The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-10-18
TRAIN ROBBERS CAUGHT
Three Of the Virginia Bandits Now
Behind the Bars. -.
SOME OF THE MONEY RECOVERED.

A Man Arrested at Cumberland, Nd, Had
Over a Thousand Dollars Of the Stolen
Money in His Possession The others
WIN Soon be Captured.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Dot. 1s-A man
answering the description telegraphed to
the chief Of police Of this city bs Governor
oferrell was arrested as he was about to
take train for Pittsburg. He gave the
name OF q. j. Searcey, and claimed to hail
from Kansas. He admitted having been
In Front Royal, Va, on Tuesday. He was
heavily armed, and attempted to get rid Of
his revolvers when arrested. He was COM
authorities.
As soon as the officer attempted to arrest
Searcey he started to run, but was soon
caught by tho officer He claimed TO have
been stopping at one Of the hotels In this
city, and upon being taken to each Of the
hotels In turn claimed that 1t was a differ
emit one.
No further doubt can possibly exist that
one Of the Aqua Creek train robbers has
been caught In this city. A web Of circum-
stantial and convincing evidence has been
woven about the prisoner. BY the first
train from Washington after the report Of
his capture party Of Pinkerton detectives
arrived, including Captain II. #. Hinde.
who had just arrived from the scene of the
robbery. He was accompanied by Crutch-
Held, the messenger in charge of the car at
the time of the hold up.
In the prisoners possession was q, O51 SO
In cash, of which 1897 was in greenbacks.
When Mr.. Hinde saw the roll of green
backs he held them up to the light and ex-
amined them closely, finally declaring
there was no further doubt that the pris-
oner was one of the robbers. He showed
that every one Of the notes had small per
forations. In every package of money
shipped by the Adams Express company
the notes are stitched together, leaving,
when separated, tiny holes which person
could not fail to discover upon examine
ton. Every note contained these holes An
the places where they would be made by
the person making up the money package.
Mr.. Hinde also closely examined mem
orandum book which Searcey had In his
pocket In this book was row Of figures
in which e., 800 had been divided by two
besides quantity of other valuable infor-
nation which the authorities refuse to
give out. The book contained a diagram
which is believed to show where the greater
part of the money stolen last Friday night
has been hidden
NEW YORK., Oct. 1S.-Of the seven Guam
tico robbers the Adams Express company
believes that three nre now under arrest
President l.. G. Weir, of the Adams Ex-
press company, says the Cumberland dis
patch agrees with the advices received by
him. The Cumberland suspect, he believed,
was one of the three men under survcil-
lance whopassed through Front Royal Va,
Monday night. The sheriff lost track Of
them, though he was advised of their COM
ing. They bought new clothes at Front
Royal, and were traced to a Norfolk and
Western train. Subsequently two of the
men were apprahended at Cherry Run and
sent to Jail ut Martinsburg.
The third escaped, but was overtaken at
Cumberland, and is now under arrest
there where the only money, SO far as Ia
reported, was found The memorandum
book which this robber carried, showing
where the entire booty had been divided,
had not yet been reported by the company's
agents, but it should prove valuable clew.
-Four more men implicated In the robbery
have yet TO be accounted for. Mr. Weir
was positive that the total amount stolen
would not exceed $50, 900, and that even
that amount would likely be reduced by
further reports.
The express officials and detectives are
delighted at the captures, and now feel
sure that the apprehension of the re-
mainder of the gang will be accomplished
soon.