The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-28
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GREAT BANK ROBBERY.
SKILLED CRACKsMEN GET se7o,ooo.
A Family of Seven Gagged-One Of the Big
gest Jobs on Record.

deliberate and startling bank robbery that
western Massachusetts, 4 not the whole
country, has ever known. A band of
seven men, who had been hanging about
the town for at least month, 1t would
seem, entered the house of Cashier Whit
tlesey of the Northampton national bank,
and bound, gagged and guarded, for hours,
seven people. They compelled him to
give them the combinations on the safe
vault, waited until they knew the night
Waterman had gone home, aud then, getting
into the vault and safe with only one of
the four keys needed, took large
amount of securities, locked the vault
after them, and departed on the early
morning Springfield train; and whence they
came and whittier they went, up to date, is
a riddle. An expert had to be summoned
from New York, and the lock was not
opened until an early hour this morning.
The result is sufficiently appalling. The
table of securities taken shows a total of
| S670,000. OF course much of this is not
htSObaDiC, oV thut IL - bIIliSuib W totihhbO
the real loss to the bank and deposltors
TABLE or SECURITIES.
The bank officers offer reward Of $685.
900 for the return of the property and con-
viction Of the burglars. The loss falls
comparatively light upon the bank, the
greater part of the securities belonging to
special depositors. The securities and
| funds taken are as follows Missouri bonds
$4,000 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railroad shares, $4,000 Lake Shore ard
Michigan Southern, $4,000 Chicago, Bur-
liDgton and Quincy Fights, $1,000 Cleve-
land, Columbus and Cincinnati, $4,000 !;
Union Pacific, S44 900 Ohio and Missis-
sipp, second mortgage bonds, Sl65,000 !;
United States bonds, sos, 600; Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe. $4,000; Fort
Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw. $4,000 (;
Ogdensburgh and Lake Champlain, $4,000 !;
Missouri Pacific, 100000; registered stock
and bonds OF the United States and various
corporations, $3.50, 900 or $4,000 green
backs and national bank bills, $4,000 !;
Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan,
$1,000.
THE FAMILY GAGGED.
The band are supposed to have entered
the house of Mr.. Whittlesey on Elm street,
about half mile from the bank, through
second-story window. He and his wife
were aroused about l a. m, and ordered
by two of the burglars to dress. Tho other
occupants of the house had been similarly
awakened, and were filed into the Whit
tlesey bedroom. All were bound and
gagged, the burglars running short of rope
and dispatching the servant for the clothes
line. The men were rather jolly set, in
clined to pay some attention to the
comfort of their victims; they advised
the women to put on three pairs of
stockings, so that the binding ropes
would not cut them. One of them
casually remarked that he had noticed Mr.
Whittlesey's fine watch at Watch Hill, II
l., two years ago, and tried to claim nc
quaintance with him from that time This
watch they took, but Mrs. Whittlesey slyly
pitched hers under the bureau and so saved
it they picked her fine cloak out Of the
bureau, and she said, "Give me that old
thing I'm cold" and gained that. One
of the ladies said she was sick and needed
medicine, whereupon an attentive burglar
offered her spoonful of brandy. CONVEX
sation was carried on, more or less briskly,
but always pleasantly, up to A a. m. The
burglars, who wore kid gloves, were well
disguised by masks made from the legs of
satinet drawers, with places Gu. for the
eyes, long linen busters and blue overals
They took, besides the watch, $15 from
Mr.. Whittlesey's pocket.
TREATMENT OF THE CASHIER.
Mr.. Whittlesty, when asked 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.
OF course they caught him, and pistol
compelled the truth, though he told them
that four keys were necessary to open the
patent lock, three of which were at the
houses of the other bank officers. At 4
a. m. Mr.. Whittlesey was taken to a down
stairs bed room, the whole family gagged,
and four of the burglars withdrew to oper-
ate on the bank. Three hours after Mrs
Whittlesey succeeded in freeing horself and
giving the alarm from a window. The
whole party were speedily liberated, and
the cashier, still wearing the handouts,
went to the bank.
THE LOSSES.
BosToN, Jan. ~.
OF the $672, 900 stolen from the North
ampton bank on Tuesday night by robbers,
a loss of only $4,000 falls on the bank.
The heaviest individual sufferers are as
follows Ex.Judge G. L. Forbes, $780,
900 in United States per cent bonds, reg
istered $4,000 in five per cents, regis
tered $4,000 in railroad stocks Henry
Hinckley, 500, 900 in United States bouds
Henry Bright, large amount of negotiable
bonds j. G. Lathrop, 100000 ia Georgia
bonds Joseph Warner, $4,000 in nego'
table bonds o. G. Spellman, $4,000 in
negotiable bonds VIM. Gaylord, $50, 900
in United States bonds.
A small safe in the vault, which the rob
beers thought too Insignificant to touch, con
tanned $50, 900 deposited by Harvey Kirk
land and $4,000 in bonds belonging to
Hopkins academy, and much other valua'
BILE property. BY locking the doors of the
vault the burglars got "a hours start of the
detectives, besides having chance to me-
gotiate much of the stolen property before
| the fact of tina burglary was known.