The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-08
FIFTY THOUSAND IN GOLD
THAT AMOUNT STOLEN IN TRANSIT
FROM NEW YORK TO PARIS.
The Cask of Gold. One of Number
Shipped on the La TOuraine-
Various Theories, But Thus Far No
CIcw TO the Guilty Parties.

PARIS. July 31-The police are inves-
tigating what is probably one of the
most remarkable robberies on record, and
it is believed that he police authorities
of the United States will be asked, if
they have not already been so requested,
TO take a hand in the investigation. In
some unaccountable manner, a casl1 of
gold from New York, valued at $4,000,
has been stolen while in transit from
Havre 10 Paris. The French line steam
ship La Touraine. Capt. Santelh, left
New York on July q for Havre, with
forty casks Of American gold
on board valued at 81 900 COO
arrived here July %. The forty casks
Of gold are believed 10 have been safely
landed al 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
We're counted upon arrival, there were
only thirty-nine of them, one cask con-
tanning $4,000 in American gold had by
some means disappeared.
The disappearance of the cask of gold
has given rise TO a number Of police
theories the strongest being the gold
was followed from New York by eN-
pert thieves, who patiently awaited their
chance to abstract one of the casks. The
police, pending the termination of their
investigation. will not give any parucu-
lars concerning the robbery. but 1t is
believed that several persons We're con-
cerned in the theft, for the casks Of gold
must have weighed nearly two hundred
pounds, and even a very strong man
could not have carried such load alone
for any great distance.
Among the theories is one that the
thief or thieves hid himself or them
selves i'm the car in which the gold was
subsequently placed, and that while on
their way TO Paris one cask of gold was
thrown out of the train and the robber
or robbers jumped after II. The fact
that only one cask of gold was stolen
would seem TO Indicate. according TO an
other theory, that only one person was
concerned in the abstraction of the cask
OF gold from the train, but the theories
are many and the facts made public are
very few, not even the name of the con-
signees of the gold being made known
up TO the present.
Although IL Is positively asserted that
the cask Of precious metal was stolen
while on it's way 10 the city yesterday,
there are people who ask If a mistake
may not have been made i'm the count
ing Of the casks at Havre and whether
the gold was not distracted on board La
Touraine. To this the steamship COM
pany's officers reply that IL is impossible
FOR thieves TO get at the gold on board
to the fact that the small hold in which
II Is sealed is situated in the most secure
part OF the ship. In any case most re-
marlkable robbery has been committed,
and the police of France are busily en-
gagged in an attempt TO solve the nlys-
terry of the disappearance Of the $4,000
caslx OF gold.
The oonsignees OF the cask OF gold
stolen while In the transit berEeen FIlyta
and this city are Lazard Freres a Co,
of Paris and New York.
NEW YORK. July 3l.--Late this after
noon Lazard Freres received a cable dis
patch from Lazard Freres & Co, Paris
confirming the exclusive report Of the
Associated Press announcing that cask
containing $4,000 In gold was missing
from the consignment OF forty casks
shipped on the French line steamer lie
Touraine The cablegram said that the
forty casks were taken from the steamer
at Havre and placed on the train for
Paris. but when the consignment reached
Lazard Freres g. Co. one cask was miss