Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-26
NAB MAN WHO
STOLE $4,000
NEGRO MAIL POUCH R0BBEF
ARRESTED
KANSAS CITY AUTHORITIES SURE
OF CONVICTION
Now Believed CoIored Man, Who |;
Accused of Taking Large Sum Sent
from Los Angeles, Has
Buried Treasure
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, July 25.-Charles w.
Savage, a negro, was arrested here to-
day by postoffice authorities, charged
with stealing a mail pouch in the Kan
SaS City Union station on June 6, con-
tanning $4,000 being sent from Los
Angeles to a New York city bank. The
inspectors assert that they have posi-
tive evidence against Savage, and de-
clare their belief that he has buried
the money, intending to recover it after
his release from the penitentiary.
Savage was taken into custody a few
hours after he returned to the city.
He had since leaving visited several
cities in the west, including Denver.
In his pocket the detectives found a
clipping from a Denver newspaper giv-
ing the calculations of a robber who
had stolen a large sum of money and
buried it.
The man had been sent to the peni-
tertiary for a number of years, and in
the story he figured it out that by
serving a certain number of years he
would upon his release have earned
$50, 900 a year.
Upon this the inspectors base their
belief that Savage has concealed the
stolen money, hoping to regain it when
finally he is given his freedom.
A few days following the Kansas
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the local police. He paid a lawyer 5000
to defend him, and was released, the
judge holding there was not sufficient
evidence on which to hold the man.
Savage Immediately left the city and
since then evidently has travelled eX-
tensively.
The postoffice inspectors had infor-
nation that Savage would return here
today, and when he appeared at a ne
gro lodging house they arrested him.
Savage surrendered without a strug-
gle and was taken to the postof1ce
building. He was put under a severe
examination.
Aside from admitting that he had
served a sentence on McNeil's island
for a mail pouch robbery, the prisoner
would tell but little about himself. The
robbery of the pouch In Kansas City
June was bold in the extreme. Saw
age evidently knew it was being sent
across the country, and is supposed to
have known the exact time 1t would
reach here.
The pouch was stolen an hour after
its arrival in Kansas City. 1t had been
thrown from the train upon which it
arrived to a truck and moved a few
yards away to a temporary building
used by the postoffice as an annex in
place of the building that had been
burned and it is supposed the negro
jumped to an outgoing train with the
bag in his hand.
He rode three miles in the country,
jumped off, rified the pouch and appar-
emily Immediately made his way back
to Kansas City. The robbery was not
made known for several days, and It
was several days later that the rihed
pouch was found along the railway
tracks.
All the money was missing, put the
nouch still contained registered mail,
in some of which there was quantity
of valuable jewelry. Savage's arrest
and discharge by the local police soon
followed. Since then a score of post
office inspectors and detectives have
watched constantly on the cast.