The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-02

New GORK, Jan. /.
y iobbery, the success and audaCity of
which more than rivals some of the past
exploits of Jack Sheppard and his faithful
coadjutor Biucsliin. was pcrpctrated ON
Staten Island early Tuesday evening. The
scene of the exploit was the house of vii
liam X. Soutter, in Sailors Snug lIarhnr
which stands, overlooking the Kill Won
kull in the middle Of Il large yard about
sixty feet from the road that winds along
the shore. Immediately opposite. ON IL
point of land extending some distance into
the water, is the residence of c. X. Meiggs.
Further along, but within a short hundred
yards from the Souttcr mansion is the
house OF Charles Livingston. A conside-
ration of the topography of the scene is ne.
ccssary To follow the progress of the rob
berry. Mr.. Snuttcr is banker in GOOD
standing, doing business at No % William
street, in this city. Last week, Wednesday,
Mr. Souttcr with his wife and daughter.
came to New York Ia spend the holiday
season with friends, leaving the house in
charge of the cook, two chamLcrmaids and
the waiter who is M Englishman about 20
years old, named Robert Armstrong. While
these garrisoned the house proper the
coachmgn, Edward jackson, and the groom.
William Baldwin, slept in the coach house.
which is about fifty yards from the main
building. They were thus within an easy
call. and with the premises in tins way
guarded by three mon and three women the
silver plate and articles of hIoutcric ana
vertu, which the house was known to con.
tain, were considered perfectly secure. Mir.
Suuttcr visited the place Tuesday. the
very day of the burglary but find
everything in its usual condition, re-
turned to New York with an easy
conscience The master being gone
and certain not To soon return. the
servants, lcf, to follow their own devices,
thought to see the old year out before its
time by giving little iea-party, and ac-
corlinglv invited two of the female ser
wants OF Commodore Osgood of Yachting
notoriety, who lived in the ncighborhood,
to spend the evening with them. The
coachman and groom apparently We're not
on good terms with the house servants, and
on that account We're not asked, so that
young Robert, the waiter, was the sole
gallant for the five women. While the cup
that cheers but not inebriates was rapidly
circulating the door of the kitchen was
burst open, and eleven men, masked and
armed, bounced into the room Armstrong
started up, but was seized by the throat
and nearly strangled by the one who acted
as the leader of the party before he could
attempt to escape or resist, while one of
the chambcrmaids, whose name was Mar
garet, who had escaped into the laundry,
which adjoined the kitchen, and was in the
act of making her exit through the window,
was pulled back with the muzzlc of her
captor's pistol close to her temple. The
other chambermaid, who, overcome by her
potations of the Oriental beverage, had re-
"A nap, and, awakened by the noise of the
scuillc, had come down to see what the
matter was, was seized and bound before
her slecp-laden eyes had well comprehend
ed what they saw. The two servants OF
Commodore Osgood were also secured
without difficulty. All this had not been
accomplished without making good deal
of noise, as was shown from its disturbing
the nap of the last mentioned chambermaid
the kitchen is on the opposite side of the
building from the coach house, which ac-
counts for its not being heard by the garri-
son stationed there, while the distance of
the house from the street precluded all in-
reference from that quarter. Driving
their prisoners into the middle of the kitch-
en-, and threatening them with immediate
death if they made the leas' cutlery, the
robbers forced Il pair of steel handouts
over Armstrong; wrists; and tearing the
cloth which had covered the tea-table into
strips, with these they bound the prisoners
back to back. Armstrong was tied to the
fat cook, with whom he was always quar-
rcllng, while the two visitors were fastened
together, as was bclitting, and the two
chambermaids were nearly one flesh, Two
of the robbers then went outside to act ms
scntries, and leaving II third to guard the
prisoners, the remainder of the band set
out to pillage the house, The bedrooms
were fist visited, and the bureau drawers
robbed of the yaluabes they contained,
while portable ornaments were taken from
the mantlepieces, and they even took the