Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — BANK THIEF SOON CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

BANK THIEF SOON CAUGHT.

George Phea Carries His SIO,OOO of Plunder Only Fix Hours. George Shea, alias Philip Lambele, a resident of Chicago, is likely to serve many years' imprisonment in payment for one half day’s use of SIO,OOO. Shea went into the Metropolitan National Bank, Boston, at noon and got away undetected with SIO,OOO. He made for New York, where he was promptly arrested, a good description of the thief having been sent all over the Eastern States within an hour after the robbery. He offered the officer making the arrest the whole SIO,OOO to set him free. All of the money was recovered. The story of the robbery, as told by the bank officials, is that a man came info the bank and made some inquiries as to where he could obtain a money order. He carried on his conversation with Clarence S. Delfendahl, the receiving teller, who was acting as paying teller. The teller, after answering the man’s went on with his work and ther attention to the stranger, going to a telephone. While the official’s back was turned toward him, Shea seized a roll of bills and A stenographer saw him take the money and gave the alarm as he was going out, but it was too late to stop the thief.