Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-10-28
Another Burglar Caught.
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>'"'N''i III, ~ H., Win most COmmcnda-
Die energy and Industry has iollowed up
The clue he obtained some weeks since of
the burglars who nave been operating
IN this valley. and a few days ago caugh;
another of the gang of burglars, Cre-
ierred to few weeks Since at Goils-
town, n. H., and brought him to this
place n Monday. His name is Alvero
s. John formerly of Montpelier, and he
has made full confession of his knowl.
edge and part in the operations of Han
dion and his gang, confirming Bryant's
story and clearing up several other
burglaries in this and other places dur
ing the last two years.
81, John is twenty years Of age, is
ma lied and living at Gofstown, n. H.,
and made but one raid with Handlon,
which was during the summer Of 1869.
He had trouble with Handlon at Bran.
don more than a year ago and has new
er been with him since. 1t appears by
his statement that it was Handon and
himself who last year stole the goods
fund in the barn Of NJ. w. Davis, and
were identified by \. II. Farr & Co, as
having been stolen from their store. =
They Lid during the evening in the base
ment Of Jabez Hills brick building,
now occupied as bakery, aud watche d
to see if the clerks left the store. TEey
saw The clerks leave and also saw that a
light WAS left in the back or clothing
room. They then went TO the window,
which had been left up, near the tunnel.
and with a ladder previously secured.
had no trouble in etitcting an entrance.
Handlon went in first and soon secured
a lot of clothing aud threw them out of
the window, and then came out himself.
St. John then went in, ana while there
heard the clerks return to the front door
as they entered key to the lock. He
then instantly passed out Of the win low
and was actually on the lower end OF
the ladder when the clerks entered the
room he had just left. They remoy ed
the adder, and watched long enough to
See that they had made no disturbance,
then went back, and while the clerks
were smoking and splitting out of the
window, they stole up under it and took
the goods they had thrown out, and went
off to Davis barn where they donued
new suit.
The burglary on o. F. Woods store
was the work of Handlon's gang. We
remember TO have published the fact that
suspicious persons occupied for a time,
an old b ilding on j. d. Bridgman's
premises a mile or so up the river. They
were Handlon & CO., and from that p lace
they made their accommodating excursions
to this village. On one occasion they
were watching in Pine grove and wait
ing for the ten o'clock trains to leave
when being starved out St. Johns went
down to Canal street and bought some
crackers at II. A. Coopcr's grocery.
Our readers will remember the bur-
glary on Robertson's house at Putney.-
That was Handlon and St. Johns. The
former did the work while ST. John SAYS
he lay trembling on the kitchen floor
On this same trip they went to Vernon
and robbed a house. After this came a
quarrel at Brandon, where Handlon
threw dirk at ST. John severely stab
bling him in the thigh just above the
knee. 1t appears that Handlon has
brother living in Brandon vii re St.
John was laid up by the stab for two
weeks, at the end o which he made his
escape andneversa Handlon afterwards
aud says he has led an honest life since.
Officer Squires took him TO Claremont
on Tuesday.
1t now appears that Bryant's real
name is Deroe, of Schuy lerville, n. u,
where he has respectable parents living.
There are ONE other clues to the bur
glaries committed about here for the last
few years, lot yet given to The public
Their original headquarters was at White
Hall, n. Y, where are parties heretofore
supposed to be respectable, but who were
receivers and sellers Of the stolen goods.
Handlon's operations at times la e been
quite systematic and show him to be Il
bold and desperate character. His field
Of operations have been in the Connec-
tieut Valley all the way from Montpelier
White River Junction, down into Mas
sachusetts, for nearly four years past
A rumor has got af!oat that he murder
ed and robbed Birchard and then burnt
his store in Dummerston. but nothing
certain has come cot about that yet.
BASE BArL-A matched game of
Base Bail was played at Jacksonville
on Saturday. the ODD, between the Lon
dcnderry Club and picked nine, COM