The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-07-13
THIEVES WHO HIDE LOOT.
Recovered Later, and the EX-Crim
inaI Lives in Wealth.

imal Lives In Wealth.
1t IS we'll known to the police that
there are a number of eX-convicts who
are literally rolling in riches and
driving about London and the prov.
inces to-day in their own motor cars
and carriages, said a detective to the
writer the other day. The majority
of these men are old embezzlers and
there seems to be little doubt that
they are able to live well and keep
going laviJhly furnished residences
because The money they stole was
hidden by them before being arrested
and sent to prison.
1t may surprise you to know that
thousands of pounds worth of valua'
BILE property looted by thieves from
various sources lies buried in odd
n o. Britain and will probably
only be recovered by the men them.
selves on their release. Cases are
constantly occurring where an m
bezzler after running off with a large
sum in gold refuses to diyulge the
hiding place of his i'll gotten gains.
He is sent to prison and the loot re-
mains unrecovered. In nine cases out
of ten the embezzler finding arrest i'm
minent buries his stolen property and
digs it UP again when lie comes out of
prison.
A man who was for many years an
{n~oo{1 NF 0f n rricnnc Sc nnu,
living in a%fluence in a town up north.
He was imprisoned for embezling
10000 from his employers and he
declared at the trial that he had spent
every penny of it. For some time
after his release from Jail he lived in
a cheap lodging house at Hoxton and
then one day he declared that he had
come into a fortune, a brother in Aus.
tralia having died and left him some
thousands. AS a matter of fact, al
though the police had no proof, he
had recovered the money which he
had embezzled years before.
A man of considerable means now
living in the States served a term Of
imprisonment for forgery, having OBJ
tanned $50 by means of false
checks. Not a penny Of the money
was recovered by the police. During
the forced confinement Of the thief
his wife, in pursuance of a previously
agreed plan, went out to service In
a gentleman's family. AS soon as the
husband was liberated, however, the
wife resigned her position and the
pair sailed Immediately for the col.
onies. It ultimately came to light
that the money which had been stolen
by means of the forged checks had
been buried under the flooring of a
Soho house.
Some fifteen years ago a Hindo
merchant who had come to London tc
make purchases of gems was robbed
OF many thousands of pounds. The
thieves carried their i'll gotten wealth
to a cheap tenement in Wh%itechapel.
but finding the police hot on their
track they carried the loot n dark
night to a remote spot on the ESSEX
marshes and secretly buried it. They
then disappeared and have not been
seen since. 1t is believed that the
money remains to this day where il
was buried.
Not so very long ago a burglary
was committed by a couple Of well
known thieves who got away with
about $500 in coin and banknotes.
They were arrested, but refused to
state what they had done with the
money, although one darkly limited
that it had been buried in a garden
in a suburb of London.-From Ti5-
Bits.