The New York herald., 1877-10-27
THE CAPTURED ROBBERS.


DAMAGING TESTIMONY AGAINST o'LEARx-coM.
MTTED IN DEFAULT or BAn~-DrscH .Ron
OF THE Two FEMALE pRIsoNxRs-ADAMs
WANTED IN BOSTON. 4a... .st.f..s.+
At the Essex Market Police Court yesterday morn.
ing, Inspector Murray, OF the First inspection district
appeared with his aids In charge Of the prisoners sr.
rested at No 12s East Twenty ninth street. full par.
ticulars OF which have already been published in the
HERALn tzs &ut sa E.nt.
THE TRUNK ROBBERY.
Shortly after the opening OF the court william B.
Alling, Of the hrm oil Alng Brothers Il Co. No. III
Broadway, entered and being called to the witness
stand testified as follows:-On the 18th OF May 1877
the hrm OF Aling Brothers Co, Of Worcester, Mass
Of which am partner. had trunk stolen and lost
divers articles OF gold and silver jewelry in all valued
at $4,000; the firm shipped the trunk from worces-
ter TO Hartford. Conn, in the care Of MIR.
William B. Kerr, who is the trade agent for
our firm; Mr. Kerr arrived at Hartford.
whore he that the check trunk con.
tanning the jewelry had been changed and the trunk
stolen on being notified OF the robbery Mr. Alni
proceeded to the Forty second street depot
whore he discovered the hack driver who bad taken
trunk answering his (Mr Alling's description to th
Putnam House; Mr.. Alng then started for the Put
House, where he ascertained that the trunk had
been scat to Baltimore, Nd, by the Adams Express
Company; accordingly ho went without delay to the
express olce and found the trunk, but Its contents
were missing; ne then informed Inspector Mur.
ray, had the In charge, and learned
from Mr George +. Baker, who resides at the Putnam
House. that on May IL George r. Briggs came to the
hotel In hack, having with him black sample
trunk, marked with the letter A; the trunk was
placed foom 24l Of the hotel and Briggs gave the
name Of Charles H. Brewster; Briggs. alias Brewster,
remained In the hotel about half on hour, aud then
he procured another hack and drove away with the
trunk.
A. this stage of The examination the Justice re.
manded prisoners back into the custody OF Inspec-
tor Murray, NJ the latter's request. tN
ELIzABErH
IN me at.ersoon inspector Murray again appeared
Briggs and Ehzabeth Hill, the latter's companion.
Aiter briei examination O'Loary was committed In
default Of $4,000 bail Tor grand larceny having
stolen the1runk Of Jewery owned by Alling Brothers
" Co, OF this clty. Tho woman was discharged, as
none OF the jewery found her a. the time
rest was identified There was some dou0t conoernng
pair Of costly bracelets which she a. the Of
that he mad given lhem to her. and that she did not
know in what manner he had procured them. Tho
parting between the male prisoner ana Elizabeth was
highly 0sculatory. Mstfi.a s 48 rfH
GOOD DETECTIVE WORK.
In tracing tho stolen trunk OF jewolry above alluded
to not little detective ingenuity has been displayed
While conversation with tne writer yesterday In.
spector Murray stated that he had, by complete
chain OF evidence covered the trunk from the
was shipped Boston reached the Fortysecond
street depot this city securing tho hack driver who
suS Also ,ho uack dryos VINO took Il so
the Office OF the Adams Express Company, whore II
was shipped TO Baltimore and subsequently, found by
the detectives
tn. BOSTON BOND ROBBERY.
In Supreme Court, Chambers, the prisoners Charley
Adams, alias s.Moore, and Rebecca Moore, his sup
posed wife, we're produced on the wrlts Of haoeas
corpus, sued out by their counsel William y. Howe,
peared for ihe people ana presented two bench war.
rants from Boston, charging Adams with having stolen
S. 700 Central State bonds from Charles T. asary
RrBEccA ALSO Set FREE .
On motion OF COUNSEL who claimed that the arrest Of
the female prisoner was unjusdable a. there was No
charge against except that she found in the
bod cnambSr OF her husband OF his arrest
her was dismissed on me ground that tho particular
jewery and diamonds found In her possession at tho
time OF the arrest were not Identified as stolen prop
erty. Charley Adams, alias s.Moore,n was remanded
to the custody OF inspector Murray until November 2
in enable the Boston detectives to return to
that city and procure reQuisiton which they Will
take him back the scene OF some OF his thsevish
exploitA Adams said to be bank snoak thief OF
Informed he HERALD reporter last
evening That he has known hun ior fourteen years.
adding that he tAdams) has boon alternately tn and
CAM1nIDGEPORr ROBBERY.
Although Inspector Murray and the detectives still
decline to give any information regarding the efforts
which they are making TO iasten the crime oi the
Uambridgeport Bank robbery on the perpetrators
thereof ihero Is little doubt that suspicion points
strongly to either Charley Adams or Tom Loary,
perhaps 10 both Of tlem The manner IN which The
bonds securities and other valuable papers were ab
straced from the bank described IN police parlance
s'sneak robbery" II appears that the bank ndi.
Gated IS somewhat small institution, whose presi
dert had frequently occasion TO down Boston
durag business hours, leaving IL IN charge Of ono
| person, the casher. During the early part Of
September the latter took his vacation, which, during
the presidents ABSENCE actually left the bank In sole
charge OF y messenger who had formerly nlled the
position Of It's cashier In the latter part OF the
month named OF the depostors had occasion TO
use some papers which he placed IN the vault Of the
bank for security. These documents could not be
found and further search being instituted It was
discovered that the two boxes which contained thc
bonds and securities had also been
Circulars containing description OF the stolen prop
erty and offering reward Of 81 500 Tor It's recovery
were at once sent all the country, with what
suits the New York detectives evidently know, but
will not for the present dvulge. q