The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-07
CRIME,
BUT STILL FIGHT
{ KIT RAD|T ION
Eddie Fay and Dick Har-
ris Talk Freely to
Inspectors.
CHANGE STORY
WHEN IN COURT
Post Office Robbers Claim It Is
All a Case Of Mistaken Identity.
Fay Says Watchman Should
Be Discharged for Not
Finding Them at
Work.
The Times-pispatch.

New York, April 6.---It was much
subdued pair of post-o office robbers
VINO were brought before Commissioner
Shields In the Federal building this
afternoon when the time arrived for a
hearing upon the extradftion of Eddie
Fay and Little Dick" Harris to Rich
mond for trial there for the post-offico
robbery on the morning of March IS.
Harris and Fay are arraigned under
the names or Fred Cunningham and
Frank Chester, which they gave In
court yesterday. They were rearrest-
ed before Commissioner Shields on
new warrant based upon an indictmenr
that has Just been drawn in Rich
mcnd. since virtual confessions of the
post Office Job there were obtained
from the two men by the inspectors.
Talk Freely.
Harris and Fay talked In the freesr
manner with the inspectors, and Eddie
Fay even remarked to inspector Koons
that Watchman Paul In the Richmond
post-otfice ought to be discharged for
not having detected them while they
were cracking the safe.
He was about the only person IN
Richmond who didn't see u.s." Fay re-
marked.
Inspector Koons said that when he
arrested Fay the prisoner started IN
talking righ away, and asked Rooms
now they succeeded in tracing the
trunks In which Fay and Harris sent
their loot of stamps and currency over
to this city.
koons asked Fay what he had better
| DO With some nitro -gylcerIne which
was found in Fay's trunk along win
| dynamite caps iimmies. monkey
(, wrenches, files, screws and wire
They said had better pour 1t ont
because it might do some damage and
4 did" remarked the inspector.
| Fay wanted to know next il he
1 could have some of the money, ami
| Rooms told him that this could not be
| allowed on account of the possibility
! that the money taken from Fay's per-
| son might be part of the Richmond
| post Office loot, but ISoons lent Fay
slO out of his own pocket and was
rewarded by further. exchange of con-
fidences. in which Fay said that he
and Harris had made a mistake in
ever. taking the trunks out of Rich
mond. Later on Fay inquired II the
vault in the Richmond post office had
been fixed. and remarked that he
could fix it in couple of hours.
Did "Grand Job"
Little Dick" Harris who posed as
Chestef, was even more chummy
with the post-ofice inspectors In
fact, he told Inspector Robins. who
went on tho stand TO identity him
Boys, you've got us, and i take off
my hat to you. You did a grand Job,
The defense will have opportunity AT /
o'clock Tomorrow 10 put in tts case
on the extradition proceedings
Postmaster Allan said last night
wv. a.. s-..x
of the Treasury Department.. and that
hts commission is issued through the
Custodian of the Federal Building. Ha
heard nothing, he says. to indicate
that the watchman will he retired on
account of alleged negligence. Paul &
lives in Manchester, and has been on
nigh. duty at the Federal building for
several years. There has never been
any complaint against him prior to
the present accusation. Neither Mr.
Allan nor any one else in Richmond
as far as can be learned. has been
advised of what transpired In New
York yesterday. although the impress
sion Is that Fay and Harris will be
tried on the day following their ar
rival in this city.
There story Changed.
New York, April 6.--Those now 81
lent individuals, known to the police
and Federal officers as Eddie Fay
and Little Dick Harris, charged with
the recent robbery of the Richmond
ost-office, in which more than $4,000
loot was obtained, were SO piqued after
their arrest that they could not resist
congratulating their captors and adj
mtting their identity, according 10
the testimony vi post-otficc inspec-
tors at the arraignment of the prison.
ers In New York to-day,
Now they are indignant when re-
ferred TO as Fay and Harris The
two alleged burglars virtually con-
fessed shortly after their arrest, so
the inspectors testified, and upon this
tho government will largely build It's
case to force eStradition, which the
prisoners are bitterly resisting, In
spectors j. c. Koons and J. B. Roberta.
of Washington. We're the witnesses who
told of the accused mems alleged lack
of legal caution
Maryeled nt NNork.
Roberts testified that in an inter-
view at police headquarters the pris-
oners who called himself Frank Ches-
ter, hut whom the nolee declare to he
Little Dick Harris, told him that
the inspectors had done remarkable
piece OF work in making tho captEfe, @
and asked how they able 10 trace
them so quickly from Richmond 20 New
York.
Koons said that whan lie called ~
the Tombs the prisoner gho insists
that he is Frederick Cunningham, but
has been Identified by the New YORK
police as the daring "Eddio't Fay. said
ito him
erd like 70 know how you traced
those trunks from Rishmonl 70 New
York."
II soll him SAID Aeons. aA4tSsa