The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-03-29

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then that occurrence at Glen Spring was
really "a extraordinary affair. Was on
I tie police force At The time aud knew
Calico Charley well Iiis father was one
Of lhs best mAehinists 10 the country, and
be took more pains to make . man Of bis
4 boz than lhe fellow deserved. The old
man had little machine shop and bad
the boy Charley with him-a bright,
smart chap he was then. when be was
twenty be got to be pretty lively
about town, for the old man had saved
| up 9 handsome property and Jet Charley
have more money than was good for him.
Then they got up 3 new safe lock, and IL
made big stir, and believe they went
into that sort OF thing pretty heavy. Any
way Charley went over with the lock to
the first worlds fair 10 London. There
be got tdpped up. never heard sx.
Ictly bow il was. They put npA ~icked
job on hin Of some Kind, and got him
mixed up with pretty bad London mob.
The story that we heard was that be
picked safe lock for party that
shoaldn't have been picked Any way,
be got In With the wrong crowd and they
wsaidn't lei go OF him. lie stayed over
there Asout I've years and got to be 3
regular hrst.clsss sneak, aud worked half
a dozen Jobs in the most scientific man.
ner. We gol word from Scotland Yard
that be was coming back and ! dropped
/ 10 at the old mans place 10 try aud find
out something. Old Caleott Chat was
his same) had got rich. What with bis
bank lock and his other inventions, his
mean way OF living, and his luck in buy
ing some down town property before
people had an idea how big the
city was going to be, he'd come TO be 8
regular nabob. couldn't get word
out OF him about bis boy. lie said he'd
given bin up, and was going TO retire
from business. Money must have come
10 pretty fast then TO the old fellow. lie
sho wed me half dozen patents that he
was going to sell out; any one OF sm
Inust have been worth quite pile Of
dollars.
Now think of Il, II was Caleott who
put the first FrankliniIe in an iron safe,
aud he invented the rubber fange which
prevented tho thieves from using the air
pump when they wanted TO blow up
safe.
Ii seems that when young Calcott
started for America he'd made up his
mind to cut his London acQuaintances
and tricks, aud live honestly by going
back TO the old man. None of us knew
this at the time. Well, when be got here
curious thing happened. We had
man in the central Office by the name Of
Meehan, who was in with an east side
mob. lie was broke about year after
ward. Meehan had got word from the
London gang, and he met young Cslcott
on the dock with facts enough to send
him up; and he made straight offer TO
him to stay with the east side gang il be
didn't want TO end bis career for useful
ness, and Calcott, frightened at the pros.
pect Of going to prison, forgot bis good
resolutions, and joined the thieves.
II was in the winter Of 65 that the
places along the Hudson river were
broken into by river gang. You may
recolleci it. Judge Schermerhorn's
house at Glen Spring was entered one
night and robbed Of $50, 900 worth Of
property. The papers made good deal
of fuss about It, and we had three or
four men working at il. One day Mat
tisou comes into the ofice with copy of
the Glen Spring Herald, aud says Look
atIhis. Heres go. Read that. And
he pointed out an advertisement. This
is the way II read:
An burglars, house breakers, sneak
thieves and assassius are hereby notified
that have over eco 900 worth of coin,
jewels aud silverwsre in my house,
which they are welcome 10 II they will
GENE and take IL. No dogs, servants or
iaborers about the place. The house is
= mile from any other residence, lhe only
occupant is al old nian, not in very good
health, by the name Of
JoHS CALeoTT.
It's some old luuauc, says ], who
hasn't got money enough 10 get credit.
No, says Mattison. They say up there
he's worth half million. lie lives in q
tiue house all by himself about TWO miles
from the depot.
Il was three days talk IN the office
and then we forgot it. But the adver,
lisement was kep, 10 the paper, aud one
day it seems Tony Frost, down at Dobb's
Ferry, struck il. That was the way it
got to the gang. They poob-poobed il as
cbaff, but Frost ii seems went up to Glen
Spring, poked about, sifted the thing,
reconuoiiered The premises aud came
down to The city with a big yarn for his
pals. Ills report was that the old luny
bad got sign on nis fence informing
every body that passed that here wasthe
unprotected house tail OF yaluables that
the river gang didu't dare to walk into.
lie was sure, too, that there wasn't any
CANNON shout ibe stuff, for he'd found
oat that old CAlcolt was Immensely rich
aud kept uesriy all bis wealth ia bis
house.
Now dou't suppose it's reasonable
that . regular crAcksrnan should bite at
any such bate as this; bat Tony Eros,
kept Poking away al Ii, and one day
somebody in the gang saia IL was too
much to have lhe profession insnltsd 10