The daily gazette., 1876-01-29
The Northampton Bank Robbery.

AN IMMENSE sURPRIss-$7OO,O 900 IN sg-
cUkIrIEs sroLEN-PARTIcULARs or THE
kxPLoIT-GAGoINa CT THE cAsHIER AND
MS fAhiLf-FL1GHT OF THE Mask I'D
ROBBERS, ETC.
BosroN; January 27.-Later details of
tne ROBBERY OF the Northampton No
tionai Bank, at Northampton, Tuesday
night, by masked robbers, state that the
result is something. The table Of tke
securities taken shows total Of S7O0, ,0O0.
Or course much Of this is not neQotia
BILE, go that it is difficult to estimate Tia
real loss to the bank and the depositop,,
The bank officers offer a reward Of $95 .000
for the return of the property and the
conviction OF the burglars. The loss
falls comparatively light upon the bank,
the greater part Of the securities belong
ing to special depositors. The table Of
the funds taken is as follows Missouri
State Bonds, $4,000, Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific railroad shares, SIS 900,
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern,
$1,000; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
eights, $4,000; Cleveland, Columbus and
Cincinnati, ~, 900; Union Pacific $44 O8O;
Ohio and Mississippi, second mortgages,
$l65,00O; United States bonds, $55.0O0;
Atchison, Topeka. and Santa Fe. SIS 900;
Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw,
Si2.OOO; Ogdensburg and Lake Cham
plain, 5000; Missouri Pacific, $50, 900;
registered stocks and bonds of the United
States and various corporations, $3.50 900
to $400,0 greenbacks and national
bank bills, $4,000; Detroit, Lansing and
Lake Michigan, $1,000. p
PARTICULARS OF THE ROBBERY.
BosroN, Jan. 27.-The robbery of the
Northampton National Bank, at North
a rnt Iaa1 -
complished by seven men, who had been
hanging about the town for at least
month. 1t would seem that they enter
ed the house of Cashier Whittlesey,
whom they bound, gagged and guarded
for seven hours. They compelled him
to give them the combinations Of the safe
vault, waited until they knew the night
watchman had gone home, and then get.
ting into the vault and safe, with only
one OF the four keys needed, took large
amount of securities. Whence they
came and wither they went, up to this
date, is a riddle. An expert had to be
summoned from New York, and the look
was not opened until an early hour this
morning. Cashier Whittlesy, when ask.
ed to give the three combinations to the
vault for the outer, inner. and 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 to mislead
them, and the
EXHIBITION OF A PISTOL
compelled him to tell the truth, though.
he told them that four keys were neees-
sary to open the patent lock, three Of
| which were at the houses of the other
bank officers. At four o'clock A. M.
Whittlesy was taken to o down stairs
bedroom, the whole family were gagged
and four of the burglars Withdrew to OPP
crate on the bank. Three hours after
Mrs. Whittiesy succeeded in freeing her.
self and giving the alarm from window.
The whole party We're speedily liberated,
and the cashier, still
WEARING THE HANDCUPYs,
went to the bank. A workman soon
after fitted key and all the persons
handcuffed were released. An eIamina..
tion of the bank showed that the thieves
had unlocked the outer door, but were
apparently balked by the safe lock, lack
| ing three of the requisite four keys
They tried the metal Of the door with
bars and wrenched off two dials which
served as an index for working the COM
| bination, hoping thus to tamper with the
lock. They were entirely unmolested,
the watchman having gone home. Tnere
is every indication that six, and perhaps
! all OF thsm left on the six o'clock train.
Five of them badI tickets previously
bought, and one paid his fare money. OF
their appliances it was remarked they
were "home made"
THE GAGS AND MASKS.
The gags were children's 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 noted that Whittlesy was
Watching them carefully for some marks
Of Identification they blindfolded him,
but he observed that one of them was Of
very commanding stature.
The two or three robbers left to guard
the premises at the house took their de-
parture in season to catch the Spring
geld train. At the latest advices no in
formation had been received of the rob-
bers. Dispatches have been sent TO all
the cities.