Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-18
Delaware's Treatment Of Bank
~ So Robbers. - - "a

really healthy for bank bursters. -Four
distinguished members of that fraternity
three Of whom have graduated with
all the honors that the grand lodges at
Sing Sing and Auburn could confer
were on Wednesday, at Newcastle, Del,
placed in the pillory and afterwards
| logged with nine-thonged whip, in the
presence of about 2, 600 spectators, and
at the close of the fiagellation they,
severally and collectively, entered upon
q course of ten years mural solitude
within the walls of the Newcastle C9un-
ty Prison. Delaware, having only three
counties In its whole territorial area, is
not ponlpous enough to have State
prison! sG y. ftsi = -l5rss- ~. So
The gentlemen referred to are known
in police and detective circles as Frank
nj. Carter, alias Frank Mcdonald, alias
Mccoy James Hope, alias James
Thomas, alias James j. Watson James
Brady, alias Ed FL. Hurlburt, and Joe
Howard, alias James Kingsley, ali IS Jo-
seph Lawlor. On the evening of the
18th of November last, while the family
of Samuel Floyd, cashier of the National
Bank of Delaware, at Wilmington, were
about to seat themselves at the tea table,.
a light rapping was heard at the front
basement door. Mr.. Floyd left the table
and opened the door, and instantly FIVE
or six men, masked and wearing blue
army coats, entered, and, closing the
door, commanded immediate silence, un-
der penalty of death, One held pistol
to Mr.. Floyds head while another hand
cuffed him, and the five or six other
members of the family, being all females,
xvara alfnncf manic scfriaEar A xyonnor
girl named Hates, niece of Mr.. Floyd,
seemed to swoOn away and while the
marauders were busy making safe dis
position of the other persons, Miss Hates
quietly crawled to the door, opened it,
ran up stairs in the dark, and, escaping
to the street, gave the alarm. One or
two of the miscreants pursued her, but
seeing that there was a hue and cry
raised they returned hastily and notified
their associates to quit, which they did.
A police officer encountered three of
them, but they beat, him with black
jacks and escaped, throwing away in
their flight their masks, some gags, the
blue coats and other articles. Lanterns
were obtained, and the discovery of
these articles served to reveal their fu-
gitive course. Next day scne parties
VIM hd0 FfCdSEu SOUit dlJdI W d
number of men whose actions were mys-
FERROUS, gave notice of the fact. and the
four prisoners above named were ar
rested at their quarters. A large guam
tity of burglars implements were found
in their rooms, and among them por-
ton of sectional 90 Jimmy" the CORES
bonding part of which had been left at
Mr.. Floyd's house The disguise thrown
n int ha ca oil ha. a.
to within one block of where their
apartments we're located. This, together
with the fact that the Floyd household
testified that their ASSISTANTS were men
of good education and manners was all
the direct evidence on the subject. a1
Carter, Hope, Howard and Brady are
in person, education and department. far
above the ordinary range of criminals.
The Wilmington authorities scarcely
knew what sort of drove of elephants
they had got hold of, bnt detective
Charles Wood, of the Philadelphia po-
lice, was sent for, and he promptly E'lo-
Gated the men and furnished an insight
into their pedigrees. L ,@nE r.
They were promptly indicted, tried
before Judge Gilpin and q jury and con-
victed, and the Court sentenced each of
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lOry, to be whipped with forty lashes on
the bare back and TO be Imprisoned for
the term of ten years. f 81.
This antiquated town of high pitched
roofs and massive stone chimneys prides
itself some on its history as being the
place where William Penn first landed
and where he received the surrender of
the keys of the ancient port, then COM
manded by one of the old Dutch gov
ernors. But it had forgotten its dignity
on Tuesday night, and was bristling with
warlike men from eight o'clock until
near daylight. A rumor had got abroad
that the numerous and highly influential
friends of the criminal quartet were
coming on tug boats down the river TO
the number of 800 or 1000 from Phila-
delphia to attack the prison and make
rescue 1 sE @
The portentous information was cor
roborated at ten o'clock, by dispatch
to that effect from Philadelphia, which
closed by. recommending the telegraph
operator at Newcastle to lock up his of
fee and leave Then Newcastle " hung
out her banners on the outer walls, and
the cry was, " Let 'em come :" All the
shot guns, old muskets, bludgeons and
bowie knives in town, were taken ont of
the closets and wiped off, and Sheriff
Armstrong at once swore in posse of
sixty special deputy sheriffs, and to ev-
cry man of them gave a rusty old mus
ket, and seven or eight rounds of ammu-
milton. These were reinforced by as
many volunteers an hour or two later.
Then most of the ri1emen formed res
olution to go to the gin shops and get
some ammunition for their Intervals
because the night was cold, you know
and when they came out they had red
faces, their breath was as fatal as aqua
forts, and they'd fight anything if it
would only come down the Delaware to
be whipped. If there had been Wash
ington there to lead, there is no doubt
they would have "crossed the Delaware"
or even crawled along the bottom of
that historic flood in quest of Philadel-
phia roughs. In fifteen minutes they
were patrolling every street in town, in
small squads of two to ten, and an out
post went and sat down on the pier and
gazed up the river till their eyes bulged
out in the effort to see tugs, with plug
uglies, Fblood tubs" and thugs from
the Quaker city coming.
In the morning everybody was astir
early and there was q big crowd present,
as the men to be whipped were "a little
finer" than they generally get hold of
that they wore better clothes and had
''tender skins" and that the exhibition
generally was to be something out of
the usual line.
About one-half, at Least, of the women
and children in town rad remained up
all night in state bordering on terror,
for fear of the expected attack and sack
ing of the town, and the peril of their
relatives, whose duty twas to defend it.
1t was shameless heartless hoax, hatch
ed in the telegraph offices at Whining
ton and Philadelphia. 2.gy
Passing into the Jail yard one could
see the pillory and whipping post about
the centre of the enclosure, and some
negroes just completing temporary
board fence to keep the crowd away
from the post. The law requires that
the whipping and pillory penalties
should be inflicted between the hours of
8 a. N. and 4 p. m. y q are a7 III