The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30
WIIEUCh AND HIS SW AG.
4 Large Amount of Money stolen from the
Adams Express Company Recovered-Wit-
,oc!>'s Mother Makes an Apparently truth
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full Statement.
LEAyENwoETH, Kan. Dec 20 -.1ttective
Pinkerton came to this city yesterday IN re-
Spouse to q summons from Mrs W.trock,
Jim Cummings" mother. who infHrsGsd
Piukerton that she had important intrr1na-
ton fo- him. When PiuAerton arrived ;iJ
Mrs. Wirrocll's house h. was handed express
packages Containing So 900 III currency.
which NiTock had SEM 10 his family "I5er
the robbery. Tie money had not been dis
turbej and vas IN tie original wrappers. Il
IS supposed that Witrock. during one of his
visits TO this city hid large sums OF the
money stolen, and that he will now turn 1t
over to the detectives. There have a!:s2dT
been recovered OF the stolen money abou5
$40, 600 Witrock's mother IN an interview
Admitted thar Fred had participated ii the
robbery. She sail:
Shortly after TIE robbery Oscar ,Coo?, came
70 Leavcawerth and visited her and said Fed
WAS N trouble, that lie ha made large auin CT
money heat dssi III Chicago ana La>. some
d.H!cuity viii a broker over the matt winch
ecird 10y him shoe Ing tire latter; that h mad
10 flee from the country, and wanted Ills mother
70 take care OF The mony until she heard rom
h!,n further. This she cEreed TO do. and the
nCn.y was LETT in her possession some tlalt
afCc. this, another yoUaG man who lives in his
CIV. hut whose i,ie.ltity she refused 10 diyu.e,
called and lett another package of money, anu,
on other occasions two other young men
called at different times and Jeff money which
taev said had come from Fred. when heard
Of Fred's arres: Immediately wrote TO the ex-
press company telling tAem Of the money. and
requesting hem to come to Leavenworth. and
that Is undoubtedly Why they are here,
Robert Plnkerton fully exonerated Mrs.
Witrock and family, saying they had only
done what others would do under
the circumstances He corroborated Mrs
Witrock's story.
lEAvENwoErH, Dec 3O-Mrs. Wtrock, the
mother OF Jim Cummings was seen last
night She was anxious that the public
should know the real cause OF the robbery.
She said:
She had wondered from the first what
prompted the robbery, and the first que stion she
asked her son after he had been brought 10 his
home by the detectives was: why did YOU
take tie monev?" H. answered that he was
greatly worried because the time was growing
so short vixen the mcGt-aGe on her home 10 Sc
cure 81. 700 t!at she had borrowed and loaned
to him. would become due, and he was not MAX
ing money enough ou5 Of his business to pay
her. SO, Iustead Of allowing the homestead to
90 TO sale, he made up his nind TO make a des-
peiate effort 10 it. a:ijl finally decided upon
the plan OF robb!ne t.e express car.
Specials from Ieavenwofth and Kansas
City stale that Oscar Cook made confession
yesterday, in which lie stated that Fotner
ingham, the express messenger. knew all
about the plan TO rob his ear and was a will
ing victim TO the attack OF the ro5bsr. It
was said that he was promised $4,000 OF
tie amount stolen as his share of the booty,
ara that sum vas part OF the money which
Fred Witrocil sent To his mother for safe
keeping
MONEY RECOVERED IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO Dec. 3U.-Two thousand dollars
OF the money stolen by TIL, Adams Express
robbers was recovered here TO. day. The
money was obtained from a Chicago printer,
whose name is Withheld by the detectives
H printed the official letter heads Of the
Adams Express company, by means of
which Witrock gained admission to the ex-
press car. The printer says:
WitFoci- approached him with the request to
do this work Witrock explained that IL would
enable him to obtain wtllcl could
travel all over the country Suspecting nothing
criminal, the printer complied. Shortly after
ward he sent the sum mentioned, which he
has kept intact. knowing it EluSt have been part
Of the proceeds Of the robbery. The money has
Of ~ !. us and h IL bannV 70 Get rd Of H.
KANSAS CITY, Dec 30.-Supt Damsel. OF
the Adams Express company, arrived here
this morning with Mrs J. Haight the
strength of a confession made by Haight.
He brought information which Robert Pink
erton acted upon by going to leavenworth
There he recovered SO, 500, which was
found buried in sealed cans. Mr.. Pinkerton
returned here tonight. 1t is reported that
Mrs Haight was taken from Lcavenworth TO
tchison this evening
MORE MONEY RECOVERED.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 29-Robert Pinkerton
Is engaged in recovering more of the stolen
money. 1t has been found that consider
able amount was distributed here among
Cooks friends in sums ranging from $500 tC
81 900. A lot of bank notes were found
concealed in beer bottles under the house OF
John Cox in the East bottoms, where Cook
boarded aud Witrock stayed while here. An
other portion was found under house op.
poslte that of Cooks father. and Jack Cook
Oscars brother, gave up 81 900 that he had
There are rumors of some further arrests te
be made.
CINCINNATI, Dec 29-Col l. c. Weir, su
perintendent of the Adams Express com
pany states that the amount stolen last DC
sober was between S81 900 and $S2, 900.
CHICAGO, Dec Z9.--W. A. Pinkerton to-
night stated that he had secured information
as to the whereabouts of all the money
stolen by the Frisco train robbers The por
tion not captured in Chicago and Leaven
worth was buried in five different states
Each of the locations has been designated by
Witrock