Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-10
rEE AAAHs EMPRESS ROBBERY.
EsOT fiaC FTCEs- Was .4ccOrnp5;eEleG-'Fvgo
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over Asa5E "a MiliEssss SlOaen-tlne linn
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Ssa tElC EiDUE' OF agI,. si.-.

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iirotn the New Haven Journal, Jan ST.
One Of the most daring and successful robbeIies VIC
pave ever ncen called upon to chronicle occurred On
Saturday evening on the EXPRESS train from New
loTl to Boston. which leaves the former cty al eight
and arrives here at eleven o'clock The Etcts 30 l!.
a We nave been able TO learn them, are these:-In
tls tram lhefe #a' an lrun belonging 70 the eX
press crIup5 MY nc only the I0ad-in which
were acsG al the express bundles. and this oc
eaSiCn, three small iron safes weight about one
huGdrCd and eighty pounds, one Of which belonged
TO the i!arnien Express Company, and the other two
to the Adams Express Company, all containing 4
large amount Of treasure. The car mas TIVE doors
one each side, which, atferthe property was placed
in it, were locked with padlockS.
The WIS then run out rom he dep0t where Il
remained shout twenty-five OF thirty minutes when
IL vas started Or its Passage TO Boston. On its arri
the doors OF this little opened and III an instant
knew that something wrong as it j. the rule OF
thc company not 70 open the car at ali untl its grri
val at Hartford where it is opened and money pack
ages put aboard and take" off. The car is also
opened at Springfield and Worcester and at no other
places on its route from New York TO Bostou. See
ing then. that the door OPEN an examination of
the car and its contents immediately made when
il was found that the door had been pred omen nv
an iron bar the paddock broken off and that the
robbers had entered the and by of an iron
par forced open the doors Of the two safes belonging
TO the Adams Express Company, and taken out all
their contents. They had torn open all the pack
ages, approPr2tng to themselves all the contents,
except those OF two packages leaving the envelopes
and way bills strcwn about on the floor.
There were about a.hundred envelopes thus open
ed, pat OF the amount they contained we have not
yet learned. VI the two packages, the contents of
which they did not take contained eighty bills of
SW) each. the same being greenbackS; the other was
a roll about two inches in diameter contpInro S50
GU Iii Gve-twenty bonds making in all SI3000J which
they icit behind. These only two Packages out
of about one hundred that were Oyerhau!pj The
gfeenUackS were evidently lost among the papers on
The floor, as the packagewas small but the bonds it
would seem did not suit the falcv Of the rcbbtrs.
Eelng property not As readily disposed Of as bank
bills. The creenbackS we're il little drawer in the
sale. which was quite luiI. Tie package was found
on the ?or. with ole corner tom off 1t is thought.
drawer this package got caught tear of the
corner "i the paper coN cIng and foil uuobserved to
The roll Of bonds had tho outside paper torn down
sufficient to disclose the contents Of he package.
nat too va, found On the floor. The safe belonging
TO the HaTAden Company was uDdisturbeG. When
and where Tie robbers got into the car Is unknown
but it seems uugssi bic that Il ,horI1 have henn
tered at any other place than New York as the train
stops tut ew moments al station after leaving
tjlat e!y TIL is arrival here. IL i, thought probable
mat they got .EJc the while it was waiting on the
track to be hItched 5n and taken down to the tunnel
Inc car IS Of the size as an ordinary box freight
oar u IS pull with an iron framework shoathedo over
with thick sheet plates ryeted together, and IS
50 closely mauo that light placed inside would not
hs|eeq 1t the doors were closed. ,n"c,fHe DasgaEo
il is his business 10 keep watch over the car and TO
lack and unlock it at the stations where the car is
opened The robbers probably got aboard quietly at
New ok, provide with dark lanterns ana all the
necessary tools. and knowing the rules in regard to
this train !eisrrely heiped themselves to good sized
-. -, " y, .
quietly effected landing. The telegraph lines b.
tween New and Boston kept busy yesterday BY
the Company. and large nu;nbcr of messages were
transmitted, indicating that strenuous efforts
being made to recover the property aud secure the
robbers.
The scene il the car when opened at this city must
have been quite singular. The floor strewn with
looked. United States bonds IN considerable number
lag around loose; bag Of pennies Was picked up:
quantity Of silver foil was strewed upon the hoor
and the envelopes and WRAPPERS Of the valuable
packages stolen were scattered about Seeing