The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-31
A BURGLARIOUs BONANZA

THE NORTHAMPTON BANK ROBBERY.
NO LESS THAN $4,000 WORTH OF BONDS
TAKEE-HOw THEY EFFECTED TT-LIsr OF
THE MISSING PROPERTY-THE PRINCIPAL
SUFFERERS.
SPRINGFIELD. MASS, Jan. E.-The burglars
who entered the Northampton Bank Wednes-
day night, first securing the cashier in his home
and taking from him the keys of the vault, took
large amount ofsecurites, a considerable por-
ton not being negotiable.
Boston, Jan. 2T.-Lster detailsof the robbery
at Northampton Tuesday night by masked rob-
bars state the result as something appalling.
TIE table of securities taken shows total of
500 0O0 or course mucn Of this Is not negotiable,
so that IL is difficult to estimate the real loss to
the bank and depositors The bank officers offer
reward of 81 900 for the return of the property
and the conviction OF the burglars. The loss
falls comparatively lightly upon the bank, the
greater part of the securities belonging to special
depOsitOrS. The robbers entered the house of
Cashier Whitteeay and bound, ga .g,d and
guarded for hours seven people. They com
PEELED him TO give them combination ofthe safe
vault, waited until they knew the night watch
man had gone home, aud then, getting into the
safe with only one OF the four Keys needed,
pert had TO be summoned from New York and
the lock was not opened until an early hour this
morning. The cashier, W hittlesay, when asked
to give the three com limitations to the vault for
the outer, inner aud chest doors, gave them
wrong twice and thrice, but the burglars
wrote them down and made him repeat them.
OF course they caught him in the attempt 10
mislead and the exhibition OF a pistol COM
PEELED him to tell the truth. though he told them
that four keys were necs sSary TO open the
patent lock, three OF which were at the house
of the other bank officers. At o'clock A NJ,
Whittlesay was taken 70 down stairs bed
room. The whole family were gagged, and four
of the burglars withdrew to operate on the
ceeded Ia freeing herself and giving an alarm
from Window The whole party were
WRes4nyg tbe and the cashier s
bank. At the house workman soon after fitted
a key and all the persons handcuffsd were re-
leased. An examination of the bank showed
that the cracksmen had unlocked the outer
door, but were apparently baked by the safe
They tried to get of the door with iI bars A and
wrenched II the dial, which served as an index
for the working combination. They were
entirely unmo.esIed, the watch Having gone
home. There is every indication that six and
perhaps all of them left on the O'Clock train.
one ~paid his fare. Many of the appliances,
1t was remarked, were homemade. The gags
were chiIdrenis rubber balls pierced with stiff
wire. The masks were drawers legs, some with
one hole and some With two for the eyes. When
the robbers saw Whittlesay was watching them
carefully for some marks of Identification, they
blindfolded him, But he observed that one OF
them was of very cOmmaC ding stature. The
two or three robbers lett to guard the prisoners
at the house took their departure In season to
catch the Springfield train. At the latest ad-
vices no information had been received Of the
robbers. The
TABLE OF FUNDS TAKEN
cagO, Rock Island & Pacific railroad $50. o.; Lake
Shore q Michigan Southern shares, $50 o; Chi
cage. Burlington Quincy Fights, $1,000; Cleve-
land, Columbus & Cincinnati, $1,000; Union
Pacific. $4,000; Ohio & Mississippi second mort
cages. sl65OtO; United States bonds, s55, 200;
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Re, $4,000; Fort
Wayne, Jackson Saginaw, SO 600; Ogdens-
burg Lake ChamplaIn, 10 coo; Missouri Pacific;
sD.UtO registered stock and bonds of the United
states and various corporations, from S3j0,000 TO
s4OO,OO; greenDacks and national bank bills,
slO,OO; Detroit. Lansing Lake Michigan,
800; New York & Erie bonds. s7,OOO; Marine
state bonds, $1,000; Hudson River railroad
the securities abstracted: Missouri Pacic rail-
road, No. 3,729, due 1886, and No. 1873, due 1885,
Northern Missouri railroad, NO. 1884, due 1886,
No. $40, due 1889; consolidated Cairo Fulton,
No 1856, due 1888; No. 1881, due lSSs; No. $780,
Rock Island q Pacific bonds, Nos. 81, ,S2s, CAS-,
S SSs ana ia SgS fTo w. obo Missi nSnds
bonds, Nos. 1888 and 1884: three Lake Share &
Michigan Southern sinking funds. No. 90, 81
and 22l. and 5000 Union Pacific sinking
5,l54, Inclusive o the total amount stolen, a
loss of only $4,000 falls on the bank. The
heaviest indfvidal sufferers are as follows: Ex-
Judge G. L. Forbess, $1,000 United States six
per cent. bonds registered, $500 Co., hye
per cents: registered, and an $4,000 s ma
90 in United states bonds; Henry
Bright a large amount OF negotiable bonds; J.
Warren. 1900 in negotiable bonds; y. g. Spill
man, 5000 In negotiable bonds; VIM. GAYLORD,
5000 ia United states bonds. Mrs. l., NJ
Turner, Dr. 5. A. Fiske, Richard Bingham
and Horace o. Collins are also among
the principal sufferers. A small
safe in the vault, which the burglars considered
too insignificant to touch, contained $500 de-
posted by Harvey Kirkland, and $4,000 In
bonds belong ng TO the Hopkins Academy, and
much other valuable property. By locking the
doors of the vault the burglars got twenty-four
hours start OF the detectives, besides having
time to negotiate much of the stolen property
before the fact of the burglary was known.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Jan. H.-Of the from
$4,000 to S770oOO taken by the burglars from the
Northampton Bank, from $4,000 to 100000 are
in registered ponds and certificates OF stock and
so not negotiable.