People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — CAUGHT IN ENGLAND. [ARTICLE]

CAUGHT IN ENGLAND.

Plunderers of a Minneapolis Bank Are in the Tolls. London, Nov. 15. —Philip Scheig, formerly paying teller of the Bank of Minneapolis, and Frank Floyd were arrested at Southampton Monday night on board the North German Lloyd steamer Saale, from New York, Scheig is charged with robbing the Bank of Minneapolis of $75,000 and Floyd is charged with being an accomplice in the robbery. The Saalle was delayed by bad weather and was not sighted at Southampton until 8:50 o’clock Monday evening. A tender on which were several harbor police met the vessel a few miles from Southampton and the officers placed the two men under arrest Mr. Gillig of the Bank of Minneapolis, who came to England on the Umbria for the purpose of intercepting Scheig and Floyd, accompanied the police down the bay and identified the two men. Scheig - and Floyd both made violent resistance to arrest, and Scheig tried to use a revolver. They were soon overpowered and disarmed, two revolvers being taken from each man. The baggage of the men, which is supposed to contain the bulk of the stolen money, was seized.