The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-06-30

dcrs and afterwards went acros
the road to Farrars' store; when
was on the green l saw parties bring
ing horses out of the American Hous,
yard. G. H. Huntington was fred n
as he passed along and was hit; h,
halted and came over upon the green
was kept there under guard some Il
mlnutcs-that guard was soon relieved
aud another on horseback took hi
place; as soon as the other one got {
horse, both rode off to the north.
went to tho bank, locked it and went tC
my house, and heard shots as they
rode off; there were some twenty mer
in all
They took bonds, notes, greenbacks
and New England notes-some of ih,
bonds belonged to G. f. Evelo t.
$4,000 in Treasury notes, $4,000 in
bills. ] made the loss $4,000, incul-
ing interest to first Of April The,
told me | was prisoner, and that
they were confederate soldiers. To he
number of 100, detailed to rob the
banks. | recognized three of the raid
ers at st, Johns; Caleb Mcdowell Wal
lace, Joseph McGrorty, and Alamanda
Pope Bruce, were the names they gave
to themselves; these three were all
recognized; they were in the St. Johns
Jail 1t was half an hour, after | first
saw them, before they left town. I saw
some persons arrested in Farnham.
Canada.
Cross-eramned By b. r. Badeg
Wallace was the first one who came
into the bank the others were McGror-
ty and Bruce; Wallace came in with
another whom l have not seen since;
they were there ten minutes l looked
at them carefully had nothing else to
do; did not have fair chance to see
the fellow who scmiied with Blaisdell
he wore goggles; Bruce was the one
who had us under guard.
l was called into Montreal to iden-
thy the prisoners the other fellow IN
the bauk went to reading the New
York Tribune with his back towards
me ana l could not identity himi they
were mere more tlan hiteen min'rteS'
should say before they lei'.
C4Hs Merton HtS'''p.-l was lei
ef IN the st Adams BANK oct, ~,
lo0l--and at work that day sorting
and counting money Between 3 and
!, saw two young men looking sharp
y through the window VINO soon came
IN to the counter; stepped up TO the
counter; they stopped over as II to get
iheir money ana soon they presented
reviewers to my breast; then sprung
and went lnto the Directors room ana
almost closed the door; they forced
open the door and one grabbed me by
the collar and presented his revolver,
and the otler presented his revolver
one said, if You stir or make any re-
slstance, we will blow your brains ont.
| asked what this all meant and
what the programme was. l was
then told that there were IN town %
of Early's men from the Shennndoah
Valley who were confederate soldiers,
and that their business was to do rs
the Yankee soldiers were doing in the
Shenandoah Valley. They said that
the town was'under their control, and
if they were fired upon, they should
fire the town at any rate they would
burn the Depot The Captain detailed
guard over Mr. Seymour and myself
each having a pistol in each hand;
then they went about rummaging the
safes for the money. Some were in
front at work on the safe, and Capt
Collins, as they called him, ordered me
to open the small safe in the Directors
room; | did so, and they hauled out
sorno Of the silver mud tbp hank hills