Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-09-20

but his speech suddenly became thick
and dreadful stupor crept over his
senses. "That boy would not tell
where he got the bill, and on your cvi-
dencc, Edward Warren, he was con.
yictcd and sentenced to solitary con.
finement for seven years. lie is my
brother, and am here to avengo him p
Such were the words heard by the
haplcss bank cashier as he sank sense.
less under the wine which the speaker
had drugged for him.
When Warren recovered his consci-
business firemen were dragging him
from the smoke which lad assembled
thickly TO his room from the bank be-
low, for the latter had been in flames.
Upon the extinction Of the fire it was
found that tho vaults had been robbed
of nearly $4,000 by the deliberate un-
locking of tho door. Further search
discovered match safe from the cash.
icr's room against the ruins of the fire,
and several bundled dollars of the
stolen money in drawer ofhis bureau.
The signs were clear that Edward
Warren, turning rDbber and trying to
bi1o his guilt by firing the bank, had
been overcome by the smoke, and
thus fell an easy prey TO detection.
lie was arrested indicted, and being
ashamed to tell the whole truth, oven
to his counsel, obsinately adhered to
the plea that he had drank some wine,
fallen asleep, and knew nothing that
happened thereafter. In his morbid
social pride he could not endure to con.
fess that woman had so egregiously
fooled him, and as neither court nor
public credited the incoherent defense
really offered, the trial ended in his
conviction Of larceny and arson and
condemnation to The Allegheny peni.
tentiary for life.
The venerable father OF the wretch.
ed convict--a farmer from the vicinity
of Buffalo-never believed that his son
was guilty, nor that he had told the
true story of his misfortune. By i'm.
portunity with the Governor Of the
State he at last gained permission Tor
an interview with his unhappy boy in
prison, and persuaded from him a full
confession. After the fire at the bank
Mary Kinnaird had never been seen in
Erie, nor could any one tell whittier
she had disappeared. Only by her
capture could the ex.cashier's misera-
bic situation be changed, and forthwith
the father devoted his every hour and
dollar to the task Of finding her. De.
tectivcs, supplied with minute dcscrip.
tions, secured several States in the pur-
suit, and finally took into custody a
woman of Pittsburgh, known as Kate
Fallon, the wife Of a celebrated forger
and counterieiter. Upon being charged
with the Erie robbery this person in.
dignanlty denied acknowledge ofeither
the City Bank or its former cashier,
but upon being suddenly addressed as
"Mary Kinnairdp by the elder Warren,
her changing countcnancc was testi-
mony against her, and the subsequent
discovery that her Pittsburgh house
and furniture was purchased with some
of the bills from the robbed bank seal
cd her fate. Tried at Erie, identified
by her -iotin and by the landlord Of
her former cottage, and seeing no
chance Of escape, she finally fully coa.
fessed her guilt. i'af
Throwing herself upon the clemency
of the court she told how her young
brother had gone to prison for attempt
ing to pass counterfeit money for her
husband, and how she had planned and
executed the ruin of the young bank
officer by whose instrumentality he
was brought to justice. But the court
did not deem her case a proper one for
mercy, and she was sentenced TO pris-
on tor life Nine years later the Gov
crnor pardoned her, in consideration of
testimony respecting her husband, by
which the latter dangerous counter
feiter was sent to take her place, and
she camc out Of her sell, a mere specter
of her former sell, TO become but a
wreck indeed very soon thereafter,
AS for Edward Warren, the Buffalo
Neics, from which chiefly these facts
were compiled, says he and his devoted
father departed for some Western
State Immediately after bis release
from prison, and, as the events above