The New York herald., 1922-07-07
FOURTH MAN SEIZED
IN BIG MAIL HOLDUP
$2,500,000 Raid Planned in
Cabaret Run by Former La
borer in Post Office.

Jeremiah Seville. laborer at the
General Post Office. Seventh avenue
and Thirty-third street. until about four
months before the Leonard street mail
robbery on October 81, was held in
s25.0o0 bail yesterday by United States
Commissioner Hitchcock as an accom-
plice of Gerald Chapman, George An
derson and Charles Lambert in the
theft of the $500, 900 worth of securities
Seville, according to the postal authori-
ties, supplied the information regarding
the movement Of the registered mail
laden trucks which made the robbery
possible. but he did not actually take
part in the holdup.
/ Arrested early Tuesday morning Se-
Vile. who is 80 years old and stocky of
build, had been under the continued
questioning Of Post Office inspectors
since the holdup. Whether he made a
statement in regard to the robbery could
not be ascertained. Inspector Frank A.
Butler. who arraigned him, and David
v. Cahill. Assistant United States Attor-
ney, declining to talk. But Mr.. Cahill
was emphatic in the statement before
Commissioner Hitchcock that Seville
played no part in the actual holdup and
that he had no previous police record, as
have the three others. who are beng held
in $125.000 bail each.
Part of Plunder Burned.
Chief Inspector Cochrane made the
positive statement that he expected to
recover all of the $2,500.00O loot with the
exception Of some $4,000, 900 in non-nego-
table securities which the robbers are
understood to have admitted they
burned. Mr.. Cochrane did not intimate
where the securities are at present, but
1t was limited that he expected to dig
them up in the vicinity of the abandoned
barn five miles distant from Lake Ron
konkoma, L. l., where shovels on Tues
day uncovered securities valued at about
100000.
where also are Chapman, Anderson and
Lambert. Seville, Inspector Butler
said. was In the employ of the pos.
office for seven years. The friendships
he developed during this period. 1t was
stated, enabled him to obtain infor-
nation regarding the movement of reg
istered mails. Neither Inspector Butler
nor Mr.. Cahill would say whether they
expected to make further arrests.
Whether the names Of the persons from
whom Seville obtained his informant ton
have been learned was a matter they
did not want to discuss.
While working in the post office
Seville opened a cabaret at Rockaway
Beach. He and a brother. with whom
he lived at Sic West Forty-fourth
street, are understood to have shared
equally In the profits. While it has
not been established definitely, It is
thought that 1t was in this cabaret that
Seville met Chapman, Anderson and
Lambert, and it Is considered very pos
sible it was there that the mail rob-
berry was planned.
May BE on q New Trail.
Gordon Z. Mccarthy. the private de-
tective employed by the American Rail-
way Express Company, to whose work
the arrest Of the suspected mail rob-
bers Is directly responsible, checked out
from the Martinique Hotel, where he
had been stopping since Sunday. His
whereabouts could not be learned, but
1t was stated that he had not gone back
to his home in Buffalo. The impression
was given that Mccarthy had started
off on another line OF Investigation that
might lead to more arrests.
In connection with this phase of the
case 1t was explained that last March
an attempt was made in Detroit to
swing a real estate deal with the aid
of the stolen securities. Full "details
of this transaction could not be cb-
tained, but 1t was stated that the per-
sons involved became suspicious at the
last minute and that the robbers them
selves "smelled n rat and withdrew,
the negotiations falling through