The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-08-19
Robbery of the Hatter's Bank.
BRIpGEpoRT. Ananst

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The Hatters' Bank, of Bethel, Connec
;icut, was entered and robbed, between
Saturday night and Monday morning, Of
$1,000 in specie, $1,000 in bills of other
banks, and $7s, 900 in bills of their own
issue. The entrance was effected through
the bottom of the vault. The robbery
was not discovered until night on account
of the inability to open the vault yester-
day. The officers caution the public a.
gainst using the bills of the bank at pres.
ent.
The following account of the robbery
is taken from the Hartford Times of Aug.
10th.
Between Saturday night and Monday
morning last, the Ilatters' Bank at Beth
ell was robbed of Ss6,O0O in specie and
bills of that and other banks. The rob-
bers are adopts at their business, as will
be seen by the manner 10 which they
proceeded to accomplish their task. They
entered the main door of the bank in the
night, by means of skeleton key, pro-
ceeded 10 the director room in the rear,
took up the carpet on one side of the
room, then sawed out trap door under
the large centre table, through which
they entered to the vault below. Here
they worked evidently for week,
(nights.) until they succeeded in under
mining the vault and taking therefrom
SS6,OOO. After they had finished their
nights work, they came up through the
trap door, replaced it, and put down the
carpet again and tackled it down, and
left the bank apparently precisely as they
found it, For fear the table might be
moved and the trap-door get displaced
by being stepped on, they inserted screws
in the boads to keep them from moving
Thus they proceeded each night until
they secured their plunder and decamp.
ed, unsupported even.
On Monday morning the officers Of the
bank went to the vault to unlock it, and
found that the bolt to the inner door
would not move, and supposng that the
lock was out of repair, they worked at it
until noon, when they succeeded in open
ing it, and found plug in the keyhole
on the inside, and the bottom Of the vault
dropped out. This wa, the first intima.
ton they bad that the bank had been
moiested. The robbers had worked in
the rear and underground.
There were two concerned in the rob
berry; one boarded in the Hotel adjoining
the bank. and the other boarded at For.
rester's Hotel, in Danbury. They were
we'll known by persons in the vicinity,
but no one suspected their business. A
week ago Saturday, the one who board
ed at the hotel next to the bank, LETT his
room late in the evening with a box un-
der his arm, and did not return again.
On Friday night last, the Loarder at
Forester's Hotel, in Danbury, hired
horse to 60 to Brook6 field and stay over
night, and never returned He paid for
the horse in advance. The hotel keeper
was looking after his horses on Monday.
when the robbery was discovered. A
gentleman of Bethel, who knew the per.
son who hired the horse, saw him driving
towards New Haven yesterday, and there
were two persons in the wagon.
Deputy Sheriff G. w. Morris, from
Danbury, was in this city to-day, to com
with the police, the press, and
he Banks. tits probable that the rogues
seen in the buggy went to a railroad sta
ion, and are nov out of the State.
The whole capital of the Bank was
800, 600. The rogues took $50, 900 OF
$1,000 in specie, and 81 300 in bills
If other Banks, the balance in bills Of the
Bank.