The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-10-25
EXPRESS R0BBER CAUGHT
Man Who Took $1o1, 900 Found
in Bridgeport, Conn.
SUIT CASE HELD LARGE SUM
when Opened at House Of CunIiffe's
Brother-in-Law II Contained
a., Nearly $4,000

Edward G. Cunliffe, the clerk who
stole 100000 from the Adams Elk.
press Co. at Pittsburg, on October 9,
was arrested In Bridgeport, Conn., on
Oct. 18th, by an operative of the
Pinkerton detective agency, and $79,.
s63.b5 of the money was recovered
at the home of Joseph w. Boardman,
Cunliffe's brother-in.law, at Bristol.
Cunliffe had been in Bridgeport
since two days after the robbery. Al
though registered at a hotel he had
been spending most of his time in
the company of a woman known as
Blanche Weir, for whom he was furn-
ishing a flat and with whom he spent
Wednesday night, so eludng officers
who lay in wait for him at his hotel
until morning.
Pinkerton men flocked into Bridge
port by every train, Supt. Daniel c.
Thornhil, of the New York agency
being in charge of them. When Gun
life returned to the Arlington hotel,
where he had been registered for a
week as J. p. Bowling, he was re-
cognized by Harry Brown, a Pinker-
ton, and placed under arrest. He was
turned over to Patrolman O'Connell,
In spite of his protests that mistake
had been made and sent to police
headquarters. Ten minutes after he
got there he confessed his identity
and agreed to go back to Pittsburg
without offering any resistance.
AS result of the statement made
H., D,;.l tlnt 1, hnI
sent $4,000 of the plumber to his
brother-in-law, Boardman, in Bristol,
a representative of the Associated
Press called at the Boardman home
and asked BOardman If that was so.
Boardman, who is agent for the Elec-
tric Express Company of Hartford
said he had received no money, but
that on October IL dress suit case
came to his house from Bridgeport
and, as there was no name on 1t he
had not opened it,
His wife signed for the case and
Boardman placed it in closet, think
ing it was sent to him as an agent of
the express company, to be called
for later Boardman told the Asso-
ciated Press representative that VI
he wished he would send for the po-
lice and they could break open the
case. Chief Mems and Capt. Belden
of the police force were then seat
for, and in their presence the case
was torn open.
Huge bundles of money in bills
tumbled out on the floor, also a
black suit of clothes, a pair of shoes
and two shirts. AS the money was
being counted, Supt ]. C. Curtis of
the Adams Express Company's New
England agency, and VIM. F. Minis
ter, superintendent of the Pinkerton
detectives, drove up to the house and
were shown in. Mr. Curtis counted
the money, and found total of $79,-
953.55. There were five bundles of
500 bills, making a total of $4,000,
and the rest, with the exception of
$3.55, which was in pocket in the
coat, was $50 bills.
Cunliffe says that he destroyed
the rest of the $101000 He told De.
tective Arnold that there was some
$4,000 of 1t in bills on the Farmers
Deposit National Bank, and he was
afraid of being discovered with It,.
He refused, however, to say how he
destroyed 1t, and there is a possibility
that it can be recovered in mutilated
form.
Altogether $S9,21O.55 of the money
has been recovered. To the $79,953.-
SIS recovered at the home of Gun
liffe's brother-in-law in Bristol, Conn,
and the 1922 found in his possession
when he was arrested, was added
$9,065, which he had hidden in
Bridgeport. 1t has been found out
that he spent only about 800 on the
woman, Blanch Weir, to whom he de-
voted so much of his time there, and
1t is believed that altobether he did
not spend more than $500. This
leaves over $11,O0OO still to be ac-
rnpi,tnd for