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, O00-Disappeared
the Other Side Of Havre.
All knowledge of the Reported
Robbery Denied in This City.
fBy Associated Press. }

'By Associated PfessD
PARIS, July 31.-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 so
requested, to take a hand in the investi-
cation.
In some unaccountable manner a cask
of gold from New York. valued at $780,
600, 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
American gold on board valued at
$2.0O0.O0O, and consigned. to various CON
Germs. She arrived at Havre July 20.
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-nine
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
theories. the strongest being that the
gold was followed from New York by ex-
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
he har nr i'm af
When the Touraine left New York
she carried in her steel-walled mail vault
Q,5O0.OO. That amount was contained
Freres shipped forty Of the casks.
containing s2.Ooo.ooO and Heidelbach,
itss Lex Gn & Co. the other ten. with
tlnctly to forty casks Of which one was
missing after the train reached Paris.
1t Is presumed that the stolen key was
one of the forty shipped by Lazard
,n One Of the Srothers Lazard said this
official Of any robbery Of gold belonging
kegs from the Sub-Treasury on the
Touraine July q. The Steamship Com
pany has given us receipt for that
amount. ana We feel no apprehension at
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"
member OF the firm of Heidelbach.
1ckelheimer 4 Co. said he felt sure that
not penny Of the half million his firm
shipped on the Touraine was missing.
inasmuch rs the Paris agent Of the firm
had cabled that the enire 100000 had
been received. Not a word had reached
Heidelbach, lckclheimer & Co. of any
THEFT on the train from Hayre.
-, M. Forget, the agent OF the Campagnie
Iransatlartic. was not to be found at
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 mall vaults OF the Tou-
raine under the very eyes of representa-
tives of the firms who make the ship
ments, and the Company gets a receipt
when 1t delivers the gold to the con
signces.
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 Havre in the Gus
tody Of the consignees.