The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-09-26
BAMBERG, S. c., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
$4,000 RETURNED BY ROBBER.
Missing Package Found on Bank
Steps by Janitor.

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the First National Bank, some time
last night, of the $4,000 stolen while
being delivered to the Louisville and
Nashville pay car at Flomaton, sew
eral days ago, a conference was held
tonight between officials of the bank
and private. detectives and special
agents investigating the robbery.
At a late hour it was stated that
an arrest was momentarily expected.
The package containing the money
was in the original wrapping as made
up by the bank employees, it is said,
and was enclosed in a newspaper. 1t
was found this morning lying against
the grating of the back door of the
bank by the negro janitor, who first
thought it a pair Of old shoes. This
indicates, according to the officials,
that some one with previous knowl-
edge, had prepared in advance the
dummy package containing magazine
pages, which was found in place of
the money when the shipment was
opened in the Louisville and Nash
vile pay car.
Detectives Hot on the Trail.
Burns and Pinkerton detectives
and special agents of the Southern
Express Company are hot on the
trail of the man.
They claim the package of cur
rency, in it's original package, was
found wrapped this morning in a
morning Journal published on Thurs
day morning. 1t had been placed at
the back door of the bank some time
during the night and had rested
there unnoticed. The janitor had oc-
casion to go to the door, and open
ing the inside door saw package
resting against the iron grating. He
thought it was pair Of old shoes,
but when he picked it up the paper
dropped off and he saw plainly Ia
belled this package contains $685.
000." He took it to the bank officials
and the latter identified it as the
original package intended for the
paymaster of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company.
Every Dollar in Package.
Every dollar was there, and the
package had not been broken by the
man who stole it, and sent along d
dummy to the paymaster of the
Louisville and Nashville. This dunn
my was made up of old magazines,
the sheets being cut to the size of a
silver certificate or bank note. The
money had evidently been resting
against the bank door for several
hours, for it had been out in the
rain which came down in a downpour
during the night, and the newspaper
in which it was wrapped dropped off
when the janitor picked it up.
The rear of the bank is enclosed
by a brick wall about five feet high
and the door at which the money was
placed was only about five feet from
this wall. The party returning it
either threw it over the wall against
the door or else scaled the wall and
deposited the package where it was
found.
Notified by Telephone.
A peculiar thing connected with
the return of the money was that
Saturday night Assistant Cashier W..
N. Roberts received telephone
message at his house from party
giving no name and leaving the
phone as soon as he had spoken a
few words. This party said: You
will find what you lost at the banks
back door,
The party doing the tlephoning
first made a mistake and got the
wrong Roberts. He telephoned to
the home of Cashier Clyde W. Rob-
erts, of the Pensacola State Bank,
and delivered such a message, but
was told that the cashier had not lost
anything. He then telephoned to W..
N. Roberts, but that official thought
some one was attempting a practl-
cal joke on him and refused to go out
in the rain to the bank to take a
look. The various Burns and Pink
erton men, who have been securing
evidence, called the express and
bank officials into conference to-
night, and it is expected that there
will be arrests in the case within a
few hours.
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