Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-13


in this place for "cheek" is reported as
having occurred last week. 1t appears
that Mr.. Pierce-what Pierce our in.
formant was unable to state-engaged a
Frenchman, Peter Welcome by name, to
work. Peter had by diligence aud econ
omy managed to save and deposit for gain
and safety in Rutland bank, a sum
which, with interest, amounted - s148
Mr.. Pierce had anothes young man in his
employ-lis uame our informant did not
Iiearn-who was attending school and
working enough to pay for his board
Peter had pnwisely admitted the student
into the secret of his Peter having de.
posted in the Rutland bank said money
and only the day before the occurrence OF
the robbery--for we can call it by no bet.
ter name-the student inquired Of Peter
if the former or any os.e out the owner
could, ty presenting the bank book, draw
the money. Receiving an answer in the
negative, no more was said. Next morn.
ing the student went ostensibly to school
but in fact hurried to Rutland
representing himself as Peter; took
the money, with a part of which he
bought suit of clothes less an oyercoat
watch and perhaps other things, and
took passage on local freight train bonnd
westward, for Schenectady, h. Y. Two
days after sbS occurrence of the above
Peter missed--caused no doubt by the
failure of the thief to return to Mr.. Pierce's
his bank book Mr. p at once COM
menced an investigation, during which
that narrated above was ascertained, and
also the additional facts that the thief
inquired of the conductor if there was a
quicker way to reach Schenectady than
by his train. Arriving at Schenectady
ne engaged team to take him to Amster-
dam. Before starting, however, he COM
pleted the purchase of the balance of his
suit of clothes IAN overcoat) During the
Journey (some 20 miles we think, the
bound for Syracuse and from thence to
Detroit, Mich, to visit a sister, and as
he was all the way from South Carolina,
was tired of cars and for change pre-
ferred carriage. He claims to have no
other living relative but this sister. Mr..
Pierce followed him to Syracuse and
after leaving with the Chiefs of Police
OF several cities full description of the
fellow, together with an ambrotype, re-
turned home. The rascal to more effect
ually cover his crime, destroyed before
leaving Mr.. P.'s his letters, took from his
album it, contents, and but for one letter
which he overlooked, his intentions, his.
tory, &C., might have been less known.
Last season he worked in Mt. Holly; was
about twenty or twenty-one years of age
with little or no education. While we
sympathise with Mr.. Welcome and earn
estly hope the villain may yet be arrested
and punished, yet 1t should learn him to
be more reserved and careful in having to
do with strangers, especially such as was
his companion, for many such who are
roaming up and down the world are vag-
abonds of the vermint type.
Mr.. Aaron Aldrich recently lost a
cow under somewhat mysterious
circumstances Upon going to the barn
in the morning the COW was found lying in
the yard in a manner indicating that she
might have been "cast," yet it was not be-
lieve by many that such was the case.
Finally it was ascertained that the prob
able cause of death was the rupture of "a
blood vessel. She was being fattened,
and would the next day or the day after,
have been butchered.