Evening star., 1921-10-08
UNARMED mailman
ROBBED OF $10l,0l0
26 Mail Sacks Transferred to
Autos - Police Hopeful.
Foreigners Suspected.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press. 49,.
z DETROIT. Mich, dctober s.,Fed.
seral agents. state troopers and De-
troit police Joined forces today in the
search for four lfns sn, swko held t4t3 a
Canadian mail wagon late last l1iaht
as it neared the main post Office with
a load of pouches from Windsor, On
tario. =.
Meanwhile Windsor and Detroit
postal officials were checking their
records to determine the value Of mail
contained in the twenty-six bags
taken by the bandits Two Of the
pouches carried registered packages,
and early estimates placed the value
as high as 100000.
Canadian banks make a practice of
sending to their Detroit correspond
ents each night their receipts of
American money. At times these
shipments amount to as much as
$780, 900.
One OF the bags, according to Wind
sor postal officials. contained seventy
four pieces of registered mail for De-
troit and one for Chicago. Yester-
days receipts at the KeniJworth race
track, it was believed, were in the
other pouch. Occasionally the race
track receipts. which are mailed to a
Detroit bank eacE night, amount to
many thousand dollars.
Underlined Men.
William r. Macauley, the driver,
who has carried Canadian mail across
the river in his one-horse cage wagon
for seven years. without molestation.
told the police his four assailants
were understood men, ranging in age
from thirty to forty years. Two Of
them spoke to him. he said, with a
foreign accent.
With this Information, police TODAY
launched an intensive search of ali
foreign settlements of the city. Be-
lief that the robbers were foreigners wa 9
supported also by the report of a
patrolman last night that about the
time the mail robbery occurred he
saw two automobiles, apparently con-
tanning about ten men, speeding in the
direction of one of these foreign quar-
ters. He was not sure that in the
darkness he had not mistaken mail
pouches in one of the cars for men.
AT about the same time another
patrolman found an abandoned auto
mobile that turned out to be a stolen
car. IL answered Macauley'S deScriD.
ton of one of the machines used hy
the bandits.
Way Blocked by Cars.
The hold-up took place near Jeffer-
son avenue, in Wayne street, an un-
frequented thoroughfare. at night. One
of the bandits cars pulled slowly out
of an alley as the mail wagon ap-
preached, blocking the street, Ma
cauley. unarmed. was taken into the
alley and guarded by one Of the BAN
dts while the others transferred the
pouches to one of their machines, then
both drove at high speed toward JEFF
ferson avenue. =
Macauley Is under bond, and carries
the Canadian mail between Windsor
and Detroit on contract making four
trips each day.
The Detroit post Office is one of the
exchange post offices where Canadian n
mail is reassorted. Most of it goes to
points in the United States, but some
is sent on to the Canadian northwest.
1t has been carried across the river
here much in the same manner for
fifty years without a mishap, Post
master Joseph Casgrain Of Windsor
tsaid. Although the pouches at times
contain fortunes, no guard. 1t was dis
closed, is maintained, and the messen-
ger usually is unarmed. The wagon
cage is locked, as rule, but last
night the bandits found no lock to in
terrupt their work. Macauley explain
ed that he lost the key several days
ago and had not replaced it.