The weekly sun., 1865-10-07
Ito Great Hnrh Robbery nt Concord.
y. N.-AGa.tlanmI nrtiruiarn.

Tho Boston Jo-zNAL OF Tuesday says tho x
traordiuary robbery Of TIE National Blfs OF Cow
cord, AaGa CONTINUES 10 be tue chief eveat Of local
Interest aud ex.itCmcnt. Tie loliutss .nd COM
plc,sncss OF the TRANSACTION, tie lA..c amount
stolen, and 10 ,sc,ve Of the robber or roJOer,
with their plIndsr. iorm combination of rare
circuIuBlsnces which arc certainly withol, psra-
lei In this community. THO robbery took place. as
near a. can be ascortainod, at About one o'clock
certainly between hAf-pas, twelve and .wo O'Clock,
the period during hich Mr.. Cheney, The cashier,
was ALssnt TO his dinner. That u was accom-
plishsd by some one conversint with Nj CAsuey'I
movements and by one who had previously
had access to tie ban, there s not the least doubt.
| one circumstance which stgengthens the as
pcion that .he robbers had 10 previous arcess to
| iho bank Ia the fact that, lew laws since, 1t
| discovered the lock to ihe outer door hal teen
| tsmrercd with to yuch extent n, to prevent ts
| working until repaired. NO serious attention was
| pad 10 this however and the mater would prob
shv have been forever forgotten but for tie NJ fpr-
| tunste event which has Just taken place. Ou tlis
occasion, while the cashier was ab6cnt t. dinner,
| the outer door Of tho bAuk, which "a up one highI
! Of stairs, was entered by means Of false KEY.
Having thus got into the banking room, the robber
| procesdsd to tho vAulL which Is fastened by q
| couple u large iron dolrs Tho first WAS un-
| locked, and the second wss locked, but
the key remained. By means of the key tho
| robher unlocked the second door, secured aud
| packed up about three hundrod thousand dol ara
| la money and bonds and quietly and rapidly de-
pared. The lock to the inner door of tho sac,
Which bad TO le unlocked was one Of the pua-
] cling comb lauon character, and how the thiGf
| managed 10 unlock d within 80 short Ierioi ia a
matter which Is as mysterious TO the bank oiuers,
az the losk ordinarily would have lie u 10 one W.
| Acauaiu uted VITA IL. Tho bank, now known as the
| concord National" wAa formerly known a. tho
| cold Concord Bans," aud MAS oIgAu,zed under
the National banking laws with q capital Of slOO,-
600 Tie amount 81 loss which Il will SUSAN by
tie robbery viii lot DO large, PROBABLY not moro
than 100000 as most OF tle fluids were property
Of o ! or parties deposited for safe keeping. A
small wooden trunk which was IA the vault, but
which contained nothing, WAS broken open, aud a
I'm frank containing bonds belonging to WIN
Emerson, waa updisturbcd, Nnd also one coutalu-
ing bonds belonging TO a Mr, rulde Whis the
process Of p.md,rluf was going On, little
p.rl about ten yoArs old, belonging IN the
iamuy Of Mr.. Cheney, tho csg.isr, went
up the staira 20 90 into tie bauk. ehe was
net al the door by msn drobsbly tic robborl
who told her shat size coul4 Lot enIer. sc iusist.
e. No spyG upon goiug in, saying g. she n lsh
, ed H. zee Nr. Insnoy, Nheu ha informed her thGt
| lie had gone H. dinner and uuli not be Iva, l. until
two o'clock. A. tins the gal went home anl
found Mr. Cheney there, but made no mention Of
the stranger ahe "a" ia the hank until si.or the
rolttr, had been announced TO her. Sac describes
, him as u dsrk couI IltXlouei iuAu, with Dark
, WAss,ts, AMI H-roNuol liack hs'-rrotably
felt At about thIs time, WrNe the rODoer wsJ
prosecuting his work undisI-rhsd, Lere "trl
severn r,ctoIs OF tho Bank assent lod tor mse..
. inx in Ile Insurance office Of Ar. E.O. SE the
Iu0r be- The nYisr oi The iolbcr wm . Lvd
quite uis.uetl,, aud one Of the Directors te-
marked tus, Nj. Cuenoy had returned irom dl.
ntr or else ho hat net gone, sud tAAt sh.l would
- hold the meeting A. soon as lie came down. l.lC
o " some hiue suspicion ATTACHED by psopc od.sat
z of tho bank oic0rs To tlc prCssucO 90 bs poll
in town during the day. a. about ,le % Tue lrt
Yplt took UlCC nH " tlIU IAIllT %. tie N l
dlesty IL Uie selling so!.e gUolt, si IL is SAID p,
appeared anNinuS TO get away ia uiuc g. take lh,
, | h-li-uast one train Tor . sion. What letraci
somewhat from tue suspicion agalnsi BIN ls tlj
. fact that he has va.t,I LAt town tor .l.c wear
Il past IA tho capacity ot pctar, aud bis tS,cr.u
q uou 10 unlike lnat oi lle man seen IN ,Le - Z y.
the ntlo gir. There 10 te"al. - ..U,uuu ,lsr,,
70 tor tie applo nsi,n Of the .uu AuI .cy.yery
u the Stolen proper,., which va. p.YbSiS s.'4u|au
3, tue detectives 40 M energetic AMI t-Jr.us seas,
iuI the RASCAL uaI his IlJudcr,