The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-08
NO CLUE TO THE THIEVES
WHO ROBBED THE LON0 ISLAND ES-
PRESS COMPANY

Nearly TO Watch Case. Belonging to the
Fahys Company, and Valued at os,0Oe.
were Taken from a Freight House.
| Another robbery is added to the already lon g
list OF express company robberies OF the last
Sly months This time the Long Island Ex.
| press Company Is tho victim. and IL looks now
as IL the robbers had made good their escape
with the plumber. which consists OF nearly
5000 worth OF filled gold watch cases. Tho
robbery occurred two weeks ago Monday.
Tho Joseph Fahys Watch Case Com pany the
Offices OF which are at Al and ~ Maiden lane.
have factory at Sag Harbor. l.. I. 1t is one
OF tho largest watch case factories in the
world. and has a working capacity OF 1000
finished cases day. On an average 1.5OO
watch cases are carried daily from sag Harbor
to New York.
me cases are packed In boxes twenty inches
long and foot square. There are about 200
cases to box The boxes are OF heavy inch
anu half wood and are bound about the
edges with strips OF sheet iron Astrip OF iron
is also hound about tho centre 80 that. no mat.
Ter what sort OF handling tho cases nre sub.
;ected to- there is no danger that they will
break orcn. The lightest shipment OF the
watch cases always is on Monday because the
Saturday hnl' holiday is observed ut the fac
tory. Tho are seldom more than three boxes
sent on Monday.
1t happened that on Monday. Nov. 90. there
were only two boxes to send. These were
Iittle larger than usual and contained a few
snort OF 700 cases They were n special lot
that had been made TO M orders nlreouy re
ceved By the Fanys company ana tneto were
something like ten different styles OF cases in
tho LOT. They wcro also OF varyin. qualities
o, Eo,.. The best wcro Of ~ karat. Tho
kntnt EolG. and hrn known TO the tra,!p ne
ill,c cases There was an odd lot. loo. in one
Ihc tw" boxes lett the fhctory ut sag HarLor
about about noon: fhcy were taken to the express
ira n which leaves sng Iarn"r Mt ~. e er}ncr
nnd were receipted inr by tho local agent OF
tn" 1 c I'm h" train starts for sne harbor
express cur. whore they were r-celpteJ for
a aga ,G by IN. eITs%nErt Tns train which
after clock in the evening. That was too
late for the cases TO be delivered before ID orn.
station. was shifted to n side track Witch runs
alongside oi the buildings used Ly the express
here arc two Of these buildings one ends
IN u d"GK whiSh runs out along the len Of the
Jerry slin. Ihr1ngh the centre Of this Luil1-
height OF the car doors ~ to cnuble tho ensy
ioauing arh unloadir=ot the ears. Ihoie nru
freight which arrives too late Tor night dpIiy.
Try is nsuai!y nnlopdr,l On this platform
luidinE is LITTLE, more than u shed. Ii is
across tho street from the dock building. and
,reiEht Tor immediate delivery may be I'M.
There are three doors on each si,lc OF the
Sec9nh building and one in front. All save the
locked and uol,ed OIL the inside. fhe oti,.r
hoYr Is r licked on the outside 10y . spring pad.
guard it; ; The ether nuidinr must also have
was employ ell to guard that Ihere ia ~ Hisi
rute about which mne of these buildings the |
E n r Hn"nIahinE tG T'ch cases were placed
SAFE in the car wh,.n it was shi.t"d down on |
The side tracks The responsibility: Of, the |
signed ~ tn" local agent and went home. |
some of N" freight from the car was unlonied
The fact tina, the i,oxes wore missing Was
not noticed by any of the officials OF the ex.
n tT FEahy as men" as ian be learned
the telephone on Tuesday morning. The
;a.es nre usually delivered early, in he morn:
III. members Of the firm were alarmed. They
got no satisfaction from thu express company
lhTne hell was kert lingiiug all the tnornin.
a u, ! o'S s the cypress souipany admitted
'h"n not thing has been heard ni them. il is
almost certain that they were stolen in
. a%ay night IN AND w nr%a' Tor tA were carried
," n.stt, to lag or in ~ arms.
, s min Hs "s AND Il" ss, o %Is GHm
Tuesday morning. for before midnight tier. /
ar" - great many rairon'! men about tn. onp
island DEPOT ana ferry. winch is only n little |
way off, ana they wouid surely hava stopped
any on" running away With III" boxes. At )
o'clock the emf oyees OF the express company
get around. | Mess they were in with til.
thieves. ~" boxes could not have been taken
on til" !uck. 1t is possible that river pirares
took them: ut his is not likely
Mr.. Fahys said Yesterday that, while the
spoil. it would b" hard work for them 10 dis.
pose OF IT. tn" cases cannot be sold without
them are known. While they might he
pounded M they would probably depreriats
in value ut least 20 per cent. and II would be
4 very difficult lob to extract the gold from the
baser metal with which 1t Is allowed.
Tho railroad and express officials refuse
positively to talk about the robbery.