Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-31
FOXY EXCUSE
MADE THE SCAPE-
HIS CRIME.

ms Thst BE Had to Re-
rate Measures TO Save
Home from Foreclosure
hshSm Declared an Ac-
car Cook Confesses.
tn, KAs., Dec. 30.-Mrs.
bother Of Jim Cummings"
br residence last night. she
Filling TO say anything about
her son, but was anxious that
hould know the real cause OF
She said that she had won
the first what prompted the
Ind the first question she asked
al ter he had been brought 10 his
!. The detectives was: "Why did
Ecu take the money!" She says ne an
swered that he was greatly worried be-
cause the time was growing so short
when the mortgage on her home, to secure
81. 100 that she had borrowed and loaned
10 him. would become que and be was not
making money enough out OF his business
to nav her. Instead OF allowing the home
stead to go to sale he made up his mind TO
make desperate effort to save 1t, and
finally decided upon the plan OF rooolng
the express car.
Oscar Cook made a confession yester-
ham knew all about the plan to rob his
car,,and was q willing victim to the at
tack of the robber. 1t is said that he
was promised $4,000 OF the amount
stolen as his share of the booty, and that
that sum was part of the money which
Fred Witrock sent to his mother Tor sale
keeping.
ALL THE ACCoMPLICEs UNDER ARREST.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 30.-Robert Pinkerton
says that all the accomplices in the rob-
berry have been captured. Five men and
Mrs. Haight are under arrest.
Being asked if Fotheringham was
guilty, he replied: II am not ready to
say. / prepared the evidence for the
grand jury and be was indicted. Draw
your own conclusions. There are large
number of accessories after the fact" he
said, scattered over the country" and
be would use his Judgment in making fur
ther arrests. Pinkerton's men were scour-
ing the city all might, but the fruits Of
their labors are not made known. Wit
rock and Cook were kept in the Adams
express office all day, and were removed
to some place of concealment at dusk.
A special from Kansas City states that
it was the Intention OF the conspirators TO
rob the car on the night of Oct. %. and
that the first Jim Cummings" letter was
written before that time, and dated on
that day. On that night, however. there
was not enough money in the car to pay
the robbers for their trouble, and their
plan was not finally carried out until Oct.
IS. Should these statements be borne out
by the facts Gin the case Fotheringham
viii doubtless accompany his fellow-con-
spirators to the penitentiary.
THE PRINTER SAVED IT.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-Two thousand dol
lars OF the money stolen by "Jim Cum
mings," the train robber, was recovered
here today. The money was obtained
from a Chicago printer whose name is
withheld by the detectives. He is the
man who printed the official letter-heads
OF the Adams Express Company, by
means of which Witrock gained admis-
sion to the express car. The printer
says Witrock approached him with a
request to do this work. Witrock ex-
planned that it would enable him to obtain
passes upon which he could travel all
over the country. Suspecting nothing
the printer complied. Shortly afterward
he was sent the sum mentioned, which he
has kept intact, knowing 1t must have
been part of the proceeds OF the robbery.