Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-26
CHICAGO SUBTREASURY
LOOTED OF $4,000
Al in $1,000 Bills and 1t is Be.
IisVsd That the Thief
is an Employee.
AFFAIR SHR0UDED IN MYSTERY
Everybody Interested stoutly Assert
Their Innocence and Detectives
ars Wltout clue-could Have Been
Carried Out in Two Vest Poekets-
Officials Can't Understand 1t.
(By Associated rress1.

(By Associated rress).
CHICAGO, HI. Feb. 25.-Some.
where between sl75,0OO and $200,0OU,
was stolen from the United States
subtreasury last week. The author.
ties here and in Washington have
been working night and day on the
robbery since II was discovered. Sc.
cretary Shaw. of the Treasury De.
partment was told OF the gigantic
THEFT when in Chicago last week
and was in Conference with Sub,
treasurer William ,Boldenweck and
Secret Service officials. The money
was stolen either week ago Sat
urday, the next day or las. Monday
Tie chances mc IL WAS aoi,,actt,;l
on Monday. The loss was llscoy.
cred on Tuesday.
All the money taken was In large
, !, of tie fa,e n.n;iion Of st.G0n
$1,000 and $4,000. II was thought
To be impossible that such q layge
sum of money could have been aD
strncted in face % all the safe.
guards thrown around the strung
box. The ledger men involved. atren.
uously denied any error ana III, IN.
Vestigation showed there was no
possible clergical mistake 20 account
for the disappearance of the casb
and robbery seems to he tho o. EIy
explanation. The deduction Is tliatSse
t.heycs were employees. of thesahb-
treasury and were at that non.en,
pursuing their daily tasks. Every
man who could have had anything
to do with this case. was called
into the treasurer's office and pu,
through an exhaustive examination
and still more rigid cross exam,na
tipn.
Captain Porter, of the secret ser,
Voc. assisted in the inquiry All tic.
med any knowlegcd of the theft and
:n-'sted their innocence w,;h rran.
unity and righteousness.
Every employee of the Office is
rrGcr surveillance day AMI ri.ht
an. should one or more OF ;rcm
Prove TO be the thief or 'h. yes
escape will be impossible. All, how.
Ger. appear for work daily since
the discovery. Every mar, too. T.
und+r bond. but not to Any amour
rt"r tho loot secured
Could Have eBen Easily Concealed.
That the robbery was committed
uuiiuS "oihiHE hOuIS is almost Il
certain fact. The plumber could have
been concealed in two vest poct~..s.
Sub-Treasrlrcr Bcldenwcck declared
today that it. had been definitely de-
termined just where the shortage oc-
Cured, but lie declined to say to
where it had been traced He de-
.clared himself positive, however, that
the money had never reached the
vaults. He said that the only reason
for believing that the stolen money
had been In large denominations that
1t would have been impossible for
anybody to have taken s173.0OO from
the office in small bills and escaped
detection hut that package OF S173,-
600 is $1,000 bills could have been
carried about the person easily with
out exciting suspicion Captain Por-
ter was very reluctant TO say any
thing In regard to the robbery.
AT present cannot say anything
more of the affair than that 1t was
reported to me last Wednesday," he
said. at would not be proper for me
to go into details of the case or what
we are doing in the(way of investiga.
ton.