Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-02

PARIS, July 31.-The police of France
are investigating what is probably one
Of the most remarkable robberies on
record, and ii is believed that the police
authorities of the United States will be
asked, if they have not already been so
requested, to take hand in the investi-
gatiop. In some unaccountable manner
cask of gold from New York, valued
at $50000, has been stolen while en- route
from Hayre to Paris.
The French line steamship La Tour
aine, Captain Santelli, left New York
July 2fst for Havre, with 40 casks of
American gold on board, valued at
$3,000,000 and consigned to various
concerns. She arrived at Havre July
Goth. The 40 casks of the 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
Hayre and this city. But when the
casks were counted upon arrival here
there were only 30 of them one cask
containing $50,000 in American gold
had, by some means still mystery to
the police, disappeared.
The police, pending the termination
of their investigation, will not give any
particulars concerning the robbery, but
it is believed that several persons were
concerned in the theft, for the cask of
gold must have weighed nearly 200
pounds and even very strong man
could not have carried such load alone
for any very great distance.
Among the theories being Investigated
is one that the thief or thieves hid in 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 OF robbers
jumped after it,
But the theories are many and the
facts made public are very few, not even
the name of the consignees of the gold
being given out up to the present,
Although it is positively asserted that
the cask was stolen while on its way to
this city yesterday, there are people who
ask if mistake may not have been
made in the counting of the casks at
Havre, and whether the gold was not
abstracted on board La Touraine. To
this the steamship company's officers
reply that it is impossible for thieves to
get at the gold on board ship, SO closely
is it guarded, in addition to the fact that
the small hold in which it is sealed up
is situated i'll the most secure part of
the ship.
New YORK, July 3l.-The report of
the robbery of the cask of gold shipped
from this city by the French steamer
La Touraine has caused considerable
excitement among the gold shippers.
AT the office of the French line it was
said that no news of the robbery had
been received at the New York office.
1t was learned that there had been
three 6onsignments of gold by La
Touraine. Two consignments of 20
casks each, the value of which was two
millions of dollars, were shipped by
Lazard Freres of this city and were
consigned to Lazard Freres Et Gle OF
| Paris. One additional shipment of 10
casks was made by Messrs. Heidelbach
Ickleheimer & Co, to the Credit Lyon
aise and was valued at $500,000.
These three consignments were de-
livered safely on board La Touraine,
and receipts were given by the receiving
clerk on the dock and also by the
second captain of the steamer. Dupli-
Gates Of these receipts were then for
warded to the office of the French line
where they remain on file.
No theory as to how the robbery
was committed could be advanced by
the agents of the steamer. The specie
they say, is invariably in the strong
room, which is really an enormous safe
situated on the main deck amidships,
and is considered absolutely burglar
proof.