Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-05
The Case Of Miles.
An Inside View OF the Circumstances which
led to his Capture Some Of his Exploits.

contains take him all In all, the most consummate
rascal In the United States. The contest between
him and society being over for the present and
the ends Of justice subsorved, we are enabled to
lay before our readers an account Of some Of the
incidents connected with the pursuit and capture
Of the burglars which have never before been
made public
No noNon AMONG ruiFvrs
Miles owes his present sad plight In great part
10 his own selfshness, and his reluctance Of the
taking care Of anybody else except Number one
As Curcy mselfcxprcsses it, when the gang went
on the Barre expedition, George knew | was
broke Miles got bacl, to New York on the sat
urday after the burglary yet he did not 20 near
Mrs. Curley for a week, aud then said nothing TO
her Of Curlcy's arrest; but merely Informed her
that he had fallen OFF a train in Vermont and
that he would keep her posted lie forgot his
promise, however, aud she found ont through some
Of her friends, after while, what the trouble
really was. All this time she was utterly desti-
tute " money, and Miles not coming near her
she determined to 90 10 him, thinking that she
ought 10 have her husbands share Of the thirteen
hundred dollars In unsigned bills which we're
stolen, II nothing else. She found him at the
Hrevoort stables leading OF Of University place.
New York, and asked him for fifty dollars TO cna-
bic her TO move her furniture to Troy where her
mother lived lie said he didn have Il then: but
would bring it to her in q few days lie did not
come, and she sought him again. This time he
drew VIZ doHors from his pocket and said II that
would do her any good she was welcome to it,
She Indignantly refused IT, and turning on her
heel troubled him no more st this very time
fiji.
still owns, two or three good houses IN the up
per part Of the city, the Breyoor stables, which
are now carried on for him. and considerable per-
sonal property lie is estimated by good judges
well acquainted with him, to be worth more than
one hundred thousand dollars at low estimate
In spite Of an this, he gave nothing to Mrs Cur
ley In her strait, nor would he or Klngsand or
German contribute one cent towards bailing Cur
ley out. Meanwhile poor Pete was lying here in
jail recovering from his bruises, and feeling very
blue, indeed. As he Qatbetcally expressed ii in
his testimony, nobody came to see me" His
loyalty to his fellows would not permit his writing
home for that would give the officers the track
and his wife could not write to him for she did
not know what alias he had assumed Meanwhile
two Of petcs friends In New York, one Of them
Mike Murray, a famous Sporting character
there, had contributed the six thousand, the
amount Fixed as his bonds, and durag the first
part Of August Mckay, man about town " in
the metropolis, came 10 this village with the
money in his hands lie stopped at Windsor
where Pete then was, and told him how meanly
Miles and the rest had behaved towards him and
his wife This was the first word Curey had had
| from home since his arrest and it angered him
I greatly The result Of the bailing is well known
/ Curley was reauested on several writs against
| him and in behalf Of Cashier King and others,
and it was evident that no obtalnablc sum Of
money could release him. Pete had the satisfac-
ton Of knowing that his partners In the burglary
were enjoying themselves in New York, caring
nothing FOR him or his fate; indeed, he was
doomed TO ten or fifteen years Imprisonment, and
his wife and child were dependent on charity
crmEY GnE- THEM AWAY.
While these thing. were going on, sheriff Bal
ley. who, since the arrest Of Curley, had been
hard at work discovering traces Of the burglars,
and had in bits here and there picked up an amaz-
ing amount Of evidence as to the personal charac-
tenstcs Of the three others, had engaged Mr.
Wiggin to aid him in following up the scent in
New York where 10 was believed they were
Wiggiu had learned In some way Of the treatment
/ Curley had received from HE pals and it &c
CURED TO him that perhaps he would be willing to
| help the government little since he certainly
owed them nothing It was through his rcpresen-
tation that the disclosure was made Curey did
it Of his own free WILL as he says in his testimony,
and Mr. Dillingham; made no promises to him Of
any nature whatever a. to the consequences It
] ~. n.
Of capturing Miles and Kingsland is due and had
it not been for an enforced delay, caused by one
Of those provoking accidents for which nobody
can justly be made responsible, German would
have been caught too Under instructions from
her husband, Mrs Curley, who had visited Mont
/ peer twice under the name Of Mrs Cook, accom-
/ panied Wiggin to New York, and, disguised,
I pointed Miles German and Kingsland out to him,
and showed him their haunts Most Of their
walks were taken, Of course, in the night, and the
result was that Wiggin obtained the fullest infor-
nation about each one Of the gang, and was ready
two weeks before Mr.. Dillingham; could allow him
/ to arrest them all. II was during this delay,
caused solely by the inability Of Mr.. Dillingham;
to find Cashier King, who had gone to some place
( in Canada on visit, and failed to leave his al.
dress behind him at Barre-it being impossible to
hold either Of the burglars without his affidavit
that German got ont OF the way, and has not since
been found Mrs Curey was and is very much
embittered against all three on account Of theil
treatment Of her and her husband, and during
this waiting she made up her mind several time,
to have them arrested on her own hook One,
she saw Kingsand, while she was walking Will
Wiggn and itproyoked her SO that, catching Wig
gin By the arm she said Why don't you ares
that man? II you don't, Iwill gets patrolmanr
1t is due 10 Curley TO say that never, since lie frs
made the disclosure Of the names Of his partners II
the burglary to Wiggin, has lie given the govern
ment the slightest particle Of false information
nor as far as Mr. Dillingham; knows, has he with
held nythng that would aid in their conviction
lie deser,e s, and doubtless will receive his lib
erty, as a reward for his services. Curley doesn'
make any pretensons to be any better than he is
hut he has several good traits lie never drank
drop Of liquor in his life, never swears, is devote,
10 his wife and little girl, and declares that h
was never engaged in a burglary before the one a
Barre in his life, and never will be again. IL
was charged with being concerned with the banl
robbery at Waterford, n. Y, few years ago, bu
was acquitted in the second trial, the jury havin
stood eleven for acquttal to one for conviction il
the first Curley solemnly ayows his innocenc
Of the crime Mrs. Curey is in very poor health
at the present time she suffered from pneumoni
during her visit to her husband, this winter an
Pete is very anxious to get out and 60 to her II
has made his cell quite attractive by FASTING o.
the walls cuts from Htpcr's Weekly, He is
great reader, and passes a great deal of his tim
lying on his bed, with book In his hand and