New Britain herald., 1922-07-05
FAKES SUICIDE ID
 FOIL HIS PURSUERS
S4OO,000 More Loot Is Discovered
 as Suspect Leaps

New York, July 5.-Four hundred thousand dollars worth of the $2,500,- 900 In securities stolen from a mail truck October o4 were found yester- day in the apartment of George An derson at 12 Gramescy Park, accord p ing to the post office inspectors. This was in addition to the Sl00000 in bonds found there on Monday night after the arrest of Anderson, Gerald Chapman and Charles Lambert Chapman, known to the inspectors as the Count" and the Professor" all but escaped custody yesterday The post office men, having looked over the retrieved securities. decided to subject the three prisoners 10 few more questions and thus round out information that, it is predicted, will result in the capture Of others alleged to be implicated in the holdup and in the recovery of more of the missing securities,
 While the prisoners were being piled with questions Chapman took wild chance. The inquisition was un- der way on the third floor of the post office building west of the Pennsy vania station. There was a window open. Chapman had so unanswered as to have nobody between him and the window. He made short dash and leap. The inspectors thought he had clean dive and would land on the street. Instead he stopped on the broad coping outside the window.
 stY irxI,% nnI lic shouted Chapman to the amazed in- spectors, "as let you fellows get me"
 The Leap That Wasn't.
 He seemed to plunge off the cop ing. The agents tried to locate him or his body from the window. They saw nothing of the man. Chapman had scooted along the ledge to the corner arising from Eighth avenue and Thirty fourth street. By hanging on with his fingers in the open spaces between the granite blocks he sidled vacant office was open. Chapman jumped into the building.
 More than dozen persons had joined the chase inside the building. It was certain that Chapman had not leaped. They searched office after office, and presently came upon the man hiding behind a row of large paper boxes beneath a shelf.
 The arrest of three men, at least one of whom the inspectors believe actually participated in the holdup of the mail truck. came after several months of work by the staff under Inspectors Doran, Murphy and Wick, cssisted by Gordon Mccarthy, spe- cial agent of the American Express company.
 The police believe the prisoners are also implicated in the robbery at Mi agara Falls, of s60.000 from an Am ercan Express company wagon, in asmuch as S3,000 of the loot recover ed at the Gramercy Park apartment was identified as part of the Niagara Falls loot.
 The men under Inspector Doran found the American Express company investigators on the same trail that they were on and the arrests were made Monday night at Broadway and 102d street.
 Find Forgery Apparatus.
 In Chapman's apartment yester- day, in addition to recovering the extra s40o,000 securities the po- | lice found automatic pistols of and German make, several Maxim silencers, ammunition and the materials for altering and erasing fig ures on bonds and securities and for washing off cancellation stamps. Many of the bonds which the authorities have recovered in other arrests have been found to have been cleverly al cred and the serial numbers erased ,r changed and the cancellation on many of the bonds taken off very neatly. Several of these altered bonds rom the Leonard street robbery and ,ther jobs have been passed through he treasury department.
 About six weeks ago the arrest of our men from the post office depart nent resulted in the recovery of s65, 100 worth of stolen bonds which the nen were alleged to have been frying o sell The post office agents be- ieve that with the arrest of those nen and the capture of the three nen now under examination the whole case will be cleared up.
 The job at Niagara Falls when / he robbers got s60, ,000 from the Am ] rcan Express wagon, took place in ,road daylight The police believe hat a large portion of the s60,0o0 las been lost, as the checks were ne- .otiable. The majority of the bonds I were recovered among the s3,oo0 ( worth found in Anderson's apartment 1 esterday. l