The Washington times., 1906-01-05
THEFT Of $4,000
STILL UNSOLV LVED
Express Officials Apparently
Following Blind Trails.
LAY-0VER AT COLUMBIA
Considered Highly Important Inyesti-
gati0n-Behef That Cunliffe Kept
His sIoI 900 Haul in Pittsburg.

Little progress appears 10 have been
made bs--s7s---sefise4-r3S- the southern
and Adams Express Companies in their
efforts 10 find who got away with the
SlS.O1e IN the through pouch rrom
Augusta, Ca, 90 New York ON sun
day last. an account OF which appear-
ed yesterday exclusively in The Times.
he secrecy usual in such cases is
being observed by The express company
people but despite their air of mystery
there Is little reason 10 believe that the
Work OF catching the slick individual
with the fseHzled finance ideas has add
Nanced beyond the speculative stage
h 4, Hun, the Adams Express super-
intendent who was in Washington yes
terday questioning Messengers Moore
and Jordan and Helper Arthur Teller.
who were among those who handled The
pouch. had left town this morning and
no one at the express office would say
where he had gone Thomas Marion. an
ot1clai az the local receiving yard was
IN evidence around The Adams head
quarters. but why he should be up town
was not disclosed.
Conditions at Columbia.
Those who are familiar with express
methods and the conditions on the run
between here and Augusta are stul OF
the opinion that the robbery may have
occurred some time between the sealing
OF the sack at Augusta and placing il on
the through SaEannah-W Washington train
at Columbia. where il was transferred.
There is no large combination safe III
the Columbia Office at the railroad sta
ton. IL was stated this morning, IN
which 10 place pouches awaiting trans
Ter. the safe being Of small and simple
Design. such as would be an easy DTapO-
sltIon 10 any palnstaking JEiCi. VINO had
conscieatiously studied out the other de-
talIS OF his get-rich-quick scheme. The
houch. according 10 the railroad sched-
uie, would be at Columbia and probably
IN this insecure receptacle, several
hours
Two employees of the express company
should have been in the office with The
weak safe and it's valuable contents i'm
the lay-over between trains. but yyberber
the} were or not has not been made
public here. II is known that about two
years ago some persons whose identity
was never disclosed, got into the safe
al Columbia and lifted $1,000 Also
another money package, which con-
tanned $4,000, laid over in this Columbia
once ana was only waste paper when
it reached New York
One Clue Exploded.
1t has been learned that the fact that
the thief did not take the package worth
$4,000 in the same pouch offers little
clue. The pouch was what is known
as a through pouch which travels
up and down between Augusta and New
YORK without being opened in transit
ana The two packages must have been
placed in il before il left the Southern
city. The inference drawn by railroad
and express men is that the package
valued at $4,000, was known TO the
thief not TO contain gTeenbacks. bur
bonds or iewelFy. and with which re
was afraid TO take a chance
An interesting development of the case
vas the Widespread belief today among
express company employees and railroad
men generally that not a cent OF the
f1ul-O0, which was taken from an ex-
press office IN Pittsburg in October bv
EaWafd CunHtre and for which he was
sentenced 10 SIX years in The neuiter-
UarAa after being arrested in New Hamp-
shlre, was returned 10 the company.