Show EXPRESS GOS STEALS adams express company of pittsburg have lost that amount and dark E J cunliffe Is missing pittsburg oct 10 the startling discovery was anade late today that the adams express company has been victimized to the went of supposedly through the speculations peculations ot an employed emp loye the following official statement ot the affair is given the associated press for publication at p m october 9 a bank of pittsburg delivered to the adams express company at their office at wood street PiUs burg a package of currency containing of this amount was in bills in 50 bills and the remainder ma inder in 5 10 and 20 bills the package containing this large sum ot money iras to a bank in cincinnati this package baj received and receipted for by edward george cun lutfe who was ahn acting in the place of the regular bierk who as cunliffe left tie office at the usual time last evening and morning when he tailed to report tor duty a hurried was made of his department and it was learned that about 1000 of funds In trusted to his care was missing general agent hiner of the adama express company immediately called in detectives and placed the matter in their hands later developments i brought to light the fact that in addition to the 1000 miss ing the banks package containing the had not been received at tho money forwarding office at tha union station this city inquiries at his residence lucerne street west end pittsburg showed that cunliffe arrived home at the customary time last evening and after changing bis clothes bade his family goodbye good bye saying to his wife that be was going out lor the evening and nothing further has been heard from him has been employed by the adams express company since march 1 1904 previous to that time he was employed in bervice of the american express company the electric express company and the united states express company of hartford conn and bore a good reputation lie WAS methodical accurate and an excellent clerk A warrant has been issued charging with larceny mrs cunliffe wife of the missing man was visited late today by detectives she readily answered all questions concerning her husband she said that he came home last night at the usual hour after eating supper he prepared his toilet and upon leaving the house he bade her goodbye be was in the she then asked the detectives if anything had happened to him and apen told that her husband was not working at tha adams express company office today and that a large sum of money was missing she went into hysterics and tonight Is in a serious condition the detectives learned nothing of importance at the home they beleve cun laffe left tho city immediately after bis wife goodbye good bye |