Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-20
$4,000 is
LOOTERS'
REV Ard
Rob Express Gar on
Way to Jersey
City.
MONEY.BOX WITH
OVER $1,000 IS STOLEN
Also Valuables Worth $1,000
Taken from Trunks and
Suit-Cases,
MONEY.BOX WITH
OVER 1000 IS STOLEN

NEW YORK, April 2O-The New
Jersey police are searching today FOR
clues to the identity of the principals
in an express car robbery which re-
suited last night in the loss of over
$1,000 in cash and the disappearance OF
/, about $1,000 worth of valuables. Car
inspectors at the Weehawken terminal
of the West Shore railroad discovered
shortly before midnight that an Adams
express car which had just come in
over the Ontario and Western railroad
had been rifled by thieves.
The car was filled with trunks, suit
cases and small express bundles The
door IF the car stood open. Every
trunk had been emptied. The thieves
did their work thoroughly. for not a
cent of cash in any of the trunks or
packages was left. Every valuable
article was also taken. A steel express
box which belonged to the express
company. containing over $1,000, was
stolen.
The car passed through Sullivan ana
Orange counties, N. Y, on its way TO
New York Messages have been sent
out over the wires to all points through
which the car passed. asking the po-
lice to be on the lookout for che ROD
bers. The officials of the railroad COM
pany think the robbery occurred some
where near Middletown, N. l.
Suspicious Aroused.
AS soon as the car inspectors came
upon the Adams express car their sus-
picions were aroused. The door was
wide open and they could dimly see
disorderly and tangled mass of trunks
and suitcases within. They were aston
ished at the completeness of the rob
berry.
So thorough was it and so carefully
had the thieves covered up their tracks
that other. attempts were feared. Tne
police all along the line over which
the car had Travelled were wired to
watch for the robbers, and detectives
were put on the case.
The peculiar fact puzzling the detec-
tives is the wholesale nature in which
the rit1ing had been done and the utter
lack of any knowledge of the robbery
on the part of the train crew The
presence of an express messenger
would have prevented any such hap
pening, as there was no messenger,
or anyone else apparently, near the
car at the time it is supposed the rob-
berry took place.
Rihed Between stations.
The only explanation of the robbery
that seems at all feasible to the police
is that the car was first thoroughly
ransacked between two stops, when
there was little danger of detection.
Then several trunks were emptied and
Allied with the jewelry, silverware and
other valuables that had been selected.
The express companys strong box was
likewise put in the bottom of one of the
trunks. They were then strapped or
tied up and thrown off at some small
way-station.
This theory presents some difficulty
because OF the professed ignorance of
the strain crew and their denial of the
possibility of any such happening. But
il is thought that the trunks could
have been left on the platform of some
small station where there was no night
operator From there it could have
easily been removed in an express
wagon or covered van to the head
quarters of the gang of train robbers
in the early hours of the morning. The
chances of detectives after the goods
were once off the train would be very
slight, because the county roads, at
that time of night, would be dark and
deserted.
In Newark the officials of the differ
ent railroads were made somewhat
anxious by the report of the loss sus-
tanned by the Adams people. The car