Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-07-01
ROBBERY BY AID OE STEAM.

An important arrest was made in New ork
on Friday hi sht in the capture OF three notori-
o,,- burglars willie attempting to plumber the
Eighth Avenue Savings Bank. The New ork
Commercial OF Saturday evening gives the fol-
loving history o: the attir:
II appears that the house on Eighth avenue
Ali iulng the bank is kept as billiard saloon
tv \ man Lamcd Gilmore. This bulldog Is III
rIl, shape OF au l., and runs through iuto Four
t,ef.th street, GILMORE a!S) keeping danclug
.,.,Ir,ny UP stairs About twelve clock last
,,ishr, rs officer Keller, OF the sixteenth pre-
,uc,. was patrollng through Eighth avenue,
and while passing the bank. he heard click
i,,r uoiS, in the basement, which sounded very
much like hammerlng on some hard substance
The oticrr walked short distance away and
rallied tficer Sinclair, and told him what he
lad heard, and then asked him to 90 to the
>ta,iol-hou>c aud get some meo.
The officer went to the S,atlon-house and re-
,orr,d what he had heard to- Captain Cherry,
wio immediately started to the above named
,E,,, wiIh rouudsmcu Parct, BurDs, aud Ait
rn, and after listening to the hammcrlng
,Aor, tin. !ult assured that an attempt was be-
irg made to break into the hauk and posted
t,> irr,! 81 that they would surround the build
Z.
tlm,,tcd 10 force an entrance into the basement
rw.yr lhe restaurant when the burglars, hear,
II. The noise ceased work and rushed up stairs
10 the dancing hall, and there got through the
widows into the yad and scaled the fence.
Raunl>men Burus and Aiken, who were near
Fifteenth street, saw the men sealing the fen
cr> aud ran down to Ninth avenue ami Four
trcn,h street to head them off.
They captured the three men as they at
tempted to escape over a fence next door TO
Mayor llavrmtyers house, aud brought them
back To where the captain and other officers
were. lie ctfcerS soon succeeded in getting
into the restaurant, then searched the house,
tipdluy a cold clisc in Gilmore's apartments,
while his watch ana chain were In his vest,
hanging on chair, but he could not be found.
The cellar was visited, and It was then found
that the ra>culs had cut away the wall between
the tui.iing they were in and the bank, dl-
rrc,ly behind the safe \ small steam boiler
was fitted up ready for use. and it is the opln
mn Of the police that the burglars intended
u,lu. steam drill to bore into the safe. a
heavy maet was found on the floor, which Is
of Tie patcrn usually used by burglars; hav-
ys cad on one end and wood on the other so
a> 10 dcadeu the sound Some dents were
found in the safe, and the poiut Of the chise
WutcN was louHu III ulluUTc : IUUu uIteu tuc
dcut> exactly.
None of the drills that they intended using
could be found, however, andit is thought that
they did not iutcud to use them until tonight
and, therefore did not bring them there. The
i.rIcvc> pot ouly cur through the brick wall,
iut through IA block of granite which was i'll
tie rear ot the Safe After long search for
Gilmore 10 the ucighborhood, which proved
Useless, the other prisoners were brought to
the >tatonhousc ami gave their names as fol-
Iow> John Simpson, Charles Sanhoru, and
William Morgan, after which they were locked
up Officers we're left at the bank to guard it,
and some ofthe bank officials were notified, and
immediately hurried to the spot and made an
examination Of the place, finding that the
tiicvc> did not succeed in lujurug the safe to
any great extent, nor did they get into the bank.
The news spread like wlIdfre, and crowds of
lroplc gathered about the hank this morning.
The prisoners were taken to the central Office,
where Morgan was recognized as IL we'll knuwn
diet having several aliases.