The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-30

do. Finally, his tossing and turning
| walked his wife, who insisted on knowing
what was the matter.
The moment he told her, she said that
it must be the money of the bank, and
that they must take it to the president
Immediately.
Getting up and dressing herself, she
made him do the same, and so they
brought the money to the bank.
In the morning, the first thing to be
done was to find some trace of the rob-
bers. Everybody talked of it. and every
body tried to find out in vain.
A Boston detective was therefore sent
for quietly, and he went quietly to work.
Taking off the locks of the bank doors
and of the old-fashioned safe, he found
that some small particles of soap were
sticking to them. This showed that an
impression had been taken, and false keys
made.
Mr.. Larned's cotton mill then became
the center of inquiry, and, among others
who were closely questioned was the
machinist, who, however, denied having
made any key for any one. He added
that the only thing he had made, apart
from repairing the machinery of the mill,
was small thing that he had made
some time before for Mr.. Larned, and
which the latter had told him was small
cam movement that he wished to make
an experiment with.
The machinist stated that it was short
brass rod, about six or eight inches long,
| with short piece projecting at right
angles from each end. He said that Mr..
Larncd, when he ordered it, had handed
him a drawing of it, which he had after
ward thrown away.
While going toward the office, the de-
tective noticed that the swecpings from
the office had been allowed to accumu-
late in heap not far from the door.
He Immediately engaged boy to pick
out OF this heap every scrap Of paper he
could find, while he himself stood by to
see that nothing of any possible value
should be neglected.
| Taking these to his room, and putting
the pieces patiently and carefully togeth-
er, he was rewarded by finding some
drawings of the scam movement" and
on one of these he noticed some indenta-
lions that looked like the wards of key
On comparing these with the bank keys,
they correspondent exactly.
MI. Edward Larned was then arrested.
This startled the whole community, for
he was graduate of Yale College, a sue
cessful business man, and now wealthy
mill owner with money enough for all or
binary desires.
The great maj ority of the people who
lived near could not believe that he had
robbed the bank, and he of course denied
it.
Their chief argument was that he could
not possibly have the seal of the Suffolk
Bank, and, therefore, he could not have
opened the packages and replaced the
seals.
While this discussion was going on,
the detective still kept quietly at work
by going to the different towns around
Millbury that enjoyed the dignity of
bank, and inquired who had recently
deposited or exchanged any of the Mill
bury bills.
He found at four of these that rolls of
these bills had been exchanged for bills
ola large amount by drover.
They judged him to be drover from
his broad brimmed hat, his loosely tied
cravat, and his soiled and dusty clothes.
The cashier of one of these banks,
young man who was noted for his close
observation, stated that his drover had
scar about an inch long on his left
cheek. This information set the detec-
tive to observing everybody's face most
carefully,
The second day he saw young man
driving along in a light wagon and on
his cheek his quick eye detected The fatal
scar.
Following him up, he found on inquiry
that he was Jerry Larned, also graduate
of Yale, and a young brother of Edward
He owned wooden mill not far from his
brothers cotton mill, and was also sue
cessful and wealthy man, noted for his
jovial and pleasant manners and very pop
ular in the community. f-
When he was arrested every one said it
was impossible that he could have been
engaged, in the bank robbery any more
than his brother, and the president of the
bank, with his family, remembered that
on the very night of the robbery, Jerry
had spent the evening at their house and
had made himself unusually agreeable.
= When, however, he was shown to the
paying tellers of the banks, dressed as
drover, they all declared him to be the
man.
The trial came on in its regular course
and after good deal of close argument
on both sides, the two brothers were con-
demned, Edward to fifteen years. impris-
onment, and Jerry to ten.
Outside opinion, however, ran strongly
in their favor, and many were disposed to
petition for their pardon, when, suddenly,
it was announced that Edward Larned, |
who knew nothing of this outside feeling