Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-20
Murderer of Rogers Discovered.
AUBURN. January IA.


AUBURN, January IA.
The murderer of Mr.. Rogers in New
York, on December 3lst, 1868, has just
been discovered in tn person Of convict
in Auburn State Prison, named Francis
Z. Pinto. The detection of the murderer
was brought about by the shrewdness
and vigilance of the keeper, Mr.. V. B.
Hoffman, whose attention was first az
tracted to the murderer by his peculiarly
nervous appearance, The man is trans.
ferred prisoner from Sing Sing, to which
prison he was sentenced from New York
ON the Sd, of January, 1869, to FIVE years
mprisonment grandla larceny, He was
transferred to Auburn last spring. After
noticing his peculiarities, Hoffman was
struck by some remarks made by him to
fellow convict in relation to the Rogers
affair. Pinto was afterwards drawn out
by his comrade, at Hoffmans instance,
and made clean breast of the circum-
stances connected with the robbery and
murder. Pinto's confession has not yet
been given in detail. He is now in soli-
tary confinement in a dungeon for miscon-
duct. The officials of the prison say his
disclosures inevery way are conclusive Of
guilt. He is refusing food at present, de-
claring he will cheat the gallows by star
walton.
Per contra the New York police con-
slider the above story absurd, and Supt
Jordan few weeks before his death, as
serted that he was fully satisfied, from
facts that had come to his Knowledge
that Logan No. 2, who was shot Jan 5,
1870, by Jerry Dunn, in East Houston
ST., was the murderer of Mr.. Rogers, and
Superintendent Kelso is of the same
opinion. This Pinto is an inveterate IL
ar. When arrested, he gave the name
of a gallant General, and when this false
hood was proven, he declared that he
was reputable citizen, doing business
down town. Both these statments were
made by him from sheer malice. Pinto
is now in solitary confinement for an in
fraction of prison discipline, and this
story of the murder is believed to have
been concocted by him for the purpose
of effecting his temporary release.
HEROIC DEED.-LAwRENcE, Mass,
Jan. II. Yesterday afternoon disabled
soldier, Lieut.. George Wilton, formerly
of the LIST Vermont Regiment, who lost
all arm at the battle of Cedar Creek
and who still follows his trade as house
sign and fancy painter in this city, per.
formed bold, heroic and humane act in
the rescue of two little fellows, sons Of
Mr.. Patrick Foster, Councilman of Ward
-Four, from drowning. They were cross
ing the Spicket river on their way tc
school when the ice gave way in the mid
die of the river aud let them into the
water. They chung to the ice, but il
kept breaking. A crowd on the shore
stood appalled,, but Mr.. Wilton went out
as far as the ice would hold him, and
when it gave way, broke his way through
it, and swan alternately to the place
where one of the boys was clinging. He
procured a rail and it was seized by the
remaining boy, and the lad was drawn
ashore by rope thrown by the crowd
Mr.. Wilton swan around and at last mad
the satisfaction of seeing the head of the
other boy, who had become exhausted
and sank, just below the surface. He
grasped him by the hair and swan tc
the nearest solid ice and saved him also
WHAT A SMART MAN CAN Do.-One
who has pretty we'll run through the Pa
cific States shows in the following what a
smart man can do:
l have not been here year and see
what | have done First / wrote poe
try for cheap monthly at 50 column.
This did not pay. / then started mill
tary company and was elected Captain,
married an heiress, and became editor
and part owner of California paper
was made President of Temperance
society and poultry association. Sold
out, bought share in circus company
moved towards the Sandwich Islands
mutinied on the way, lost all the horses
and traps, and saved only a $1,000 out
of the concern. My wife died, and now
l am married second time, and living
very comfortable on farm.
- An Irish doctor in Auburn, w. T.
is said to have invented the desideratum.
n motive engines, We ritable iron horse
The machine does not go on wheels, but
walks like horse, on four legs, which
rise eight inches and make forward move
Of eighteen at every revolution OF cen.
ter shaft which works them. The shaft
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