Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-05
One of the Most Daring Robberios on
REGARD,

The Kansas City (Mo.) Times of Sept. p has
the following account of a crime which was in
adequately noticed by the telegraph;
A short time before shutdown yesterday Mr..
Church White, the treasurer of the Exposition
association, had visited the Twelfth street gate
and taken away the receipts of the afternoon,
amounting TO about S12, 200, at that gate. There
was left in the till 1918, and this was the sum
the robbers realized.
About half an hour after Mr.. White went
away with the bulk of the receipts the three
men rode up from the direction of Twelfth street.
They were disguised with pieces of checked cloth
drawn down over their foreheads and below their
eyes.
AT the time of their arrival an unintermittent
stream OF carriages and pedestrians was surgng
out of the gate on their way home from the
show. The largest of the three men quietly dis
mounted, handing the reins of his horse to one
of his confederateS, and walked up to the ticket
booth, which is a small building located lust to
the right of the gate as you 20 in. The till, a
large tin box, stood on the counter nearly in
front of the arched window through which the
tickets were sold.
The desperate reached through the window
and Selling the box attempted to make off
Meanwhile his contederateS sat on their horses
like statues, holding the horror stricken crowd
paralyzed at bay with their drawn navy re-
yolvers, and threatening instant death to the
1rSt man that moved muscle. 1t was one of
those exhibitions of superb daring sthat chills
the blood and transiXeS the muscles of the
locker on with a mingling of amazement, adj
miration and horror. 1t was one of those rare
instances when it seems as though death stood
in the panoply of the flesh and exhaled a petri-
lying terror from his garments. IL was a deed
so high handed, so dabolically daring, and so
utterly in contempt of fear that we are bound to
ad nire it and revere its perpetrators for The
very enormity of their outawry.
When the dismounted robber had got hold of
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ticket seller, Mr., Ben Wallace rushed out of the
door of the booth and grappled with him. But
the desperate had already seized the money,
thrust it in his pocket, and thrown the box
away. AS Wallace grapped the man the con-
tederate, who was mounted, fred at him. but
simultaneously with the flash Wallace let go of
the man and ducked his head. The ball passed
over him and hit a little girl who stood in range
Just beyond him, INJECTING severe wound in the
calf of her LEG.
Quicker than we can say it, the man had
mounted his horse, and the three broke for
twelfth street and thence eastward toward the
woods at Il speed that would have put Restless
to his mettle TO emulate. Whence they came or
whittier they went no one knows; but they
came and went, and while they stayed they
made page in the criminal history of the coun-
try that will probably stand for many years
single and singularly for wild audacty, recll-
less courage, inylncible nerve, and utterly indie
scnbable daring. This raid was undoubtedly
planned to BAG the entire amount of the re-
ceipts, the intention probably being to catch
Church White. He luckily missed them-or
they him-by half an hour.