Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-20
1 BIG SUN KISSING
Peculiar Disspps arancs 81 i q, 900
Package Of Money d Sioux B.
City.
Stolen From Depot Safe 81 The
American Express Conpaly
No Clue.
.0mcials Of the Company Invssti-
gating the Affair Hope to
Recover IT

dollars in one package shipped by the
Bank OF Sheldon, Iowa, to the Security
National Bank Of Sioux City, Is missing
High officials Of the American Express
Company. thru which the money was
consigned, are here making q deter
mined effort to locate the missing wealth
and the person or persons who stole it,
That there has been one of the bold
est and most battling robberies ever
known in Sioux City in the theft OF this
valuable package there is no doubt. The
express company officials declared yes
sterday afternoon that they had no in
formation OF any value to give out as q
result Of their investigation. They hope,
however, to be able to. clear 1t up soon.
AS yet no one has been detained, but 1t
lis safe to assume that careful watch
is being kept in many localities.
The following men connected with
the American Express Company are
here to work on the case: General Su-
perintendent w. A. Naylor Of Chicago,
Superintendent L. "A. Gardner Of Omaha
and Special Agent ]. w. Hartshorn OF
Chicago.
Attic the robbery occurred Friday
evening the investigation has been con-
Quoted with such secrecy that no out
siders learned OF it until yesterday. The
money, believed to be IS 900 in curren-
cy. was shipped by the Bank Of Sheldon.
The agent at Sheldon is d. E. Dean and
the messenger on the train who had the
package in charge was Thomas Hiland..
Levi Sawyer, the night agent at the
branch Office Of the express company ali
the Chicago & Northwestern depot is
the one who checked in the shipment
and locked it in the Office safe.
1t is said that the money arrived OH
the 1905 train Friday evening from Shell
don. 1t was checked In and Agent Saw
yer, before going out to attend to af-
fairs before the 7:15 train left for the
south, locked the money in the safe and
locked the Office door. When he re-
turned the Office door was ajar, the safe
was open and the $1,000 package gone
He processes to be in total Ignorance of
where 1t could have vanished or who
could have been implicated in its dis
appearance. He is apparently greatly
downcast by the loss and by the unfa-
vorabl light in which it places him.
The money was turned over to us at
Sheldon" said General Superintendent
Naylor. Before it reached its destina-
ton, a Sioux City bank, it disappeared.
We are wholly in the dark about the af-
fair as yet. When the loss was reported
came here from Chicago with our spe-
cial agent, Mr.. Hartshorn, and we have
been diligently looking into the matter
since our arrival Sunday. We of course
hope to be- able to clear up the mystery
soon. altho we can not say when such a
thing will be accomplished
Special Agent Hartshorn has grown
gray in the service Of express compa-
MES, ferreting out cases of loss. ooh,
we will find the culprit sometime; there
lis no doubt" he said laughingly. There
is no letting up in the pursuit when the
company is robbed. The public trusts
with US its valuables and we must az
ford it security and also protect our
selves. Some years ago in Springfield.
4 Ill, an agent stole $4,000. Mr.. Fargo
put me on the case and said, Devote
your exclusive time to this case until
you have spent $4,000 There is prac-
tically no escape for men who rob an
express company. The case here offers
some puzzling features