St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-01
MUCH GOLD VANISHED.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE or A
CkSK or PRECIOUS METAL
The Treasure to the Amount Of
$4,000 distracted From q
$2,OO0.OOO Shipment While
in Transit From New York to
Paris-A Clever Theft, Well
Planned and Executed.

PARIS, July 31.-The police of France
are investigating what is probably one
OF the most remarkable robberies on
| record, and it is believed that the police
authorities of the United States will be
asked, if they have not already been so
| requested, to take a hand in the inves-
| tigation.
In some unaccountable manner cask
of gold from New York. valued at
5o,C0l, has been stolen while in transit
from Havre to Paris.
The French line stea mship La Tou-
raine, Capt. Santelli. left New York on
July Il for Havre, with forty casks of
| gold on board, valued at $1,000. 900. and
consigned to various concerns. She
arrived here 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 arriving here, there
were only thirty-nine OF them, one
cask, containing $4,000 in American
gold. had by some means 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
expert thieves, who patiently awaited
their chance to abstract one of the
casks. The police, pending the ter
| mination of their investigation, will not
give any particulars concerning the rob-
hery, but it is believed that several per-
sons 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 great distance.
Among the theories being investigated
is one which may turn out to be correct.
1t is 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 or robbers
jumped after it. The fact that only one
cask of gold was stolen seems to indi-
cate. according to another theory. that
only one person was concerned IN the
abstraction of the caSk of gold from the
train.
THE THEORIES ARE MANY,
and the facts made public are very few,
not ever the name of the consignees of
the gold being made known up to the
present.
Is Although 1t is positively asserted that
| the eask of precious metal was stolen
while on its way TO this city yesterday,
there are people who ask if a mistake
may not have been made in the counting
of the casks at Havre, and whether the
gold was not attracted on board the La
ITouraine. TO this the steamship COM
,pany's officers reply that it is impossible
for thieves to get at the gold on board
ship. so closely IS it guarded,ln addition
to The fact that the small hold in which
1t is sealed up is situated in the most
secure part or the vessel
In any case most remarkable rob-
berry has been committed, and the police
Df France are busiy engaged in an at
tempt to solve the mystery Of the disap-
pearance of the 5000 cask of gold.
+ The consigneeS of: the cask of gold
stolen while in transit between Havre'
and this city are Lazard Freres d Co..
of Paris and Detroit.