The Portland daily press., 1866-06-26

Tne ROBBERY OF the boWuoinua1n BANK
There is scarcely doubt that one OF more
of the robbers of the Bowdoinham bank.
started from this city, although they dld moi
belong here. rae .~
On Saturday, the 10th instant, a stranger
took lodgings at the United States Hotel, en-
terng his name as &c. 81. Fitzgerald of Exc
ter" The next day, Sunday, he called upoI
Mr.. ellison and hired team 10 go to Var
mouth. He was absent with it about foui
hours, and when he returned it, stated to MI
ellison that on Monday he wished to go te
Yarmouth, Freeport and Brunswick, ano
wanted to have span OF horses; further stat
ing that he should be absent two days. In
business way, lie enquired of Mr.. ellison II he
could furnish him with a span, and was in
formed that he should be accommodated.
Monday It rained. and he called at the stable
and told Mr.. G.. that he should not so unless
it cleared up before noon, but that If he did
not go 4 that day, he wanted the same ar
rangement for Wednesday.
On Wednesday, he called for the team, and
said that as be expected letters by the mail OF
that day from the West, he should not start
until after its arrival, and enquired the time
the train would be in, and was informed. A
bout halfpast one o'clock Wednesday, he took
the team, after selecting a carryall that could
be closed, and started. Prior to leaving, he
informed the ostler, that he should not proba-
bly, return until Friday morning.
1t appears that he drove to Brunswick that
night, and put up at the Tontine. The next
morning he drove to Bath, and remained
through the day. He left Bath about 1-2 o.
clock on Thursday night, and was observed
going towards Bowdoinham. A lady, who
saw this team on the road, states that it con-
tanned five persons. Traces of the tracks of
the carryall were discovered in the mud and
were lost. But upon closer scrutiny, it was
discovered that the carriage had been lifted
from the road and taken into the woods. The
place where it was concealed in the woods was
discovered by the marks of the horses hoofs,
the gnawed bark of the trees and the marks
of the wheels. 1t was traced to Brunswick,
Freeport and Yarmouth. At the latter place
the clue was lost. s
The team was returned to Mr.. ellison, soon
after O'Clock Friday morning, by the man
calling his name Fitzgerald, who paid for it in
Canal National bills. 1t is highly probable
that he and his companions took the S.45 A.
M. train Tor Boston l te.FHoa Daa .h
1t is presumed that some of the confede-
rates of this fellow arrived in the train from
Boston Wednesday, and kept on to Bath,
where they were taken into the carryan on
Thursday evening, and proceeded to Bowdoin-
ham. Others are of opinion that couple of
pedlars who had been at the Cashiers house
in Bowdoinham some few days before the rob-
berry, trying to dispose Of pictures, had some
thing to do with this affair. II.
The following list of the stolen bonds &c.
is nearly complete, and is correct both as to
denominations and numbers:
7-3Vs-First Series-Three of $500 each, as
follows: HOOPS; 100924; 100925.
7-3Vs-First Series-Seven of 500 each as
ollows:-211o05: 211S08; 2654S1; 2654o2 !;
2654S3; S57l14; 119253. .,,.,s .-...'
79ps-First Series-One of $50 as follows !;
215SO7. a,a,'4'l -. To-
,,-o,s-Second Series-Two of 500 each as
lOliOWSs-1o9ZOU, lo4zO5. ...Hr t.
7-SJs-Three Of $1,000 each made payable
to William Purington or bearer"
7-31s-- Thirl Seriss--Twelve of 500 each
as follows:-117S49; 117S5O; 117S51; l17S52 !;
1901; lo174O; 1O1741; 14496; 117s50; !;
117S51; 117S52.
5-2Vs-First Series-Four of $1,000 each as
follows :-57422: 57429; 3O129; SO231.
5-2Vs-Second Series-Ten Of $1,000 each as
iollows :-4S713; 32529; S25SO; S2531; 47sO5 ;
437O6; 43707; 437OS; 1900; 437O1O.
5-2Vs-Fourth Series.Five of $1,000 each
numbers 34o1o; 34011; 14os6; 14oS7;
o-zJs (Series not wn)-Twenty-fou
bonds Of $500 each numbered as tollows:-
3518; 3519; 1881; 1892; 11623; 1924 !;
1925: 1923; 1927; 1928; 255S9; 2559O;
35420; S5421; 35422; 3542S; 35424: 35425 !;
35i26; 35427; 3542S; 35429; 30127; 3012s.
5-2Vs-One one hundred dollar bond,
iv-4o's, $4,000 of this issue, numbers not
known, but made payable to William Bibber
or bearer" each OF $1,000. iaga
10-40s-One of $500 and one of 800, nnm-
bers unknown. 81 fa8 sg..a5'.
U. S. Skies Of 1SS1-Seven of $1,000 each
numbered as .ollows-49S11; 49S12; 49S18;
49S17; 49S1S; 49S19; 1890
State OF Maine, 1889 Bonds-Two of $1,000
each numbered as follows :-S36; SS7.
Portland & Kennebec r. r. Bonds-Seyen
of $1,000 ca III and four OF $500 each-$90O0
in all. @e -aI
The bank will lose but $500, which will
not impair its standing. The private individ-
ual losses are as follows:
81. SIMPSONS estate, $4,000; Byron Whit
more. $4,000; FL. A. Grey, $4,000: Josiah Mer-
row, $1,000; ]. F. Temple, $1,000; George
Foster, $400; Thomas Spear, $500; Nathan
Yarnum, $500; J. K. Mi,lay, $3.50; VIM. A.
Wood, $500: Maria Sampson, $500; Robert
Butterield, $1,000; Joseph Mustard, $11 600;
John o. Given, $4,000; William Purington,
$4,000; William Dibber, $4,000; Samuel Whit
more, $1100. All these losses are in bonds.
Several pocket-books, containing notes,
which had been left in the bank tor deposit,
were stolen. f LIZ -r,.....f II, ,ai.t ..F-
APPROPRIATE AND BEAUTIFUL SERVICE.
On Sunday evening last we CHANGED to find
our way into the church on Congress Square
where worship the First Universalist Society
of this city, and we cannot refrain from brief
ly expressing our sense Of the fitness and
beauty Of the Vesper Service at this church.
The form-of the service itself, is close adap-
tation OF the ancient and noble ritual of the
Episcopal church, the variations from that
model being mainly for the purpose of secur-
ing greater brevity, and for the more promi-
nent introduction OF music. There is no
more potent stimulus for the spirit and mood
of devotion, than music affords. The deep,
swelling peal of the organ seems to have been
devised to lift the soul to Heaven, and when
fhe soaring voices of the choir bear aloft the