Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-18
GOLD BAR THEFTs.
Some Further Information Concern.
ing the Steamship Robbery.

Some Further Information Concern-
ing the Steamship Robbery.
NEW YORK, June 17.-Since the ar
rival here few days ago of Arthur
Carl, chief of police of Bremen, Ger
many, on the steamship Lain, some in
side information concerning the mys-
terious gold bar robbery which occurred
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 to reap a large quantity of yell
low bullion by the plundering of the
treasure vault aboard the liner Mayors,
who got the reward for finding the stol-
en- gold, is locked up in Germany
The North German Lloyd officials.
when the robbery was reported, offered
reward of $4,000 for the missing gold
bars, and three days after the vessel
reached Bremen, Mayors claimed that
while cleaning the woodwork in one OF
the second cabin passageways, he found
the bullion hidden on protruding
cornice back of some steam pipes. The
reward was paid to Mayors According
to the story now told, Mayors left the
ship saying that he was going to have
a good time with his sweetheart who
lives in Bremen He did not return to
the Kaiser der Crosse before she start
ed back for New York, out or a week
or 50 afterward. he put in an appear
ance at the Bremen pier in deplorable
condition Ia Nil
the way to see his sweetheart. he fell
in with man who had been second
cabin passenger on the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse and that the latter hypno-
tized him and robbed him of the re-
ward money. He wandered about for
days with the stranger, whose name he
PROGRESSED 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 Mayors said he had found
the gold bars was not it's hiding place
again questioned the bedroom steward
and as he made conflicting statements
and damaging admissions, he was ar
rested on suspicion. Before ne 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 small sail
boat and in the craft loitered about the
entrance to Cherbourg harbor. They
were suspected to be in the conspiracy
to steal the gold aboard the Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse and asked about the
route OF that vessel when 1t arrived
from America to land her Cherbourg
passengers. saying that they wanted to
intercept the vessel and get message
from friends on board who were bound
for Germany. they explained also that
1t 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 ne 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 VIII
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 tomorrow.