The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-18
GOLD BARS ROBBERY
ScME INSIDE INFORMATION HAS
LEAKED OUT.
THEFT COMMITTED IN APRIL.
GOLD TAKEN FROM THE WILHELM
DER CROSSE.

The Bedroom Steward of the Ship
Found the Bars and Received the
Reward, but Was in Turn Hypno-
tized and Robbed, According TO HIS
own StOry-Best German Detec-
tives still at work ON the Case.
New York. June 17.-Since the arrival
here a few days ago of Arthur Carl,
chief of police of Bremen. Germany, on
the steamship Lain, some inside informa-
tion concerning the mysterious 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 a
tool of shrewd men who planned to reap
a large quantity of yellow bullion by the
plundering of the treasure vault aboard
the liner. Mayors. who got the reward
for finding the stolen gold, is locked up
in Germany.
The North German Lloyd officials, when
the robbery was reported, offered re-
ward of $1,000 for the missing gold bars,
and three days after the vessel reached
Bremen, Mayors claimed that while clean
ing the woodwork in one of the second
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, Mayors left the ship, saying that
he was going to have good time with
his sweetheart, who lives in Bremen. HE
did not return to the Kaiser VIII
helm der Crosse before she start
ed back for New York, but a week or
so afterwards he put in an appearance
at the Bremen pier in a deplorable con-
dition He explained that while on the
way to see his sweetheart he fell in with
a man who had been a second cabin pas
senger on the 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 hypnotic spell by jumping
into the water at Amsterdam, Holland, 70
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 detective 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 damaging
admissions he was arrested ON suspicion.
Before he was arrested the French de-
tectives got Information about two strange
men, believd to be Americans, who had
for a couple of days chartered a small
sailboat and in the craft loitered about
the entrance to Cherbourg harbor. They
were suspected 90 be in the conspiracy to
steal the gold aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse and asked about the
route of that vessel when it
arrived from America 10 land
her CherhourS passengers saving that
they wanted to intercept the vessel and
get a message 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.
Sonre of the best Berlin detectives have
been travelling on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse as saloon and second cabin pas
sengers seeking information about the
mysterious gold robbery and they are ex-
pected back on that vessel when she ar
rives here tomorrow.