People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — GOT AWAY WITH $10,000. [ARTICLE]

GOT AWAY WITH $10,000.

Brown Paper Substituted for Money in an Express Package. Galveston, Tex., Nov. 80.—Tuesday morning’s 4:30 train from Houston, bringing to Galveston eastern mails and expressage received from the Southern Pacific at New Orleans, brought also Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Express Messenger Harris, who had in charge a package addressed to the Island City savings bank, Galveston, valued at SIO,OOO. This package had been received from the WellsFargo express messenger on the New Orleans-Houston run and had been shipped out by Kountz Bros., of New York city. The valuable parcel was taken to the consignees and received and signed for by the bank’s teller, John T. McCarthy. When Mr. McCarthy opened the bundle it was found to contain nothing but brown paper cut in slips about the size of a bank note and neatly made up into bundles, fastened with rubber bands.