Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-17

The UXBRIDGE BANK RoBBERY.-Facts
parties that were concerned in the robbery of
the Blackstone national bank at UXbridge are
constantly coming TO light and the movements
of the burglars up to the morning following the
robbery, are nearly all known, but as yet no
important clue has been obtained as to their
present whereabouts. For n week prior TO
Thursday last, a man, who gave his name as
Nelson of Baltimore, had been stopping at the
fremont house in Boston. He is described as
being large and heavy. On Tuesday he obtained
horse and buggy at the livery stable of J. E.
Maynard in Boston, and the animal when re-
turned had the appearance of having been
driven q long distance. The man Immediately
paid all damages claimed by the proprietor and
departed The following Thursday he again went
to the same stable and hired a barouche, stating
that he wanted a good pair of horses to take a
party of five out for a drive. He refused the
services of driver, claiming that he wished to
manage the team himself The horses and
barouche were furnished him but he has not
since been seen, nor the barouche, until Monday
when it was returned to the stable. 1t is the
same one that was seen in Holliston and Mil
ford at an early hour on Saturday morning. At
the latter place TWO of the party of i've left, and
afterwards were seen to get upon the cars at the
Milford depot. 1t was then driven to South
birmingham, arriving about halEpast seven
O'Clock in the morning. Here two more of the
party got out, and the man giving his
name as Nelson, drove the team to ii
fnia ne CHI .lO hn,,
that he would return for it in few mo-
mentS 1t is supposed that he then reloined
his companions, and that the three took train
over the Boston and Albany railroad. This
contradicts the story that two teams were left
under the church shed in Uxbridge on the night
of the robbery or the men must have detached
the horses from the barouche and attached them
to two single teams, which would necessitate q
change of harnesses. AS nothing of the kind
has yet been learned, it is probable that the
barouche was driven to the immediate vicinity
of the town, and there left in charge of the fifth
man while the others plundered the bank The
description of Nelson is not the one given by
the teller of the bank, and it is now fully be-
lieved that Sam Perris was the one that entered
the vault. In the room were full set of bur-
glars tools that were left there two years ago
by parties who made an unsuccessful attempt
to rob the bank. One of the jimmies from the
kit was used in opening the trunks, and all tho
tools were taken away by the burglars.
A BRooKFIELD observation-disclosures. G.
and c. Merriam have presented to the city
library for preservation thin folio volume, con-
n;,,;,, ,1,,,-c r. IL
Farmers Journal, published in Brookfeld,
Worcester county, by their ancestor and relative
Gather and uncle) i. Merriam and Co. These
numbers bear date 1899, 1900, and 1901 and their
contents carry one back with vivid impressions
to the events of that period. One of them con-
tains one of Bonaparte's famous procamations
of the time, dated Alexandria, 9th Thermidor,
and addressed to "Citizen Directors" Another
from Masscna, Zurich, Oct. o. 1899, and to the
same then ruling power Of France. Another
has Thomas Jclferson'S inaugural then
just delivered. Another announces the death
OF Washington, the paper clothed in mourn
lug, coffin, names and positions of pail
bearers, and an announcement Of the effect of
the tdngs through the land. The latest dates
from Europe are six weeks old, from New York
about one week, and from Washington two
Caleb Strong was governor of Massachusetts,,
Micah Stone had just been ordained at Brook
field, and the whole aspect of the world dOmes-
tic and foreign, is such as presented itself sew
enty-fye years ago. +. Merriam & Co. were
graduates of the Worcester Spy office, which,
then controlled by Isaiah Thomas, became In
this sense, the progentor of many other inluen-
tia journals BroOkfeld was then the town of
pre- eminent Importance between Worcester and
the Connecticut river, being noted resting
point for the stage-coach, then the only public
means OF passenger transit, and having early
drawn settlement to its fertile plains, and the
margin of its ponds and streams, ready pre-
pared by previous Indian cultivation. What
are now the four BrOokfelds, then constituted
one township, West BrookheId being the
first parish and the town, as whole
being scarcely less distinguished for
its celebrities than Worcester itself. Among
them are Dwight Foster, representative and
senator in congress aud chief Justice of the
court of common pleas; Jabcz Upham, repre-
sentative in congress; Judge DOrr OF the court
of common pleas; Judge Pliny Merrick; the
Draper family, long and widely known-one Iof
the sons of which subsequently developed into
collector of the port Of New York, and another
United States consul at Paris; the Bannister
family, the Ruggles, the Walker family, from
which have sprung General Francis Walker, the
present accomplished superintendent Of the
United States census, and his father, Amasa
Walker, the wel-knuwn writer on political
economy. These attractions and this position of
importance Of Brookiield, Iirst drew thther the
young graduates from the Worcester printing
office, and led TO the establishment in the last
century, of the political Repository. "-Spring-
Eetd Republican.