Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-21

MRS. SCOTT-SIDDONS had good audience,
last evening; but many who desired to hear her
were kept away by the bad weather. The en-
terta. lment appeared to give great satisfaction.
Her beautiful face and charming floral decora-
tons would have won favor, if her dramatic facul-
tySwere less admirable. The "Sleep Walking
Scene from Macbeth, ""May Queen, "and "Scenes
from School for Scandal" seemed to be most
effective with the audience; probably because
they were most familiar to her auditors, gen.
orally, and therefore required less effort TO fol-
low her readings closely. A considerable por-
ton of the audience could not hear all her
words distinctly, and, for this reason, some
times failed to follow her Rotations.
This was due, in part, to the re-
verberations, which would not have trou.
bled the auditors if the hall had been en-
tiTely full. Occasionally, there was some ten
dency to TOO rapid utterauce; but her dramat-
ic power held the attention Of those wo failed to
catch some of her words and sentences, and
nobody was uninterested. If she could have
had the same audience in a suitable hall just
large enough TO hold it, the enthusiasm would
have been unbounded; for, in that case, the
whole effect of her readings would have been
realized without effort. Perhaps the result
would have been the same if that great hall had
been crowded. As it was, she won and charmed
her audience, and made us feel that the praise
she has received, wherever she has appeared, is
not undeserved.
FREIGHT STEALING-STILo ON THE TRACK
Important developments came to light yesterday
from another quarter in regard to the matter of
the wholesale robbery of freight that has been
going on for some time, and the clue to which
was the arrest of young Nourse on the Goth of
March. He was taken, it will be recoected, by
the regular detective employed by the Boston
and Albany road, Mr.. Benjamin c. Crabtree, of
Boston, who has ever since been working up
jobs on parties Implicated by the honest confess
sons of the youth first taken, although the traces
were rather slim, and considerable time has
been required. The degree of success in one in
stance is shown in the case of Sanford NJ. Wal
lace, another young brakeman, whom Crabtrte
rearrested yesterday and brought to this city
He was taken shortly after Nourse was ex-
amined and let out on bail; but several things
led the detective to suppose that he had been CO.
ing much larger business than most of the
offenders implicated, and special attention was
directed toward his case. His father was a
switchman at the yard of the Boston and AL
bany road and the boy was for awhile a brake
man on the same train with Nourse, although
he left a few weeks before the arrest and went
to work on the Norwich road While he was in
custody his mother died, which circumstance led
to his release on bail, after which little was
heard from him.
Some two weeks ago his father who lived in
Bigelow court, suddenly packed up his things
and left, going as it was afterwards discovered,
to Pottsdum junction, New York. To this place
the body of his wife was taken when she died,
and at the same time the elder Wallace re.
moved large trunk filed with stolen property,
taking advantage of death and the funeral to
clear up suspicious tracks. But the scheme did
not work, for the detective has unravelled the
whole story, and brought the thief and also
large amount of goods to this city. The things
were found hidden all about the neighborhood,
and were in the adjoining towns of Norfolk and
Scotland, and consist of Loots, shoes cloths of
all kinds, and other merchandise of yaIne The
young man was not found with the goods. bnt
by holding his father closely under surveillance.
his whereabouts was discovered by means If a
telegraph dispatch, and he was met nj Groton
Junction yesterday morning
Another of those arrested at the time Wallace
was tazen-Joseph w. Roberts. of Grat,on
seems to have been driving large business in
the same line. He lived about half n mile bc-
low the Grafton station, near the railroad: and
when, as he passed his house in the night be
had any stolen goods to throw off, he signaled
to his wife by swinging red lantern to and fro /:
if he had nothing to throw off, he moved it up
and down. Many articles were found in his
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