New Britain herald., 1923-02-26
Thousands Of Dollars in
Registered Letters
Taken From Train Be-
tween Syracuse and
Albany
1uday's Bold Bandit, Who
Got Away With One
Pouch of Trans-C0 C0ntinen-
tai Parcels, Has Not Been
Captured.

New York. Feb. .G.-The theft OF
thousands OF dollars In registered mail
from New York Central train be-
tween Syracuse and Albany several
days ago was reported by authoriia-
tive sources today. The robbery. II
was said. was similar TO that in the
Grand Central Terminal yesterday.
The robber. II was evident worked
at leisure in the registered mail. rif-
ing the packages and casting the pa
per out the window. Later, track:
walkers found wrappers strewn along
the right of way. many OF which, II
was said. bore European addresses.
The robbed train was east bound. Pos
tai police investigating the theft re-
fused to comment on the similarly Of
this robbery and the one executed
yesterday in Grand Central Terminal.
when the Chicago fast mail train.
composed OF ten steel cars. was loot
ed. This led to the belief that both
were committed by the same ring OF
bandits.
Arrests Are Expected
Federal officials declared they be-
a
band of mail thieves organized in
Chicago and that they expected to
make arrests within short time.
Postal inspectors said they believed
the robber of the fast mail yesterday
had boarded the train at Albany
with ten mail clerks who got on there
He was discovered at work in one
OF the cars as the train was rolling in
to Grand Central. When several clerks
started toward him. he leaped from
the car, slamming the door, and fled
into "a train tube, dropping one of the
pouches he carried. He retained d ]
registered package, but the inspectors
said its contents were not believed to
have been valuable. He was seen hur-
rying up an emergency exit to Park |
Avenue
Third in Two Months
Postal employees and railroad police /
declared that last nights bold robbery
Of mail pouches on a Chicago train |
with through mail from San Fran
cisco by lone bandit was the third |
which too place in the train within
two months. The bandit had not been
arrested early today
Both postal and railroad police +
scoffed at the theory that the robbery
was an inside job" declaring it their
belief that the robber had boarded
the train at some upstate point and
had made his way to one of the mail
cars before reaching the grand central
station.
Got One Package
The bandits haul was said to be
one of registered package, mailed
in Chicago, the nature of its contents
was not yet known. He was forced to
drop another package and a mail
pouch which contained bonds and val
liable foreign mail.
TrackwaIker's Discovery
Edward Coyne, a trackwalker. was l.,
crossing the tracks behind the train
which had just pulled in, when he ;
saw a man carrying a bag of mail
weighing about sixty pounds, walking {
along the tracks going north. AS he
was too well dressed to be one of the [
regular mail workers and because he
was going in the wrong direction, {
Coyne shouted at him. The man look
ed around and then started running
along the tracks. Coyne shouted for
help and started after him.
Railroad guards armed with rifles
and shotguns heard Coynes cries.
dropped from the cars and the plat
form and started north in the Park
avenue tunnel after the bandit.
Too Dark to Shoot
The guards according to the story
they told later, could not get their
guns in action because of the semi .
darkness and because they were y
afraid they would hit the trackwalker. a
coyne said the bandit, evidently re- Z
llizing he was about to be captured, "
mailbag. He clung to the other pack y
ige, however, and after running :,
hort distance farther came to a lad u
Ter that led up into Park avenue. He - $,
.limbed up this. lodging electric wires .
Is though he we're accustomed to the y,
,lace, and made his way to the street =,
Before he could get out of sight sew :. -
raj shots were fired at him. He got =
o the surface near Fifty-second street s.
nd no one, according to the Post
)hce inspectors, saw him emerge. y,
Found Car Door Open w
Post Office Inspector Kinzel who
rrived at the station few minutes
fter the robbery, said he found that We
he second car from the engine had eff
cen opened. How the bandit was ",
bl to do this when the train was so en-
eavily guarded is a mystery. eli
Several mail pouches had been tam M
cred with, and two packages had M
cen taken from one. Another mail
ouch was missing. Inspector Kinzel fo
lid he had not learned what was In sa
ne package that the man escaped be
fth. One report was that it contained ch
,curities worth many thousand dol
RS; another report was that 1t con- lat
ined little of value. IL
One Chance in Hundred ch
The train, which had ten cars and Th
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