Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-01-18
The Robbery of she Adams
press Car.

ven Railroad on Saturday evening las''
Tho New Haven Journal OF Monday
gives full particulars. The safe wh.ch
was stolen contained over half million
dollars in bonds, specie and government
securities. 1t was taken from the ue-
not at Twenty.seventh street, up TO the
station at Forty-second street. anu
placed in the iron express car, passing
into the custody of Mr., Thorne, the
oonpany's messenger, who reporteu'
TALL right" just before the train started
When the cars approached stamford III
yas discovered that the door OF the ex-
uress car had been forced open, ana
nnon further investigation 1t was found
that one OF the safes had been broken
into and its contents taken. a jimmy
three dark lanterns, and sledSe ham,
mer were found in the car, and 1t Is
supnosed the paddock was broken away |
by the blow of the hammer. The suppo'
sition is that the robbers jumped OIL the
train with their booty at Coos Cut,
three miles west of Stamford. Ihe
COMPANY have promptly notified all
shippers of valuables to present thelr
receipts for payment at their Office IN
New York, and are instituting vigorous
measures for the detection OF the ROB-
hers The New Haven Journal says
One Of the most daring and success
Fnl rohheries we have ever been called
unon to chronicle, occurred on saturday
evening on the express train from ne"
York to Boston, which leaves the former
city at 8, and arrives here at l O'CLOCK
The facts, so far as we have been able TO
learn then, are these: In this train there
was an iron car belonging to the eX-
nress company-the only one en- the
road-in which was placed all the eX-
press bundles, and on this occasion
three small iron safes, weighing ABOUT
one hundred and eighty pounds each,
one of which belonged to the Harnden
Express Company, all containing
large amount Of treasure. The car has
two doors, one on each side, which, al
ter the property was placed IN IL, was
locked with padlocks. The car was
then run out from the depot, where IT
remained about twenty-five or thirty
minutes, when it was started on It's pas
sage to Boston. On its arrival at TINS
city, Conductor Patterson, observed on
of the doors Of this car little opened
and in an instant knew that something
was wrong, as it is the rule or the com
pany not to open the car at all until IL
arrival at Hartford, where it Is opened
and money package put aboard and tax
en- off, The car is also opened at Sprlng
field and Worcester, and at no otne
places on its route from New YORK I
Boston, Seeing then that the door wa
omen, an examination of the car 90 II
contents was Immediately madejs whe
II was found that the door had bee
nried open by an iron bar, the padloc
broken off. and that the robbers had el
tered the car and by means OF an ire
bar forced open the doors OF the wv
safes belonging to the Adams Expre
Company, and taken out all thelr &c,
tents, They had torn open all u
packages, appropriating to themselV
all the contents, except those OF "
packages, leaving the envelopes ana w
bills strewn about on the floor. Inc
were about hundred envelopes tn
opened, but of the amount they &C
tanned we have not yet learned, Ot I
two packages, the contents OF VIM
they did not take, one contained elgn
bills of $1,000 each, the same bel
greenbacks; the other was roll abe
two inches in diameter, contain
100000 in five-twenty bonds, making
all $4,000 which they left behll
There were only two packages out
about one hundred that were ov
hauled. The greenbacks were eVlde
" lost among the papers on the nc
as the package was small, but
bonds it would seem did not suit
fancy of the robbers, being property
80 readily disposed Of as bank bi
THE preenbacks were in little dra'
in the safe which was quite full.
nackage was found on the floor "
one corner torn off 1t is thought, fl
it's damned appearance, that in open
the drawer this package got caugh
az to tear off the corner Of the pt
covering, and fell unobserved to
floor. The roll of bonds had the
side paper tom sufficiently to disclose
contents Of the package. That,
was found on the floor. The safe
longing to the Harnden Company
unQlsburDeu
When and where the robbers got
the car is unknown, but it seems
possible that it should have been emf
at any other place than New Yorl
the train stops but few momen
any station after leaving that cit
its arrival here 1t is thought pro-
that they got into the ear while it
waiting on the track to be hitche
and taken down to the tunnel. Th
is o. the same size as an ordinary
freight car. 1t is built with al
framework, shtathed over with
sheet-iron plates rivetted together
is so closely made that light plac
side would not be seen II the doors
closed. A messenger always accC
MES the car, but usually stays
baggage car. 1t is his business t.
watch over the car and to lock an
lock it at the stations where the
opened. The robbers probabl,
aboard quietly at New York, pre-
with dark lanterns and all the nee
tools, and knowing the rules in ]