Show TEN MillON DOllAR STEAL PACTS CONNECTED WITH A MYSTERIOUS FIRE Railroad Tickets Supposed to Have Been Destroyed at Ellis Island Fire Now Turning Up New York Dec 9Facts have come to light that suggest the possibility of the mysterious fire which destroyed the great immigrant buildings on Ellis island a few months ago was started by thieves who had carefully planned a tenmilliondollar robbery Ten of the trunk lines leading to the west including the New York Central the Pennsylvania theErie the Delaware Dela-ware Lackawanna fe3Western and the New York Ont no Western unite in maintaining a railroad office on the island and at l times there are quantities of tickets there General Ticket Agent Robinson of the Ontario Western said last night that on the night of the fire a conservative estimate esti-mate would place the value of the tickets 000 tick-ets in the Ellis island office at 10000 000The tickets with much cash were locked in drawers in wooden cases and desks and the entire parcel was supposed sup-posed to have been totally destroyed The different roads ppsted nptices that if tickets of a certain form and series should be presented they should betaken be-taken up and full fare demanded A few days ago a ticket issued by the Ontario Western reading from Chicago Chi-cago to Kansas City was received from a passenger and afterward found to be one of the tickets supposed to have been burned The part of the ticket calling for passage from New York to Chicago has not yet been presented Now the railroad officials are asking how many other tickets out of the 10 000000 worth are in existence I is deemed impossible thatJthe entire number num-ber was stolen and h ld until conductors conduct-ors should forget the warning I |