New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-06-23


spo he lived in this city waterngplace and was
usually well supplied with money, except when rednceu
by gambling His habit has been, for years. TO replcnis
nv forgery or other crimes. Against him, ana suon
known outlaws wond imagine that the hue oae
would be raised aud maintained, until New 80 haon
too hot to hold them" But like others nc ~ hayn
tolerated until his ingenuity and a na ,os inst
reached the hight of tthe gigantic fraud between
been perpatrated As TO the relations ,,,,ro s,ate
| wilkes and some OF the detectives 'no i'''''
ments may afford some light; nnvvv
| THE GRAFTON BANK hoDn -, 90,
| ,hS 'i ~, lures we're made in the trial OF
49,, -. -, ohbers at Worcester, Mass, IN 'ne
| AIT doys 10 tbe nresent MONTH ohe vi 'no Hi'"
oorned IN tho robbery and In the DIVISION Vi 'o 'P'
to1 s,oto,s evidence, and made statement 80 'o",
49,, ,stent that 1t bore every impress OF TRUTH anu
-, 49,, II Of the wellknown criminal lawyer run .no
az ' IoIce Court who was employed to defend the
AV r. failed 10 weaken confuse the evidence Inc
IN were convicted, and are now awaiting sentence
Tqe robbery took place in last October Inc men con
cerned in It were Doekerty, Gleason, Dunn and ker
| riean OF New-York, and Sam. PERKS OF "Or-
| cester. Their rendezvous was ct the house OF
WEIGH in the suburbs OF Worcester, except In
the earlier stages Of the plot when they met at Perrss
house. They obtained by the robbery about $4,000 IN
money and bonds Returning to Welch's house In the
night they made merry for while, drinking wine ana
counting the spos and then, placing the latter In
sache left in Welchs keeping, with instructions 10
bring 1t to NewYork upon receiving note from one OF
the number. Wech testified that the third day fol-
lowing he directed letter to bring the satchel and
its contents to New-York. He faithfully complied, and
was glad apparently, to be relieved OF his dangerous
| responsibility. He met Gleason and Perris here and,
after they had dned Jem Maces they all went 70 the
house Of George Wilkes the noted fOrger-not the
J EDITOR, who it had been agreed, was to OBJ
| tain money for the bonds. Wilkes said that
| he could find who would pay W
per cent for the bonds, the men were
willing take that but that the cops must be squared
first tngD Dunn one Of the robbers had already been
arrested The bank had offered reward Of $4,000 for
the recovery of property and 1t was said that
the detectives demanded this amount the price OF the
release of Dunn and that they would agree, that TINS
was paid there should be other arrests Wkess prop
otons were agreed and he went and returned IN an
hour and half bringing the proceeds of the sale OF the
bonds He said it all right that he had paid Detect
ire McCord s15O OO aud that Dunn pOuld be released
The other mems shares set apart, and Welch re-
ceived 5000, which. however, he claims to have re-
turned. Reuben Perris the father of SAM White con
veying the latter's share TO him. I'm New-York, was
stopped by two men, who said "YOu are Sam Perris's
father and you have got Sans share of the Grafton
Bank money; we officers and you must go with u.s.
They led him into private place. took the money from
him. and released him. He was glad to make his escape
as he assured WEIGH Dunn for whose release $4,000 Is
alleged to have been paid was released promptly under
the following circumstances The Worcester authorities
were duly informed that supposed to he one of
the Grafton Bank robbers held here the keeper OF
the hotel at Grafton where the men had stayed Tor
few hours, was sent to identify the prisoner
Dunn stood up among two
| OF others, but the hOtelkeeper failed to
identify him. aud thereupon released at once
The hotekeeper went home indignant because, as he
alleges he had not had fair opportunity to identity
Dunn. The DOwn-Easters maintain that 1t was all "a
put-up lob; that the officers. knowing well who the
robbers were had simply seized Dunn hostage, 70
tho of aOiVo of
by the thieves by bank In the subsequent work
ing up case with the result that the robbers were
arrested and convicted He Neio-YOrk officers had 30
share There is the contrary very strong ndica-
ton that robbers looked upon the NewYork Officers
as their best friends The testimony of Assistant Mar
shall Washburn Worcester who arrested Sam Perris,
shows that latter had singular desire to appeal to
| New-YOrk Justice When arrested In Hobokeh
he gave the officers trouble when ne reached S cify
he became every violent insisted on beingltaken 10
| nolice station: demanded no taken to citation
| house; was restrained with difficulty" When
| bankrobbers become nearly unmanageabe In
their violent anxiety to be presented at our
| police stations some explanation seems TO become
necessary The Court at Worcester when this testi-
mony was given remarked, in charity to our Police
Headquarters that "t nothing against man that
he wanted to he taken to station-house to learn
whether requisiton correct" If that however,
was Perriss only object, would suppose that he
would rather have sought staonhouse in Hobcken, or
at all events have carefully guarded against coming
within the grasp of Ncw-York police. 1t may be said
though that he expected to receive the aid of friends
here 1t happens however that his residence relations,
| and friends were in Worcester. just where he was
| wanted" Upon the whole, it would appear that he,
also knew something about the alleged "squarng" OF
the COPS that he expected to obtain some benefit
from the original agreement that arrests should be
made" So shrewd the bank robbers that they avoid
arrest and punishment; and yet dull as to set apart
$4,000 to Square cops" who really to compromise
| with crime
GLOVER. THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. JAIL BOSTON.
To many persons, for four five years past, VIM. A.
Glover now in Suffolk JAIL Boston, has been myth,
| haunting the pureus of crime heard of now here
there busy ingenious hidden in the shadowy back
ground and known chiefly through his agents. Stolen
bonds were offered for sale, from time to me persons
attempted obtain commissions by buying them for the
banks which had Them others obtained stolen bonds
for fraudulent purposes the supply was unfailng so
long as purchasers could be found; all manner Of
pcous characters appeared in the capacity of brokers
for the sale of stolen bonds; but their principal al
ways under cover. Ultimately Gloyers iden-
| tity and actual relations were gradually dis
| closed too many men had become the repOs-
itories of his secrets II became known that he both
possessed large quantities of stolen bonds and could
reach nearly the whole Of the 100000 which
had from time to time been stolen and held by
ceivers Weather and cautious than himself
But while there were constant references TO him the
principal source from which stolen bonds thrown
upon the market, he appears have established too
intimate relations with police authorities and political
magnates to admit of his feeling otherwise than entirely
secure in his operations Gangs OF cracksmen resored
TO him secretly dispose of their booty he throve by
their reckless Of their money, aided them when In
need insgated them TO fresh crimes, and, above ALL
knew precisely what officers it necessary to see
in order to purchase immunity for himself and his
\ friends
Curiosity to see Glover and to hear much post,
| bic of his story from his lips led TRIBUNE re-
IN xisit IA in Iail