The age-herald., 1901-06-18
Berlin Detectives on Trace of Two Americans SuppOs-
 ed to Be Implicated
VESSELS STEWARD IN JAIL
While Crossing the Atlantic Gold Bars Were Stolen From the Wilhelm der Crosse, Some of Which
 Were Returned.

New York, June 17.-Since the arrival here few days ago of Arthur Carl. chief of police of Bremen, Germany, on the steamship Lahn, some inside information concerning the mysterious gold bar rob bery which occurred last April aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse nas leak ed out.
 Thus far but one arrest has been made in connection with the crime, but the prisoner, Theo. Magers. a steward. is believed to have been the tool of shrewd men who planned to reap large quanti~ ty of yellow bullion ty the plundering of the treasure vault aboard the liner. Ma gers, who got .he reward for finding the stolen gold. is locked up in Germany.
 The North German Lloyd officials, when the robbery was reported, offered a re- ward of s2000 for the missing gold bars, and three days after the vessel reached Bremen Magers claimed that while cleaning the woodwork in one of the sec ond-class cabin passageways he found the bullion hidden on a protruding cornice back of some steam pipes. The reward was paid to Magers. According to the story now told. Magers left the ship, say- HE ue WAS BOlHB lO nave H BOOu LlIle with his sweetheart, who lives in Bre- men. He did not return to the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse before she started back to New York, but a week or so af- terwards he put in an appearance at the Bremen pier in deplorable condition. He explained that while on his way to zee. | his sweetheart he fell In with a man who | had been a second cabin passenger on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse and that the | latter hyptonized 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 hypnotic spell by jumping into the water at Amsterdam, Holland to which city they had travelled. He was rescued. and being without funds, had to work his way back to Bremen as best he could.
 The detectives suspecting that the place where Magers said he had found the gold bars was not it's hiding place again ques- toned the bedroom steward and as he made conflicting statements and damag- ing admissions, he was arrested on sus- picion. Before he was arrested, the French detectives got in formation about two strange men, believed to be Amerf- cans, who had for a couple of days char tered a small sail boat and in the craft lotered about the entrance to Cherbourg harbor. They were suspected to be in the conspiracy to steal the gold aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grasse and asked about the route of that vessel when it arrived from America to land it's Cher bourg passengers, saying that they want ed to intercept the vessel ard get a mes- sage from friends on board who were bound for Germany. They explained also that it had been arranged that a message would be 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 Southamp- ton.
 Some of the best Berlin detectives have been travelling on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse as saloon and second cabin passen- gers seeking information about the mys- terious gold robbery and they are expect ed back on that vessel when she arrives here tomorrow.