The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-11-27
BIG sum LOST
In Express Car On the Way to
New York.
IT WAS BADLY NEEDED
Valuable Sack, Containing Over Six
Hundred Thousand Dollars, Found
After a Frantic Search in Jersey
City Railway Yards.-The Cur
rency Was Not Placed in Car
In Which Man Was to Guard.

An express car containing a seal
ed sack in which reposed gold certi
f1cates-yelloW backs-to the amour
of s687 900, was lost for twenty-fou,
hours between Washington and New
York on the Pennsylvania Railroad
the other day.
The money was intended for the
Chase National Bank, of New York
and from Tuesday morning until
Wednesday the Washington author.
tiles and the bank officials were max.
ing frantic search to find that car
The wires between New York and
Washington hummed with messages
Secret service men, Pinkertons and
private detectives were working on
the case. Train crews and employees
of the road along the route between
Washington and Jersey City were
cross-examined in a way to puzzle
them and arouse their curiosity.
In the end, when the searchers
were becoming desperate, the car was
found in the Pennsylvania yards in
Jersey City, alongside of freight
train. During all the search the
money in this car had remained un-
guarded and unavailable, while the
premium on money made its pres
ence in the Chase National an in
creasing necessity.
The bank had arranged, through
it's exchanges, for the shipment of
the money from the Treasury depart
ment It was known that the sack
containing the yellowbacks had been
placed on Express Train No. 46,
which left Washington at 6:15 Tues
day morning.
Whether the money really did
leave on that train or another,
and just how it managed to evade
notice while the car in which it rest
ed was run into the yard and along
side a freight train, are mysteries
that, so far, have not been disclosed.
One story is that the money did
actually leave on that train, but in
car trailing the one which the mes
senger so carefully guarded. Another
is that the car was cut out Of the
train after reaching the depot and
while the messenger was stretching
his legs on the platform.
The former theory has the prefer
ence among the detectives because
the messenger is said to have de-
clared that he remained with his car
every minute He took the car he
was ordered to guard and kept in it
all the way. In this case the car with
the money actually travelled over
more than 240 miles of track un-
guarded with s6S7,o0v in Currency.
The train rolled into Jersey City
Oh time and the bank messenger was
there with vans ready to transfer the
money. The way bill was Inspected
and found to be all right Inc
guards and porters from the bank
went to the car to lift cut the cases.
and then they found-thar there was
not a single case.
The money had disappeared COM
pletely. The bank messenger iur-
ried to telephone 70 notify lHe
bank. The president wired to Wash
ington and received a reply that the
money had been shipped and that 1t
had been placed in 40 express car un-
der guard. The car had been Locked
with a messenger inside.
Clearly the money was on car
that had been started for Jersey CITY
The question was, what had become
of that car, and the long seach taa1
ended in it's discovery in the yaros
was speedily on. When the money
was finally located it was transferred
quickly to the bank, and part OF IL
was paid out over the counter before
the closing hour.