White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-04-14

CONFESSES CRIME
SALVATION ARMY TRAIL BRINGS
CONFESSION OF MAIL ROB-
Berry IN NEW YORK.
MADE TO SAN DIEGO OFFICERS
Postoffice Truck of Registered Matter
Looted on Boat-James Moran
Tells How Deal Was Pulled Off -
Was Former Cab Driver.

San Diego, Cal-James Moran, who
surrendered to United States Marshal
Carse, has admitted having participat-
ed in the postal robbery two months
ago in New York In the confession
Moran declared he and the alleged
ringleader, whom he named, were aid
ed by two postal employees.
An interesting sidelight on the case
is the admission by Moran that after
his alleged accomplices had double
crossed him, after sending him to San
Francisco, where the loot was to be
divided, he came here, attended Sal
walton Army meeting, at which he chit
the trail" and then, conscience strick-
en-, he decided to make clean breast
of the affair.
The Confession.
Moran's confession, taken down in
shorthand, follows:
II was driving car for the New
York Automobile Cab Service COM
pany when, one evening, l met man
who knew that had pulled off some
deals of this kind and he came to me
and wanted to know if l would go in
for something big and said would
If knew what it was.
"He explained to me that registered
mail coming from Weehawken, N. j.,
on the ferryboat could be got on the
ferryboat coming over, as it was half
hours run, and he wanted to know if
l could get car, and told him that
could. The other postal employees
were also in on the deal, but l do not
know their names-never heard them.
II think it was January 10 that
went to the ringleader and we laid for
the mail wagon. As it went on the
ferryboat we drove in back of it and
the key to the back Of the wagon was
handed to my partner by one of the
others in the plot and we opened the
back Of the wagon and took out eight
or nine registered mail sacks.
"The back of the wagon was pad
locked, but it was opened with the
key, and after taking the mail sacks
drove them up in Bronx park and the
sacks were opened there at 2 a. M,
and noted there was considerable
number Of packages. One Of them was
opened and l was given 5000. l was
to get rid of the car and they told
me to go to San Francisco and the cut
would be made there; that is, the
'divvy up was to take place there.
The ringleader was to hand the others
their share and was to bring my share
to me. He has never shown up. 1t
looks as though he is trying to make
me the goat. His home is at Canaan
daigua, N. Y. He is about IS years old
and has a Ratchet face. l have had
other deals with him and he was al
ways straight with me.
Would Get Even.
well, we took mail sacks to the
park and cut them open. l cut some
and he cut some. We did it by the
light of the headlights on the car.
think it was about a. m. l left for
San Francisco the next morning. | am
willing to go back to New York and
tell all l know. l want to get even
with him. He double crossed me.
came to San Diego Monday. have
been boiling up under this until / am
damned near mad. l was down to
bedrock-broke. sleep wherever
can get a bed. l read in the news
papers that they got $1,50O,0O0, some
of it in unsigned federal reserve bills
from Baltimore"