The New York herald., 1922-01-26
Six Now Detained in Search
for 81, ,477,0OO in Cancelled
u. s. Securities.
ONE rs PAROLED CONVICT
'GoOg' Norris Accused Of Being
Directing Force Of Rob
berry Band.

With the aid of a Government de-
tectve posing as a broker with a
weakness for questionable securities.
the Post Office Department and the
New York police have arrested two
more men who are accused Of trying
to dispose OF void Government bonds
stolen from q mail car between New
York and Washington on July Is.
1921.
Five men and one woman have
been taken thus far in the roundup
the woman being the former wife of
Abe Attell. pugilist. She was arrest
ed on December 81 and is out on ball
The new prisoners are Henry Nor
ris OF 1851 Bsthgatc avenue, The
Bronx, and Richard Hart, who. the
postal inspectors say, seems to have
no permanent residence but has lived
at several Broadway hotels. Norris
was arrested yesterday, Hart last
Saturday.
Norris is on parole from the Federal
penjtentiary at Atlanta. He was SEN
fenced in January last TO serve fifteen
months for using the mails to defraud
SILK company, but was released at the
end Of seven months. He is known to
his pals as "Goog' Morris. In fact, some
of them thought Goog was his real
name, but the painstaking post office
inspectors eventually found this TO be
an underworld term for a man who
wears large spectacles-goggles. cor
rupted TO GOGGLES and shortened to
goog. Morriss countenance is adorned
with horn spectacles.
1t was reported that Morris was sus-
pected OF being the directing force of a
band which has tried to turn the pro-
ceed5 of the mail robbery, Stf7T00O
worth or Cancelled bonds. into cash.
James Doran. postal inspector, who is
in charge OF the investigation, said he
had no evidence warranting such a
statement. lie admitted that the arrest
of Morris was regarded as rather i'm
portant"
Before the trouble broke that sent him
to Atlanta. Norris had been arrested on
several occasions, but he always was
able to prove that he was far distant
from the scene of whatever he was ac-
cused of and was set free. He is not
now charged with having offered any
of the stolen bonds for sale, but with
having devised plan whereby they
might be sold. One of the actual Gales
men, the Government alleges, is Richard
Hart.
The thoroughness with which the Post
Office Department works on these mail
robbery cases Is indicated by the fact
that II has had for some time a broker
age office In the financial district OF
New York. II is small place. Just
large enough so privacy may he assured
to the cautious visitor who approaches
the broker as a vender of suspicionable
wares. The broker" is "a postal in
spector and his assistant is another. The
existence OF such a branch was admitted
at the main Post Office building. The
office was said to be In lower broadway.
1t is alleged that Richard Hart got
in touch with the broker detective earjy
in December and that the detective drew
him out until he got good idea OF
who Harts acquaintance were. The
first fruit of this operation Is supposed
TO have been the arrest Of Mark Won
Eschen. Won Eschen was arrested on
January 10 and held In $4,000 ball for
examination to-day before the United
States Commissioners. Mr.. Hitchcock. The
arrest of Hart and then OF "Goog" Nor
llS iolloWtV. AbOTilS IL ols mart ABOUT 30.
The Bathgate avenue apartment house
where Morris lives was watched for
several days by John GIbney. postal In
spector. and Detectivev Sergeant James
Riley OF the police bomb squad. They
nabbed Morris when he was about to
enter his apartment, and at the same
moment four other post office men ar
rived.
None OF the bonds stolen OH July IS
was of any value rs Il stood. as all had
been cancelled by being marked Paid"
either with perforater or a rubber
stamp. The bonds which have been Of
fered for sale had been cancelled with
rubber stamp and the word PAID
had been chemically erased but not so
completely az to deceive any one Of ex-
perience. So far as the Government
knows not a cent has been realized by
the thieves on any OF these bonds.