The Portland daily press., 1875-07-30

A detective who has been working up the
case of the Winthrop bank robbers gave
PRESS man long account Of the exploits OF
those three lively and persevering cracksmen
who found their reward at Winthrop.
Tuesday night an attempt was made to rob
the bank at Dexter. The thieves entered the
building and succeeded in opening safe which
had been used until within recent date, in
which they found nothing. The new safe
was too much for them, and they gave up the
job They made their way to st. Adams vii
lage. dozen miles or so distant One of them
approached knot of men and asked where he
could get dinner. The place was pointed out
but as he was leaving, one of the knot asked
the stranger if he had heard of the attempt to
rob the Dexter bank. He seemed surprised,
made few enquiries, asked where he could
hire team to take him to Hartland, forgot
about dinner and went for the conveyance. He
told the stable man that there were three of
them, and that they would want a double
team. There was a little delay in getting a
double team, but by the time the team was
ready the other two appeared. and with a
young man as driver, they set out for Hartland,
two and half miles. On their way to Hart
land they persuaded the driver by liberal
tender of money to take them to Athens,
about ten miles further. On the road little
incident happened worthy of note. A rabbit
ran across the road IN the woods in front of the
team The driver made an exclamation, when
out came three revolvers. At Athens they
got another team to take them to Scion, eight
miles distant. Just as they arrived there in
the evening, one of them got out of the car
rage, and little further on the others alighted
They went to the hotel and enquired about
the distance to the Somerset Railroad to Skow.
hogan, etc. On being informed that an express
team left at six o'clock in the morning for
Arson, which would be reached in time to take
the stage to Madison Bridge, the present ter
minus of the raaroad, they desired to be called
in time to go. When they went to their rooms
the polite attendant offered to take their
travelling bag, but the one having it kindly
declined, saying it was no trouble to him. The
man, however, now states that he ''hefted''
the bag in the morning and found it very
heavy. 1t probably contained the implements
of the robbers. Here it may be stated that the
tools left at Winthrop exactly fit the marks
made in the Dexter safe. The three took the
express the next morning Thursday and pur-
chased tickets for West Waterville and there
got tickets to Leeds Junction. At Leeds
Junction two Of them purchased tickets back
to Winthrop and one for station further east.
Yesterday morning Mr. Foster who drove the
stage in which the men rode from Scion TO
Madison Bridge, arrived in Boston, having
been telegraphed to go thither to see if he
could identify the men under arrest as those
who rode 10 the stage. The Boston Journal OF
last evening says that he immediately identi-
fed two of them, but could not swear as to the
third, but was quite confident that he is the
man. He had shaved or otherwise changed his
appearance. The cashier of the Winthrop
bank telegraphed Boston yesterday that the
"men who rode in the stage are the men who
robbed the lank." County Attorney White
house of Augusta has asked a requisiton Of
Gov. Dingley to have the men brought o
Augusta for examination, and His Excellency
has complied with the request. The trail of
the robbers was struck at Dexter by Officers
| Gary and Wormell.
The three men discharged at Augusta We'd
nesday after examination purchased tickets to
| Montreal, but sold them in the cars at Gard
| liner for So each and went on the Boston train.
THE MEN DISCHARGED.
A Bosten despatch last night says that "Big
| George" John Anderson and George Ford,
arrested there Tuesday night on suspicion of
| being the Winthrop bank robbers, have been
discharged. Three parties arriving from Win
throp to identify them, declare they were not
| the men sought