Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-06-14
a MEN AND WOMAN
HELD IN MAIL Theft
Wounded Suspect Gives Two Yer
sions of Shooting, But Police
Are Skeptical of Stories.
CARRIES $500 IN NEW BILLS
Effort to Be Made to Trace Others
by New Clues.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. June IA man shot
five times and in possession of 1880
in new bills, was under police
watch in the County Hospital today
as a suspect in connection with the
investigation the mail robbery
Thursday night. when a Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul train was held
up thirty-two miles north of Chicago.
The man gave his name as ]. H.
Wayne and said he had been shot by
a woman near Hammond, Ind. He
said her name was Miss Margaret
Ray.
Police Doubt story.
The finding of the bills and Of
blood stained automobile cushion
seats in the neighborhood where
Wayne was found. added TO the po-
lice skepucism OF his story.
Four other arrests, including a
woman, were made at a West Side
house in front of which Wayne had
been found. He was taken to the
hospital and detectives sent to the
address, where one man was seized
afterward when they appeared at
the house.
One of the bandits was wounded,
supposedly by one of his own COM
panions. and was carried away by
the bandits as they fed in four auto
miles with the loot. which has been
estimated at from 100000 to $1,000
600.
The other prisoners are Walter Nc
Comb, his wife, Paul Wade and Jane
Mahoney. The police had to batter
down the door to enter the house.
Wayne, the police say, gave two
versions of the shooting, one that he
was shot by Margaret Ray" near
Hammond, and the other that he was
wounded by a bootlegger.
Two detectives were stationed at
his bedside.
McComb and his wife offered re-
sistance, the police say, but were
quickly overpowered and handcuffed
Wade, who said he recently came
here from Tulsa, Okla, was found
hiding in a bedroom.
Mahoney was apprehended fifteen
minutes after the raid when he en-
tered the house without seeing the
detectives, who had concealed them
selves. He tried to scape.
Wayne had a new $1,000 bill and a
new $500 bill. He would not revea
where he had obtained them. An at.
tempt will be made to trace the bills
The wounded man was so weak
from loss of blood when found tina,
he collapsed In rant
A theory that the four automobile
loads Of bandits escaped in a launch
divided their loot miles out in Lake
Michigan and singly debarked along the
shore also is under investigation today
The postal inspectors reports o.
| the known loss in the robbery in
creased the amount to $4,000 today
Previous reports had placed the
known sum stolen at 100000 in cur
rency and bonds. The First Nationa
Bank. however, today reported tina
| it had shipped $4,000 in bonds a ~
| the Federal Reserve Bank reported
it also had shipment of bonds to-
| taling $4,000
Evidence gathered by Lake County
officials has disclosed that a cabiI
launch mysteriously appeared of
Highland Park. suburb half way
between Chicago and the scene of the
robbery, early Thursday night anc
landed about twenty men, some OF
| whom answered the description o.
| the bandits A short time later two
of the four automobiles used in tn,
robbery were stolen. At dawn yes
| terday the launch had disappeared.
| An unopened mail sack containing
! registered mail from Washington t
| Seattle, Wash, was found yesterda.
| morning by farmer, who told inves
| tigators he had passed four speeding
automobiles near the spot the nigh
| before. The pouch is thought to con
| tain blank money orders and it is be
| lieyed it was thrown away by the
| bandits.
A dozen suspects, including severa
alleged beer runners, arrested yesterday
were released last night after the
brakeman and conductor of the mai
train failed to identify them.