The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-01-22
HELD
AS MAIL ROBBER
COnfesses He Planned Coup at
Mt. Vernon, Ill, Which
Melted $212,000.
MONEY IN EVERY POCKET
P. 0. Inspectors Recover All
But $500 Cash and $4,000
Worth of Securities.
MONEY IN EVERY POCKET

speosoI Despatch to THE New YORK HEALD.
MOUNT VERNON. ILL.,. Jan. 21.-Guy
Kyle, former clergyman and promi-
nent business man of this city. has
confessed that ne planned the mail
pouch robbery here a week ago which
netted the robbers $212,00o. Kyle Inn
plicated four others, none Of whom
has been arrested.
Prior to his confession s1s0o00 was
found secreted in and about the home
of the former pastor. After the con-
fession Government agents found an
additional $4,000 secreted throughout
the house, in bureau drawers, in the
-four bin, coal pile, and upward OF
81, 900 in spare tires in the garage.
A tip of IS paid by the retired clergy
man to an expressrnan started the in
vestigation which led to the recovery OF
the major part OF the registered mail
loot and brought about the arrest.
Kyle is 16 years old and has wife
and two children living here. Lawrence
Hayes. a former employee of Kyle, was
named by Kyle as being his right hand
man in the robbery.
About 100000 OF the money. most Of
Il in fifty and one hundred dollar bills
was found in an egg crate in the garage
now conducted by the former pastor OF
the Mount Vernon Free Methodist
Church.
ELMER Allen, teamster. admitted to
me to-day that Kyle hired his wagon
yesterday TO haul two boxes to Kyle's
home from the latter's factory" Sheriff
Irwin said. HE said he told Kyle the
charge would be $50, but that Kyle
threw him a IS bill and said, You did
GOOD piece of work and it's worth IS
to me-"
All but $500 Of the amount of cash
stolen has been recovered, but $27,000
in securities still Is missing. The au-
thorities are Of the belief that Kyle and
his confederates destroyed them.
The quick solution of the mail rob-
berry is regarded as one of the most re-
markable achievements in the annals or
the Post ONCE Department II was last
Friday that the postal inspectors bureau
was upset by the announcement that
$1s5, 900 In currency. most OF it in small
and about $4,000 in securities, had
vanished from the railway station at
Mount Vernon. Inspectors were rushed
to the spot at once and began work.
They learned that most of the money
was destined for the payrolls Of mines
in the city. II had been sent by regis
tered mail from Chicago and st. Louis
banks. There were thrty-one packages.
all in four sacks. These sacks were
turned over to an express man named
Sam Moreland for delivery to a railway
station. Moreland went back into the
post office to telephone. When he came
out the four sacks were missing.
Not until the postal inspectors ap-
prised them OF It did the postmaster and
the express man realize that fortune
had been stolen from beneath their
noses. Neither. so far as the inspectors
could learn. did the robbers guess at the
richness Of the plunder.
Inspectors came TO the conclusion that
tho robbery had bee, committed by per-
sons living In the neighborhood. BY
careful process OF elimination they sifted
the probable operations to the Kyle
Williamson garage. Williamson reported
70 the Government inspectors that his
partner Kyle had so much money during
the last week that he was suspicious
MY partner has money In every
pocket" Williamson told the Government
agents. He has been spending money
all week. I think he makes II. because
he told me there was lots more where
that came from"
II is said Kyle admitted to the Gov
ernment officers tonight that he was
once convicted Of bootlegginE and
gambling Mt Keysport. Ill
Kyle withdrew from the Free Metho-
dist Church two years ago. He said
tho poor pay caused his withdrawal. AT
present he is the leader OF sect known
as the Nazarenes.