The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-03

he knew nothing whatever about IT
and passed by the paying teller with
the armful of sacks with which he pro-
| ceeded outside of the employees com
partment into the outer hall Of the
building and thence to the stationery
room some distance down the hall,
where the empty silver sacks are kept.
! In the meantime Zenzius had returned
and was met with further inquiry for
the money from Paying Teller Won Der
Weyer. ZenZius declared that he had
taken the money from the vault and
placed it where Mr.. Won Der Weyer
was accustomed to find it, and in the
midst Of their surprise at It's disap-
pearance Zschau came back to the
cage. Questions from Receiving Teller
Zenzius and Mr. Won Der Weyer failed
to elicit any satisfaction from Zschau
further than that he declared positively
that he had seen nothing of either
package of money which Zenzius says
he brought from the vault and left in
the cage with Zschau.
AT this stage of affairs, while the
excitement grew over the disappear
ance of the funds, Cashier Lockey
entered the bank and was at once ap-
prised of the situation. Zachau was
the slightest degree perturbed by the
situation, simply reiterated that he
had seen nothing whatever Of the
prised of the situation. Zschau was
to have placed it on the railing back
of the wire netting, nor afterward
when the receiving teller went to the
closet. The first intimation he had Of
anything at all concerning the bundle
of money, Zschau declared. was when
Mr.. Won Der Weyer asked him about
1t. Zschau admitted with frankness
that he had made a trip to the station
cry room with an armfull of empty
silver sacks shortly after Zenzius left
the cage, but wholly ignored the sig
| nifcance attaching to the question of
Mr.. Lockey that suspicion might fall
upon him through this action. His de-
| meanor was such as to convey the inn
/ preston that it never once crossed his
| mind that he was suspected of steal
!, ing the money. Mr.. Jockey at once
took sZschau to the stationery room
where thorough search was made,
! but no trace Of the money was found,
| 1t was too bulky a package tc be con-
| cealed about the person and, II Zschau
had stolen it. the fact was at once
| patent to Mr.. Lockey that he must
have had a confederate. Nothing was
done about the matter, however, until
yesterday when Mr. Leckey sWore to
a complaint charging Zschau with the
~.
was arrested by Detective James Muir
name.
Just what the bank officials have
learned since the disappearance of the
money is not wholly known, but the
fact that the National German
American bank is a member of the
Bankers Protective association and
! that the Pinkerton detective agency
has had the matter in hand since
Saturday, is supposed to have discover
ed sufficient evidence to warrant the
arrest of the assistant receiving teller.
Absolute trust and confidence is placed
in Zenzius by the officials Of the bank
and his statements are wholly relied
upon. This being the case it is the be-
/ lief of the bank officials that the stolen
money was inside the cage with ZSchau
| when the receiving teller left the bank
| ing room, and when Zschau went out
a few minutes later with the arrnful
| of sacks, it is the theory that he had
| the bundle of stolen funds concealed
| beneath his burden. If such was the
case the comDosure of the young man
when confronted by Paying Teller Won
Der Weyer with the inquiry for the
money, which he was even then in the
act of stealing, was remarkable.
Passing to the other hall, the theory
is that Zschau delivered the bundle of
notes to a confederate, either as he
took it from the shelf, or in one of the
silver sacks.
The fact that no record is kept Of
the number of sacks in use at the
bang prevents a knowledge of what
shape the stolen fortune was carried
from the bank to the street if it did
go that way, but the shape of the
package would have made it possible
for it to have been nicely fitted into
one of the sacks. The money was bound
together IN a package about eighteen
inches long, with the bills standing
on edge as the leaves of q book before
being opened. Most Of the bills were of
small denomination thus making O.
large, cumbersome bundle resembling
long, narrow scratch block With
such package, it is claimed, it would
have been easy for an accomplice to
pass through the bank building and
the street without attracting attention.
If the theory Of the bank officials is
correct the robbery was the result of
careful planning, as no hitch occurred
In the successful taking of the money
and there is not the slightest clue to
Zschau's supposed confederate No
strangers were seen about the bank at
the time, though people were passing
to and fro IN the Railways Had an
accomplice received the money at the
door to the banking room, his escape
| to the street would have been of the
easiest, as there are four different ex-
it's. any one of which he might have
the confederate to the front entrance
on Robert street, while the elevator
might have been taken to an upper
floor and escape effected by the side
entrance on Fourth street. Further
more, at the back of the hallway, near
| the stationery room, there is a con-
nection with an annex to the bank
| building proper, and a staircase lead
| ing directly to another Fourth street
entrance or one going up to the upper
part of the building.
One suspicious circumstance is the
different stories told by Zschau and
discount clerk occupying the first cage
in the row and the one next to that
of the receiving teller, concerning what
transpired after Zenzius went to the
closet. Zschau claims he picked the
silver sacks up from the floor and
| piled them on railing on the other
| side of the cage door from where
| Zenzius placed the money This the
discount clerk denies and declares that
| he saw Zschau pile the sacks up be-
| yond the door on the particular part
of the railing where Zenzius says he
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