New-York tribune., 1919-09-17
Boy Missing
With $S332,525
In Securities
Elias Tcaman, II, Absent
Since Monday Morning; {;
Theft From Brokers Is
Kept Secret by Police
: Held as Hotel Bandits
Detectives, Under Orders,
Refuse to Tell of Steps
to Find Bank Robbers

to Find Bank Robbers
A general alarm has been sent out
by the police for Elias Teaman, a
seventeen year old messenger for l.. NJ.
Prince & Co., Of 20 Broad Street. who
disappeared with $32,525 worth of
negotiable securities Monday. AL
though the robbery was Immediately
until yesterday when the National
Surety Company, which insured
Prince & Co. against such losses, made
it public. The police have no trace
Of the messenger. 1t was said at the
boys home, 25 East 105th Street. that
he had not been home since ne left for
work Monday.
Teaman lett the OFFICES Of Prince &
Co. at Has Monday morning with
bonds and other securities for deliv-
cry in the financial district For
several days he had been seen in the
sailor. The police are seeking the
latter.
Th. messenger was employed by
Prince & Co. on August % and immcdi-
ately won the confidence Of his en-
ployers. He is described as five feet
six inches tall and weighing about $50
pounds, with brown hair and eyes. At
the time of his disappearance he wore
brown suit, with a blue serge vest
and 4 gray cap. He has a long thin
face and hollow cheeks.
List of Missing Bonds
The missing bonds are listed as
Six thousand dollars Wilson & Co.
6s, due 1923. Nos. d37. 1l314-16, S4l6-
u; $4,000 lnterboro Rapid Transit 5s.
due 1866, Nos l35500. S2113. S5I52,
.@5A ,. 29525-6, 77l6. l2562I. 23643-d,
$500 Japanese First 5 IS. due 1928,
each bond for s100. Nos. l0l429-33
$4,000 New Orleans. TcXas & Mexican
Income 5s, due 1885. $500 each Nos.
l$oo-il; $1,000 I. $. Liberty I'd 1 lis,
/ Nos. 15S375l, 1S257s, 7o3236; $4,000
Southern Pacific convertible IS. due
1894, Nos. 4430l-3, ad93S, ;,5O1S, 3tiO9,
20l1i, 1900 100. AA33. h4939.
In addition, Herman had three
S 900 Liberty bonds which could be
converted with less chance of arrest
than the other bonds.
Mrs. Sadie Tcaman, of % East looth
Street, mother Of the missing boy, said
last night that she believed that her
son had been kidnapped or murdered
She added that Elias had always had
a most exemplary record; that he was
in tho house early every evening; that
he gave her from IS to 81 out of his
salary Of $12 each week, and had
handled large amounts of securities
for his employers before this.
Tho notice continued thoir cCarcb
Ncsterda! for tho auto bandits who
held up the Williamsbrdge branch Of
the Bronx Borough Bank. 1t was cs-
timatcd at Police Headquarters that
Commissioner Enrght personally was
directing the hunt for the robbers and
had assigned seventy of his best men
on the case. Detectives, under orders
from their supcriors, declined to dis
cuss the case with reporters.
SiX bandits in a black touring car
held up two wagons of the american
Railway Express at Hudson and Van
dan Streets early yesterday morning,
but took nothing. Soon after the hold
mp WAS reported to the McDougal
Street station four men in touring
car answering the description sent out
Of the hold-up men We're taken into
custody at Canal and Elizabeth Streets.
The prisoners were taken 20 the
Elizabeth Street station pending an in
vestlgaton. They said they we're en-
ployed by tho American Auto Trans
portation Company, lao West Fortieth
Street and denied knowledge of the
robbery.
Magistrate Commcnds Walsh
George Howe Edward Mcintyre and
Thomas Burke, who were arrested in
connection With the series of hotel
robberes last week. were held in
10000 bail each for the grand jury
last week by Magistrate NicQuadc in
the West Sidc Court. The magistrate
commended Captain Thomas Walsh, Of
the Fourth Detective Bureau, who di-
rectcd the search that resulted in their
capture. He said:
You have done admirable work with
thc aid of your charges in this and
other cases recently put in your hands,
Captain Walsh, ard New York owes
YOU heaps Of thanks. You are running
fine detective school that is doing
much practical good, and Detective
DAILY, whose fine work has already
gained him det, ctive sorgeancy, is a
fair example of the product turned
out under your guidance The other
men under you have also done fine
work, and hope they Will continue and
win hrSt grade pay and rank too"