The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-11

unseasonabie hour, proceeded to the Essex
Market Court and took Mr.. Sanford'e affidavit
The latter deposed that on the night of the
9Th instant the following property, belong
ing to the Express Company, was stolen
in the State of Connecticut :-$40,000 in
gold coin; S5O,OOO in United States bonds
and certificates of Indebtedness; $4,000
in national bank and Treasury notes, and gold
watches and chains, and other jewelry, to the
value of $4,000. On this affidavit the Judge issued
a search warrant, and accompanied Mr.. Sanford
aud Officer Rogers TO Barmore's house, which
they searched, and found concealed therein 1915
in gold coin, $4,000 IN seventhtrty bonds,
S77 $50 in unsigned national bank notes, S5467 In
national bank notes. signed, and gold bills
valued at $280-amounting in all TO Sll3,762.
The money was taken in charge, and Barmore
arrested by Officer Rogers. Barmore was yes
terday taken before Justice Shandley, and COM
mitted fer examination. from the information
at hand 1t appears that Gus Tristham, as he is
famliarly called, who is no stranger to our most
experienced officers, has been arrested atNorwalk,
ConI =, as being principal in the express rob
berry, He is brother of Mrs. Barmore, In whose
house, in Division street. the money was found.
On reaching Norwalk, after the robbery, Gus
TTistham employed his cousin, - Tristham, 10
take charge OF a bag OF money, and see IT safely
deposited in the house OF his (GusD sister, No.
100 Division street. AFor this service Trlstnam
received twenty-five dollars, and on returning to
Norwalk was arrested. He was then induced TO
make q confession, and told who had employed
HIM to bring the money TO New York, and what
Clark, also we'll known to the police, was like
wise arrested III Norwalk, and all the parties are
in prison awaiting an examination,
Since the robbery occurred, Captain Jourdan
OF the Sixth Precinct, and Detectives Elder and
Woolridge have been making an investigation
which may result in further arrests and the re-
covery OF more of the missing money.
ARREST OF TWO OF THE SUPPOSED ROBBERS IN
NoRwALK, CONN.
From the EeU Haven Journal JaRUarylO
Yesterday aitprnoon Assistant Sunpriutpndpnt
Spooner, OF Bridgeport, accompanied by 5. b.
Beardsley ESQ, and Sheriff Barnum, of the
same place. proceeded to Norwalk and arrested
two men on suspicion OF beng engaged in the
robbery of the express safes on the Saturday
night train, and found on examination, after the
arrest, that they had got the right fellows. The
manner in which the arrest came about is as
tollo~s:-On Saturday evening three men called
at the hotel in Stamford and registered their
names, two OF them as Lockwood and the other
as Clark. Their actions towards each other at
first, so far observed, were those OF strangers,
and no one supposed that they were acqudlnt-
ances. They had been there but short time
when one of them desired to hire a conveyance
TO 60 to Norwalk, but he did not wish TO have a
driver accompany him, saying that he was
going to take some ladies, and there would not
be room. Being a stranger, the liyeryInan
would not let the fellow have the convey ance
unless he sent a driver with 1t, notwithstanding
he was offered ten dollars for it. After the fail
ure to hire conveyance the fellows were then
seen for the first time to hold conversation
with each other. They remained all night at
Stamford, and the next morning took the train
and went to Norwalk. While at Stamford their
presence and appearance were such as to excite
the remark from citizens that they wouldn't
wonder If these fellows were the ones that
robbed the express" On arriving in Norwalk
they hired q conveyance and went upon the hill
back OF the village to an old shoemakers, named
Tristham who IS an uncle OF Clark's. Here they
stopped over night, and returned to the
village the. next day (MondayI. On Mon
came down with bundle which ap-
peared to be pretty heavy, and which he
refused to have checked, and was also scrupu-
lously careful to keep in his hands all the while
on his way to New York, where he took it. In
Norwalk also the appearance of the three fellows
was such as 10 excite suspicion. Their presence
at Norwalk. and the suspicious connected with
them coming to the ears of superintendent
Spooner yesterday, he went over with the three
gentlemen named above, and reconnoltred a
little, and then had the two fellows arrested as
stated. Clark, in the meantime had absented
himself and escaped arrest. He was formerly a
substitute broker, and nephew of Tristham,
who had heretofore been supposed 10 be q per-
tectly upright man. On the persons OF the two
men were found gold watch, some money, and
a few other articles which were in the safes at
the time they were robbed, so that their identi-
fcation is complete.
The two men who were arrested have the ap-
pearanCe OF being Englishmen. They were put
in the lookup at NorWalk, and will be BROUGHT
over to Bridgeport this morning and put in
jail for safe keeping. The old man Trlstham
went with Mr.. Spooner yesterday afternoon to
New York. to show him what he had done with
the bundle and to inform HIM with whom he
left it, so that there is fair probability that
some treasure will be recovered, and 1T also
seems most probable that Clark will soon be
secured. The bundle which Tristham took to
New York, from its apparent weight, is sup,
posed to have contained some of the gold.
No further information concerning this re-
markable affair has reached us, but we hope in
few days to be able to lay before our readers
some particulars as to how the robbery was
effected, and where the robbers entered and left
the train, with other items of interest.