Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1937, Page 18

A—18 #% GOLD MINE PLOT | SUSPECT SOUGHT Robbery of Homestake Mine Spurs Hunt for Soldier of Fortune. B 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 a Pacific Coast hunt today for a| eoldier 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, §. Dak, charged with selling about $5,000 in gold to a Denver assayer under an assumed name The Homestake Mine has been rob- | bed systematically—"high-graded” m\ the parlance of mining men—for many years. Goddard said disposition of the| stolen 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 om the 11 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 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 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. BIG SAVINGS THE EVENING |W. P. A. SEWING ROOM WORK PUT ON EXHIBIT 800,000 Garments Have Been Made for Distribution to Needy Persons. 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