The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-06-30
No. GS.


said to me that they were confederate
soldiers; said they had loo of them
here; had come for tie purpose Of rob
hing the banks, and would 10 il; said
/ must not make any resistance, #
did, he would blow my brains ont; he
then stepped inside, aud directed mo
to go in to the vault, and bring out
the currency; did not, because, the
others did He first directed me to
give him all the greenbacks, then tho
other money When they came out.
Hutchinson drew ont the drawer and
slowed its contents into their pocket.
Hutchinson wore n carpet bag or hav-
ersack on his shoulders; when they
had finished striving over the money,
ordered me into the vault, and remon-
strating with him, lie took me by the
shoulder and pushed me in, Clark
was put in before all the bills we're
taken out; he made nm effort to get
ont. | recognized Hutchinson at Mon
treal Jail. They took out something
over SIC, 000in mixed money.
lroSs-eTdmjad by .ur. Royce.-I
went to Montreal to recognize the rob
bers. | recognized only Hutchinson. I
saw all that were arrested. There were
thirteen arrested at first. One man
should've apt to remember. whom /
have not seen since / was shut mp in
the vault. Squire Turner Teavis re-
sembled him. l recognized Hutchin-
son. Great efforts were at first made
in Canada to arrest the raiders.
he-eramiocd Ly .H. Dciru-I I'M
derstood that persons went into Cana
da to see if they could identity those
who were arrested.
Erasmus u. Fodiey reside in St.
Adams am n livery stable keeper
was in st. Adams village Oct 49,,
1864. A little after clock, 1 was
on the east side of the street opposite
the fremont House; saw strange men
on horseback opposite American
House. The party seemed to increase
in numbers. 4 man came out of my
stable yard on Mr.. Fields bay mae.
Henry Ross was leading my brown
horse, saddled and bridled, which be-
longed to father and me. heard the
man tell Ross to take the horse down
street and man would be there to
take him l noticed that the man on
the man on the bay mare had pistol
in his hand. Ross. was going to-
mount the brown horse and the man
said ''no-dont get on that horse but
lead him right down or. I'll shoot ye."
At that time, four other of our horses
came out of the yard. Jacob Conklin,
who worked for me, was leading two,
and two strangers were riding the
other two horses. | was then oppo-
site the stable, on the east side of the
street. One of the horses that Conk-
lin was leading had been sick and l
told him that it was not fit to ride, and
he had better take the horse back; l
supposed that Il party of young men
wanted them, Conklin said, keep
still, these fellows are stealing these
horses. Look out, or they'll shoot
you.' A man then rooe up to ME and
told me 20 shut up my head or, he
would blow out my brains. He told
me to so into the shop and get pair
of spurs from Bedards. There had
been then 10 or II shots, and horses
had been moving about / ran against
an armed stranger. and he told me to-
halt, and asked where / was going.
| told him / was going after some
spurs for his men. He said, Ego quick
and get them, or III pnt a bullet
through ye.' | went through the shop
and passed through the back door and
passed out between the Post Office
and the new hotel Morrison came
down from the staging. and asked
what was going on. / told him they
We're acting pretty rough--were steal-'
ing all the horses they could find. and
had gotten several of mine. We
walked along and got to the s. W..
corner Of Brainerd's store. There
were on horseback three men on the
cross walk, one of whom fired at us.
Morrison said they were firing careless
with their pistols. and if he had his RI
flo there he would make him sick.
We passed on North, on the sidewalks
on the east side of the street. In
front of Jacques shoe-shop, there was
n man taking horse away from a
Frenchman. Morrison said to him
what do You want to take that French
mans horse for? Let him alone"
The Frenchman got on to the horse
and rode away We then walked on.