New-York tribune., 1922-05-11
Cowboy Bank Guard TAX.
en- Here, Ex-E'nployec
and Wife in Savannah:
Loot Found in Florida
Texan Admits (,uil,.
Detectives Assert
Pocketed Libcrtys, Mailed
Paper TO Help Clerks
in Rush Hour. They Say


registry department of the Chase Na.
''ohal Bank. April Il, and it was an
nounccd that S480.00O worth Of tbc
bonds had been found in safe deposi.
noX IN st. Augustine, Fla
Arthur +. Chase, a former cowho,
and Texas ranger, who was ruard in
the registry department, was arrested
at the bank late yesterday afternoon.
me police Of Savannah. Ga. arrested
IN that city, at the request of Tnspector
Coughlln, John W. Nardeman, former
employee Of the bank, a.w mis- wife,
bertha, who is said to be known on the
! stage as Fern HollN
Inc safe deposit hoH in ST Augustine
IN which the bonds were found was en-
gagged, 1t is said, by Nardeman.
Chase Said to Have Confessed
According to the police. Chsse has
I confessed stealing the bonds, though
he has refused steadily TO ,mplicate
e1thcr Nardeman or the latter's wife
ihcre's Woman's name might be
brought into this the Texan told In
spcctor Coughlin. "and III say nothing
about anything else. ! took chance
and got caught; but am not going
TO squeal.'
According to Inspector Coughin. tho
prisoner said that he was the one who
{ substituted package of blank paper
for the package Of bonds which the
Chase National Bank intended to send
by regis cred mail April II to a bank
: in Mass achusetts.
He was able to do this. Inspector
Coushlin said he told him, because
there vas q rush of business ip the
registry department. and at such times
u was his habit to help out the boys' -
Ordinarily as q guard he would have
nothing to do with preparing packages
for mailing, but the Inspector said
Chase told him that ir somebody didn't
pitch in now and then and help the
late a. night.
Says Friend Took Them
When he had pitched in 20 such good
purpose that S470,000 in $4,000 Liberty
bonds and thirty $1,000 Liberty bonds
crsckIed in his coat pocket Willie big
red seals were being placed on pack
age directed to tho Massachusetts bank
which contained nothing but blank
paper, Chase decided to call it day
He walked out to place on Trinity
Place. where there was a telephone, he
said, and called up "a friend" lie de-
clned to tell who the friend was, but
said he camc down and got the bonds.
The police assert that it was Vardcman.
In the room OF The Savannah hotel
engaged by Vardemsn and his wife as
Mr., and Mrs. John ". Hollis we're
found two passports, it is said, good
for travel in Italy and Switzerland
| from the port of Havana. One, which
bore Nardenan's photograph, was made
. out to "Arthur c. Franklin The
other was made out to Fern Hollis and
is believed to have been intended for
Mrs. Nardemans use.
after the theft of the bonds. He and
Mrs. Nardcman and Chase all lived at
l52 West Forty-nintl Street fur
nishcd room house.
The Pinhcrtons were on the case and
so were Detectives Fay, F'tzpatri OK,
Mayer and Brown, and among them
they kept Il close watch on the fur
nshed room house, whence a former
employee of the hank had vanished so
promptly after the theft
They discovered tha. Chass Was wc-f-
; intr 10 NarGcmqn ~ SHvanaan. and
finally that Narde,nan had |el' &avan-
nah and gone to 81. Augustine. The
Pursuit began 20 interest them, when
they discovered that he had rented
sac dcposit box in s. Augustine
bank.
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deman OF for a Noo,oec" S,'S1 iofe ~, .ts
she "as tr}'Ieo "..li, h,d
station with her huSoah'' e..rnoh
They went 70 ""': '' .;. ,,,,3.,,
where the! reeis'erco, - - pafnro tbev
name nc. '"tI- n, ,ra, vas tn,uno.
lett the hoIcI lhe Ebar haro and his A.
Chase was arreSt"o '1t' .Lo lsttrr,s t wifi.
leced accompi'ce an" 'i'o
IN savannah. H. l..oct;..ee Nardc-
According to lhe ce'sff' 49, s1o 0oo
man had cashed v"o p' snd .n ''Gin ona in
nonos. on, - Az ,ho rest OF the