NOTICE
THE MANHATTAN SAVINGS INSTITUTION was, on the morning of Sunday, October 27, robbed of securities to the amount of $2,747,700, and $11,000 in cash, as follows:
THE STOLEN SECURITIES
| United States 5's of 1881, 8 of $50,000 each, 10 of 10,000 each | $500,000 |
| United States 6's of 1881, 20 of $10,000 each | 200,000 |
| United States 10-40 bonds, 60 of 10,000 each | 600,000 |
| United States 4 per cents, 30 of $10,000 each | 300,000 |
| United States 5-20's of July, 1865; 26 of $500 each, 35 of $1,000 each | 48,000 |
| New York State sinking fund gold 6's, registered, No. 32 | 32,000 |
| New York City Central Park fund stock, certificate No. 724 | 22,700 |
| New York County Court House stock, 6 per cent. | 202,000 |
| New York City, accumulated debt, 7 per cent. bonds, two of $100,000 each, and one of $50,000 | 250,000 |
| New York City Improvement stock, 10 certificates of $20,000 each | 200,000 |
| New York City Revenue Bond, registered | 200,000 |
| Yonkers City 7 per cent. coupon bonds, 118 of $1,000 each | 118,000 |
| Brooklyn City Water Loan coupon bonds, 25 of $1,000 each | 25,000 |
| East Chester Town coupon bonds, 50 of $1,000 each | 50,000 |
| Cash | 11,000 |
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| Total amount stolen | $2,758,700 |
| Charles F. Alford, Secretary. | |
| Edward Schell, President. |
If Hope had found ten minutes more time at his disposal he would have entered the third safe, and, as it happened, come upon almost three million more. However, as it stood, this was the greatest robbery ever achieved, and, as things were, each man of the gang should have been rich.
HUNTING DOWN THE GANG
Now we will see how much crime, even in the most successful case, profited the criminals. In the first place, Tracy was in prison before it happened. "Western George," who solved the lock, was murdered. Patrick Shevelin, the watchman, received, instead of the quarter of a million, actually $1,200 in cash. Within a few days Jimmy Hope took half of this back again on the plea that it was needed at Washington to buy off legislators who were to pass a bill through Congress ordering the issue of duplicates in place of the stolen securities. As an actual fact, all Shevelin ever profited from this robbery was $600.
Jimmy Hope and John D. Grady, the fence, quarreled over the disposition of the bonds and stocks, which Hope spirited away and hid in the Middle West. The dissension spread to other members of the gang and the underworld began to hear details of the robbery.
Hope failed in his efforts to prevent the passage of the bill canceling the stolen securities, and then came the final blow—the confession of Shevelin.