Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-10-27
The 81. Adams Raid.
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nized two ~ descrteTS from the 9th,
and one from the hih Vermont regl-
ments. This differs from some other
accounts as to the composition Of the
gang. The object Of the raid must have
been plumber in the main, If not entirely,
and while 1t is therefore credible that
thieves and desperadoes from our own
cities, and possibly from our army, may
have been engaged in 1t, they were most
likely instigated by rebel refugees in
Canada, led by them, and associated
with them in the operation. But light
will soon be officially thrown on this
subject. Meanwhile, we append our
correspondents letter:
AMERICAN House,
st. Adams, Oct. Goth, 1854.
EpIroR HERALD = Having the day
before me, with nothing to do but listen
to he exciting stories that are being re-
laJod by the numerous squads of people
that are everywhere to be seen, of the
great robbery that occurred here yester-
day, write you the following
The facts are these, as nearly as they
have at present been obtained A band
of 90 robbers have been collecting here
for the past two weeks. Some of them
were seen here two weeks ago. Yester-
day, eight came on the 2 P, NJ, train
from the south. At o'clock five of
them proceeded to each OF the three
banks, and in less than fifteen minutes
robbed them Of everything valuable
They took from the st. Adams bank
about 100000 from the FranklinCounty
bank $4,000; from the First National
bank $4,000 in currency and U. s.
bonds. The specie, which was mostly
in one-half dollars, they deemed too
heavy to carry. They then left, leaving
two of the parties in the banks to keep
the bank officers quiet, while the 9th ers,
and the party that were in the streets,
proceeded to the stables and seized
horses to mount the whole gang and
quietly rode away. The whole affair
WIS done in much less time than it has
taken me to write this letter. Every
one here was completely surprised, and
hardly knew what was going on until
the robberies were completed During
the proceedings a few shots were fired
and two citizens seriously wounded in
the bowels. The party were each armed
with two or more navy revolvers, which
they used freely, when necessary to car
ry out their desperate Undertaking
The citizens soon rallied and pursued
them, and it is reported here to-day
that eight of the gang have been cap
tured, and $50 900 or 100000 recovered.
1t is believed here that they are desert
ers from our army. A gentleman told
me to day that he saw and recognized
three them that he personally knew
two q oserters from the 5th and one from
the ! Vermont regiments.
I arrived here at s o'clock A. NJ, in
com ny with Major Austine, Capt.
Nickerson, Lieut.. Adams, and 100 men
from the U. s. hospital at Brattleboro,
vt.
Had 1t been a rebel raid in force as
first supposed, they would have found
raiding in Vermont different thing
from raiding in Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania.
Very truly yOurs.
H. f. SMITH.
OTHER ACCOUNTS. 4
The following from the St. Adams
Messenger indicates how completely the
people of st. Adams were taken by sur
prise on Wednesday afternoon. They
soon rallied however, as our readers al
ready know, and company of from
forty to fifty were speedily mounted and
started iu vigorous pursuit of the rob-
bers. Says the Messenger:
At about half-past three o'clock yester-
day, our peaceabe community was Ia
ken somewhat aback to find in our
streets company of some twenty or
thirty armed horsemen. The meaning
of it, it was impossible to divine. Men
rushed from their stores and offices not,
perhaps, paralyzed with fear, but with
wonderment. Que enquired of another,
"what does this mean ?'' "They are
armed with revolvers !" 1t is a rebel
raid they mean to destroy the vii
lage, were the EXPLANATIONS that greet
ed us on all sides as we entered the !
street. We knew not ourself what it
neai and the neighbors, of whom we |
enc ed, were equally ignorant. We |
'aN en- proceeding from the livery es-
adjustment of VIM. & E. ID. Fuller, with |
horses, embarrassed, led by the hostler
IT the establishment, who said he would
ide them-"No," said the man who Or
. .c..d them, eve viii take care of our
own horses" Jumping on to them with
mpetuous haste, large navy revolvers
showed themselves in the hands of all |
The mounted men. Mr.. E. d. Fuller,
who was then approaching the scene
"what does this mean !"
'stake back those horses s'God d-n
you, If you don't keep still we will shoot
vou," producing their revOlvers. The
next part of the programme was the APP |
pearance of Fuller with "poor six
GN,fI0tar He atnod near tho ahna ahon