Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-22
EMPLOYEES UNDER FIRE.
Mystery Of the Stolen Express
Package in Hands Of the
Pinkertons.
Two Burlington Employees Of the
Adams Express Company Taken
to Chicago.
Substituted or Original Package in
Their Custody For Three
Hours.

Chicago, Aug. 222.-Two of the Bur-
lington employees of the Adams Express
company were brought to Chicago yes
terday and subjected to vigorous ques
tioning by detectives at work on the
of the disappearance of u pack
age OF nearly $4,000 between this city
and Burlington last Friday night or
Saturday morning. The men We're Night
Clerk Mercer and Driver Yocum. The
package arrived in Burlington at 5:45
O'clock Saturday morning, and from
that time till $50 Was in custody of
Mercer. BY him it was delivered to
Yocum, who took it to the bank, where
the fraud was discovered.
Al the Offices of the Adams Express
and the Pinkerton detective
agency in this city ITO information as to
the progress of the investigation was.
given out yesterday. 1t developed, how
ever, that the work done on the case
since the substitution of the bogus
package was discovered had caused the
detectives to busy themselves at the.
Burlington end of the line. Saturday
TWO of the most capable men on the
Pinkerton force We're sent TO Burlington.
The night express clerk and the driver
who delivered the package We're brought
10 Chicago yesterday They We're taken
TO the office Of General manager Dansel5
of the Adams company and questioned
long and nlinutely concerning their part
IN handling the package the disappear-s
anee Of which is cleuded in 80 much
mystery
II is said that the detectives chief
efforts With the men We're along the line
of determining from the,n + the pack
age handled by them was done up in q
Wrapper similar to that which encased
the bogus package. or if il rese.nblsd
the regular package sent out by the
Commercial natSonal bank of this, city
With ttiR in view both the bogus wrap
per and a duplicate Of heAerisinal bank
Sls5Ia PIPER We're on inspection by the Bur-
lingJon employees. The result of yester-
cay 2 Investigation was securely guard
ed by the officers working on the case.
Since the detectives set TO work they
have examined all the employees of the
bank and the express company Who in
the ordinary course of its Transmission
Would nave had anything to do With the
package. The result is said 10 have sat
is'tied the detectives that the substitu-
ton took place after the package had
left Chicago.
+ a theory proposed by enc of the off,
GERS is that some one Whose business
ssNas not the handling of the package
I had learned the combination of the safe
ard shifted paekagessin an#instant when
THE car safe was not being watched.
In Import Of the theory it was
ipointed out that recently in an express
I robbery in the Indian territory the mes
i s'anger Vas forced at the point of a re-
Nolver to open the safe, tbs combina-
stioll of Which he was not supposed to
n Know and which he declared he did not
1 know until he VAS Impressed with the
certainitr of being filed full Of lead if
The persisted in his refusal. The author
gof the theory said yesterday that othe,
similar cases We're on record and that ii
4 would be possible for an adept Who Mas
lineither messenger nor agent to learn
j the combinations.
4 Loss Was 100000.
Burlington, Aug. 2222.-Regarding The
4 money stolen in the Adams Express
! package in transit from Chicago Il
1 Burlington, John Fleming. cashier Of
1.-The National STATE bars here, VINO rllade
4 the order on the Chicago bank for tbs
shipment of money. said the amount
1 vas $4,000. Max Schmidt, the telle.
who opened the package and discovered
a tbs fraud, said the dummy packag,
contained twenty neatly pinned bundles
each marked $1,000. Great interest i.
manifested by the officials in the man
ner in which the package was handed
lin Burlington after the arrival of til,
4 Huntington train Saturday morning
i Night, Clerk Mercer, who took the bun
die from the express car and kept ii ii
his office for three. hours and Drive
4 Yoeum, who delivered it to the bank a
$40 a. M, have been called to Chicag,
i otell what they know OF the affair.
Eckles Talk.
4 Duluth, MINI. Aug. 22-James II
Z Eekels, president OF the Commercial
National bank of Chicago, arrived her
ster2ay and left again for a trip dow
The lakes. In reference TO theft of
J. package of currency shipped from hi
bank he said:
II did not know of the ioss5until L re
HceiEed q letter from Joseph T. Talbert
1.-THE cashier of the bank, this morning