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

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couple of expensive canes which were in
the hat stand. the dsmounIcd sticks of
which were left kicking about the hall.
The plated ware, and even the knives were
taken from the sideboar}, but .his was all,
the real silver utensils being in an ornamen-
ted iron safe which stood in one of the par
lors. The safe possessed a combination
lock. and was considered burglar proof. a.
the result disproycd. The thieves did not
seemed disappointed TO find nothing but
plated articles ON the sidcboard, and
apparently knew by instinct where
the real simon pure article was
contained They went Immediately TO the
safe. which they had evidently come pre-
pared to grapplc with. and covering it with
clothes TO dcadcn tie sound Of the ex-
plosion, after drilling several holes in the
door near the lock, they filled them with
gunpowdcr and touched off the fuse. The
gunpowdcr proved an clfcclual open
sesame The explosion shattered the
safe door completely. exposing 10 the
greedy eyes of the burglars four shelves
laden with an immense silver salvcr aud
LARGE pieces Of valuable plate. The rob-
hers had been three hours at work, and it
was now midnight, but the bound ser
wants in the kitchen had not dared to at
tempt an alarm. and all was still at the
cOaCh-housc. The real object Of the ex-
petition, too. was at last attained, and
the robbers lost no time in transferring
the contents Of the safe into carpct-bags
containing bits of clothes to prevent the
pieces of silver from clanking against
each other. Not satisfied with thus steal
ing all they could lay their hands ON
they proceeded to wreak their vengeance
on what they could not carry away, and
their trembling captvcs heard the crash
made by pieces of china falling to 'he
floor and furniture knocking together
The burglars grew so reckless in their
work of spoliation that one of the sen
tries outside had to leave his post to tell
them TO dcsist. Shouldering their stolen
property, and cautioning Armstrong and
his female friends from raising an alarm
or releasing themselves till morning.
they left the house, and proceed
ing to the residences Of Mr.
Mcigs and Livingston. which, as
before mentioned, are on the bank of the
Kill Won Kull, opposite Mr.. Soutier's
house, stole from thence two boats into
which they safely made passage to the New
Jersey shore. One of the girls whom they
had left behind them in the meantime had
succeeded in freeing herself from her COM
panion and managed to free the rest, but
none dared to avail themselves of their lib
crty till near daylight. Armstrong then
made his way to the coach-hOusc. where he
found Jackson and Baldwin sound asleep
in bissful ignorance of what had occurred,
although Baldwin said lie had passed by
the kitchen between nine and ten, that is
when the robbers were in the house. Arm
strongs cuffs were filed off and the police
| summoned, but all they did was to dis
cover that the boats were missing from
Messrs. Mcigs and Livingston, which
showed the track the robbers had taken
Mr. Soutter did not come to his pillaged
home during the day, but his repre-.
sentative interdcted all conversation con-
cernirg the affair on the part Of the ser
wants. and sent the cook and chamber
maids TO this city to make his order more
effective, Before the order was issued
however, on the landing where they were
70 take the fcrlyboat, they talked to such
purpose that soon the entire island was ac-
Quanlcl with all the particulars. Ii is
hardly necessary to say that beyond the
fact shown by the two boats heing missing
no clue il had to the perpetrators Of the
outrage. \ reliable estimate values the
amount of properly destroyed and stolen
nj .l2 600.