The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-06
FOUNDTHE DYNAMITE
POLICE HAVE DESCRIPTION OF
FoYE & ECKSTEIN ROBBERS.
FOLLOWING UP THE CLUE
DISCOVERED WHERE EXPLOSIVE
WAS PURCHASED AND OPENED.

Robbers Were Forced to Buy Case
of Fifty POunds-Hired Horse
and Buggy and Opened the Box
near Atlantic Coast Line Wharves.
Left the Broken Case and Brought
Two sticks Back to City-Landed
at WharVes i'm Bateau From
Screven's Ferry-RObbers May BE
Arrested Yet.
Although there is only a remote
chance that the police will be able to
finally bring about the arrest of the
men who cracked the safe of Foye &
Eckstein early last Sunday morning,
they have not given up hope, nor have
of information gathered Monday which
points with certainty to the guilt of
two men.
One of the two men has been pretty
accurately described to the officers. and
a fair description of the second is in
the possession of the superintendent of
police. 1t is almost certain that they
left the city before the robbery was
discovered, and the police throughout
the country are now searching for
them.
Not only have the police a descrip-
ton of the robbers, but they know
when they arrived in the city, where
they purchased the explosive used in
blowing off the safe door, and the hour
at which the crime was committed All
of this information was kept secret by
the police as long as there was any
likelihood that the men were anywhere
in this vicinity. The only clue left by
the robbers was the small quantity of
powder that was not used in blowing
open the safe.
Bought Case of Dynamite.
A canvass among the dealers in Sa-
vannah who handle explosives resulted
in the discovery by the superintendent
of police that two strangers had pur-
chased a case of dynamite.
Saturday morning they made an eff
fort to purchase a small quantity of
the explosive and had been informed
that less than a case, containing fifty
pounds, would not be sold. They
agreed to buy a case, and the firm sent
plosive. About noon the men returned
and paid for the dynamite with a new
500 bill. They said they would carry
the dynamite themselves.
Took Only Two Sticks.
Late in the afternoon while hunting
marsh hens near the Atlantic Coast
Line wharves, a broken case of dyna-
mite was found by two young men,
and the matter was reported at police
headquarters. Two sticks had been re-
moved and the remainder was left in
a strip of marsh land. The broken
package was identified as that which
had been purchased by the strangers.
A canvass of the livery stables re-
suited in the discovery that two
strangers had hired a horse and bug
gy in the morning and had kept it less
than two hours. The horse and vehi-
Gle were identified as the same used
by the strangers in taking the dyna-
mite away. In this way descriptions
of the men were obtained from two
sources, although but a poor descrip-
ton of the smaller man, the taller one
having done the talking.
Had "a Peculiar Walk.
One of the men had a peculiar walk
and this was noticed by the Price wom-
an, who saw them enter the depart
liltlll SURE SHOIIly before o CLOCK.
That the robbers were not from this
section of the country was shown by
the fact that when they secured the
horse and buggy they asked for a
Tight wagon" a term used in the
North and West in describing a GER
tain style of buggy.
The man, too who did the talking
had a Yankee accent. The fact that
the two strangers who purchased the
6Wn1U1itp hn iHpntifA6 hTy o1
persons, and were seen to go into the
store by the Price woman makes their
conviction certainty if they are
located.
Came in a Boat.
The police have every reason to be-
lieVe that the men came to Savannah
in a bateau from Screven's ferry and
landed at the wharves of the Atlantic
Coast Line. There may have been
three in the party, although only once
have the police been able to trace a
third party.
In company with one of the other
two he visited Foye & Eckstein's and
got the LAY of the land" while pre-
tending to want to make a purchase.
The men were within a few feet of
the safe under the steps at that time
but were not suspected until after the
robbery, and not before the police had
run down the dynamite end of the
case.
The authorities are able to show
that the men landed at the Atlantic
Coast Line wharves by reason of the
fact that they opened the case of
dynamite in that vicinity The road
to the wharves was the only one lead
ing from the city known to them.
and for this reason they followed it
when they wanted to open the case of
explosive.
The plank road runs parallel to the
railroad tracks and the strangers re-
marked when they returned the horse
and buggy that the animal was afraid
of trains. No one can be found who
saw the men Sunday and the officers
are convinced that the left the city
before the robbery was discovered.