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

almost every day announcements, but we
Vhad hoped that Vermont, in the tour of
the Knights of the jimmy, would be left
out in the cold The contrary, however,
has proved to be the case, for yesterday
morning The citizens of Castleton were
startled by the announcement that the
safes Of the Castleton National Bank had
been forced some time during the night
previous and portion, if not all, of their
contents abstracted The excitement was
rendered greater by the fact that the safe
which contained the moAey. while it was
apparent that it's contents had been par
TALLY at least "gone through" it was left
with its door partially pried open, though
not sufficiently to allow an examination
Of its contents, if any were left. The
bolts of The locks were 40 bent as 10 rem
der the KEYS useless, hence nothing was
left to be done by the Bank officers but
sffect an Entrance b1LTglarl0uslg aud call
ing the ser &ees of three mechanics into
requisition, they, with the aid of chissels
and slsdges. forced the top of the safe off,
drawer of the safe had been robbed of its
contents Embracing the surplus fund of
the institution, after paying the semi
ANNUAL dividend of five per cent, which
was about $65OO except $107, which the
burglars either overlooked or failed to
reach Undor this drawer, and separated
by a heavy iron plate from it, was a sec
ond drawer, in which bet%een fifty and
sixty thoosanodollars in bonds, (the pre-
else amount is unknown and $500 in
money, were depostodoby citizens of Cas-
Teton for security This embraced the
all Of large number of the depositors,
and their anxiety until the safe was
opened and jsy afterward may readily be
imagined, IA it was found that the under
A.s--s-s .~ss~>airea unoouots,a and its con-
tenss cafe So rnnnh for the result
IL the burglars' operations; now as to how
they done the deed,
The Entrance was effected, it is thought
about ten o'ciook on Monday evening, as at
that time two uspicious-looking char
acters, strangeFS were seen standing about
one Of the rear windows of the bank by
parras residing near by, but as they i'm
nediately moved off, nothing more was
thought OF their presence until the an
louncer emit of the robbery. The bur-
glars wsGt in at the front door, having
oried II open, when they commenced their
operations. The safes were both of Her
.ing's make, the outer one fre-proof and
he inner one a supposed burglar-proof,
made 10 order for the Bank more than a
rear ago, of chilled steel and Frank
mite metal. The outer one
rad two doors, the outer one of which was
provided with II combination lock, at the
ide Of which the burglars bored q hole,
D nd, inserting a 'jimmy," fired it off. In
his aperture, it is supposed, they placed
nitro-glyoerine, There being no traces of
yunpowder), by which they blew the door
,pen and its inner casing off. They then
oored hole through one of the inner
ioors, and in this alsa placed glycerine,
which being exploded blew the door open.
This being done, the books of the institu-
ton, several packages OF gold and valu-
.bles, which were deposited in drawers in
the outer safe. but, on account of their
real value being unknown, no value men
ton. il made OF. but whose contents were
distracted, together with the burglar
,rcof safe, and its contents were at the
nero'y OF the burglars. They proceeded
o sleeping room in the bank, procured
feather bed.tick, and depositing it on the
loor, tum bled the safe out on to it, in Qy-
Ter to prey ent noise, and then proceeded
their work of opening it by wedges.
Gut pounding on wedges with aledges
gould make noise, unless muffied, SO for
his purpose they procured from the same
'oom from which they had obtained the
,ed-tick, an over coat and dress coat of
Er. Guy, the cashier, which from the
sumerous holes in each, they being torn
shreds), they must have placed on the
cad If Che wedges andcohisels and then,
to the muaaers applied the blows from
he sledges. The wedges were inserted
/ the small aperture between the door
a. cssing on thu Left band sido'of the
COR. the Iarger, mes: wlaoss had the effect
warp the door, az to top, doing the
rork, and leaving an apsrture sufficiently
arge to insert a hook of some kind, with
vhich they abstracted the contents OF the
PIPER drawer of the safe, but the contents
4 the lower drawer of which, rom want
u time or being frightened away, were
found a. they were left the evening ,nre-
vious The burglary was discovered yes
terday morning about 730 o'clock by Mr.. ,
Guy, when he went into the bank to make
? nre' ana found the safes open. The :
burglars left their tools, a portion of which
hey had, previous to beginning their
work, stolen from the establishment of IL
eph Dntton, a neighboring blacksmith, {
Consisting of jimmies, sledges, chisels,
wedges. etc., dark lantern, portion of
heir wearing apparel, a coat, cap and
lhirt, on the premises. No clue has as
yet been obtained to the burglars, though
reward OF $4,000 is offered for their ap- J
,rehenstpn and recovery of the money.
rwo Or three suspicious looking individu-
lis had been staying in the place for the
past wook, one of whom had attracted OBJ
ervati1& from his repeated inquiries re- {
pectin4 MIR. Guy, the Cashier, but all of ]
which yere known to have left town be- |
ore the Durglary was committed, SO that I
she opqation cannot be directly traced to
her The Bank has but capital of
v6QN0 had Just paid semi.annual div. !
Nant4 per cent, and this robbery, ,
49, pll Of it's surplus funds, leaves it
IT, II commenced four years ago. Its