Show THEFT OF MILLIONS AND I FOUR MURDERS CHARGED EDDIE OOl E FAY AT AI ATNO END NO Of ROPE Fifty Picked Officers Guard Postoffice Thief and His Partner When Arraigned Before Federal Commission TRY TO DENY CONFESSION THEY MADE WHEN JHEN CAUGHT Famous Thief Worth Half Mil Million MilI Million lion for Whom a Reward of Fifty Thousand Was Of Offered Offered Offered Is in the Toils at Last i ii i I LONG CRIMINAL RECORD iI i iA I A few of the larger robberies charged against Eddie Fay Pay and the amounts stolen are I Chicago postoffice 1901 Superior Wis postoffice 1902 Monticello bank Monticello M Wis 1902 1802 Peoria HI Dl postoffice 1903 30 i JOO Peoria Peolia National bank Peoria IlL m 1904 Richmond Va postoffice 1910 Los Angeles Cal Japanese American bank 1905 San Diego Cal Oal postoffice 1906 1806 Pasadena Cal Cat postoffice 1907 I NEV NE 1 T YORK April C Those lOW DOIT iN individuals known to the police pollee and aDd federal fell officers f r a all Ed Id Eddie Iddie die Ille Fay and ana Little Dick Harris charged with the tue ih recent reent robbery of the Richmond Ya Va In more than ivas waa as obtained were Io o 0 piqued after their they could coula not lIot resist congratulating their captor anil tuil admitting their Identity accord according accordIng ing to io the testimony of postmaster In Inspector at nt the arraignment of the otier In New ew York today Now ov on they the are Indignant when re referred to an aa Fay and Harris The two to I alleged burglar burglars virtually confessed ed shortly after lifter their arrest no ao the In testified and upon this thin the government will largely build 18 It case cage caseto to force extradition which the prison prisoner I Ier er are bitterly restating I Inspector J C and und J I U B Rob Robert ert of or were nere the witnesses who h told at if f the confession Roberts testified In an interview at po poll polIe ll It lIe e headquarters that the prisoner who calls ails t himself Frank Chester Cheater but whom t t e police declare to be Little Dick I II urns told him the tho inspectors had done donea a remarkable r piece of ot work In making i it t tf je f capture and asked how the officers i were able to trace them so quickly from Richmond to New Ne York Koins S said RId when he called at the theT Tombs T the prisoner who Insists he is derIck Cunningham but who ho has been lentil ted by b the New York police as ast aste aste t te e daring Eddie Fay said Id like to te tl know how you traced those trunks fr m Richmond to New York ork Clever Cleve Detective Work I told mid him said Koons that we ob ta taped p d an accurate description of ot them f front cm the negro who drove them to the Richmond RIC depot and followed them quick 1 after aft r that Fay Fa or Cunningham then saId to me mo We made a mistake in get Continued on rage Three P rv Gf ll J t t f 3 I ir p 4 4 I i ir C h jt l Ss T 1 t t Man who stole millions committed four murders murd rs and for whom reward of was sas offered of ered I THEFT OF MILLIONS AND FOUR MURDERS Continued From Page One tins ting them out of Richmond so soon Then In getting the trunk away we should have had an automobile During the same Interview the In Inspector Inspector inspector continued I asked Cunningham what was in the bottle we ye e found in the trunk with the extra fine tine set Bet of ot safe sate blowers tools He replied Ive been a little worried about that nitro nitroglycerine nitroglycerine glycerine better get rid of at It be before before before fore it does any damage I poured the nitroglycerine down a waste pipe of a sink In this building The two robbers were captured after atter a desperate battle with detectives In their possession was found a trunk containing In stamps and In cash Fay fought the officers for two hours When he faced the camera for lor the Identification tion bureau twisting his face tace out of sham shau and rolling on the floor Efforts to take his measurements were futile Detectives tn n New York found two more trunks and a satchel belonging to the robbers from tram which they recovered 26 in stamps In one was was what detectives say Is the most elaborate and highly finished set of ot burglar tools they have ever seen Each tool was In a separate case of Russian leather Even the rougher Jimmies were wrapped In tissue paper and the drills were of oC the hardest modern