The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-21
SAYS HE BURNED MONEY
C1JNLIFFE DECLARES HE INCIN-
 ERATED THOUSANDS.
Police Are of the Opinion, However, That They Will Recover Prac- ticalIy All stolen by
 Exnress Clerk.

| Bridgeport, Conn, Oct. 20.-Edward
 c. Cunliffe, the Adams Express em-
 ploye, who disappeared from Pittsburs | with S101 900 and was arrested here
 yesterday, started back to Pittsburg | with the detectives today.
 | Cunliffe seemed mere low spirited to- | day than when he was first captured.
 He explained this by saying that he | had hoped to arrange for lenlent l treatment after reaching Pittsburg ny l trading on his secret as to the where abouts of the stolen money, but the | fact that the detectives recovered $SO,- | 900 of the money in Bristol. Conn, last evening, removed the prisoners hopes l in this respect.
 | After being told by the detectives of ] the recovery of this money, Cunliffe I said that h. had burned the rest of the l amount stolen, because the bills were
 all of large denominations and all on l the same bank, making it dangerous | for him to carry them about.
 The chances are, however. that the l police will recover nearly the whole of | the s101 900 stolen from the Adams | Express Company in Pittsburg by Ed ward c. Cunliffe, who was arrested
 here yesterday and taken to Pittsburg
 today. seem bright. Tonight $9,o65 was found in a trunk belonging to a | butler in q prominent family at Black l RocK, but the butler and the family. l by whom he Is employed, are ignorant | of the fact that the large sum was | found within the house. Although | there is probability that the remain
 ing s10,5o0 has been destroyed, the police ere of the opinion that another | accomplice of Cunliffe may reveal the
 hiding place of the missing sum. | The discovery of the money in the
 Plack Rock home tonight was brought | about by keeping a close watch on l Cunliffe and chance acquaintances.
 George Eisenman, who was with Cum
 life when he was arrested yesterday
 morning. According to Eisenman's s
 story he met CunI fife in a cheap hotel Wednesday night. the two being to-
 gether for some time. Cunliffe had a | package with him and as he men were
 about to leave each other Cunliffe said | that he wanted Eisenman to take care
 of the package as it was laundry which
 he wanted to keep in Q safe place. | Efsenman tock the bundle to his sis
 ter's hoUse, 6SS Wash Street. and when | alone opened 1t and found the pig sum
 of money
 Captain Arnold of the detective bu-
 reau. who knows Eisenman and who
 saw him with Cunliffe when the lat ter was taken. went to the home of l Efsenmen's sister and found the bum
 die of shirts but no money and he l suspected that Eisenman had abstract
 ed a part of Cunliffe's plunder. Eisen-
 man was shadowed all today and he
 was seen to give a small package to
 his friend the butler Tonight Eisen- man was taken to the Black Rock house and asked the butler for the | package. He went to his trunk and
 turned 1t over to Captain Arnold in-
 tact. The butler had not been told what was in the package Captain Ar | hold would not reveal the name of the butler or the family who employed | him.
 Eisenmen was taken to police head quarters but was released later
 | The other new features of the chan l ter of events in connection with the capture of Cunliffe cropped out to- night, one being an attempt by Cum I life to bribe Captain George Arnold | of the local detective force and the | other being the story of betrayal of Cunliffe by a friend, James Missett
 who saw the fugitive in a cheap hotel | Tor the purpose of securing the re- ward of s2,500 offered by the Pinker- | tons for his arrest. During one of the | talks which Captain Arnold had with
 Cunliffe last night, the prisoner made
 proposition to divide the $SO,00O which he had sent to his brother-in-
 law, Joseph Boardman, in Bristol, on l the promise of secrecy. Arnold was
 to have received $4O,000 if the scheme
 was carried out to the plans of the | prisoner who was to tell the Pittsbure l authorities that the hiding place of the | money would never be known -+