Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-03-21
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The discovery of this robbery of amin
and half of Government bonds f,om loa
safe Of Mr.. Rufus L. Lord broker 20 Ne
change Place. New York Who is 81 ~ u i
OF age. happening to make an upvsn! y'''
spccti"n OF the interior of his safe n; :
the property, which had been pI, @
two tin boxes. The police ap,bo. hwy
having been notified. they procceS,5
Investigate the case Mr. Lord ccnII,
uioh no clue to the amount nor k,a 'I'
any suspicion whatever as to Who vaah
robocr. A n. Y. paper says: '|
I The safe from which the bond. -
tske,--is the ordinary old wall or b "os
safe, SC ured ny very simply consona t
lock. Within this was another s,S
which valuable papers. such AZ s,oh
bonds ami railroad securities were L.s,
! The lock Of the inner safe has boon ~,
of order for some time. so that il o,vT
not lie boltcd Captain Young m,Sa ny
examination of the safe, and vas no, l,ss
in arriving at the conclusion that ;tw,s
rather poor place to keep valuable Ds' A."
as any uuprofcssionnl burglar or L,rL
thief could open it without any cxt,,",
binary skill or effort. 1t is sid that i
late Mr., Lord has been somewhat car.l,,,
as to the safety Of his personal properly
The following is told by way Of cxemprE
lug his want of due care: 4 short tns
since he took from his safe a very lorp.
quantity of government bonds, and then hen
cut off the coupons, plocing the latter IN
his pockets oNd going home, leaving Ii.
pile OF bonds lying loosely u;on the a.
ble in HIS Office When be had gone III.
porter noticed the bonds lying there. and
not knowing exactly what to do in Ii,
{ case, Gnvlly decided to ~. - ,o,, :. =.
handkerchief and take thea home TO n.
\ Lord. "
On handing the buplle to him, hej,J,
, Lord) asked the porter where he 90! then
and on being told remarked quietly IN,
: he did not think he had ever done an,
thing like that before. 1t is also s,o,s
/, that on he days when the intcrrs. on III
stolen bonds was due lie would take III
tin boxes containing them. and tkinp
seat in his Office. near the street vinl"v
f there occupy the greater part of the da
, III cutting f. the coupons When the d
tcrtivcs requested Mr. Lord to finnish Il
| Numbers and description of the stole
! prnpcrty he could not give them, and
was only done by visiting the office of Il
Sub.lrcasry and there examining Il
coupons on which Mr. Lord plocur,d Ii
interest OH the last r'ymcnt day. 1t
further stated that Mr. Lord has been :
pcatedIy known to leave his safe unloy
cd when going home that on rec
OCCASION he did So. When it was careful
locked Ivy the j,ni,or of the building w
returned him the key on the follow
morning that on another Occasion 4
jauitor found the STE key in the Wa
hand basin. On the morning If the ii
covcry of the robbery. however. this W
not the case, as the safe vas lo;ked. al
the key was in Mr. Lort', pocket.
I he first theory Of the detectives W
that some person who WAS arQuant,
+ with Mr. Lords habits of going in a,
out Of nis otii!'c during business hou
got an impression VI the safe key l,u
(which duplicate was made but sul%
iqucut events have dispcllcd this ilc
Of the uuc mi lion and a half dolla
WORTH Of bonds stolen, over one mILio
was the propertyaof Mr.. Lord. and Il
ballal &C l.rIonged to ffiend Of his, who
name has net trauSpiled II was in NJ
/, Lords hands not for business purpose
, bat merely for sale keeping. there
zone Fact connected with tnisrobbcry fro
which, 1T may be inferred that the a
was committed in haste. Ga "a shelf
, the safe, over the one from which the 1
boxes were taken, were upward of Of
, million of dollars worth OF various Anne
lean railroad securities. Mir. Lord ca
not positively state when he last saw Il
bonds. There is, therefore II possib
that it might lave been q day or two
forethe robbery, and as the bonds were Il
gotiablc, probably ere this TIE thief h
reaped the benefit oftlls stupenduouSpj pic
: Of rascality." aa. ..a... u......
" aA4ll--L- .-lIl.,--.,. L., 81. H. .
ID BUFFALO, N, y. March IL. Al
broke out in the New York Central freis
depot. an immense building at six o'clo
thi8 morning. caused by Waterman
settiuga can Of Kerosene oil near a stove
W. The flames spread rapidly aud comm
, nic'ted to the splenued Elevator Jelor
ing to the same company. Both bu
.I'dings were entirely DESTROYED. lh,