The evening world., 1894-07-31
CASk OF GOLD GONE.
Said to Be One Of Forty Shipped
from New York to Pari-.
csatained $50, 000-Disappeared
the Other Side Of Havre.
An Knowledge Of the Reported
Robbery Denied In This City.
rBF Ar., is1s. p-sss

PARIS. July zL-The pyiice q. Frsnr.
are investigating what 80 probably one
Of the most rsrlsrksti. rv:D.;7s, CT
record and it lie BELIEVED that The J'o,.cs
authorities Of the Unitet s.st.t vii Ds
asked, IL they have not already teen 81
requested. 10 take han3 IL the Invest
Cation.
In sorn. unscoounu BE manner a ask
Of gold from New Yum valued a. ~,
COS, has been stolen while eEroIts from
Hayre TO Psrit
The French line steamship la Tyu-
rzine, Capt. ssnrelli LEI; New NU-E Oh
July n for Hsyre. with fgrty asks Of
American gold On tps-o, valued &,
Gy0oVy, and consigned u various con
Germs. She arrived a. HsyT. Jgly =.
The forty casks Of gold a.. believed -
have been ssteiy LANDED a. Hsvr.. and
tbey arr slso said 70 have teen placed
complete on board the train running
between Hzvre and this city. But when
the precious casks were COUNTED up0r
arrival here there wer. only thirty-nins
Of then One cztk. containing :j..yS Ia
American goE. had DISAPPEARED
The dissppesrsnce Of the cssk - gold
has given rise u q number Of Iohc.
theories, the Etronget; bslng that Ii.
gold was followed from New York by sr-
pert thieves. who patiently awaited their
chance TO abstract one Of the cask..
II Ii theoriZei that the thief or thieves
hid himself or thenns+ly-s ~ the car II
which the gold war subsequently, PLACED.
and that. while on ~. way T. Pans. one
cssk was thrown out Of the train and
the robber or rotbert jumped after IL
LATKR.-The conEignees 81 III" csrk
Of gold stolen while IN transit b"'H eel.
Havre and rhir city are I-azsr5 Frsres
81 Gle. Of Paris and New York.
when the Toursine LETT New YORK
-. carried 10 her st-+,-1a ID MAJ veu ;
fz.Jy,yJ That amount H4S contained
in fifty casts of S1.n each. sni L.zard
containing ,zpye ~. ana Heidc.bsca.
Icke. heimer d e. the otner ten. win
tS66Di As the c.tpatcA reiefs dis
timely 10 forty cssks, 4 Snich gnss nan
IL Is presumed that the s,.len Reg Va
one u the forty shipped BY Lszsid
one of the brothers Lszard raid tin,
morning: we have heard nothini
oficisi q J'y ,obbery q goid b.long!n,
Touraine July q The Steamship Com
pany has given W receipt for tina
amount ana We feel no appre hensiOn a
all, as our gold shipments are fully IL
sured.
our agents IN Paris have not IN
formed "a II any theft. and We do no
take lay great credence In the story"
A member OF the firm Of Heidelbs =
1ckeiheimer q Co. said ne felt eur. tina
not q penny Of the half million hi. frn
shipped on the JOuralne was nissin ~
tnasmuch as the PariE agent Of the trE
had csbled that III. enre SLODJJ ha
been received. Not a word had reAch-
Beidelbach, Ickelhrim"r 4 90. u an
theft on the train from Havrr.
NJ Forget, the agent Of the Campaign
Jrsnsatlartic, was not to he found
his ONCE. The god shipments are locke
after by the freight department Of III
Stsamship Company. and the clerks
that department hadn't the slizhts'
knowledge of any gold robbery. The gu
In stored In the mail vaults II tn" TOj
raine under the very .yes ~ represent;
tiveE Of the firms who make u. shil
inents. and the Company gep Il rec.il
when II delivers the gold 70 the col
signees.
II the money was stolen while
transit from Hsvre TO Paris. IL woul
be no fault OF the steamship con
pany. whose functions ended when y
gold was landed in Hayre in the Gu
tody OF the cOnsignees