Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-10-24
SILSBERCER SAFE
in ROANOKE JAIL
With Pockets Full of Stolen Money
He Led High Life, But is Run
Down by P. O. Detectives.

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baby. were brought to the Jail
at Roanoke last Saturday, where
Silberger is being held in default
of SIS, 900 bail. Silberger's arrest
was effected by postoffice detect
ives in Cleveland, Ohio, where
ne had fled after the robbery.
He had engaged in business in
Cleveland, where his sister lives
having bought a draying bust
ness, for which he paid several
thousand dollars. He also pur-
chased diamond rings for Mrs.
Silsberger, and povided himself
with several handsome suits of
clothes.
The details Of the chase after
Silberger are given by postofiice
Inspector Newland, of the Blue
field district, beginning at the
time Silberger left the postoffice
at Pocahontas:
Mr.. Mustard left the postoffice
at 8 o'clock, it developed, Sill
berger telling him that he would
close the Office himself, as he
wished to write his wife who
had gone to Eccles, Raleigh
county, to visit her father. A.
D. Wills. 1t was then twenty
five minutes until s o'clock p.
M, in time to make No. 16.
Securing his booty, Silberger
boarded No. 16 for the east.
The inspector learned that Mrs.
Silberger, who had gone to
Eccles on the Saturday proceed
ing the robbery, had left that
point over the Virginian railroad
presumably for Roanoke. At
Roanoke the inspector picked
up a hot trail. He learned that
Mrs. Silberger's baggage had
been delivered to an unknown
party. Being Joined at Roanoke
by Inspector Hal B. Mosby, In
spectors Newton and Mosby
spent all day Saturday inter
viewing cabman and at last
found a nergo who had carried
Mrs. Silberger's baggage from
the Virginian railroad station
to the Cox hotel, an uapreten-
sious hosterly, on the night of
the 10Th, the night of the rob-
berry and no further investiga-
tion found that she had left the
hotel at midnight for the Nor
folk and Western depot and
boarded No. 16, which was pre-
sumed at the time and afterward
verified, to join her husband.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Silberger
occupied a Pullman on No. 16
and at Lynchburg left the Nor
folk and Western, where the
trail was lost for a day, when
a transfer driver was found who
identified the woman, with her
eight months old babe and Sill
berger whom he had transferred
by auto from No. 16 to the
Southern depot and boarded
train No. 80 at $50 a. M,
occupying a Pullman drawing
room and the Pullman conductor
and porter remembered that
Mrs. Silberger was bound for
New York and Silberger for
Philadelphia. Upon arriving at
New York Mr.. Newton learned
from a Pullman porter that Mrs.
Silberger had had her baggage
transferred to Park hotel and
afterward learned at the hotel
that Silberger had joined her
that night at midnight. Mrs.
Sllberger went to another, re-
gistering under the name of "R.
l.. Morris. The inspectors
learned that she made frequent
trips to the Wanamaker store,
always by taxicab, where she
made big purchases of clothing
and had even INDUCED in such
luxuries as wine suppers at the
hotels. The officers unearthed
the clue that she had taken a
taxi to Pennsylvania and when
he was arrested he was perched
up beside his driver making a
delivery. In addition to the
amount paid out for the coal
business Silberger had spent
some $500 in the equipment of
his home and more than $500 in
jewelry in which he had or
namented his wife in keeping
with metropolitan life. In
New York Silberger fixed him
self up with lavish hand, pur-
chasing a costly suit case, gold
Gillette razor, hat, bath robe,
suit of clothing, diamond scarf
pin, steamer trunk and other
accessories essential to a we'll