The Portland daily press., 1866-06-22


stable, or his sheep or cattle from the pasture.
These things have happened SO often that peO-
pie are careful how they intermeddle in the
matter of seeking to bring them to Justice
If person SO intermeddling happens to have
mortgage on his property, it is apt to- be
very soon foreclosed. II he has political as
pirations, thousands of unseen obstacles inter-
pose to prevent the fulflment of his hopes
Ii he is trader, his custom falls of. If he is
a physician, malpractice is imputed to him, or
other malicious stories are circulated to his
discredlt; and at length matters come to such
pass that his only recourse is to leave the
county.
As an Illustration. the report goes on to give
an account of man and his wife, found in
the Jail at Pulaski, the half-shire town of Os-
wego county, who had been confined there
eighteen months, on charge of grand lar
ceny: .r ih d
The man was evidently quiet, inoffensive
person, member of the Methodist church,
and class-leader in it. He was in good re-
pute among his neighbors, and no one of them
gave any credence to the story Of his guilt
The wife is more energetic person, and al
though there is no proof that she was ever &C.
tually connected with the gang, yet it is be-
their secrets, SO far as they might have been
entrusted to her. Some time before her ar
rest one of the gang ran off with her daughter,
and neither he nor his associates would let
her know where her child was concealed
This greatly enraged her, and she began to let
out the secrets OF the organization and to
threaten vengeance against them.
She was repeatedly warned to desist, and
menaced with punishment if she continued
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tention to their threats, and continued her
hostile action. One evening just at dusk, a
Jew peddler came in with his pack and re-
quested her to let him stay all NIGHT. She as
scented, proposing 10 him to leave his pack i'm
the front room while they went into a rear
apartment to get supper. They sat in the
room until bed time, and the peddler, in his
affidavit, distinctly declares that she was new
er once out OF his sight. When he was ready
to retire she lighted candle for him, but be-
fore going to bed he went into the front room
to lcok at his pack, when, to his CONSERVATION
he found that 1t was gone. The next morn
ing he entered complaint before justice,
who was himself generally believed to be con-
nected with the gang, against the couple
at whose house he had lodged; and, although
the complainant swore that the woman was
never out of his sight from the time he left the
pack in the front room until he discovered
that it was lost, and the husband proved, or
offered to prove that he was at a Methodist
meeting during the whole time that the ped
der was in his house, yet the justice commit
ted them for trial.
A respectable farmer now came forward
and offered to be their bail, and was accepted
by the magistrate. He told the ar0mQn, at
the same time, that If she UOuld san no more
about the gang and their affairs, she scould
hear no more about the larceny CHARGE But
she was smarting SO severely about the loss of
her daughter that she could not restrain
her propensity to talk, and frequently gave
information which was adverse to the inter-
ests of the parties who she believed were
keeping her daughter in concealment. When
the bondsmen found that she would not keep
quiet he surrendered both her and her hus-
band, and they were then committed to Jail.
where they had remained up to the time OF
our visit. Their cases had been put over from
court to court on account, it was alleged, of
the absence of material witnesses for the pros
ecution. 1t was generally believed in the
neighborhood that they would be kept there,
on one pfetence or another, just as long as it
suited the interests of their prosecutors.
The latest chapter in this story of lawless-
ness and outrage we find in recent New York
papers. One of the most notorious of these
families of thieves, bearing the name of Loom
10 l;vad in tho +owp of Sannorfold Ono;do
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county, anu niaae themselves the Verrof oi the
neighborhood. On Sunday morning last a
strong party Of citizens living in that county,
oonsoimu :" 'one Sue, i'neo p.po'' =, ue-
stroylng the mousse and othef buildings OF these
thieves, and treating them to such proofs of
tho nuhlc indipnation az sbould effactuaIIv
W. r. 49,, So, tha aa;rhhorhood W. oa.l,
oriVe 'leli HUH 'ne heis'ioofnoou' we sa.n-
err the following particulars from the Utica
Morning Herald:-
aAho,,t DAYLIGHT or a short time before tbe
1,oom;s resiae9ce was Surrounded nv = LARGE
noos s,ouno "% or;o',sI,, StotaJ a. t s.ns's
number OF persons, varlouSly slaIed at from
sixty TO one nundrea; tne mouse entefed ana
all the inmates taken prisoners ana put IN
irons. Then commenced search on the