The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-11
A GREAT THEFT.
How SS,OOO,OOO Were Stolen, and How 1t was
Recovered.

How SS,O0O,O0O Were Stolen, and How 1t was
Recovered.
Especial to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch.
New York, June lO.-Securities, valued
at over 50, OO0, 600, together with books and
papers not easily replaced were taken from
the vault in the Office Of Henry A. Darling
while he was in Europe last April. The
deed was committed in broad daylight.
Barling's office is at No Sc South street.
A little before noon, April 20, while Ed
ward H Green and several clerks were
dressed plainly in black accompanied by
middle aged man with closely cropped head,
and three younger men and a man with
wooden leg, entered the Office quietly and
demanded that Barling's safe be opened
and all the securities, books, papers, etc,
appert2ining to the estate of the late Ed
ward Mott Robinson be surrendered forth
with. The woman did the talking, her
! language being emphatic and peremptory,
and frightened the clerks who appealed to
their superior in the office. Green was
yisibly agitated. The woman repeated the
demand and nIr Green's agitation in
creased. Then Il few more words, where
upon Green directed the clerks TO accede to
the wOmans demands. The securities,
more than :i,000W0, large portion being
negotiable. We're appropriated by the
woman. The books and papers We're placed
| in several bags and carried out to a carriage
waiting at the door. The clerks looked ON
supplied, and when the party cody de
parted by tne street door, they made no
effort to stop them or raise AN alarm.
1t was learned to-day that the middle
aged man and the three younger men were
employees of the Chemical bank one being
the cashier, and the man with the wooden
leg was Edward H. Il. Green, son of
Edward H Green, of Mr. Barlings office,
who authorized the turning over of the
securities, books and papers; Mrs. Hetty
Green, was the elderly woman who headed
/ the expedition.
! Edward Mott Robinson. q wealthy New
Bedford whaler, died in 1865, leaving
will in which Henry A. Barring was
named as executor and partner of Bari
| ing, one of the trustees. Hetty Green,
whose career of eccentricity had then
scarcely begun, was his daughter and
! heiress, and according to the provisions of
the will 100000 of the estate belonged to
her absolutely, besides the income from the
residue. On the death of one of the
trustees in 1881, Edward Fl. Green was ap-
pointed successor, he having earned the
claim to the succession by marrying the
heiress some time previously. In the mean
time, the eccentric heireSs devoted herself
with all her energy and aptitude to the
qualification of her one ambitiOn-to be
come the richest woman III the world She
doubled and quadrupled the fortune by
shrewd investment aud speculations She
saved not only dollars. but pennies At
the present time her fortune is estimated
by her business associate at fully thirty
million dollars. Last Wednesday Mr.
Barring drove to the Chemical bank and
demanded that the cashier turn over the
documents in question. This the cashier
did with due gravity, but promptly. and
now the executor in charge of the affairs
of the Robinson estate has them.