The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-31
.CASK OF GOLD GONE.
Said to Be One of Forty Shipped
from New York to Paris.
Contained $50,000--Disappeared
the Other Side Of Havre.
All, knowledge OF the Reported
Robbery Dezied in This City.
(By Associated Prsss)

PARIS. July 3I.-The police Of France
are Investigating what is probably one
of the most remarkable robberies on
record and 1t Is believed that the police
authorities of the United States will be
asked, IL they have not already been 40
requested, to take a hand in the investi-
cation.
In some unaccountable manner cask
OF gold from New York, valued at $780,
900. has been stolen while enroute from
Havre to Paris.
The French line steamship La Tou-
raine. Capt. Santelli, left New York on
July q for Havre, with forty casks of
B American gold on board. valued at
$2.0O0.ooO, and consigned to various con-
Germs. She arrived at Havre July %.
The forty casks of gold are believed to
have been safely landed at Havre and
they are also said to have been placed
complete on board the train running
between Havre and this city. But when
the precious casks were counted upon
arrival here there were only thirty-ninc
of them. One cask, containing $4,000 IN
American gold, had disappeared.
The disappearance of the cask of gold
has given rise to number OF police
gold was followed from New York by cx-
/. pert thieves, who patiently awaited their
chance to abstract one of the casks
1t is theorized that the thief or thieves
= hid himself or themselves In the car in
which the gold was subsequently placed.
and that, while on the way to Paris. one
cask was thrown out of the train and
the robber or robbers jumped after 1t.
LATER. The consignees of the cask
of gold stolen while In transit between
, Havre and this city are Lazard Freres
ct Gle, of Paris and New York.
When the Tourainc left New York
she carried in her steel-wal'ed mai vault
H.50oOco. That amount was contained
IN fifty casks of $4,000 each. ana I.azard
Freres shipped forty of the casks,
containing :2,ooOOoo. and He!deibach
iieke;heimer & Go. the Other ten. with
!, iinctly to forty casks, Jf which one was
missing after the train reached Paris,
II Is presumed that The stolen key was
one Of the forty shipped by Lazlrd
One Of the brothers Lazard said this biz,
9ifiei.l Of w any robbery Of s"i! belonging
kegs from. the sub-Treasury on the
Touraine July II. The Steamship Com
pany has given us receipt for that
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all. as our gold shipments are fully in
sured.
"Our agents in Paris have not in
: formed us of any theft. and we do not
take any great credence in the story"
A member of the firm OF Hedelbach
1ckelheimer e. Co said he felt sure that
not a penny OF the half million his firm
shipped Oh the Touraine was missing,
inasmuch rs the Paris agent OF the firm
had cabled that the enire 5000 had
been received. Not word had reached
Heidelbach, Ickelhemer 4 Go. of any
theft on the train from Havre.
M. Forget, the agent of the Campagnie
! transatlantic was not to be found at
q his office. The gold shipments are looked
after by the freight department OF the
Steamship Company. and the clerks In
that department hadn't the slightest
knowledge of any gold robbery. The gold
Is stored in the mail vaults of the Tou-
raine under the very eyes OF representa-
tives OF the firms who make the ship
3 ments. aud the Company gets n receipt
when 1t delivers the gold to the con.
signees.
II the money was stolen while in
transit from Havre to Paris. II would
be no fault of the steamship com
pany whose functions ended when the
gold was landed In llavrc In the Gus
tody of the consiguees