The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-30
Trunks Found by Inspec-
tors in New York Bag
gage RoomC Contain
ed Stamps Valued
at 100000.
DESPERATE FIGHT
MADE BY THIEVES
TO BREAK AWAY

ers Had Been Knocked Down,
Shadowed by Detectives, Who
Expect to Recover Other Trunk
and Stolen Property Trap
Which Led to Capture Set in
Richmond Immediately After
Crime Was Discovered.
Post-oHlcc Inspectors j. G. Koonss
james G. Robertson and Frank n. Bar
clay, of the Washington division, last
night arrested Fred Cunningham and
Frank Chester Mt the Grand Central
station, in New York City, and re-
covered two OF their trunks, which
contained 100000 In stamps stolen from
the Richmond poSt-ofice on Monday
morning. This Information was re-
ceived over the long distance telephone
from the Mulberry street Police sta
ton, In New York City, an hour inter
the arrests were made.
There is another trunk still missius,--
and a third man has been located,
whom the inspectors We're said to ba
shadowing in New York at an early
hour this morning. 1t is not believed
that any OF the trunks have been tam
pered with since being shipped from
Richmond to Washington at 4.50
o'clock Monday morning. and there is
said to be little doubt but that every
stamp and nearly all OF the money will
BE- recovered when the government
men and detectives have completed the
Job.
The movements of fthe thieves until
they reached Washington, according to
those on tho inside OF the case. were
correctly mapped out in The Times
Dispatch of yesterday.
Trap Was Set Hero.
Every trigger Of the trap into which
the daring cracksmen fell was set in
Richmond. Early yesterday afternoon
the inspectors were confident that the
baggage would reach New York later.
and they prepared at once to spring
upon tho claimants The three in
spectors, who left here at $40 o'clock
Monday night. were reinforced in New
York by Inspector Kincaid and petec-
tive Buzby, who was detailed on the
case by j. C. Harper, superintendent
of police of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The men We're captured at Q o'clock.
and We're Identified at the Mulberry
Street Station.
When Cunningham and Chester en-
tered the baggage room at the Grand
Central Station. and presented the
checks, they are said, in some man
ner. to have suspected that they had
fallen into trap, and both attempted
to escape. They We're arrested after
a desperate struggle, Meanwhile the
trunks We're opened, and each was filled
with stamps. One large trunk and a.
small one were recovered.
Chief John r. Harrison, of the wash
ington division of post-oftice inspec-
tors, assisted by l.. l.. Scherer, gem
eral agent of transportation for tho
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway COM
pany. conducted the search for the
thieves. and through their efforts on
Monday the baggage was traced from
Washington north, The thieves en-
deavored by every method to lose tha
identity of the trunks: but the rail-
road officials In Baltimore. Newark.
Trenton. Philadelphia, New York and
other cities offered every assistance
and wherever the baggage was
switched those working here succeeded
in procuring numbers. and in locating
the next point in the route
How Trunks Were Checked.
One trunk was checked from WASH
inston, over the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, to Philadelphia, and thence
into New York y seronu was shipped
from Washington, over the FennsyI-
Nanla Railroad, to Baltimore, MAS
switched III that city to the Baltimore
and Ohio, and taken TO Trenton, N. j
From Trenton 1t was switched to New
ARK, and thence to New York. The
third trunk was shipped from Wash
ington TO Newark. and from there 10
the Twenty third Street station of the
Pennsylvania Railroad in New York
City. 1t was reswitched in New York
to the Grand Central Station, where
the thieves were caught.
Late Monday afternoon the inspee-
tors and detectives working here
traced the baggage as tar as Newark.
and that night Inspector koons was
sent to Baltimore. and Inspectors Rob-
ertson and Barclay went to Philadel-
phia. When the baggage was traced
past Philadelphia, and Was known 10 *
have been sent to New York, the
three men We're ordered there. and
arrived yesterday afternoon.
Chief Inspector Harrison remained
here yesterday keeping in touch with
his men by telephone and telegraph.
and when ii became evident late in
the afternoon that the arrests would
be made last night he left for New
York News OF the capture OF Cun-.
ningham and Chester and of the re-
covery of the larger part of the hoots
Was conveyed TO him on the train at
Fredericksburg,
Rcd-Faced Man Caught.
Aside from tracing the mon by
means OF the checks, those working
from this end sent out minute de-
soriptions. which are said to tally
exactly with the prisoners held iii
New York, Chester Is the short. red
faced man, about forty years old. Mho
contracted for the storage room AT
the Alhanhra Hotel, and Cunningham
is believed TO be the tall sfliir