Evening star. [volume], March 25, 1937, Page A-18, Image 18

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GOLD MI PLOT
SUSPECT SOUGHT
Robbery of Homestake Mine
Spurs Hunt for Soldier
of Fortune.
•y the Associated Press.
DENVER, March 25.—Thefts from
the world's largest gold mine—a crime
which ultimately ran up against the
barrier of stringent gold laws—spurred
» Pacific Coast hunt today for a
■oldier of fortune.
Rowland K. Goddard, district chief
of the Secret Service, said the fugitive
was Parks Du Pont, self-styled for
mer member of the French Foreign
Legion and former ship’s officer. God
dard identified him as the "brains”
of a conspiracy to dispose of rich
amalgam stolen from the Homestake
Mine at Lead, S. Dak.
The agent added he had informa
tion indicating Du Pont fled to "the
Coast,” but withheld further details.
Under Indictment.
Du Pont, Goddard, asserted, was
under indictment at Deadwood,
S. Dak , charged with selling about
*5,000 in gold to a Denver assayer
under an assumed name.
The Homcstake Mine has been rob
bed systematically—"high-graded" in
the parlance of mining men—for
many years.
Goddard said disposition of the
itolen gold had become difficult since
passage of the 1933 gold act. Sales
to the Denver Mint resulted in the
arrest Tuesday night of five men—
three at the mine, one in Billings,
Mont., and one in Denver—the cli
max of a three-year investigation by
the Secret Service and officers of sev
eral States.
The service learned that gangsters
once plotted to rob those who stole
The gold, run it into Mexico and re
turn it to the United States for
sale.
The Homestake Mine, nestled In
the scenic Black Hills of Western
South Dakota, was discovered nearly
60 years ago and has been in opera
tion day and night for more than half
a century. Its anual gold output is
more than $7,000,000 and its 2,000
employes use a million pounds of dy
namite a year to blast loose ore.
The company operates its own mill
and it was from the mill that the
"high grading"—the miner's name for
thefts of rich ore—frequently took
place, Goddard said.
He said even company officials were
Unable to estimate how long the steal
ing had been going on beyond that it
covered "several years.”
A story widely told among mining
men is that the thefts were first dis
closed when an employe, going
through the mill at night, noticed a
human hand appear out of the floor
and reach up to a table containing
gold-amalgam. A moment later the
hand disappeared.
The employe notified superiors, who
investigated and discovered a secret
tunnel beneath the mill.
The Secret Service agent said that
for years the ‘'leak" in the Homestake
mine had been known by underworld
characters.
"When our investigation started,”
Goddard said, "a crooked mining pro
moter and a group of Denver gang
sters were attempting to obtain what
they believed to be as much as a mil
lion dollars stolen by Homestake min
ers.”
Homestake officials have denied the
amount was so large, he interposed.
"The plotters believed this stolen
gold was cleverly concealed somewhere
in the West,” Goddard continued.
"They made several plans to hi-jack
it. They sought to raise money among
themselves to finance their operations.
They planned to run the gold into
Old Mexico and bring it back into the
United States to sell it to the mint as
Mexico gold.
"But these men. all of whom are
known to us, were unsuccessful in
consummating their conspiracy.” He
said "most of the original plotters are
now serving sentences for other crimes,
and others are awaiting indictment on
other charges.”
FUNERAL RITES SET
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Funeral services for Mrs. Rose
Finkel, 78, who died yesterday after
a short illness at her home in the
East Clifton Terrace Apartments, will
be held at 10 a m. tomorrow in the
chapel of Bernard Danzansky, 3501
Fourteenth street. Burial will be in
Adas Israel Cemetery.
Mrs. Finkel, for 38 years a Wash
ington resident, was the widow of
Louis Finkel. who was in the tailoring
business here.
W. P. A. SEWING ROOM
WORK PUT ON EXHIBIT
300,000 Garments Have Been
Made for Distribution to
Needy Persons.
Exhibits of the work of the 1,310
women employed in the 31 sewing
rooms operated by the District W. P.
A. were placed on display yesterday
In the Fourteenth and G streets show
windows of Garflnckel’s department
store.
The exhibition will be continued
through next Wednesday.
More than 300,000 garments for
men, women and children, as well as
many pieces of household furnish
ings, have been made by the sewing
room project workers. All of the
articles are distributed to persons in
need of relief or are sent to charitable
institutions.
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