Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-17
MAIL C[ERKSPO|NT
To BANDIT SUSPECT;
MURDERER SOUGHT
. Wounded Man Is Identified
After Spectacular Raid
on Chicago Flat

Gf1lCAGOs June la QUICK SOlu-
ton of all details of the holdur
. Thursday night of Chicago. Milwau.
kee and st. Paul mail train few
miles from Chicago by four auto
loads of bandits who obtained money
and bonds valued at upwards of ST.
100000 was predicted by the police
last night after two mail clerks had
positively identified a man as one
of the train robbers.
]. III. Wayne, desperately wounded,
and believed by the police to have
been shot by a companion bandit who
nnistook him for a mail clerk during
the robbery, is the man identified as
one of the bandits. With three other
men and a woman, Wayne was taken
into custody in u spectacular rad on
"a flat as the result of tip that the
bandits would Re found there.
At first Wayne told the police that
be was shot While near Hammond,
Ind. by a woman named Margaret
RayI Later he said a bootlegegr shot
him. Five bullet wounds wee found
in his body and doctors said he prob
ably would die. The other suspects
are Walter McCornb and his wife,
whose flat was raided, and Paul
Wade. who said he lived in Tulsa,
Okla, and James Mahoney, who were
found in the flat.
Confession Reported
After two detectives left for the
scene of the robbery late today it was
reported that a confession had been
Obtained from one of the suspects
held and that the officers had gone
to try to locate the place where the
|. loot was buried.
1t was also reported that Wayne
had said later that he was shot by
the bandit leader for disobeying or
ders. The police did not reveal which
OF the suspects had admitted partici-
patton in the holdup but said two
others besides Wayne had been iden-
titled by mail clerks as participants.
The Iolic6 were attempting tonight
to trace the records Of the suspects
about which little was known. Me-
Comb, detectives said, had. oeen I'M
der surveillance several times. The
man who gave his name as Mahoney
came to McComb's flat lille the raid
was in progress and Immediately was
taken into custody. Little wa known
of him.
murderer is Sought
Wade said he was an Oklahoma
aviator and explained possession OF
the money found in his pockets by
stating that he had come to Chicago
to see some big league baseball.
McComb's wife was held for question.
ing but the police said they did not
believe she is implicated in the rob-
berry.
An attempt to trace the record of
Wayne was without result but the
police expressed the opinion that all
held may have given fictitions names.
1--WE are making rapid progress in
the case and expect to reach solu-
ton before long, .dathew thinner,
| deputy superintendent Of police, said
/ In announcing Identification of one
| suspect.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Peter M. Hoff
man, after a perusal of his records,
| said q description of one of the ban
ditsA tables almost exactly with that
on Lucky Tommy" OConnor, Chi
| caxoS Murderer, who broke Jail three
| yzArS ago five days before he was
| to have been hanged.
Loss Still Put High
Al new $1,000 bill and a $500 bill
were found in Waynes clothing and
| Il ST 900 bill was found in Wade's
| pocket. Several numbers of The bills
| do not correspond with those OF any
| OF the money thus far reported stolen,
it was announced after a hurried
i check.
Wade was reported to have been
j an aviator and this fact led to revl-
! val of the theory that the bandits es-
capped in an airplane seen near the
scene of the holdup the morning
. after the robbery.
The known loot was increased to-
. day to SAT- 900 in cash and bonds
bu. ii was admitted that more than
/ this amount is missing and unoffi-
ciai sources placed the loss between
81 600. 900 and $3,000,000. Postal in
spectors and government agents
were devoting a great part of their
! time TO investigation of the theory
that the robbery was the result of
information given the bandits by a
postal employee or a federal bank
employe. this theory being due to
the faultless precision with which
the holdup was executed.
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