The Republican journal., 1870-11-03
COMMON.
THE SCENE OF THE OUTRAGE,

In order to give clear idea of the situation of
The robbery, reference to the annexed diagram
will he useful. The village common is surrounded
by houses, stores, shops ETC., among which are the
TWO banks above mentioned. The First National
has It, banking room in the southeast corner of the
Town Hall building, brick structure three
stories in height, the remainder of tn ground floor
being occupied by the drug store of David White,
the clothing store of j. II. Wood and the grocery
store of b. Newton, respectively. staircase
between the two trst-named leads to the floors
above, which used for the offices of the Town
CLERK and Selectmen, a dentists room, a shoe man
ufactory, the Town Hall and hall where the Good
Temlars met last evening. In the diagram "A"
represents the spot where Mr.. Daniels was siezed
by the men ''B' the banking-room &c" the coal
room in which Mr. Daniels was confined; sd" the
Directors room in the rear, connected with the
banking-room by the passage 'P"; ''V' the vault ::
"l'' Whites drug store -" Woods clothing store
separated from Whites by the staircase ''3" New
tons grocery store; 81" the road to New England
Village, manufacturing hamlet two miles from
here on the road to the railroad as" the Soldiers
Monument on the Common; sc" the Grafton Ma
tional Bank, etc.
HOW THE ROBBERS ESCAPED.
The road to New England Village and thence to
Worcester is the best means of travel hence to the
latter place, joining the main road, which runs
west from the front of the bank, some two or three
miles east of Worcester This morning Mr. Far
we'll. of New England Village, discovered that a
horse and harness belonging to him We're missing
and about O'Clock this morning, a man, described
;is short and thick-set, with sandy beard, and
wearing a round-crOwned, stiff-brimmed black hat,
left horse which has been fully identified as Mr.
Fmwelrs, under shed on Winter street, Worces-
Ter. A grocery wagon was attached to him. At
another time but within two rods of the same spot,
a chestnut mare, attached to light express wagon
and wearing Mr.. Farwell's stolen harness, was left
on the street and also taken up by the police The
ownership of this horse and of the harness found on
Mr.. Farwell's horse, well as of the two wagons
is yet undetermined, but they were evidently
stolen somewhere near by, from the harness being
changed 4 powder canister was picked up in the
road between this place and New England Village
by Mr. Isaac Mason, of Worcester, and this in it.
self trivial circumstance, tends to show the Way
the robbers travelled. more significant token
was the finding in the road near New England
Village TINS morning of forty dollars in gold, evil
IDENTIFY scattered from the bag containing $11OO,
which was among the punder. 1t is considered
probable they went to Worcester in two or more
parties to avoid suspicion, and left on the early
trains, perhaps taking different routes to meet At
the common rendezvous Ofcourse
THE NEWS FLEW LIKE wILDFIRE
from mouth to mouth and from house TO bouse Of
their farms and their Shops temporarily, in Tho
presence of the great excitement. The depositors
in the Bank and its officers naturally were the most
shaken by the news, and were in no fit condition
for hours TO give any clear statement of the losses
Deputy Sheriff Hall took team and drove rapidly
to Worcester, to obtain the aid Of the police. He
soon returned with City Marshal Drennan who,
after looking into the matter, went again to Wor-
alert, hastened hither again with trusty omcer to