New-York tribune., 1886-11-12
BY the people Master Armstrong. OF NewYork, offered
memorial IN regard 10 the slle OF farm PRODUCTS
INDICTMENT OF FOTHERINGHAM
INVESTIGATING TIE ROBBERY OF ADAMS EXPRESS



IN MISSOURI
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1 (SpeciaD The mystery
in which the celebrated Adams Express robbery is In
vclved pears hickenng under the Investigation
OF the detectives An astonishing feature regarding tho
letter or package OF newspapers sent to The Gfooe-
Democrat by the allie .ed robber discovered tonight
The package contained ths wrappers which were
taken from the money and long letter to .he editor.
Tho letter dated st. Joo October 81" aud The
forty Eight stamps the package appeared TO no all
cancelled at that point This is not the fact
The detectives learned that the package hal never
passed through the Post Office Department and that the
sta nps had been cancelled with pece OF cork, ana INC
package carriel into the cvtingroom, about the time
the mail arrived, and left the counter This tis-
covery the detectives searching the city, bu with
out success An examination of the letters written TO
Frank James and the messengers mother show that
they mailed at St Joseph The snppositon is that
the sterious Jim Cummings In ST. Louis, while
many hold that the package and letters tricks OF
the detectives to Manufacture testimony to make Gaze
When the messenger returned the morning after the
robbery his trunk seizei 1t is stated that in his
trunk sheet o. paper iouad which the name OF
j. b. Barrett written great many times each time
approaching nearer to the genuine signature OF the
superintendent This Sheet with the letter written to
Frank James the letter written to The Globe Democrat
and the letter written to Mrs Root, at Mansfield, NO.,
and a sample OF Fotherngham's writing were submitted
10 f. W. II. Wiesehlhn, a expert who pronounced
them the same hIndwrrng AMI ths pro uction OF the
same Other points, slch Engineer Ifelernans
story that who asked him where the san Fran
ccJ express was the night OF october %. en-
tered the without showing any letter have also been
established. Messenger Griffith maintains that toth-
erngham told hn at R,lla tue night OF tue r0Dotry,
tlat Cummings had attacked hm while no (FJthering-
ann sitting box and put his knee against his
back This cODtradicts the story OF the messenger
which Is that Cummings attacked him from behind Ts
point is not strong one. however, Fotherineham
used the word "box I'm a his accounts OF tue robbery
ana said his way bills the box.
Fotherngham seen in Jail and asked what he had
tO concerning the statements That papers hah peen
found his trank showing that he na pracsed writing
The name OF j. b. Jarrett AMI that the writing torro-
sponded with the James and CUMMINGS letters
III only say this, that may have written Mr. Bar
rett's name some papers In my trunk have haolt
OF scribbing when st down. ] don't remember writ
ing this tnaf the paper speaks or but didn't do II with
any iIea OF forgery"
The expert also testified that Fotheringham wrote u
half dozen different hands The Indictment against tue
messenger has three counts, charging tho larceny
OF SGOo0D another the larceny OF 100000 and the tara
the enibezzlcn,cnt OF $4,000. Richard Roe and
jim Cum mings are similarly indicted