The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-30
EXPRESS ROBBERY.
FoTuBRINGHAM sUsFEoTED
OF Cabbagipg the doodle aud Dividing 1t
with the RmplOyss of tho Com.
pAny-T The Conflicting State.
meuts Of the Messenger,

with the Rmployes of tho Com.
pAny-T The Conflicting State.
meuts Of the Messenger,
sT. LOUIS, Oct. ed. s. Fotheringham
the Adams Express messenger whose ca
was robbed last Monday night, Is still ii
this city and has not been arrested
though he is accompanied wherever hi
goes by detective, He was in clost
communication with the officers OF tn,
company this morning, and lit was giver
out that he was assisting them In obtain
ing a Clew to the identity Of the robber
II Is believedJ however, that he Is being
carefully examined by the detectives, and
the stories told by him at different times
compared with view to finding incon-
sistenCles, and obtaining evidence that he
was an accessory to the robbery, The
suspicion Is expressed that several en-
ployes OF the express and OF the railroad
companies, carefully planned the robbery
with the knowledge oil Fotherlnghsm, and
divided the money between them. II
was stated at frat that tue amount stolen
was slightly In exCess OF $4,000, but
claims have already been presented to
the company which swells tho amount to
$Sl 900, A majority Of these claims have
been paid, and as soon as the others are
proved will be paid.
CONFLICTING sTATEMRNTs.
The officials have also noted the fact
that Fotheringham has made more than
one statement as to the position he was In
when Rssslled. In his statement to Super
inteAdent Damsel he said that no was
standing in the corner OF the car, while he
stated In Straits Hotel, on Poplar street,
that he was sitting In chair when at
tackled. Fetheringhsm also stated that
be indicated to the robber that he want
ed drink OF water, and that the gag was
removed from his mouth while the train
was at the station, which is considered q
very peculiar thing for bold and appar-
emily adept train robbel rs he 10 have
done. Aud 1t was as tho train started up
again that the alleged conversation be.
tween, the robber and the messenger is
said TO have taken place, in which the
former represented himself rs jim Cum-
mingS, the 'last Of the JesEe James gang"
AS 10 well.known, Cummings Is dead, and,
II alive, would not look like man OF "a,
Rs he would be 30 years Of age, while his
height was by no means six feet and his
weight 140 pounds under two hundred
in his prime. When closely interroSated
the messenger stated that he was not
familiar with the sort OF literature In which
Jesse James and Jim Cummings figured,
but that, being q Missourian, he naturally
knew ol their exploits In general way.
The officials are satisfied that by to.mor-
row there will be deVelopements Of an i'm.
portant nature, but will give no intimida-
tion Of what they will be.
SOME SUSPICIOUS.
Baggageman Dyer, who went out on the
same run with Fotherlngham, made his
statement yesterday, which was to the OF.
feet that when he entered tho expreas
car he was puzzled greatly as to why the
freight should be piled up against the
doorS. Dyer says: ~ was busy with my
baggage up to the time we reached the
obstruction on the track, aud there got
out to assist the conductor, engineer and
negro porter in removing the rock from
the track. It was found necessary TO de.
tach the engine and get the switch rope
from the tool box under Fotheringham's
car. While there l saw tramp who did
not look at all like a desperate, nor did
he try 10 hide himseli, and when asked
what ho was doing there, coolly replied
that he was trying to get west, The bag.
gage car was Just In the rear OF the ex-
press car, and when the saw the ConduC.
tor rapping on the express car door call.
ed to him: that's tho wrong car; the
express car, and he came on back TO my
car. We stopped at Pacific Crossing and
at Pacific, and also at st. Clair, whero !
heard groans, Rs did Conductor Sprinkle
and Brakeman Carr, who we're out on the
platform. We supposed at first that the
aroanB came from tramp caught in the
trucks, but soon discovered that they
were from the express car, and then ]
heard Fotheringham aayi Come In and
unite me I have bsen robbed l started
lor the rear door, when he said: Come
around to the other door; you can't HOt
In that way Conductor Sprinkle and 1
were frat to enter the express car, and we
found considerable difficulty In squeezing
our way In. Those who entered the car
were Conductor Sprinkle, Engineer Hoog,
Brakeman Carr, the operator at st. Clair,
the negro porter and myself. saw no
gag, nor did Fotheringham speak Of one.
We released him from his bonds at
once. He was firmly tied, and 1t
looked as though the Job had been care
fully done."
CLUES DISCOVERED,
It has been learned that the company is
now running down possible clue that
was furnished them by a, swltchmSn at
the Fourteenth street bridge in the Union
Depot yards, and, as ono Of the Board Of
Managers Of the Adams Express Com.
pany remarked, while 1t may be nothing
more than slender thread, 1t, at the
same time, might develop into an i'm.
lnenSe hawser. The story IL to the effect
that tho night switcnman at the Four.
teenth street bridge engaged in the scr.
vice during the late strike on the South.
west system, and for that reason no was
called "sCab," and hO had been repeat.
edly warned while working there that
the strikers intended to 60 round and do
him up. For that reason he was always
on the watch, fearing some one would
slip up and strike him down from behind.
The watchman gives these facts to &C.
count for his seeing two men Monday
night at the bridge. He says they first
came around there about eight o'clock
and acted all the while as though they
wanted 10 avoid boing scrutiniEsd too
closely. They did not stand In ono place,