The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-27
BOUND TO CAR FLOOR.
Continued from Tenth Page.

Route Agent E. F. Carey, and Superin-
tendent of Transportation Noise of the
central deft at o'clock with
the express company's two men
Ior Macon. The robbery occurred
on the Macon division of the express
company, and the investigation is being
conducted from that point None of the
local ofhcers was asked to assist in hunt
ing down the robbers, and no official re.
port was made to the police
Agent Warren ]. Brown of the
knew very little of the rob-
berry and did not know how much had
oeen taken. He said that he understood it
was less than 500. General Superintend-
ent L. d. Kline of the Central could give
no additional information of the robbery.
He said he did not know the amount TAX
en- from the safe. The railroad officials are
assisting the express company in track
ing the robbers. There were several Sa-
vannah passengers on the train, but only
one or two of them knew anything of the
robbery until they reached Savannah
Some of those in the day coaches were
attracted by the activity at Gordon and
learned upon inquiry that the express safe
had been robbed
Missed Their Calculations.
AAAC ~A'VVV Which, Tic IODD6IS lGlI was IN
silver and was Central of Georgia money,
being shipped to the Centrals depository
in Savannah, the Citizens Bank. 1t was
In plain sight, but was untouched, prob
ably because the robbers thought they
could not handle the heavy specie. The
package weighed about sixty-five pounds.
The envelopes and wrappings of the
greenbacks were left in the car
Very little money, in fact only that for
small stations, is carried in the messen-
gers safe. The through packages between
Atlanta, Macon and Savannah are car
ried in the large safe, the combina ton
to which is not known to the messengers.
1t may be that the robbers expected
to get into this safe or that
they believed larger amount was in the
messengers safe. In this they were dis
appointed. The express company and
railroad officials said the amount secured
did not exceed 5000. The small amount
will not lessen the efforts of the officials
to capture the robbers. So far as known
to the railroad and express company off,
Gals here, there is no clue to the robbers.
On Track of the Robbers.
A Macon dispatch to the Morning News
says. that two men are being searched for
and it is thought the police are on their
track. They are missing from Macon,
Dul were SHtI lUGTe thursday hight
Supt. Hubert and Mr.. Cary returned with
Messenger White last night from Gordon,
where the robbers left the train. Some
olews are being worked on and there is
hope of capturing the men.
The Macon dispatch says: The belief
is the robbers were not professionals, or
they would not have left the s., 900 in the
local safe, and would not have given up
without having made some attempt to
break the big safe. 1t is believed they
..were two strangers who had been around
Macon out of work and were down to des-
perate straits. After thorough investi-
cation of the affair the express company
officials are satisfied that White was en-
tirely blameless, and did all that could
have been expected of him. A careful
examination, has been made of his record,
and it has lost nothing by scrutiny.
White reduced his statement to
writing and went to his brothers home
for the night. He says he will have no
trouble in identifying the robbers. Supt.
Hubert says: I'VE have all available de-
tective forces at work, but we have no
clue yet that can be depended upon. We
will put other detectives to work as soon
as possible. Two men did the robbery.
They wrote something on a paper and in
closed it in an envelope. Expecting to find
the door locked, they expected to break
by the messenger while he was trying to
!. read the supposed letter"