Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-31
A Daring Robbery Of American
Money in France.
THE COMING HAWAIIAN COMMISSION
Illinois Militia to Be Recalled From
Chicago.
HAN GING IN NORFOLK

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 If they have
not already been SO requested, to take
hand in the investigation. In some unac-
countable manner a cask of gold from New
York. valued at S50,Oo0. has been stolen
while en- route from Havre to Paris.
The French line steamer La Touraine,
Capt. Santelli. left New York on July q
for Havre with forty casks of American
gold on board, valued at S2,0W,UO0. aid con-
signed to various concerns. She arrived at
Havre July - 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
casks were counted upon arrival here there
were only thirty-nine of them; one cask
containing &O.0oo in American gold had by
some means, still a mystery to the police,
disappeared. The disappearance of the cask
of gold has given rise to q 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, and who found
this chance while on their way to this city.
Only Theories as Yet.
The police, pending the termination of
their investigation, will not give any par
ticulars concerning the robbery; but ii is
believed that several persons We're concern
ed in the theft, for the cask of gold must
have weighed nearly 200 pounds, and even
d very strong man could not have carried
such load alone for any very great dis
tance. Among the theories being invest-
gated is one which may turn out to he cor
rect. 1t is that the thief or thieves, hid
in the car in which the gold was subse-
quently placed, and that while on their way
to Paris one cask of gold was thrown out
of the train. and the robber or .'Cbbers,
Jumped after IL. The fact that only ole
cask of gold was stolen would seem 10 irdi-
cate. according to another theory, that OF ly
one person was concerned in the abstrac-
ton of the cask of gold from the train.
The Police Puzzled.
But the theories are many and the facts
made public are very few, not even the
name of the consignees of the gold being
made known up to the present. Although
It is positively asserted that the cask of
precious metal was stolen while on its way
to this city, 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 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 10 the
fact that the small hold in which ii is seal
ed is situated in the most secure Fart of
the ship. In any case most remarkable
robbery has been committed, and The police
of France are busly engaged in an attempt
to solve the mystery.
No News I'm New KOrk.
NEW YORK, July 31.-The report Of the
robbery of the cask of gold shipped from
this city by the French steamer La Tour
raine has caused considerable excitement
among the gold shippers. At the office of
the French line ii was said that no news
OF the robbery had been received at the
New York Office.