Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-31

Tho OUTRAGEs AT CHESTER FAoToR1Es.-
1t appears by the developments lately made,
that regular organization of a set Of out
laws has existed in the vicinity of Chester
FACTORIES for some time, apparently provoked
by the operations of the Carson League, upon
whom they have sought to be reyenged by the
commlttal OF the grossest outrages. The grlst
mill of Dwight Wilcox, one of the active
members of the League was burned; Henry
Dewey's horse, sheared; and the Methodist
Church was blown up. All these operations,
so unwise and diabolical, were resorted to as
retalatory upon the League, and through
plot OF Guy Fawl< magnitude, the movers OF
various outrages have been arrested, and, dur
ing the past week, have been on examination
IN Springfield, for various offences.
The persons originally arraigned were E.
Hubbard Sd, Otis Hamilton, B. l.. Kingsley,
A. l.. Richards, and Lewis Gibbs, and in adj
dition to these, Rufus Case, John Gardner,
and Albert Mooney, who have since been ar
rested, have also been arraigned, and have
plead not guilty. Each outrageis the subject
of separate complaint, and the first taken up
for examination before the magistrate charges
the parties with entering into conspiracy to
blow up and burn the grist mill. A large
number of witnesses were in attendance.
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the affair has been brought out, and the offend
ers made known, as follows:
"The manner in which evidence has been
obtained to implieate these parties in the high
handed outrages which have been perpetrated
at Chester Factories, is somewhat remarkable.
The church, as we informed our readers at the
time, was believed to have been blown up at
the instigation of the opponents Of the Liquor
Law, in revenge upon the Carson League, the
members Of which Immediately instituted
measures for the detection of the perpetrators.
For this purpose they applied to John Morgan,
chief OF the Albany police, for the services OF
shrewd officer, and Benjamin Chamberlain,
member of the Albany police, was sent to
them. The plans which were laid have been
i'll course of development during the last six
months, and have led to the arrest of the par
ties now under examination. Chamberlain
assumed to be a hquor-agent, and gradually
worked himself into the confidence and good
graces of those who were suspected Of know
ing something about gunpowder plots and
similar conspiracies. In short, he proved
himself hale fellow well met, and while
prosecuting his liquor traffic, and acquiring
by degrees an alleged knowledge OF certain
secrets, said to be in the possession Of those
whose acquaintance he sought, he was con-
silltly actlnS unoef the patronage OF the Gar
son League, and in accordance with plans
suggested by frequent consultation with some
of its members, through whom he was iber-
ally paid. In order the more successfully to
carry on this ruse, he was prosecuted by the
Carson League for selling liquor in violation
of law; and at another time, he pretended to
have serious quarrel with some of its mem
bers. From this brief outline of the proceed
ing, twill readily be seen how he acquired
the alleged information which is now produce
ed as testimony against the accused. ''-Spring-
field Republican.