Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-12-02

BANK LARcESY.-DetectiOn Of the Thief and
the Recovery of the Money. In last Fridays pa
per we reproduced from the Toledo (Ohio) Blade
an account of the arrest and examination before
the Mayor of that city, of two men supposed to be
implicated in the recent larcency from the Bank
of the State of New Y ork. These prisoners were
Henry Baker and ohm Miller, but each was
known to have figured under an assumed name,
and nineteen hundred dollars of the stolen money
was found in their possession Circumstance dis
covered by this arrest, and other circumstances
discovered by the detective police in this city,
tended to the suspicion that Chauncy Johnson,
a young of bad character, who resided in
Blocker street, was the perpetrator of the crime,
and that Baker and Miller were accessories af-
ter the fact About 3 o'clock on Saturday after
noon, policeman keefe met Johnson at house
said to be gaming house, in Broadway, and
invited to step out, he wished to converse with
him on matter of importance.
The policeman then boldly him taxed with the
ofenceas though he had proof of his guilt instead
of mere suspicion, and told him. that unless he
received share of the stolen money, he would
disclose the whole affair. The accused was thrown
of his guard by this method of attack, and fear
ing arrest, offerd to bride the policeman to ST.
lence by giving him $40, all the money he had in
his pocket Keefe refused to accept this sum, and
insisted, that he ought to be paid more literally
johnson therefore agreed to give him $4,000 and
took him to the house in Blocker street, where
he counted out the money from CARPET bag which
take it there, as he said it was possible they
might have been watched, andthat it would be dam
gerous for him to be found with the stolen money
in his possession. He proposed that they should
walk out together, and that the money should be
paid to him in some other place. On reaching
Washington parade ground, the $4,000 were ac-
cordingly transferred from the thief to the po-
liceman, and Johnson was about to walk off, ex-
ulting in his easy deliyerance from peril But
heefe suggested that they had better not part so
suddenly, lest some person should be watching
them, and they walked on together through Mer-
Ger street.
When opposite the fifteenth Ward station house,
keefe firmly seized his prisoner and placed him
IN charge of the captain of police in that district.
lie then fastened to Johnson's house in Blocker
street, and obtained the carpet-bag by telling the
prisoners mother that her son had sent him for
it. On searching the bag at the station house,
1t was found to contain $4,000 of the stolen
bills. Adding to this amount the 5000 given by
johnson to Keefe, the whole sum thus recovered
IS upwards ofS32,000. The disposition of the
So000 missing, is accounted for partly by the
1880 taken from Baker and Miller at Toledo, land
partly by the fact that these two individuals were
recently bailed out of the Tombs in this city,
where they had been committed on charge o. fe-
lony. The amount of bail given was $4,000, and
1t is supposed that the prisoners were enabled to
procure the necessary securities by loan from
johnson. The whole affair is exceedingly inter-
estlng. and shows that when the police exert
themselves with the requisite perseverance and
shrewdness, the most adriot thieves cannot es-
capede ection. Policeman Keefe will doubtless
be largely rewarded, as the Bank offered five thou.
sand dollars for the recovery of the stolen money
~ Y. Commercial.