The Portland daily press., 1869-11-23
MAssACH UsETTs.

BOSTON, Nov. 22.-The Boylston National
Bank was entered between Saturday night and
this morning and clean sweep made of all the
valnables on deposit in the outer vaults most
~ belonging to private individuals. These
valuabes were chiefly in United States bonds,
and were contained in twenty or thirty tin
trunks, belonging to as many individuals. 1t
money NOW e paaK gif officers DO not know
just what amount the depositors individually
had on hand, but it is believed by the c--shier
that from four hundred thousand to half mil
lion dollars have been stolen.
In October last a man giving bis name as W.
A. Judson hired room adjoining the bank as
a de aler in California Wine Bitters," putting
in large stock of bottles thus labeled, and
constructed closet next to the safe wall which
was of brick two feet thick. At this point the
masonry was found drilled through and the
debris removed. The iron casing to the safe
was then bored, probably during Saturday
night and Sunday, enabling the operator to
reach the property in the outer compartment
OF the safe. The property stolen, as previously
stated, was in some thirty tin boxes upon
shelves, and deposited in the bank by individ-
uals for safe keeping. No funds of the bank
were token.
LATER PARTICULARS.
Judson & Co. first cut off the corner of their
room next to the banking room for a private
office and wainscotted the wall to the ceiling.
The wainscot or wooden sheathing was then
cut so as to form door, behind which was the
brick wall. This door was six feet high and
four feet wide, and was fixed on hinges at the
top. An old-fashoned secretary was set back
against it so as to hide it. When the rogues
worked they no doubt hauled away the secre-
tary or book case, raised the door, and cut ont
from the wall brick bu brick. These bricks and
the debris were packed in boxes and labelled
medicine. When tired, the door or moveable
piece of wainscot was shut down, the hinges
being above, and the secretary wheeled back
against it.
In this way, by repeated operations, they cut
hold through two brick walls, together twen-
ty inches thick, carefully packing the debris as
the next building was exposed to view. To
work on this, of course, required day when
no one was in the bank. Sunday, no doubt,
the rogues in their private room pulled away
the secretary, raised the door in the wanscot,
aud With drills bored number of holes in the
back part Of the safe in a circle of eighteen in
ches 10 diameter, and this piece, when torn
out made hole large enough for man to
crawl through. Two vigilant watchmen, en-
GRAFTON, and had no suspicion that all was not
right until the safe was opened this morning.
The steel safe, which was on the left of the
outer safe and contained the funds and collat-
eral securities of the bank was unGisturbed.
An examination disclosed that all the national
bonds belonging to various parties, and to a
very large amount, had been taken, while all
the other valuable documents that the trunks
contained had been left. There is an unwil-
lingness on the part of the bank officers TO give
the names of parties owning the trunks de-
posted for safe keeping, and the losses can not
be- made known at present, as many of the
owners have not made their appearance. The
loss is estimated at from 100000 to 100000.