The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-04
BABoocK AND THE SAFE BURGLARY
Another Letter from Miles-Tho Bottom
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1t will be remembered that In tho revela.
tons, published at the time in THE GLOBE,
which Miles, the bank robber now confined
in the Vermont state prison, made concern
ing the safe burglary to New York Her.
aid correspondent who interviewed him,
there was concealment by Miles OF the
names of several persons Of prominence
whom he charged with being implicated in
the conspiracy, and whom he saw or con-
versed with during his connection with the
burglary. These portions of the article
were carefully cut out Of the paper by per-
sons in Washington anxious to get at the
extent OF what Miles could tell, and were
sent to him by mail, with an urgent re-
quest for a disclosure by him of all the
names and circumstances withheld from
the New York Herald correspondent. In
response Miles has written the following,
after apparently good deal of hesitation
and probably conference with lawyer,
the letter giving evidence of being in the
handwriting Of a man of the legal profess
sion
WINDSOR, VT, April %, 1876.
DEAE SII-Yours of the 18th inst, 10 at
hand. In answer to inquiries therein con-
tanned have to say
| First first met Harrington ut bis Of
flee three days previous to the burglary.
SecoDd--'ihe man | met at the Metro
| politan hotel on the evening Of the burg
larry was Babcock
| I'bt-si Il ba r,,t, a,,te ;,,t
IN the rear Of Ilarrington's Office was John
| o. Evans.
Fourth-l stopped at Wizards hotel q
portion of the time was in Washington,
and was also at IiarIington's house left
for New York The morning after the burg
larry on limited express. A. i. Williams
did not accompany Inc to the depot.
Fifh-llarrington had several interviews
with Benton while he was in Jail, and he
promised him SIS 600 il he would stick to
the original programme-namely, that Col
umbus Alexander employed him to commit
the burglary.
Sixth--By the terms of my agreement l
was not to be arrested. Clarvoe. chief of
detectives at Washington, and A. b. Will
liams were parties to this agreement. 1t
was understood that l should get out of
the building, after the papers were obtain
ed and the job completed, by the rear
When | undertook to leave the building in
this way found guard there. Harring-
ton has since told me that this
could not be helped, as Ma or Rich
ards gave the order to cover the whole
premises. then went out the other door
in company with Benton, and as il was
then getting quite dark, we crossed to the
other side Of the street, so as to lie in the
light as much AZ possible, in order that
Benton might be readily recognized. We
walked to the corner; Benton turned to
the right and went up Fifth street, keep
ing his bag while in sight. kept straight
ahead down the street and then walked
away from this following him.
lu pursuance of a request made by Har-
rington | destroyed all letters and tele-
grams between us with, think, one ex-
ception. think have one letter, written
from the Metropolitan hotel in New York,
in September or October, 1874, requesting
an interview. AS 10 corroborating evil
dence, can furnish i, in abundance.
will here state that on the night before
the burglary Hayes and Benton went to
Mr. Alexander's between eight and nine p.
H., and, while they were inside talking
with Mr.. Alexander, l stood on the oppo-
site side Of the street The TOOLS or part
of them, were taken from blacksmith
shop in the north part of the city, near the
New York depot. could enumerate many
instances which you will not care to have
me give you here. Mr. Alexander is max
ing great efforts to get TO the bottom of this
thing. The manner IS very simple. B.
was the originator of tho thing he con-
ceived it. 1t was gotten up to break the
force of the Investigation as to the false
measurements, ETC., and something Of this
kind had to be done. The details of the
job were left to Harrington, and after the
scheme so mserably failed he WAS the mas.
ter spirit in the chicanery that was practised
to cover the thing and turn the odium OF
the thing upon Mr.. Alexander