Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-02-12 | Page 2 | Alleged Robbers Caught in Chicago

ALLEGED ROBBERS CAUGHTGHiGAGO Three Men and Three Women Wo-men in Looting of St. Paul Collector's Vault. CHICAGO. Feb. 11. Three men and three women, allesred to have bluwn open the vault of the United States collector a t 8u Faul on .Ta n ua ry 6 a nd to ha v e escaped with 53000 in money and revenue rev-enue stamps valued :it ?:77,37. were arrested ar-rested here today. Certain papers found on the person of one of the prisoners succested connection with the rohbery of the New AYestniinster branch of tiie Hank of Montreal. The prisoners, who live in Chicago, are Michael J. Flanniun. saloonkeeper. ;ind wi fe ; Rdwa rd 1 eonard . a Ui;ed ex -con -vii-t. and wife: John J. Zaok and wife. The St. Paul robbery oney sod tiie attention at-tention of secret service men, revenue agents and private and municipal detectives de-tectives of a number of cities. The stamps taken were negotiable and every wheel In the government machinerv was set groins for their recovery. Clerks will work all ni(dit count the amount recovered, but it is beheed that tiie two trunks cental net most of the booty. The stamps ranged In denominations from 1 cent to 500. . The alleged solution of the case startc when several of the secret service m r came to the. conclusion t hat t he robbery suggested the Canadian ha nk loot inc. In this connection it was recalled that F!an-niun F!an-niun was arrested on a charge of pa-ti pa-ti ir money thought to have ome- from the bank." He cleared himself of the charjre. but not of t he suspicion? of detectives de-tectives working on the case. Work he-an he-an with the shadowing of Ids house utui saloon. Two trunks, sa Id to ha e been those recovered, were brought to tlH" house hy , Leonard. lie was followed and it af learned that prior to the robbery lie ann ! M i s. lyoonard rented a h.oue in Mm-i Mm-i ncupolis. Tlio boot v. it is aliened, was bvouKht. from St. Fan I in an a utotuobile. which had been traced to this l;oue. Petcctlves and s.-cict service irT watched ail last nii;iit outside l.eoi'.ai.i s home and tha i of Fla uniu-an and tl'on made the arrests. Mrs. Leonard and Mrs. Zack are 5'd to be sisiers. The a Ks ere a i rested. it is said, after several pa-Uaes of ti'"1 stamps were found concealed m the ihvr- ins of their himic F.xpl'ess rect'ipts ui tl.c New Y estudn- ner otTice of an express enmpam v ci regarded as a possiole clew to t! c b.UtK robbery m stt t y.