out. Commissioner of Pensions
Dudley, who is a member of the firm,
walked into the front Office and saw the
Young man leave the glass door, but
thought he just looked In to see some one,
ard paid no attention to the circumstances
until he noticed the cash drawers open. lie
then discovered that all Of the paper money
In them was gone, and gave the alarm.
There was CONSERVATION among the en-
plOycs when they realized that the bank had
iccn robbed. The police were notified, but
only mcagrc description of the thief could
lie furnished, Gs he was not closely noticed.
Colonel Dudley thinks he could recognize
the thief.
An ARREST MADE.
Detectives Edelin, and Mattingly were as
signed to the case Detectives Rafr and
Block, however, made the first arrest of APP
parent importance to the case. They took
into custody about $40 o'clock, in front of
the Belt line car stables, on the charge of
"policyn writing, Wyatt johnson and
Charles C. Grow, colOred. johnson was
recognized as policy writer who plies his
avocatiOn in the neighborhoOd of the Treas
ury. In his pockets was found S525 in five,
ten and twcnty-dolar notes, the denomna-
tons Of the notes lost from the bank. lie
stated that he earned this money while
hotel porter about -four years ago. The
police discredit this statement, for when ar
rested for writing policy recently he had
only q few dollars in his pockets, and
legged to have it returned, stating that his
family was in need of it. The amount found
ON him, the detectives state, could not have
come into his possession through his bust
ness. As to who committed the robbery the
police say the bank officials do not know
enough about 1t TO positively say whether
the thief was ColOrcd or white.
Detectives Raft and Block stated this
afternoon that they have discovered that
three suspicous-looldng colored men had
been lettering around the bank yesterday
and johnson answered the description of one
Of them.