St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-13
THE EXPRESS ROBBERY.
Another Letter From the Daring
Tbief--A Lot OF Securities Re-

never was more humorous and rechleSSlY
daring highwayman than the Individual
who recently robbed the Adams Express cal
on the st. Louis & San Francisco railroad
OF over $4,000, and who is pleased to be
known as Jim Cummings" He captured
one OF the largest amounts of money ever
lost by an express company, and. despite
the fact that a wealthy corporation
and the most skilled and experienced detec-
tIveS in the country are doing all that money
and brains can do to run him down, Mr..
Cummings" occupies his spare time in de-
Tying his purSuerS and in furnishing them
with false clues upon which TO exercise
their ingenuity. He seems to feel so abSO-
lutely assured of his own safety that he
dareS 10 have little amusement with the
express company. He has written several
letters heretofore. and the detectives all
agreed that they were written blythe now
Imprisoned messenger, FUtheringham, be-
fore the robbery was committed
AS A MEASURE OF SAFETY,
should he be suspected, and an alleged
expert penman testified before the grand
jury that the handwriting was the same as
the messengers. But the Republican is in
receipt of a fresh letter, dated Topeka,
same handwriting as the others and signed
''Jim Cummings" which goes to show that
FOther,ngham could not possibly have
written either of the others. In the letter
he states that he regrets that suspicion
should rest upon FOtheringham, and asserts
that the messenger did all in his power to
protect the cOmpany'S property. He re-
quests that the package which accompa-
MED the letter, and which contained prop
erty valued at S10 900 in notes, mortgages.
etc.. be returned to the Adams Express
company. Upon one receipt for money to
the First National bank of Eureka, Kan,
appeared the following signature: Jim
Cummings, for First National bank, Eu-
raka," and on the line below, where the
fact is to be noted of the money as not re-
ceived i'll proper shape. occurred the words:
Il have no complaint to make whatever. -
A postscript to the letter says: 81 sent the
bank note to Frank James for joke, not
Tor any desire to get him into trouble" A
letter from W. II. Damsel, manager of the
company, to an agent calling upon the lat
ter to procure second b0ndSman, the rob-
Der wrote: In order to give the bioke' a
chance to see If he's any good on earth, ]
will
Jim Cummings: value of property. S53 00C
in cash." In spite of the fact that this last
letter goes to prove that Fotheringham was
not its writer, morning paper says: When
the messengers trunk was examined there
were number of letters. some written in a
peculiar back hand, which Jim Cummings
affects. others in a hand slanting in the
other direction, and, most important of all.
eI,n of no cio afiIre ,NfN I
Barrett written upon them a number OF
times with the manifest intention of max
ing close copy of the originals. AS soon
as the documents were examined the detec-
tives and Mr.. Damsell agreed that these
and jim Cummings letters were written by
the same person. but how they came into
FOtheringham's possession is still a mystery.
1t is contident.ally reported to-day thai
officials of the express company and the
detectives in their employ have discovered
the identity of the two men recently in
dicted by the grand jury for grand larceny
under the names of Jim Cummings and
Richard Roe, " but they do not see fit to
make their real names public. 1t has been
ascertained that
A WAITRESS
in Pine street restaurant was Cummings
mistress, and from her a description which
| tallies exactly with that given by Fother-
ingham was obtained. The shops at ST.
Charles. Mo-, where the camp outfit, guns.
etc, referred to by Cummings" in for
mer letter were purchased, have been Wis
tied by the detectives and from their pro-
pretors it was learned that one OF the pur-
chasers was the girls paramount, and doubt
less one of the robbers 1t is learned that
both of these men will soon be arrested.