£600,000 ROBBERY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19350, 10 December 1924, Page 7

£600,000 ROBBERY

HIGH OFFICIAL’S CRIMEORGANISER OF THEFT. CHICAGO, November 26. William Fahy, the Chief Post Office Inspector of the Chicago district, and one of tho highest-paid officials in the American .postal service, became so interested in running down bank and post office robbers that he decided himself to organise one of the biggest thefts in history. This charge has been proved before a jury, and Fahy and James Murray, a ward politician, who furnished the gunmen for Fahy’s job, were each sentenced to 10 years in tho penitentiary. The gang, consisting of 12 men, stopped a train near Roundout Station, taking nearly £600,000 in cash and bonds, which had been carefully placed aboard under Fatty's supervision an hour previously. Everything went well with the robbery until one robber lost his temper with another and shot him. This injured man was captured, and when tho doctors told him no had but a day to live, he confessed everything. He then rapidly recovered. The other 11 robbers were also captured and confessed. They were sentenced to short terms of imprisonment. Seventy per cent, of the stolen money has been recovered.

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