The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-03-08
UNCLE SANS CASH
MISSING In Chicago
SUBTREASURY LOSES $l73,OOO
and MAILWAGON GONE.
Secret Service Men Kept Busy Try
ina to Run Down the Thieves-Mail
Wagon Full Of Registered Mail
Driven Away While Postman Was
In Big Building Getting Letters.

Chicago-At midnight Saturday
Secret Service Chief Wilkie and his
detectives ended the week with fail
ure to capture the thief who stole
$173,O0e from the United States sub
treasury. Stimulus was given the
search by the daring robbery Of a
mail wagon of registered mail valued
at a sum variously estimated from
$4,000 to $4,000. The many big rob-
berries in Chicago federal institutions
compels the belief that a bold gang
of thieves regard Uncle Sans deposit
tories here as a rich field for opera
tons.
Investigation into the subtreasury
robbery disclosed several mysterious
losses of money in that institution
within the past few years. Compare
lively recently $4,000 disappeared from
the cage of a trusted teller. Another
money counter discovered $500 loss,
and it is alleged that other losses OF
money, followed by changes in the
personnel Of the tellers, occurred and
were never made public. In addition
to the two big postoffice robberies
brought into notice because of the
stealing of the wagon Saturday night
another attempted robbery was re-
vealed.
Teller George w. Fitzgerald's arrest
for an assault upon reporter Satur-
day afternoon stimulated interest in
the numerous sensations in federal
circles.
The mail wagon robbed began to
travel over it's route at p. m. II
collected four large pouches at the
board of trade. Then it proceeded to
the Masonic temple and picked up two
other sacks. At the South Water street
station it got four well filled bags
when it stopped at the Stock Exchange
, the driver, Charles l.. Patterson, en-
I tered the building and, taking the con
tents of one mail box to the wagon
he emptied them into the sacks re
+ served for that building. He returned
I to get the remainder and after few
, minutes returned again to the side
I walk. The horse and wagon were nc
g where in sight. The startled cOllecto
. ran to the corner and looked in tn
4 four directions of the two streets. Hi
r first thought was that the horse ha
n continued on the regular route with
a out waiting for him. He ran to tn
q next stopping place. Failure to find
d there was followed by report to tn
/. police. Forty-four stations started de
tectives in search of the rig. 1t wa
: found in a dark street, where it ha
g been abandoned after the thieves ha
:. Looted it. The robbery is the third bi
6 one within four years.
Burglars tunneled under the ten
d porary building on the lake front an
carried away $4,000 in stamps. Tw
q years later wagon containing regi
= tered letters and packages valued a
= $4,000 was stolen from in front {
It the Masonic temple. The thieves Ell
IT capped capture in both cases.
Robbers Captured.
q Chicago John Smith. R. T. Fit,
}, gerald and Eugene Sullivan have bee
o arrested on charge of robbing I'm
}. ted States mail wagon which ws
,. standing in front of the Stock En-
}. change building last Saturday. TIL
:, men we're arrested in a room whic
;. they rented. Sunday they were in tt
= room day, opening the mail, pre-
It sumably secured from the wagon.
|. When an envelope was opened an
{. nothing found it was thrown into til
st stove. Mrs. Mary Rooms. keeper {
3 the boarding house, noticed the odor (
}; burning paper and Investigated. ST.
d caught the men destroying the letter
}, and they told her il she informed tt
3. police they would kill her. She mao
At confident of woman companion
st who informed the detective departmel
70 of the matter, and the arrest of tt
q. men followed after hard fight.
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