Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-20
Central
new YORK
P.O. PLOT
ALLEGED
S even Ex-Employes
Arrested as Climax
Hold-Up Was Due.
of 81, Al, ,0O0Lib-
erty Bonds July l8 Is
Cleared by Inspector.

New York, May ia gi-
gantic postoffice holdup, sur
passing in spectacularity and
daring any of the recent regis
tered mail thefts of the Million
dollar-and-up class, would have
been perpetrated at the city
hall postoffice Saturday but for
the keen work of a postoffice
inspector who grew a bad
mans beard, consorted with the
plotters and uncovered their
scheme.
This was the statement Of
Postoffice Inspector Doran, in
making public the details Of the
arrest of seven men-six of
them present or past postoffice
employees. He asserted that
their capture would clear up
the registered mail theft of
July 18, when $1,477,O00 in
Liberty bonds bound for WASH
ington were stolen, from the
mail, would aid in solving a
heretofore undisclosed theft Of
$4,000 in securities addressed
to Watertown, N. Y, and might
go far toward clearing up the
81, 100000 mail truck holdup in
Broadway last October.
The arrests resulted from a con.
fession made. according to postof-
flee inspectors. by Mark Won Eschen,
who was arrested in the Bronx with
session, January 10, and sentenced to
the federal penitentiary in Atlanta for
five years. March 2S.
The theft became known last July.
after the arrest of Mrs. Abe Attell
divorced wife of the former pugihst
charged with attempting to dispose Of
part of the bonds. which disappeared
while enroute from the federal reserve
bank to the treasury department In
Washington.
The prisoners named are Gustav
Feldman. Morris Steinberg, Edward
Fogel. Abraham Goldsmith, Harry
Shapiro. Gustave Gales and Irving
Weinstein.
Planned Daylight HeIdup
Plans had been laid-and were to have
been carried out in broad daylight
for the holdup and robbing the entire
registered mail section of the City
Hall station. through which millions in
securities flow daily from the Wall
Street financial zone. Inspector Doran
said. Orders had been issued to shoot
any employe who resisted.
The plotters have visited the City
Hall station several times and made
careful survey of the Layout" and
planned their raid in great detail In
deed. Inspector Doran said, they had
gone to the station several weeks ago,
ready to pull the holdup. but had
been deferred by the accidental pre-
sence of several inspectors. which had
led them to fear their plot had been
is inspectors Were on Case
1t was the imminence of the new
date set for the holdup that sent
police and postoffice inspectors on
roundup campaign Thursday night.
The inspector who uncovered the
plot with his bad man beard and his
plausible manner. was one of 16 in-
spectors, it was said. who have been
their way for weeks into the
confidence of the accused men-posing
as boastful fellow mail bandits.
The bearded man. it was said, sue
reeded in getting himself counted in"
Dn the proposed City Hall station hold
up. and talked it over in detail with
he others in his supposed ''den" which
ne had wired with telephone devices.
Face Thsir Boasts Of Deeds
The seven captives taken Thursday
right were confronted with transcripts
If the telephone record early Friday
n tae presence of the bearded inspec-
or and some are alleged to have con.
cSsed
Much data ON their earlier opera.
ions already had been gathered-and
'ecorded by the telephone device-at
,oasting tests set in motion BY the
hrilling stories of mail banditry told +
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