The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-08-22
The Robbery of the Bank of Upper
CauaAa

The Toronto Globe says that most pain
ful train of circumstances has come to light
in regard to the robbery of $4,000 commit
ted last week upon the Government Agency
of the Bank Of Upper Canada.
The condition of the office the morning af-
ter the robbery was committed, and the alb
sencc of any appearance of violence upon the
bank safe, led to suspicious that the deed
was done from within, and not from without;
and these suspicious were confirmed by the
discovery that the glass in the window, cut
by the burglars so as to remove the inside
lastenings and enable them to pass into the
room, was cut with a diamond from the in
side and not from without. The agent, Mr..
Cummings, was thereupon subjected to a
close examination, and all his books and pa
pers minutely overhauled. We regret to say
that investigation disclosed the fact that Mr..
Cummings had for some time been secretly
lending the funds of the bank Entrusted to
him for Government purposes) to various in
dividuals, and that at the moment of the
robbery he was largely in default to the
bank. A change was just about being made
in the mode of conducting the Government
Agent, which must have led to the detection
of the whole affair, and the suspicion natu-
up to avert discovery. Criminal informa-
tlons, on this belief, were Immediately laid by
the officers Of the bank against Mr.. Cum
mings, and certain parties to whom he AYERS
he lent the missing money. We have not
ascertained the names of all the parties i'm
plcated, though rumor points to more than
one individual occupying prominent posi-
ton. There is no doubt, however, of the
melancholy fact, that warrants have been is
sued for the arrest of Mr.. J. Il. Kerby. Bar.
rister Of the city, and Mr.. McGaffey, former
ly contractor, and now Director of the
Northern Railway. Mr.. McGaffey was ap-
pretended yesterday afternoon, but at late
hour last night, neither Mr.. Cummings nor
Mr. Kerby had been arrested.
The Globe of the 7th says that an exami-
nation into the charges against Mr. Cum
mings, McGaffey and kerby, commenced on,
the 9th inst, before the Police Magistrate
Mr. Garret.
The Mayor, with AID Brunei and Man.
ming, also sat on the bench and took part in
the proceedings. The case very naturally has
awakened an unusual degree of interest
throughout our community, and large
crowd thronged the court room during the
forenoon. But when the ordinary police
business was finished, the magistrate intimat-
ed that for the better furtherance of the
ends of justice, the preliminary examinations
of the Bank case would be conducted with
closed doors, and they therefore desired the
representatives of the press and general pub
llc to withdraw We understand that Mr..
Cummings was permitted to make length
ened statement after which the accused
were admitted to bail, each giving his own
recognizances for f6OO, with bailsmen for an
other t90O Messrs. G. f. Anderson and w.
}. Anderson became securities for Cummings.
Messrs. Henry Eccles and John Mauson for
Kerby, and Duncan Mcdonnell. ESQ.,. for
McGaffey. Summonses have been issued for
a large number of witnesses to appear TO-DAY
at noon, but whether the examination will
then be conducted publicly or with closed
doors; we believe was not yesterday decided
by the Magistrates. Various rumoas were
in circulation yesterday, duplicating partiee
not yet arrested but so long as they arr
not sufficiently substantiated to warrant the
interference of the authorities, we do not fee
justiged in more particularly alluding t.
them.