The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-18
THEFT Of GERMAN GOLD
MORE LIGHT ON THE MYSrEyRIoUs
KAISER WILHELM DER
CROSSE ROBBERY
GERMAN OFFICIALS AT WORK
Chief of Bremen Police Now in New
York In Connection With Search
for Mayors Supposed
AccOmplices.

NEW YORK, June 17.-Since the ar,
rival here few days ago of Arthur Carl.
chief of police of Bremen, Germany, on
the steamship Lain, some inside infor-
nation 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 trime, but the pris-
oner, Theodore Mayors, the bedroom
steward, is believed to have been only
tool Of shrewd men who planned to
reap large quantity OF yellow bullion
by the plundering Of the treasure vault
aboard the ship. Mayors, who got the re-
ward for finding the stolen gold, is lock-
ed up in Germany.
The North German Lloyd officials, when
the robbery was reported, offered a re-
ward Of $1,000 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 cabins passageways he found the
bullion hidden on a protruding cornice
back of some steam pipes The reward
was paid to Mayors. According to the
story now told, Mayors left the ship say
ing that he was going to have good
time with his sweetheart, who lives in
Bremen He did not return to the Kaiser
Der Crosse before she started back for
New York, but q week or so afterwards
he put in an appearance at the Bremen
pier in a deplorable condition He ex-
planned 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 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
protested 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 ne had found the gold
bars was not it's hiding place, again ques-
toned the bedroom steward, and, as he
made conflicting statements and damag-
admissions, he was arrested on sus-
ptcton. Before he was arrested the French
detectives got information about two
strange men, believed 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 con-
spiracy TO steal the gold aboard the
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse, and asked
about the route OF that vessel when 1t ar
rived from America to land her Cher
bourg passengers, saying that they want
ed to intercept the vessel and get a mes
sage 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 the steamship was
raised. but they have since been traced
back to the United States via Southamp-
ton.
Some of the best Berlin detectives have
been travelling on the Kaiser Wilhelm
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.