The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-07
EMBEzzLER MABRY.s ARREST
Oficers Looking for Him Over Hundreds
OF Miles-CabIes Sent to Foreign Ports.
Energetic Work Of the Express Com
pany's Officers Rewarded-Mos of the
Money Rsco~ered-Hs Makes . statems mt

OF Miles-Cables Sent To Foreign Ports.
Energetic Work OF the Express Com
papy's Onicsrs Rewarded-Msst of the
Money Rscovered-Hs Make q statems mt
Savannah News.).
P. H. Mabry. the former agent Of the
Southern Express Company at run
wick, spent last night in the police bar
racks, and will be carried back to
Brunswick this morning under war
rants charging him with embezzlement.
Mabry was arrested ON the Ogeechee
road about four miles from the city
yesterday afternoon. by Detectives
Scully, Barrett and Shea, who had in
formation that he vas expected TO
come in that way through a telegram
from Superintendent l.. S. Myers sent
from Ways Station.
Out of more than $4,000 mic he
had carried away with him, Aabry had
spent but s1.25, he told Mr.. Myers, and
when he was searched there was found
on his person $15,070.7 "a. His total
shortage amounted to something NOR
than SIC, 900, but $500 of the amount
taken was found In Brunswick, and
there was the small shortage that had
been accommodating for sometime. So
it appears that Mabry's statement that
he had spent only s1.25 was about cor
rect.
The story of his capture is an interest
ing one. Superintendent Myers did some
quick work in the case. He and Cen
eral Manager O'Brien went to Bruns-
wick Thursday morning on a special
train. They had considered the matter,
and realized that it was important to
cover the water routes around Bruins
wick. Mr.. Myers, accompanied by
Marshal Lewis Beach OF Brunswick,
n Special Agent f. r. Burns Of the
Southern Express Company took a
steamer and on Thursday covered the
water route toward Fernandina. On
Friday they came toward the north as
far as Darien and saw to it that the
water route in that direction was we'll
covered.
From Darien these gentlemen did not
return direct to Brunswick but went to
Darien junction by rail, n from there
took the train for Everett City. On
the way to Everett City the express
messenger told Mr.. Myers that the
agent at Ways Station had informed
him that a suspicious looking man a
passed through Ways Station, Friday
night.
iAIi was oAloS Up llShl ol
Ways Station when Mr.. Myers reached
there, so he came On to Savannah for
the purpose of seeing to it that the
watch was strengthened in all direc-
tons. Early yesterday morning Mr..
Myers secured a special engine and car
and went back to Ways Station. Upon
inquiry he learned hat a suspicious
looking man had passed there and gone
in the direction of Kings Ferry ON the
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suspicious character fitted Mabry as
far as could be told.
Mr.. Myers got a horse and buggy and
with M. Cummings, the agent at Ways
drove as far as he could in the direction
OF the ferry, then walked two miles
through the swamp. He showed the
ferryman a picture of Mabry, and the
ferryman said:
That's the mar who passed here his
morning, but he has no mustache."
That satisfied Mr.. Myers that ne was
on the right track. But Mabry was
about three hours ahead OF him, and
there was no way to secure a team to
give chase. He returned to Ways as
quick as he could and wired Chief Nc
DermOtt to cover the Oseechee road,
and to arrest a young man with a
smooth face wearing an Overcoat, who
was coming that way.
After sending the telegram, Mr..
Myers got on his special train and re-
turned to Savannah, arriving at the
police barracks about 1850 o'clock in the
afternoon. Detectives Barrett, Scully
and Shea had just returned to. the city
with their man; who proved to be Ma
bry. They had caught him on the
Ogeechee road, just the other side of
the four mile post. He made no resis-
lance, though it is said he contempla-
ted doing SO, and afterwards said he
was sorry he did not kill Scully, be
cause he said they would nave don
away with him then altogether.
Mr.. Myers accounts for Mabry's &C
ton by the fact that he was somewhat
short in his accounts in the office, and
knew the route agent was coming to
check him up. He stood we'll in the
community, and when he thought Of
losing his position he was no doubt
much depressed.
Mr.. Myers mentions one little circum-
stance in the search which almost
threw him off the track. Mabry went
, into the store Of 8. man named Davis
near Kings Ferry for the purpose of
getting a pair of gloves. The store
keeper said he had only one pair of
gloves which he had bought in the city,
but he would let him nave them for
just what he had paid for them, which
was s1.25. This Mabry thought too
: much, and refused to take the gloves.
Mr.. Myers could not understand how
a man with so much money in hi.
pocket could object to payin: 1925 for
a pair OF gloves.
Another interesting circumstance was
Mabry's statement to a Mrs. ThOmp-
son, who furnished him his breakfast
yesterday morning. He gave her fifty
cents, and told her it was all the money
he had in the world. When she asked
him to write his name, he wrote, with
effort to disguise his hand, "P. d. Aims
worth" Mr.. Myers recognized the