Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-13
70 FIT UP A FLAT.
Walter Price Invents Neat Plan
to Rob His Employers.
Claimed He Was Robbed Of Sl95U
But His Girl Had It.
Ne Weakens and coniesses -Both Man AMI
Girl Under Arrest.

New York, April 12.-Walter Price, the
vonnr man who was alleged to have been
held up by highwaymen at Broadway and
Great Jones street Friday and relieved OF a
satchel containing $3.50, has confessed.
All Of the money except Is has been re-
covered.
Price and u young man named Scott,
both employees of Gleason, Bailey & Co,
manufacturers OF chandeliers ut Houston
and Mercer streets, were sent to the Aston
Place bank with certified check, to be
cashed in order to pay Off the firms EN-
ployes. The money was drawn from the
bank, and. according to the story subse-
Quently told by Price, it was placed in
satchel, and the two young men started
for the store.
At Broadway and Great Jones street
they stopped to look at Il man painting n
sign on the side Of building. and Price
said some one came up behind them and.
after striking Price blow on the back of
the neck, tore the satchel from his grasp
and made his escape. The strange part OF
the occurrence was that no one saw the
robbery, although the street was crowded
with pedestrians and a policeman was on
the corner.
Price has made a statement to the effect
that he alone was responsible for the loss
of the money He said that he had made
up his mind ull the week that rs soon as
he was sent to the bank to get the money
that he would steal it. He said that for
some time he had been living with young
woman named Bella Lyons, and that he
Wanted to Fit Up = Flat
for her into which they could move. He
said that in order to do this he had to have
money anG the robbery was arranged by
him and the girl, that she was to be at the
bank when he went there to get the money
for the firm, and that as soon rs he got the
check cashed he would place the money in
a satchel and hand it to her and she could
take it home.
When he and Scott went to the bank
Bella Lyons was near the door of the
bank waiting for him. After the paying
teller had given him the money he placed
1t in the satchel and, as he passed out of
the door, he passed it to the girl, and
she went on home with it. Scott did not
see the transfer of the satchel made, and
they had gone two blocks down Broad
way when suddenly Price shouted that he
had been robbed. SCOTT had not been III
the scheme to rob his employers, and.
thinking that the robbery really did DC
cur he ran with Price around to the sta
tionhouse and told Police Sergeant Park
erson all about it in the best faith.
When Price had finished his confession
a detective hurried to the home OF the
Lyons woman. At first she denied thai
she knew Price, and also that she had any
acquaintance with the robbery. After
being told that it was no use in her deny
ing it she broke down, began to cry ant
admitted that she was party to the rob
berry. She said that the money, which
was still in the satchell, was at the home
of her mother. The detective went to tn,
mothers home ahd found the satchel. 1
contained all the money except s., which
had been taken out and spent. The CIR
was then taken to the Mercer street sta
ton and locked up.