Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-06-18
THEFT on BULLION
Mystery of Big Ocean Liner
Now In a Way 10 Be
Cleared.
A STRANGE STORY TOLD
Bedroom Steward OF the Kaiser
Wilhelm Der Crosse Has a Tale
sof Hypnotism and Robbery.
This Man Is Held On Suspicion and
Two Americans Are Being
Locked For.

New York. June 1S.-Since the ar
Carl, chief of police of Bremen. Ger
many. on the steamship Lain, some
inside information concerning the mys-
FERROUS goldbar robbery which oc-
Cured last April aboard the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse has leaked out
Thus far but one arrest has been
made in connection with the crime,
but the prisoner, Theodore Mayors. the
bedroom steward Is believed TO have
been only tool of shrewd men who
planned 10 reap large quantity of
yellow bullion by the plundering of the
treasure vault aboard the line. Ma
gers, who got the reward for finding
the stolen gold. is locked up in Ger
many.
The North German Lloyd officials
when the ROBBERY was reported, Of
fered a reward of 5000 for the miss
ing gold bars. and three days after
the vessel reached Bremen, Mayors
claimed that while cleaning the wood
work in one of the second cabin pas
sageways he found bullion hidden on
protruding cornice back of some
steampipes. The reward was paid TO
Mayors. According to the story now
told. Mayors left the ship, saying that
he was going TO have good time
with his sweetheart. who lives in Bre-
men. He did not return in the Kaiser
der Crosse before she started back for
New York, but week or SO afterward
no in a m n. nf no N
pier in IA deplorable condition. He ex-
planned that while Oh the way to see
his sweetheart he fell in with man
who had been a second cabin passen-
ger on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
and that the latter hypnotized and
robbed him of the reward money. He
wandered about for days with the
stranger. whose name he profesSed not
to know. and one day broke the hyp-
motto spell by jumping into the water
ut Amsterdam. Holland. to which city
and being without funds had to work
his way back to Bremen as best he
could
The detectives, suspecting that the
place where Mayors said he had found
the gold bars was not its hiding place
again questioned the bedroom steward
and as he made conflicting statements
and damaging admissions he was Ar
rested on suspicion. Before he was ar
rested. the French detectives got In
formation about two strange men be
lieved to be Americans who had for a
couple of days chartered a small sail
boat, and in the craft lOitered about
the entrance to Cherbourg harbor
They were suspected of being in the
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, and
asked about the route of that vessel
when il arrived from America TO land
her CherbOurg passengers. saying tina,
they wanted 10 intercept the vessel
| and get message from friends or
board who We're bound for Germany
They explained also that it had beer
arranged that a message would he
dropped at the French port from the
North German Lloyd liner. These men
vanished before the alarm about the
robbery on the steamship was raised
but they have since been traced back
to the United States via Southampton
Some of the best Berlin detectives
have been travelling on the Kaiser vii
helm der Crosse as saloon and second
cabin passengers seeking information
about the mysterious gold robbery
and they are expected back on that
vessel when she arrives here today