The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-30

INK ROBBERY BY TIE Aln OF STEAM
.,.upogtaut arrest WAS made in New York
friday night in the capture OF three no.
ISIS burglars. while attempting to plum
w.. he EI-hth-Avcnue Savings Bank. TIE
Nv York Commercial! of Saturday evening
i. the loi owing history of the affair:
!. "tIrgr> that the house. on Eighth ave-
..a adjoining the bank is kept As Il billiard
doom Is nan named Gilmore. This
.i,n- i in Tie shape of L. and runs
o.. .-.h into Fourteenth street, Gilmore also
>--. .r- danc:ng.academy up stairs. About
:. -nrk last night, a officer Keller, Of the
>s'-4:h precinct. WAS patro!ng through
E.a venue. and while passing the bank,
/. arA i clicking noise in the basement,
a. =. bundled very much like hammerinw
o. 81" bard substance. The officer lhed
a,..g; distance away and called officer Sin
y-s. auI told him what he had heard, and
,,.m a,>"d him 10 90 TO the station-house
81 =: me men.
.-r,t.ter Weut to the station.houSe and
Pr I'D what be bad heard to Captain
,-.@y. Who Immediately started TO the
. ..~.a.Iurti place with roundsmen Paret.
...-. und Aiken. and after listening to the
......ng Il short time tclt assured that an
.... i va being made 10 break into the
... ma posted bis men so that they would
...4nd the building. The Captain, with
Keller. then attempted 10 force an en-
.-..r.. into the basement under the restau-
49,. "hcn the burglars. hearing the noise,
-...i work and rushed up stairs to the
. ~ hall. and there got through the win
e., 49,, into the yard and scaled the fence.
!; al>mcn Burns and Aitken, who were
.l- Fifteenth street, saw lh'. men scaling
-. noes. and ran down 10 Ninth avenue
-.i Fourteenth street 10 head them of.
hey captured The three men Is they At
'M.rt-d 10 escape over Il fence next door 10
MAJOR Havemey cr's house. and brought them
!..., 10 where the captain and other officers
H..-. The Officers soon succeeded in get
49, into the restaurant. then searched the
....>,., rindin- cold chi>el in Gilmore'S
al.r.mcnts. while his watch and chain were
ii IL, vest, hanging on chair, but he could
u; &c found. The cellar was visited, and
]. ....- then found that the rascalS bad cut
."4y the wall between the building they
w., in and the bank, directly behind the
ST. a small steam-boiler was fitted up
= r. Tor Use, and it is the opinion Of the
r,l.,. that the burglars intended using a
,'.m.drii! 10 bore into the safe. A heavy
.a,iIrt was found on the floor, which is Of
iae pattern usually used by burglars, having
i~td on one end and wood on the other so
=, 70 dcadcn the sound. Some dents were
iouI1 in the safe, and the point of tire chisel
when was found in Gilmore's room fitted
liz dents exactly.
None of the drills that they intended using
could be found, however, and it is thought
INA they did not intend 10 use them until
lJ.,irht, and, therefore, did not bring them
there. The thieves not only cut through
tn brick wall, but through block Of
"v4nte which was in the rear Of the safe.
An.r long search for Gilmore in the neigh
5g:uood, which proved useless, the other
jli,,ners were brought 10 the station-house,
and rave their names as follows: John
Simrson, Charles SanborD, and William
MYrsan: after which they were locked up:
Officer, we're left at the bank to guard it, and
SOME of the bank officials were notified, ana
Immediately hurried to the spot and maze an
examination of the place, finding that the
thieves did not succeed in inJurlng the SAFE
% any great extent, nor did they get into the
bank The news spread like wildhre, ana
ds OF people gathered about the bank
Iii, morning. The prisoners were taken to
tic central Office, where Morgan was recoS-
I.llrd as well-known thief, having several
;1i->cS.