Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-05
THE S1EEIEV[IE ROBBERY.
The st. Louis Police Are Gradually
Getting "Next" to Robbers
and Booty.
RIsHT WHEN THEY CAUGHT RIcHTnYER.
Over Three Hundred Dollars of the
Stolen Money Recovered Through
n Sharp Ruse of Chief of Police
kiely-Prisoner Will Go Back to
S~teelevflle.

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St. Louis, Feb. Jerry RIGHT
myer, who is a prisoner at the four
courts, charged with being one of the
three men who robbed the Steeleville
(Ill.) bank, revealed the hiding place
of $315 of the banks money by a sim
gle glance of his eyes.
The money, much of which is multi
tied by the explosion of nitroglycer-
inc, used to blow open the bank vault,
is now in the hands of the police.
From Mrs. Richtmyer, before her
husband was taken to the Pine street
room, Chief Kelly drew the informa-
ton that her husband had counted a
large roll of money while she lay in
bed Thursday morning. She also
stated that she had seen him count
the money at her mothers home, on
Clark avenue.
Chief of Police Kelly, Acting Chief
of Detectives Keely and Detectives
Harrington and Cordell recovered the
money. About four o'clock Friday
afternoon, after Richtmyer and his
bride had been questioned by Chiefs
Kelly and Kelly, the prisoner was
placed in a patrol wagon and driven
to the house at No. 1911 Pine street,
where he was arrested Thursday
night.
. Chief Kiely's Nuse.
Chief Kelly entered the room first
and took up a position facing the
door in order that he might see RIGHT
myers face distinctly as he came in.
The police had obtained information
that the money was hidden in the
house, and they suspected that it was
come place in the room, although it
had been searched by the detectives.
Chief Kiely believed that Richtmyer,
by the first glance of his eyes as he
entered the room, would reveal the
hiding place of the money if it was
in the room. In this he had theor-
lied correctly.
As the prisoner, closely guarded by
detectives and handcuffed, stepped
across the threshold, he glanced for
an instant toward the ceiling in one
corner of the room Although RIGHT
myer simply raised his eyes for a Sec
ond, Chief Kelly noted the look and
direction in which Richtmyer Wis
gazing and he at one began an ex-
animation of the ceiling.
The Money Found.
It was found that a section of the
wallpaper, plaster and lathing had
been removed and then replaced.
This was again taken out, and the
money, wrapped in a piece of cloth,
was found.
81 guess the jig's UP with me-"
sighed Richtmyer in despair, a. the
money was drawn from its hiding
place by Detective Cordell.
The police have the names of two
men who, Richtmyer says, robbed the
bank. He says the robbery was
planned in St. Louis, as Chief Kelly
had surmised.
When the police went to William
DdItcllS IOuSo NcuilcSudy mum
and arrested B~artells, his wife and
ten men they arrived just five minutes
too late to catch Richtmyer, who was
the man for whom they were looking.
Missed by Half an Hour.
Had they arrived half an hour be-
fore, they would have caught RIGHT
myer and two men dividing the $4,000
taken from the bank vault. One man
got all the silver and gold, which
crooks call "hard," while Richtmyer
and the other took the currency, or
soft"
The man who got the gold and sill.
YER carried it away in a tin bucket,
He wore a pair of blue overalls, to
make himself appear as a workman
returning home with his dinner
bucket.
In two days it is estimated that
Richtmyer spent and gave away $500
He says about $1,000 was stolen from
the bank. When arrested he had only
$3.50, which, with the 1913 found in
the room yesterday, and the $500
which he says was stolen from him
leaves $500 missing.
Richtmyer will be taken back te
Ctaalavilla