Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-27
WOLFE AND MCKINNEY
DON'T WANT TO COME
BACK TO DELAWARE
Continued from page /.

L
ing he snw at the police station. pic
lures Of two young men suspected by
the police, and after one glance he un-
hesitatinEly declared they were the
men who robbed him. He said today
that there is no question about the
Identity Of the bandits II the men in
Richmond are the subjects OF the pic
lures he saw here last week.
Mr.. McRca took occasion 10 highly
praise the police for the work thev
did on the case and their suocessful
efforts TO trace and have rounded up
the highwaymen. II am very glad
they got hold Of them" he stated ~
think they did very good Job In hav-
Ing them taken into custody" Fur
ther than this Mr.. McRea would have
nothing to say about the case He
said the recovery Of the cash and
other matters pertaining to the case
are being handled by the PHILADELPHIA
Office OF the Jessup & Moore Paper
Co.
HoIdup Seen by Boy.
/ The police have an eye uitness to
the holdup who knew personally one
Of the alleged bandits. Mckinney. This
witness is a boy who has been badly
frightened since learning the proroi-
nent role he is playing IN this most
/ sensational case. He was walking
along Marsh road last Thursday
morning and met Wolfe and McKin-
ney lace to face. He spoke to Nc.
Kinney, whom he knew, and passed
on. lie had gone a short distance
when he looked around and then no
saw the two men standing In the road
On either side Of an automobile and
poihting reyolyers at the heads Of two
nish ~ me car. The men In the ma
chlne mad their hands in the air.
ne saw one Of the bandits reach
INTO the car, take out a white bag
ana push u under his coat. Both
men then started 70 run along the
road to Beech street and turn west.
toward Maryland avenue. and dIsan-
pear. Later that day this boy ao,oIt
ior Mckinney, but failed to flnd him
RE ala locate him that evening hovy.
ever, having gone to his house NJ.
hlnney himself came to the door T4e
sun mad an automatic revolver ~
hsaSy calibre strapped about his
"alst. The boy asked him IL he baa
sotten anything from the two men fu
the automobile that morning ana
What was IN the bag taken from the
car but Mckinney promptly denied All
knowledge Of what the boy vas tslr-
/ Ing about. vas 'aiN-
/ These facts were deveioues 81, 49,
police and they were On ,ha .ssa 'ne -
sne nanoits IN short time thereafter
Dut tney had evidently heard Of the
iaik Of the boy about the neighbor-
hood and had taken fright for fhav
leit the city that night. Just how
tney got out has not been determined
Ihey were seen running from the
place where the hold up occurred ~,
several men who claim they are able
70 identify them.
Must Not Touch Hidden Loot.
Admission by the young men thai
$1,000 has been hidden by them sor,e.
where In this city gives the poggca
nope that practically. all Of tha loot
VIII be recovered There fs not .ba
sAshtest intimation as "a where the
cAsn mas been concealed here bur the
oilcers are taking no chances on los
ing IL. Anyone whom they think NAV
nave had knowledge Of the rotba,-v
ana the identity OF the suspects has
been warned that IL chey attennnt ~
take the money they win be nro.a-
cuted. Anyone who handles the CASH
now becomes an accessory after the
fact and as such Is liable to punish
fnent nearly as severe as thar which
may be meted out to the persons
found guilty Of the actual theft.
Ine officers are confident the sus-
poets viii sooner or later reveal the
hiding place Of this treasure. Both
Of them are known 10 have gone 10
their respective homes immediately
after the holdup. II is not thought
however that they hid any Of il around
the houses Wolfe, il is understood
from Richmond. Is the man who car
ried the cash after taking II from
the automobile. and he is understood
10 have selected the hiding place Of
the $1,000 here. In fact Mckinney told
the Richmond police that he did not
even Know where Wolfe concealed the
money. When arrested he had less
than 800 in his possession, while
Wolfe had more than $4,000.
Just how much cash was spent by
them before being arrested has not
been determined. Each had two or
more suits of clothes and new over
coats and several shirts, ties, under
wear and other wearing apparel. They
had new suit cases, which had Just
been bought, and all. this, with their
earfare and the s400 spent for the
automobile may bring the total up TO
nearly $1,000. They are said by the
hotel employees in Washington to have
spent money freely while there.
The reward OF $500 cash and 5 per
cent of all the money recovered was
offered by the casualty company Sc
curing the paper company and not
by the police or the Jessup & Moore
Co. Just who will get this reward
has not been determined; IN fact. the
matter has not yet been considered
by the authorities.
Revelation of the identity Of the
two bandits created much surprise in
this city yesterday. Both young men
are known TO many people here, es-
peeially in the section of the city
where they live.
The requisition papers for the re-