Litchfield enquirer., 1857-02-26

Inc language OI my S"e0tt coHlpeeI
 But knowing like the fabled hound,
 Whose luckless fate revives for me,
 should deserve drubbing sound, .-.... For keeping such bad company; .7.-.-. . I 'u let the silly rooster go;
 No game his cackling notes display:
 E, A dirty shanghai seems its crow, And fowls like $ dogs should have their day"
 The Mysterious Robbery in Paris.
 England has long been in the habit, as every body knows, of supplying America with acom- plished thieves and burglars. America has begun, it would seem, to reciprocate this left hauded favor or at least, to send back some of these English rogues greatly perfected by their American experience. Such one was Edward Agar, the chief actor in the famous robbery perpetratcd in May, 1855, of some sixty thous- and dollars in gold bars and coin en route from ;hree of the parties to which robbery have lately been tried and convicted in the London Central Criminal Court. The idea of this robbery seems first to have struck one Pierce, formerly a ticket printer in the employ of the company, and as such, acquainted with the course and nature of it's business, and many of its officers. Aware that to carry it out successfully would require frst-rate professional abilities. he appli- cd to Agar, as was remarked by Judge Martin, just as one would apply to great lawyer or a physician of high professional reputation in a difficult or important case. This Agar, who ap- peared on the stand as the principal witness for the Government, described himself as forty-one years of age and as having had for the last twenty years no regular business, getting his living by speculating and various things" During this interval he had several times visit ed the United States, where he had speculated great deal. As to the nature of these specu- lations, beyond general confession of having lived by crime, he declined to be specific. They had not, however, been unattended with sue cess, as, at the time of his engaging in the rob- bery, he was possessed of g3, 900 in funds and g7OO in Spanish bonds, if not of other proper ty. ill.,,
 Pierce would seem to have secured tie oper- ation of one Burgess, who acted as guard to the car in which the treasure was conveyed but as that treasure was carried in a safe fast ened by two of Chubb's patent locks, Agar did not think the enterprise feasible unless ax im- pressons of the keys of the safe could be obtain ed, from which he might make false keys. An other confederate in this robbery was one Test er a clerk in the freight office of the Company. It happened that one of the keys was lost, in consequence of which the safes were sent to the manufact urcrs to have new keys fitted, and the lock itself altered, so as to render the lost key useless. Tester conducted this business, and the new keys passing through his hand, he met Agar by an appointment arranged by Pierce. and allowed him to take an impression from them.
 To obtain an impression of the key of the other lock, Agar caused box of bullion to be sent to him, under the name of Archer at Folk stone, not far from Dover, where the treasure was transhipped for France, and upon occasion of its being delivered to him, he observed that the key was taken for the purpose of opening the safe from cupboard in the office Some lime after, he and Pierce went together to Folk stone, and watching their opportunity, at a moment when, owing to the hurry and confu- sion incident to the transfer of the baggage from the cars to the boats the clerks were all momentarily absent from the office, Pierce walked in, found the key of the cupboard in the lock, took out the safe key, and brought it to Agar, who took an impression, when Pierce
 immediately replaced it, without discovery. From these impressions, keys were manufac- tured by Agar, who, for the purpose of fitting them to the locks made repeated trips in the baggage car with Burgess, who, by the manage ment of Tester, was, contrary to usage, contin- ued for more than month as guard of the train in which the treasure was conveyed. At length, the keys having been made to fit, Pierce and Agar provided themselves with shot to the extent of about two hundred pounds weight; that being about the weight of gold they thought they could manage The shct was put into small bags, and these bags of shot in number of carpet bags with which they provided them- selves, as also with courier bags made of leath- CT, and fitting with a strap to the person high up, so as to be easily concealed by cloak or a cape. a@ sH
 Resolved to wait for good haul, they de- ftrred operations till notice was given by Tester that a large quantity of gold was going in the train That notice received, On the 15th of May, 1855, Pierce and Agar, with their cour- fer bags on, drove up to the station in time for the train which left at 8 F. M. They handed their carpet-bags to porter, who handed them to Burgess, the guard, who put them in the car. Agar watched his opportunity, and when the station-master's head was turned, jumped into the same car, where Burgess concealed him. Pierce took passage in a first class car. When the train was in motion, Agar opened the safe and being provided with the necessary tools, removed the fastcnings of three boxes, transfer ring the contents to the bags, flied up the box cs with shot, and restored them to thcir origin