New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
WHAT Is SAID BY THE COMPANY.
BELIEF AT ASSAY OFFICE THAT THE BARS
COULD NOT HAVE BEEN LOST
IN TRANSIT

The following statement given the
office of the North German Lloyd Line yesterday:
Three bars of gold valued at $1,000 or 1900
Wilhelm der Crosse somewhere between here and
Cherbourg. The bars taken from Cask No.
4 but We have no idea how the robbery
how tine room was entered The gold was shipped
derstand it was insured. but the question OF
T the De fo G9 this 6ce has han
knowledge Of the thieves; The specie room is
there only two keys. The chief officer kept
eTe k The or to he S1 M We w make
catch the thieves.
Asked If the three bars Of gold could possibly
lost in transit between United States
Assay Office and the pier. officer OF the Assay
Office said:
placed on board the Kaiser wilhelm der Crosse. as
our receipt from the National City Bank shows.
little in excess of the S50oOoO0 called for by the
bank Frederick Barkley, the truckman who
transferred the gold from the Assay Office TO the
steamship. was accompanied by two bank officials.
He is positive that the gold was placed on board.
The gold was packed in kegs, each of which held
between $4,000 and 100000 Several men witnessed
WOE Work of c9r 9e heHe for G5 E was n
in such cases are extraordinary.
representative of Chubb & Son marine insur-
ance agents at No ) South William-st said yester-
day that the underwriters would have suffer the
loss If IL could not be proved that the steamship
company had been negligent in the Of the gold
He hoped that tho loss would have the effect Of
raising the rates of marine insurance The policies
issued by underwriters vary little in wording
but all companies offer the same protection
An officer of the National City Bank said that he
could account for the theft He added that the
gold fully insured and that the bank would not
suffer.
The last instance of gold being stolen while in
transit between this country and Paris occurred in
1894 when the French police began the investiga-
ton Of a remarkabl robbery of cask of gold
apparently. while on the train from Havre to
Line steamer La Touraine, which left New-York
on July p 1874 With With ftX so Go casks Of American
various concerns. La Touraine arrived at Havre
been safely landed and placed the train for
Paris but when they were counted Paris there
were only forty-nine casks; The police theory was
pert thieves The cask of gold stolen probably
Weighed about two hundred pounds. and the sup
car and while on the way TO Paris cask was
might have been stolen while on the steamer,
piled that it was impossible for thieves to get at
the gold in the treasure room on board ship. so
comnsnv Us gave the representatves Of 'e me raoad
in a locked and sealed car on the arrival of the
train at Paris the car containing the gold a was @
taken to the freight department Of the railroad
the representatives of Lazard Freres & Co to
whom part of the gold consigned applied for
1t. There no sign that the car the seals had
were found. Inquiries were Immediately made at
how the affair ended but dispatch from Paris ON
August /. 1894, said the $4,000 in gold was found
the railroad station Havre. and II was
added that the empty cask was in the car in which
further asserted on August 1894 that tho gold was
railroad car. and that trace of the thieves had
been discovered