Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-06-28
The Lord Bond Robbery.
{ From the Now York Post. ]

The great Lord bond robbery, which occu:-
red in this city over fifteen months ago, has
again been brought to public notice by the
recovery Of nearly all Of the stolen bonds
This robbery is probably the most remark
able on record.
In March, 1866, Mr.. Rufus l.. Lord, who is
very old man, was sitting in his office, IN
Exchange Place, when i stranger entered and
engaged him in conversation. While talking
to this man an accomplice entered and stole
from an open safe bonds amounting IN the
aggregate to one million seven hundred thous-
and dollars As soon as discovered the rob-
berry was made known to the police, but there
was no evidence BY which the thieves could be
traced At first it was difficult to tell the
exact amount stolen or the number OF the
bonds. MIR. Lord had seen no one go to the
safe, and could not positively identity the man
who engaged him in conversation. In fact
Mr.. Lord would not believe the bombs were
stolen in this manner until after tue arrest CT
some of the men connected with the robbery.
Tue police immediately began to search for
the thieves, aud in the latter part OF April or
first of May they succeeded in taking one OF
the criminals. But when arrested none OF the
bonds were found in his possession, and Nlr.
Lord could not recognize him. After he had
teen in confinement short time this man said
he could recover MIR. Lords bonds under
certain conditions That gentleman was very
anxious TO get them back, and the consent OF
the District Attorney was obtained to use the
prisoner as medium for recovering the stolen
property. Accompanied by detectives he went
to Massachusetts, and had secured some Of the
bonds, when further proceedings were stopped
by his arrest by the United States Marshal
The men who held the stolen property then
became frightened and placed the bonds in the
hands of the ingleader, who took some OF
them to Europe for negotiation A few were
secured by Mr.. Lord from time to time, he
paying percentage for. their recovery.
The man who went to Europe was formerly
broker this city While there he sod sod bpt mt
small amount OF the oonds, o"t lor Inese 5 J
placed their share Of the property In his Keep
ing. Both of these men were subsequently
arrested, and, smarting under the trickery OF
their confederate, his guilt and movements
became known to the authorities. Having
recently returned to this country, his where
abouts were ascertained. An indictment was
then obtained against him, and officers were
about applying for requisition to secure this
arrest, when nearly twelve hundred Thousand
dollars worth of bonds were returned to Mr.
Lord through broker, the latter recelPlng
reward for their delivery.
There are now about enc hundred and iltty
thousand dollars of the stolen bonds cut. 1t
has been learned that there were SIX men
engaged in the robbery, three OF whom Rave
been indicted
RENTS IN NEW YoRK-There is no better
proof the business done 10 New \ York than the
enormous prices paid for stores and othcas.-
Leading lawyers are glad to get double rooms
on the third floor at $4,000 4 year. Others
whose business is less prosperous 60 one Or
two storeys higher and pay $3.50 to $500
room Some of the buildings recently erected
are palaces in their way. Nothing but the
conviction that these rents were to last could
induce such an noutay. In several of them the
steps are of marble, the washboards are OF
marble, the door lambs are OF iron painted to
initiate wood, the floors are OF marquetrlc, the
ceilings are fire proof, the outer walls OF stone
and the inner of brick Ia fact the bui ldings
are fre-proot. The only wood is the frame
work of the doors, which are one-half plate
glass, that of the windows and the floors
Everything is on 4 magnificent scale The
halls are well lighted, and the side streets,
which are so narrow as to produce excessive
reverberation. are paved in wood The Brown
Building in Wall street especially, is tit for i
palatia residence The basement Of these
houses is generally used as banking house e
The foreign nomenclature for storeys is being
adopted. The second floor is called the first
storey. The third floor is the second and So
on. 1t is gentle deceit the public is willing
to practice upon itself to tighten the ascent
The rents of the offices in these buildings are
as high as ever, and there is no such reduction
in dwellings and warehouses as is reported out
of New York. For the moment, the demand
is not so great as it was, but occupants have
not beer able to have their rents reduced
Letter from, Nea0 York.
LORENZO Dow, native of Coventry, Conn,
agitated from mere boy with religious spec
ulations, dreams, and visions, became at the
ore of lo wears, against the wishes of his par
ents and with very many mental struggles, an
itinerant Methodist preacher. His youth and
great eccentricity of character prevented HIM
for long period from receiving the tuil rccog-
nition of the Methodist Conferences; but at
length receiving license he embarked IN his re-
maSkable career, which for forty years made
him known everywhere in the United States
and Canada, and also in England and ireland,
where, in 1899, and again in 1903, he visited
and where his singular eoquence and fanatlcal
zeal subjected him to persecution, as It dld not
unfrequently IN this country. His wife Peggy
Dow, whom he married in 1904, woman OF
character and qualities very similar to bis own,
accompanied him tearlessly in all his pergrina-
tions. In person he was awkward, his voice
harsh, and his phraseology uncultivatcd, and
vet the simple fervor of his illiterate eloquence
was so full of power over the common masses
70 whom he addressed himself, that his audi
ences we're always large, often vast, and hi:
bomely appeals were frequently productive Q
the most astonishing results Besides, in hi
time, a heavy, shaggy beard hanging dowl
upon the breast as his did, was an extraordi
nary spectacle In one of his repeated mis-
sions to the District of Columbia he died
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