The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-20
BEARDED man
FOlS ROBBERY

New York. May 19.--A sieRntic
postoffice holdup, surpsssing in spec
tacularity and daring any Of the re-
cent registered mail theftsF Of the
million dollar and up- class. would
have been perpetrated at thS city hall
postoffice tomorrow but fof the keen
work Of postofice inspector who
grew a bad mans beard consorted
with the pl0tt|ers | and uncovered their
This was the statement today OF
Postofiice Inspector Doran in maxi
ing public the details Of the arrest
Of seven men -six of thems present or
past postOfice employees. He assert
ed that their capture would, clear up
the registered mail theft of July 1s
when 81 a., 900. in Liberty bonds
bound for Washington were stolen
from the mails; would aid in solving
heretofore undiscovered theft of
$4,000 in securities and might go far
toward clearing up of the $4,000, 600
mail truck holdup in lower Broadway
last October.
Plans had been laid-and were to
have been carried out in broad day
light-for the holdup and robbery of
the entire registered mail section Of
the city hall station, through which
millions in securities flow daily from
the Wall street financial zone, In
spector Doran said Orders had been;
issued to shoot any employee who re-
sisted. isgSst &. )
The plotters had visited the city
hall station several times, made a.
careful survey Of the Layout" and
planned their raid in great detail.
Indeed, Inspector Doran said, they
had gone to the station several weeks
ago, ready to "pulP the holdup, but
had been deferred by the accidental
presence Of several inspectors, which
had led them to fear their plot had
been discovered. It, was the immi-
nence Of the new. date set for the
new holdup that sent police and post
Office inspectors on round up cam
paign last night
The name Of the inspector who dis
covered the plot, with his bad mans
beard and his plausible manner, was
withhold. He was one Of le inspec-
tora, Il was said, who have been work
ing their way for weeks into thescofa-
J fldense ~ &kas aaalfsad 1aenzs spaaine,
as boastful fellow mail Bandits.
The bearded man, it was said, SUE
ceeded in getting himself counted
in" on the proposed city hall station
holdup, and talked it over in detail
with the others in his supposed "den"
which he had wired with telephone
devices. The seven captives taken
last night were confronted with
transcripts of the telephone record
early today in the presence Of the
bearded inspector, and some Of them
are alleged to have confessed.
Much data on their earlier opera
tions already had been gathered and
recorded by the telephone device
at boasting fetes set in motion by the
thrilling stories of mail bandirty reel
ed off by the bearded gent" as his
robber friends called him.
So completely were the mail rob.
bers taken in by their new found
pal" that Inspector Doran said today
he could recount almost every step
taken in the July 18 Liberty bond
theft.
The chief actor in this theft, he
said, was Morris Steinberg, 10 year
old clerk in the registry department.
Steinberg, according to the inspector,
had some means, as yet undiscovered,
Of ascertaining when valuable pack
ages were to come to the postoffice
from the federal reserve bank.
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