Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-10-26
MAN WHO STOLE 100000 FROM
THE ADAMS EXPRESS CO. AR
RESTED IN CONNECTICUT.
GREAT DEAL OF THE
PLUMBER is FOUND
Nearly $4,000 of the Stolen Cash ls
Discovered in Suit Case at
the Home of Cunlitfe's
Brother in Law at
Bristol, Conn.

Bridgeport, Conn, Oct. 20.-Edward
George Cunliffe, the Adams Express
employe who disappeared from Pitts
burg with $101,0 in cash, was ar
rested here Thursday. He made a
confession and expressed his willing
ness to return at once to Pittsburg. He
declared that the money which he
took was intact and that 1t could be
restored, but he declined to tell, until
his return to Pittsburg, where it is
hidden. On his person when arrested
the detectives found $500 in cash.
Detectives under the direction of
Daniel c. Thornhill, superintendent of
the Pinkerton agency of New York,
traced Cunliffe here and upon their ar
rival the aid of local policemen and
detectives was enlisted. All the hotels
were watched carefully, but Cunliffe
was not arrested until late in the fore
noon, when he was seen by Thorn
hill walking down Middle street.
Bristol Conn, Oct. 20.-Nearly $780,
600 of the money stolen by George
Cunliffe from the Adams Express Co.
in Pittsburg was recovered last night
at the home of Joseph w. Boardman,
Cunlffes brother-in-law. For just a
week the fortune had lain in an old
suit case, unknown to Boardman, who
was holding the valise expecting its
owner would call for it any day. The
exact sum found was $79,953.5J.
AS the result of a statement made
by Cunliffe in Bridgeport last night
that he had sent $S5,OOO of the plunder
to his brother-in law, Boardman, in
Bristol, a representative of the Associ-
ated Press called at the Boardman
house and asked Boardman if that was
so. BOardman, who is a young man
and the agent here for the Electric
Express Co, of Hartford, said that he
had received no money, but that on
October II a dress suit case came to
his house from Bridgeport and as
there was no name on it, he had not
opened it. His wife signed for the
case and Boardman placed it In a
closet, thinking it was sent to him as
an agent of an express company to be
called for later.
Boardman told the Associated Press
representative that if he wished, he
would send for the police and that
they could break open the case. Chief
Meims and Capt. Belden, of the police
force, were then sent for and in their
presence the case was torn open.
Huge bundles of money in the shape
of bills tumbled out on the floor.
Bridgeport, Conn, Oct. 2l.-The
chances that the police will recover
nearly all of the $101 900 stolen from
the Adams Express Co. in Pittsburg
by Edward G. Cunliffe, who was ar
rested here Thursday and taken to
Pittsburg yesterday, seem bright. Last
night S9,OG5 was fund in a trunk be
lnging to a butler in a prominent fam
lily at Black Rock, but the butler and
the family by whom he is employed
are ignorant of the fact that the large
sum found was within the house. AL
though there is a possibility that the
remaining $l0,500 has been destroyed,
the police are of the opinion that an
other accomplice of Cunliffe may re-
veal the hiding place of the missing
sum.
In round numbers 100000 has been
found within "a hours. After figuring
on about $500 as the amount which
Cunliffe has spent or which was found
| on him when arrested, there is left a
| sum of $40 800 yet to be accounted for.