The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-18
THEFT OF GOLD BULLION
Another Chapter of Robbery
 on the Wilhelm der Crosse.
Police Believe That the Bedroom Steward Was the Tool of skill ful Thieves-Detectives
 still at Work.

New York. June 17.-Since the arr rival here a few days ago of Arthur Carl. Chief of Police of Bremen. Ger
 many, on the steamship Lahn, some inside information concerning the uys-
 terious gold bar robbery which occur
 red last April aboard the Kaiser WiI-
 helm der Crosse. has leaked out.
 Thus far but one arrest has been
 made in connection with the crime, | but the prisoner, Theodore Magers, the bedroom steward, is believed to have been the tool of shrewd men who planned tosreap a large quantity of yellow bullion by the piundering of tho treasure vault aboard the liner. Ma gers. who got the reward for finding
 the stolen gold, is locked up in Ger many.
 The North German Lloyd officials,
 when the robbery was reported, offered
 reward of 5000 for the missing gold
 bars and three days after the vessel reached Bremen MaGers claimed that
 while cleaning the woodwork IF one of the second cabin passageways he found
 the bullion hidden on a protruding cor
 nice back of some steam pipes. The re-
 ward was paid to Magers. According
 to the story now told, Mage-s left the ship, saying that he was going to have good time with his sweetheart who
 lives in Bremen. He did not -eturn to
 the Kaiser der Crosse before she start ed back for New York. but a week OF so afterwards he put in an appearances
 at the Bremen pier in 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 passenger on the Kaiser Wil~
 helm der Crosse, and that the latter hypnotized and robbed him of the re- ward money. He wandered aDout for days with the stranger whose name he l professed not to know and enc day broke the hypnotic spell by jumping | into the water at Amsterdani. Holland, I 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 susrectina that the place where Magers 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 arrested on suspicion. Before he was arrested, the French detectives got information about two strange men
 believed to be Americans, who had for couple of days chartered small sailboat, and in the craft loitered about tke entrance to Cherbourg harbor. They were suspected to be into the conspir- acy to steal the gold abosrd the Kais- CT Wilhelm der Crosse, and asked about the route of that vessel when it 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 ex- plained also that it had been arranged that a message would be dropped at the French port from the North Ger man Lloyd liner. These men vanished before the alarm about the robbery on the steamship was raised, but they have since been tracked back to the United States via Southampton.
 Some of the best Berlin detectives have been travelling on the Kaiser Wtl- 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.