The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-30
Crackers of Post Office Safe
Remanded to Tombs to
Await Hearing
INSPECTORS RECOVER
$4,000 IN LOOT
Two Stamp Filled Trunks Found
In New York Depot and the
Third Believed to Have
Been Seized.

NEW YORK March 24-=-k,rank
Chester and Frederick Cunningham
were arraigned before United States
Commissioner Shields to-day charged
with burgiarizing the Richmond, Va.
postoffice of ss5.ooo in stamps and
~ In cash, eaerIy Monday morning.
The arraignment was formal and the
men were at once recommitted to the
Tombs for an examination later.
! All Loot Recovered.
In the meanwhile the police and
postoftice inspectors are rounding up
the loot from the Richmond post
office and have already recovered
$4,000 of the stamps. The remainder
OF the stamps are believed to be in
trunk recovered at the Twenty
third street station of the Pennsxl-
wanna railroad to-day and which Is
now at police headquarters
The arrests was a elimination OF
chase started In Richmond. imme-
diateiy after the crime was com
mitted. The two men were traced
from the Richmond postoffice to New
York. The postal authorities say they
were Cunningham and Chester. The
officials say there was another man
and woman. who joined them The
trunks were traced to Washington
from there to Philadelphia and then
to New York, where the two men were
arrested while trying to claim tn.
trunks.
Not Amateurs.
To-day the prisoners were detian,
and insisted they were innocent. The
postoffice inspectors however say they
are prepared to prove that Cunning
name 10 Edward Fay, alias Eddie
Smith, alias j. w. Campbell and tina,
he Is wanted In San Diego. Cat, in
Los Angeles aud In many other west.
ern cities for bank robbery and post
Office thefts
| They alleged to the Federal com.
mission that Cunningham, known al
Fay, in company with gid O'Brien
was sent to the Illinois peuIteutiax,
for robbery en- Aug. 6. 1897. tina
he WAS paroled Nov. IL, 1898. arrest.
ed at Washington Park race track il
Chicago June IS. 1909. only to be re.
leased; that he robbed the Superior
WITS, postoffice April 8, 1904, but later
broke Jail at GAINESVILLE and made .
good get away: that on Feb. rs, 1906
he participated in the robbery of the
Japanese-Amertcan bank at Los An.
geles and shortly afterward robbed
the postofiice at San Diego. Cal. get.
ting $4,000 in gold and $10,736 In
stamps. The inspectors also believe
they will be able to. show. that hi
participated in a $74.0e0 stamp rob-
berry in Chicago.
Mistaken Identity.
Despite this indictment by the au-
thortties. Cunningham insisted the in,
! spectors- were mistaken, and when
confronted with pictures very much
! resembling him, insisted he was a
victim OF mistaken identity. The in
spectors and city detectives are now
| trying to identify Chester. and say
they will have his Identity fixed be.
fore the examination Is held.
Evidence Is Complete.
| WASHINGTON. ID. c.. March &c.
a telegram received to-day by Chief
I Inspector Ingalls,, of the Postoffice
/ Department. from Inspector Harrison
at work on the Richmond postofiice
robbery case In New York, states tina,
the evidence against the two men ar
rested there Is complete. Fffty-seven
| thousand dollars worth of stamps
| and eight hundred dollars In cash
and checks were recovered from
as Frank Chester and Frank Cum
ningham. Chester has numerous
aliases. Charles J. Adams and Charles
| Hatfield being two of the names un-
der which he has been known It Is
thought that one of the men Is the
notorious Eddy Fay, who escaped
from the Wisconsin authorities SIX
years ago after robbing the postof-
Ace at Superior. Wis, OF $4,000 He
Is also suspected of being the prin-
cipal in the Chicago postoffice rob-
| berry in 1901. when $4,000 In cash
and stamps were stolen.