The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
$4,000 BAR or GOLD MISSING
ONLY SOME LEAD PIPE IN BOX
FROM DEMERARA.
So the British Guiana Gold Concession
co., Limited, Reports TO the Quebec
Steamship Co., n the Atlantic Mu-
tual Insurance Co. Gets Busy About II.

Steamship Co., and the Atlantic Mu.
tuai Insurance Co. Gets Busy About 1t.
Somewhere in the little city of Demerarai
British Guiana, ORION board the stea mship
Corona Of the Quebec Steamship Compa ny
as she came up the coast, or in the harb or
OF New York, a person without title thereto
took possession Of a bar of gold worth
SIS, 900. In the box in which the gold was
cased he left a piece of lead pipe with the
idea Of matching the weight Of the gold
The bullion was consigned to the British
Guiana Gold Concessions Company, Limited,
which has offices in the Mills Building and
mines in British Guiana. Officers Of the
company, having been notified of the ship
ment, were on the pier waiting for their
gold when the Corona docked IN Friday
afternoon. The wooden box in which
the gold had left the mines was sealed by
a customs inspector and then turned over
to Var Rensselaer, Cogswell, treasurer Of
the company, and Donald Mclean, the
o%ompany's attorney. They got in a cab
and took it to their offices.
The box should have contained $50 ounces
of gold and weighed all tolda about rs pounds.
The men carrying it thought it was light,
but they held it right side up with care
and did not look at the bottom until they
reached their Offices. There they tipped
it over and discovered that the box had been
tempered with.
The wooden box had no covering Of
M nv othar ooatartal h,,t x,oa aaolol
at all the connecting places in the wood
with seals connected by strings. The
seals on the bottom OF the box were broken,
as were the strings. Officers Of the COM
pany summoned Customs Inspe ctor Worth
ington and waited until his arrival before
opening the box,
Breaking the top seals and prying of the
lid, the officers Of the company discovered
the piece of lead pipe. 1t was a small
piece, weighing only half as much as the
$50 ounces Of gold. Close examination Of
both the inside and outside Of the box ap-
peared to show that the bottom had been
pried on.
The discovery was at once reported to
A. E.. Outerbridge d Co., shipping agents
of the Quebec Steamship Company, who
lost no time in informing the Atlantic Mutual
insurance company, insurers OF the cargo.
Private detectives were put on the case
and the Corona's officers and members Of
the crew were subjected to a rigorous ex-
animation.
we felt hurt at FIRST said an officer OF
the British Guiana Company yesterday,
but, as a matter of fact, we are not hurt at
all. We don't stand to lose anything by it;
that's a matter for the steamship company
and the insurers to consider. Our greatest
regret is that we couldn't have had the gold
here to help out the depleted stock of bull
lion we hear 50 much about--or, perhaps,
for investment in call loans at 81 per cent.
Come TO think Of it, money was selling
pretty high about the time the box got
here"
The attorneys for the steamship COM
pany are Butler, hoffman & Mynderse, 81
Wall street. Mr.. Mynderse, who has charge
Of the case. said yesterday that he had not
the slightest idea when, where or by whom
the gold was taken
"All we know he said, 1is that it's gone,
and we've got to depend on the detectives
to ascertain its whereabouts"