Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — LOSS UNDER $10,000. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LO SS UNDER $10,000.

l'xpress Officials fay Robbery Proceeds Here Exaggerated. The statements priuted in the various Chieago newspapers regandiug the amount of money secured byJthe- robbers who held up the Northwesternotrain at Tower W Friday night are nbsplutely denied by the officials of the American Express Company. Robert E. N. Cowie, confidential secretary to President Antisdel, said: “It can be stated as official that the amount of money lost by the express company will fall considerably short of SIO,OOO. The amount of the reward has nothing to do with the loss. We offer the reward in order to secure the

apprehension and punishment of the robbers, not with reference to the loss in this particular case, but to stop any future recurrence of the robbery.” The clews thus far secured by the secret service men of the express and .railway companies, the city, and the Pinkerton agency, and all the county sheriffs anil the individuals attracted by the rewards offered, are very vague. William A. Pinkerton said yesterday: “There is no clew that is promising enough to take up as a key to the case. The robbers will be caught. Some of the most notorious robbers we have caught have been taken two or three mouths after the crime.

The Des Moines. lowa, savings hank and a Cedar Rapids bank wore consignors of most of the money in the express safe blown on the Northwestern train. The Des Moines bank officials refused to give the amount of money consigned to their institution, but intimate that the stories about the loss being but SB,OOO is absurd. The bank depends on reimbursement tfofi express company.

RAILWAY TOWER HOUSE W.