The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-09
HOW the WORK WAS ACCOMPLISHED
Two Treasure Safes Prled
Open and Emptied.
OVER HALF A MILLION STOLEN.
Ono Hundred and Thirty Thousand Dollars
left on the Floor Of tho Car.
&e. &c. &c.
From the New Haven Journal, Jan. 81

One of the most daring and successful robberies we
have been called upon 10 chronicle occurred on Sat
urday evening the express train from New York 10
Boston, which leaves the former city at eight and arrives
here at eleven o'clock Tho acs 80 far as have been
able learn Them IN seln this train thers
iron belonging TO the express companythe only
the roadin which were laced oil the express bundles
and, this occasion, three small iron safes weighing
about hundred and eighty pounds EACH one OF which
BELONGED TO the Harnden Express Company, and the
other two TO the Adams Express Company all contain
ing a large amount OF treasure The has two doors
each side which after the property placed in
II, locked with padocks trhe then
from the depot, where remained about twenty-five
thirty minutes when started its passage to Bos
ton On It's arrival at this city conductor Patterson OBJ
served one Of the doors of this little opened and
IN an instant knew that something was wrong, az IL
the rule of the company not open the at all until
It's arrival at Hartford where II Is opened and money
packag put aboard and taken of. The car is also
opened at Springfield and Worcester, and at
other places on It's route from New York TO Bos
ton. Seeing then that the door open, examine
ton Of the car and is contents Immediately made,
when ii found that the door ad prod open BY
iron bar the paddock broken Off and that the robbers
had entered the and by means of iron bar forced
open the doors of the two saos beon 10 the Adams
Express Company and taken out all their contents They
had torn open all the packages, approprating 10 them
ssves all the contents except those Of TWO packages,
leaving the envelopes ANA saybs strewn about the
floor There were about hundred envelopes thus
opened, but OF the amount they contained we not
yet learned or tho two packages the contents Of which
they did not take contained eighty bills of 81 900
EACH the same being grecncacks; the other roll
about two inches III diameter conta ming $4,000 i've
twenty bonds making IN all sl30,0O0 which they left
behind These were only TWO packa es out of about
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