Show ROBBER SQUEALS ON II PALS WHO W THREW i HIM III D DOWN federal Inspectors Take Up Trail of Thieves Who Stole Mail Pouches By United Press Iress SAN DIEGO Cal April 8 Nation wide search was started by the government tonight for formen formen formen men involved in stealing a sum I estimated at from to i fro from the the registered mails malls at Liberty street ferry New York January January Janu Janu- ary 18 following the surrender of James Fames Moran who told federal agents agents' here lere that he participated In the tho rob rob- berg jery Moran Is In prison at Los Angeles He e probably will return to New York next week Angered at his alleged I accomplices who failed tailed to keep faith with him he be walked Into United Stat States States- s Marshal Carse's offices here and gave himself up According to the confession which Moran is declared to have made in writing to Carse United States Mates Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner Burch and Ray Avery stenographer stenographer ste ste- for tor the immigration service the robbery was plotted in Sharkey's saloon New York Moran charged that a a mail clerk and the mail wagon driver were accomplices In his statement Moran said that with one of the alleged conspirators he went in a taxicab to Liberty street ferry following the mail mall wagon When they arrived there Morans Moran's companion received the mail mall wagon key from the driver opened the grated door and transferred seven registered mail mall pouches to the taxicab At 2 2 o'clock the next morning In a suburb Moran testified the pouches were slit open with a knife knite Moran said Bald he was handed ten 20 bills and instructed to flee to San Francisco where one of the others agreed to meet him shortly afterward for a division division division divi divi- sion of the spoils Moran went to San Francisco and remained there several weeks His companions failed to appear He wrote and wired but no replies were forthcoming Finally with all his money gone Moran said he became mad as hell Penniless he tramped miles on foot from San Francisco to San Diego Finally he determined to get revenge by exposing the plot Actuated by this motive he went to the United States marshals marshal's offices and surrendered lie He agreed to be held in Jail as a witness When Morans Moran's confession had been received received received re re- re- re Postoffice Inspector Morse immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately detailed a number of detectives detectives detec detec- tives on the coast angles of the case according to Information here The money stolen was part of a large sum being shipped by Southern banks to New York financial institutions institutions institutions over the Baltimore Ohio rail rail- road No clew was found until Moran Moran Mo ran confessed LOS ANGELES April 8 Arthur S.-Arthur Arthur Magg agg alias James Tames Moran arr arrested ted by federal officers on a charge of com com- complicity in the theft of more than from registered mail in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York last January declared today he never would have confessed unless the police had promised not to take his photograph for the rogues rogue's gallery I dont don't care re who knows know my past he said Ive paid the penalty and Ill I'll be damned if I talk to anybody since those government e cops mugged me when lt they promised not o t to to |