| Show IROB mY is STILL A mm NO TRACE OF THE STEAMER ALAIUEDA THIEVES Officers Are Puzzled As to How the 25OOO Made Its Disappearance From Strong Room San Francisco June Nothinc new has developed in the mysterious robbery or 125000 from the strong box of the I steamer Alameda which arrived from Australia last nisht The detectives are exerting every energy to gain some clue of the conspirators but have so far been unable to unearth anything tangible The officers of the steamship comDanv are at a loss to account forthe theft and seem Inclined to believe that tho monev was stolen after the steamer left Sydney and was sent ashore at Auckland though they have no jartUcular reason for this belief The robbery is the most Inexplicable I that the local police have ever encountered encoun-tered hut they have not given up hope of eventually landing the guilty persons or at least of giving the Australian authorities au-thorities such aid that they can apprehend appre-hend the theves If they are on Australian soilThe London Paris American bank to whom was shipped the 150000 from which the missing toOOO were abstracted today refused to receipt for the balance of the money until they are assured that the shortage will be made good by the steamship company It is understood the company will do this A similar robl > ery occurred on the steamer Oceana on the AustralianChina route some time ago and It is hiisi > ected the same thieves robbed tho Alameda Twentylive thousand dollars was stolen from the Oceana in exactly the same manner as from the Alameda that is to sKy the box containing the coin was removed re-moved mysteriously and the seal re pluced |
