The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-10-02
PACKAGE Was PLACED ON BANK
STEPS BY SOME eNE
, :
EVERY DOLLAR FOUND
Money From the Pensacola National
Bank that Was Stolen in Transit to
Nomaton Several Days Ago, Turns
. Up Just as Mysteriously as it Dis
appeared.

A dispatch from Pensacola. Fla. a
q result Of the mysterious return t.
the First National Bank, some time
Sunday night, of the $55,000 stolel
while being delivered to the Louis
vile and Nashville pay car at Flo
maton. several days ago. conference
was held Monday night between Of
fclals of the bank and private detec
tiyes and special agents Investigating
the robbery.
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. II
was found Monday morning lying
against the grating Of the back door
Of the bank by the negro janitor, who
first thought it pair Of old shoes.
This indicates, according to the Of
fic;als, that some one with previous
knowledge, had prepared in advance
the dummy package containing mag
azine pages which was found in place
oe the money when the shipment was
opened In the Louisville and Nash.
Vile pay car.
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 currency, In it's original package,
was found wrapped Monday morning
ic a morning Journal published on
Thursday morning. It had been plac-
ed at the back door Of the bank some
time during the night and had rested
there unnoticed. ...
The janitor had occasion to go to
tte door, and opening the inside door
saw package resting against the
iron grating. He thought 1t was a
pair of old shoes, but when he picked
1t up the paper dropped of and he
saw plainly labelled "this package
contains SIS, ,G00''. He took it to the
bank officials and the latter identified
1t as the original package intended
for the paymaster Of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company.
Every dollar was there, and the
package had not been broken by the
rnan who stole it, and sent along a
unimy to the paymaster Of the Louis
vile and Nashville. This dummy was
made up OF the size Of silver certi-
ficate or bank note. The money had
evidently been resting against the
bank door for several hours, for 1t
had been out in the rain which came
down In a downpour during the
night, and the newspaper in which 1t
was wrapped dropped of when the
janitor picked it up.
The rear of the bank Is enclosed by
q 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 eth
or threw it over the wall against the
door or else scaled the wall and de-
posted the package where it was
found.
A peculiar thing connected with
the return of the money was that Sat-
urday night Assistant Cashier W. N.
Roberts received telephone message
at his house from a party giving no
name and leaving the phone as soon
as he had spoken few words. This
party said: 'You will find what you
lost at the banks back door,"
The party doing the telephoning
first made mistake and got the
wrong Roberts. He telephoned to the
home Of Cashier Clyde w. Roberts, Of
the Pensacola State Bank, and deliv-
cred such message, but was told
that the cashier had not lost any
thing. he then telephoned to W. N.
Roberts, but that official thought
some one was attempting a practical
joke On him and refused to go out in
the rain to the bank to take look.
The various Burns and Pinkerton
men. who have been securing evi-
dence, called the express and bank
officials into conference Monday
night and 1t Is expected that there
will be arrests In the case within a
few hours.
Eilons's Pure Record.