Show clever scheme of trunk thieves exposed chicago aug 25 the inter ocean today bays the mysterious disappearance of hundreds of trunks and other baggage from railroad trains and stations in chicago st louis and denver during ho past two years has just been revealed through the arrests here of roy aldrich alias roy eakey ot california and a woman giving the name of daisy dean and her home as denver they were arrested on a charge of stealing furniture from a store in the masonic temple when their rooms were searched the police found a large number ot trunks and suit cases and a profusion of the most expensive clothing and toilet articles fop men and miss dean confessed to the police yesterday the participation in a schema which has caused n large number of railroads to lose a vast amount of valuable baggage the scheme was simple they would take a trunk satchel or suit case containing only a bhart or some other article of clothing and check it to some nearby point after the trunk i was placed in the baggage car either the man or woman would go to tiro baggage agents and with halt a dollar show the check and ask to be allowed to open the trunk in order to get out a clean shirt or some other article in not a single case lid the baggage master refuse the request while ostensibly getting something out of one trunk to wear the man or woman would exchange the check on the empty trunk or valise for the best appearing trunk or callae in the car nhep the trunk reached the destination to which the dummy baggage had been shipped aldrich immediately put on the duplicate check which would be transferred to another trunk get it and uhe it to his room when the owner of the tank called for it he would be offered the dummy trunk of the shar pers detectives 0 the roads are now trying to trace the stolen property tho dean woman admits that much of it has been stored in various places but she refused to reveal where |