Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-06
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MUCH WANTED "EDDiE FAY" ONE
OF RICHMOND, VA, STAMP
THIEVES.
PREVENTS TAKING HIS PICTURE
Has Record in Several State and Once
Broke Jail in Wisconsin.-NearIv
All p. o. Loot Found in Trunks
Recovered by Sieuths.

New York, N. Y. Extraordin.
airy precautions to prevent their es-
cape were taken at the arraignment
before a federal commissioner of
Frederick cunningham and Frank
Chester, whom the police allege are
criminals with long string of aliases
and convictions behind them. Both
are charged with robbing the post
office in Richmond, Va, of $4,000 in
stamps and cash.
Picked deputy marshals filled the
prison van in which the men were
taken to court and fifty detectives
guarded them closely while the com.
plant was read.
Chester fought hard Tuesday night
when captured and Cunningham went
through such contortions at police
headquarters for two hours that it
was impossible to take his picture for
the rogues gallery
Neither man had counsel in court
and an adjournment of the hearing
until next Wednesday was asked by
the government and granted. Bail
was fixed at $4,000, failing which
both men again were locked up.
Have Notorious "Fay."
One Of the men arrested, the police
say, is Eddie Fay" mucn wanted
fugitive, and for whose apprehension
a total of about $4,000 in rewards
have been offered in various cities.
This prisoner is the one known as
Cunningham.
According to the detective bureau
Fay" is wanted in Los Angeles, CAL,
for blowing the safe of the postoffice
in 1905 and getting away with $780,
1913 worth of stamps and $4,000 in
gold. There is $1,000 reward for his
capture for this job.
Five years ago in Peoria, ILL.,, he
blew the safe of the postoftice and
got away with 100000 worth of stamps.
A year later he again blew the same
safe and this time made off with $74,-
900 worth Of stamps.
He was convicted and sent to Jail
in Springfield, ILL.,, in Augusct, 1897,
but broke out short time later.
He also broke Jail in GAINESVILLE,
Wis, where he had been sent for
safe-blowing. The detectives say
there is a record of four murders
against him.
Fay" detectives say, is worth from
100000 to 100000 and owns a string
OF race horses. The police say they
do not know much about the man
caught with Fay"
Loot Is Recovered.
Detectives have found three more
trunks and satchel belonging to the
robbers, from one of which they re-
covered $4,000 in stamps. In another
was what detectives say is the most
elaborate and highly finished set of
burglars tools they have ever seen.
Each tool was in a separate case of
Russia leather. Even the rougher jim
mics were wrapped in tissue paper
and the drills were of the hardest,
modern high speed" tool steel. With
them were a set lock picks, some of
which were 18 inches long, and six
sets of skeleton keys. Another set,
not yet finished, was also seized.
More interesting yet was manu-
script showing that the compiler had
in mind wholesale raid of Southern
and Western banks Hundreds of
banks were listed and with them ap-
peared the names and addresses of the
treasurers, cashiers, janitors, their
habits and their hours.
Postoffice inspectors later found the
fifth trunk and in it recovered $4,000
worth of stamps. This trunk was
found at the Pennsylvania railroad
station at Cortlandt street. This
makes $4,000 worth of the stamps
that the authorities have recovered
out of the $4,000 worth stolen