Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-02-03
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AN EASTERN BANE ROBBED.

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AN .EASTEzN BAEK ROBBED. :
BosToN, Jan "a Later details of the
robbery of the Northampton Bank, al
Northampton, on Tuesday night, b,
masked robbers, show THAT 1910, 900 in
securities was taken. Of course muck
OF this ls not negotiable so that it is diff
hcult to estimate the real loss to, the de
posi'ors and the bank. The bank off
GERS offer a reward of $4,000 for the
return OF the property and the convic.
ton OF the burglars. The loss falls com
paratively light upon the bank, the
greater part of the securities belonging
- special depositors.
! The funds taken are as follows: Mis-.
soIl; State bonds, $4,000; Chicago
Rock island and Pacific Railroad shares
$4,000, l. axe Shore and Mich. Southern
5000; Oh ;cago, Burlington and Quin.
cy Fights, S., 900; Cleveland, Columbus
and Cincinn. ii, $1,000; Union Pacific
$4,000; Ohm and Mississippi second
mortgages, SlG5,0G0; United States
bonds, $4,000; 4-\tchison, Topeka, and
Santa Fe, $4,000; Fort Wayne, Jack
SOL, and Saginaw, ST. 1000; Ogdensbure
and Lake Champlain, $4,000; Missouri
Pacific, $4,000 registered stocks and
bonds of the United States and various
corporations, $350,00O to 100000
greenbacks and national pam, bills,
$4,000 and Detroit, Lansing, and
Lake Michigan, $1,000.
The robbery was accomplished bY
several men who had been hanging a
bout the town for at least month. Il
would seem that they entered the house
of Cashier Whittlesey, and bound, gag.
ged, and guarded for hours seven per-
sons. They compelled him to give them
the combination Of the safe vault, wait,
ed until they knew the night Waterman
had gone home, and then getting into
the vault and safe with only one of the
four keys needed, took large amount
of securities. Whence they came and
whittier they went up to date is ia riddle
An expert had to be summoned from
New York, and the lock was not OPEN
ed until all early hour this morning.
Cashier Whittlesey when asked to give
the three combinations to the vault for
the oater, 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 pistol compelled him
to tell the truth, though he t.M them
that four keys were necessary to open
The patent lock, three of which were at
the houses Of other bank officers.
At. 4 4. II. Mr.. Whittlesey was ia
ken to down stairs bedroom. The
whole family were gagged, and four
OF the burglars withdrew to operate on,
the bank. Three hours afterward Mrs.
sVhitilesey succeeded in freeing herself
and giving the alarm from a window.
The whole party were speedily liberated.
and the cashier, still wearing the hand
cuffs, went to the bank. A clever work
man soon fitted a key, and all the per-
sons handcuf7rd We're released. An ex-
animation of the bank showed that the
craftsmen had unlocked the outer door,
bat were apparently baked by the safe
lock, lacking 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 combination, hoping thus to tamper
with the locks. They were entirely un-
molested, the watch having gone home
There is every indication that six, and
pelhaps all of them, left on the 6 clock
train. Five of them had tickets previ-
ously bought, and one paid his fare
Many of their appliances it was remarks
ed, were 'home maze" 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 ewes. When the robbers
noticed that Whittlesey was watching
them carefully for some marks of iden-
tifcation 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 departure in season to
catch the Springfield train. AT the la
test advices no information had been re-
ceived ofthe robbers. Dispatches have
been sent to all the cities.
Still later advices show that the tota,
amount stolen from the Northampton
Bank is 1920 0OO Of this amount S:2-
900 falls on the bank. The heaviest in
dividual sufferers are as follows: Tx
Judge G. f. Forbs, 100000 in United
States six per cent. bonds, registered,
$4,000 in FIVE per cents, register ed and
$4,000 in railroad stocks; Henry Hinck
ley, 100000 in United States bonds;
Henry Bright, a large amount of nego
:iable bonds; J. s. Lathrop, $4,000 in
Georgia bonds; Jos. Warner, $4,000
in negotiable bonds; VIM. Gaylord,
$4,000 in United States bonds; Mrs. h.
NJ. Turner, Dir. S. A. Fiske, r. King.
ham, and Horace A. Collins are am long
the sufferers also. A small safe in the
vault, which the burglars considered too
insignificant to touch contained $4,000
deposited by Harvey Kirkland, $4,000
in bonds belonging to the Hopkins
Academy, and much other valuable
property. By locking the doors Of the
vault the burglars got about twenty-foor
hours start of the detectives, besides
having time to negotiate much of the
stolen property before the fact OF the
hurolarv was known.