moden mode In high speed tool With them were a set of lock picks some of which were 18 inches long and six sets of skeleton keys Another set not so finished was seized last night More Interesting yet was a manuscript showing that the compiler had In mind minda a wholesale raid on southern and west western western ern era banks Hundreds of banks were listed and with them appeared the names and addresses of ot the treasurers cashiers and Janitors and their habits and hours There was a particularly long Item about I Ia a bank at Nashville Tenn There is still another trunk to be found Guarded by Fifty Men Fifty picked deputy United States mar marshals marshals marshals accompanied the prison van In which the two prisoners were taken for arraignment before the federal commis commissioner commissioner For six years police pollee In all parts of ot the world have searched for tor Eddie Fay An accumulative reward of has hung over his head and was payable for tor his arrest either dead or alive His thefts are said to have been more than and his present fortune a great part of ot which is Invested in Chicago real estate Is estimated at from to He kept a ing of race horses racing them under the name of Frederick Cun Cunningham CunnIngham He posed as s a sporty broker and banker In London Fay and Harris were arrested through a ruse Detectives attired as baggage bagga e emen men had watched the trunks from the time they left Richmond Harris went to the depot to claim the boxes while Fay remained outside When hen Har far Harris Harris farmis ris mis stepped to the desk the detectives pounced upon him A desperate battle followed Fay started to run but was overtaken and beaten Into submission Chicago April 6 When hen tile die news of t the arrest was flashed to General James JamesE JamesB E B Stuart chief postoffice post office Inspector in Chicago the latter official pulled a worn and tattered picture from his pocket It was that of at Eddie Eddlo Fay Since one day In 1904 1001 said the In Inspector Inspector grimly and with some great de degree degree degree gree of relief Ive carted caned car led that picture I was taking Eddie Fay to Janesville Wis Vis to face a charge of robbing a post postoffice postoffice postoffice office there On the train he told me ran he would kill me Eddie escaped from the Jail there Since then Ive carried the picture I knew that If It we met Eddie would try to make good his promis to kill kilt me mo I feel now as If a ton of Iron had been lifted from my m shoulders He Is III the most desperate criminal In Inthe Inthe Inthe the world said the Inspector He would not hesitate to murder m a man A hu human human man life Ufo to him Is the cheapest thing In Inthe Inthe inthe the world A Desperate Man Fay Fey has escaped from rom jail on two oc occasions occasIons occasions after pistol duels with guards After an arrest at Pope Ind lad he escaped by opening fire on his guards and then Jumped from the train His most sensational escape was from the Janesville WIs Jail Guarded closely and locked In a steel cell he sawed tho the bars and through the aid of ot confederates ates working from front the outside escaped He Ill had been boon arrested for the robbery of ot the Superior Wis Vis postoffice Since 1001 he has been wanted dead or alive When he was arrested for the Su Superior Superior Superior WIs Vis robbery robery diagrams of ot 40 were found on his per person person er erson son He lIe figured in a desperate revolver duel with officers on a train between Hawthorne and ishpeming Mich pre pie previous previous to his arrest for tor the latter robbery His companions Flaherty and Charles Dennis were captured but Fay escaped only to be captured later by Detective Sergeant Thomas Sheehan who arrested him single handed at Fa and Halstead streets Flaherty escaped with Fay Fa from the Janesville Jail but Dennis I is still serving his term In the Leaven Leavenworth Leavenworth Leavenworth worth Kan Ran penitentiary The daring of Fay Is It shown In his al alleged alleged alleged participation In tile the robbery of the Peoria bank and the Peoria postoffice inside of ot two successive su years The booty amounted to in alt all Charged up against Fay are four mur murders murders murders ders Inspector Stuart said the burglar burgl r rand and robber had no regard for human life lire |