Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-22
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| Ioerber saw Rose the next Monday
July 8, anG told him his suspicious o!
Mccarthy. Rose Immediately inform
ed the postal authorities and Inspector
Doran says it was decided to make the
arrests al once, as it was feared that
! Locrber would make known his suspi-
cions TO Anderson and Chapman
about whom Rose had learned through
cautious inquiries OF Loerbcr.
| In less than an hour after Rose gave
/ tho word the three men, two of whom
are on trial and face sentences of six
ty-two years each, we're arrested. This
was due TO work by detectives of In
spcctor Coughl!n's staff, who kept the
authorities constantly informed of
Chapman's and 'Anderson's mo"e-
ments.
Loerbcr said on tho stand Yesterday
that he informed on his pals because
he had learned they had double cross
ed him and secretly disposed of some
of the bonds in Detroit and other
cities.
The inspectors said last night they
first got track of Chapman and An
derson in April after $4,000 worth Of
the bends, with changed numbers, had
been passed off in Detroit by the rob-
bers for $4,000. At that time Louis
WCn was arrested while trying to dis
pose of S5S,O0O worth OF the bonds
Meanwhile, said Doran. Chapman
was living at the Vanderbilt hotel un-
der the name Of c. w. E!dridge.
While there he opened an account
with A. J. Seligrnan & Co, at their Of
tlce in the Waldorf Astoria, where he
put up $751; of the bonds as security.
Chapman had accounts with that
firm from March 30 until late in April,
when he closed them, withdrew his
bonds and eft the hotel. 1t was after
this that Rose, through Loerber, again
got in touch with the men.
Loerber denied at the trial yesterday
that he had made any dicker for turn
ing states evidence. He said he was
just taking chances"
He told in detail of the plans to hold
up the mail truck and of the continu-
GUS visits of the three men, always
driven by Loerher, to the vicinity Of
the old postofflce The three always
Travelled together, he said, and on the
way down town would discuss the
possibilities Of a successful hold-up.
Divided the Loot.
The night of the great robbery, Loer-
ber said, they followed the truck at 80
miles an hour, until it reached Leon
ard street, when he swept his car past
it, and Chapman climbed aboard.
Anderson, he said, then forced the
man sorted the mail pouches and ran
sacked the registered mail.
Following the robbery-which Loer-
ber said he was forced into by fear of
his iife-the men drove, according to
Loe!ber's story, to Lake Ronkonwko-
ma, /. J., where the car was parked in
the barn OF n relative, the mail pouch
es rincd and sacks destroyed. He said
he Got $4,000 cash and 100000 in
bonds as his share, which he buried in
Il tin box under the floor of the barn
This was the loot later dug up by
postal inspectors. Loerber said his
confedcrates told him they had lost
$4,000 in bonds which he found later
they had disposed of.
Loerber denied on cross -eXamina-
tion he was trying to cover up two
men, "Schmittie and Slim" who might
have been perpetrators of the robbery,
and that Anderson and Chapman were
merely the men he had gone to to sell
the bonds.
Frank Maverick. driver Of the truck,
identified Anderson and Chapman yes
terGay as the men who robbed him.
Maverick said he was unarmed and
that Chapman pushed a revolver
against his side when he jumped on
the truck. After the hold-up, Harer-
icli said one of the bandits pulled a
mail bag over his head ard tied the
cord tight. after which they drove off.