News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-04-13
L.IAlt. iTNEfIS BY
NATIONAL RING
Postal Authorities Believe Ban
dts in Chicago HOldup
Had "Inside" Tip.
LOOT MAY EXCEED 100000
Abandoned Sacks Are Found and
Money Wrappers in Them Indicate
Big HauI-Many Criminals
Got Jobs During Wartime.

Chicago.-A nationwide organiza-
tiOn of thieves whose directing genius
mas inside information of all large
currency shipments made by Federal
Reserve banks and whose agents are
working under cover in the registry
divisions of the country's principal
six registered mail robberies aggre-
eating more than %6000,000 within the
last nine months, according to postal
authorities at Washington, following
receipt Of the details of the Dearborn
street station hold-up.
Hard on the heels of the report of
this hold-up came another of reg
istered mail robbery at Sullivan, Ind,
the home town of Postmaster General
Hays.
Local postal inspectors declare free
ly that Chicago's latest mail robbery
was an inside job but believe that
the shipment of currency to Indlanap-
Oils banks was clipped off" from the
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank rather
than from the post office.
"a large criminal element obtained
jobs in the post Office during the war,
when there was a shortage of men"
declared Chief of Detectives Hughes.
'They are still there. They are be-
hind these mail robberies The gov
eminent is largely to blame for fail
ing to arm its employees who have
charge of the transfer of registered
mail pouches containing huge sums
of money"
The outstanding developments in the
search for the Dearborn station rob-
bers were:
Photographs of Eddie Mcbride and
John AIcElvy, recently acquitted of the
murder of Policeman John Mullen,
were identified by witnesses as two
of the robbers
On a tip received by Chief Hughes, I
nineteen suspects, most of them post
office employees, were taken into Gus
tOdy in a raid on a pOolroOm Oliver
Brown, manager of the Bellevue
garage, from which the mail robbers
stole the car used in the hold-up, was
taken into custody for questioning by
the federal authorities. Cecil AIillar,
night Waterman, who was asleep when
the car~Was stolen, was also arrested.
Information was obtained linking
the robbers with Tommy" Shupe, now
being held in the county jail in con-
nection with the $JQ000O Union depot
mail theft. Shupe's wife held a whis-
pered conversation with him, it was
said, short time before the robbery
was committed.
An abandoned mail sack found BY
the police and believed to be the reg
istered pouch stolen by the bandits
wrappers for money, which,
the police said. showed that from $780,
900 to $750OO0 was obtained by the
The abandoned pouch contained
wrappers Indicating a shipment of one
package of $4,000 in 81 bills, a pack
age holding $4,000 in currency, an
other containing hundred $1,000
bills and five large sacks consigned to
branches of the Federal Reserve Bank,
each sack continuing five smaller
)ags, which in turn held currency Of
arge denomination.
Bystanders said that the robbery
vas committed in less than two min
ties. So sudden was the assault on
he mail truck that many conflicting
tories were given to the police by
According to one account, the rob-
ers had play J baseball all afternoon
n a lot adjoining the station where
he hold-up occurred. other Witnesses
aid the robberS rushed up to tie mail
ruck in an automobile just as it was
repairing to unl'uG
The automobile as2d by the robbers
as found, aban1gnd about two
lilies from the place va IRE the pouches
ere discovered. Two Illlet holes
ere in the toHneau ut the mach y.