The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-23


CAPTrRg OF NoToRIOus BURGiAR.-1any
Of orr readers will remember that the First
I National Bank of New Windsor was robbed
/ ON the night Of the I'D of January, 1859, OF
about Sl50,0O0 in bonds, securities and cur
reney. the greater portion of which, about
/ $780, 900, however, was returned 10 the bank
/ Our readers will also recollect that the Man
haitian Savings Bank Of New York city,
was recently robbed of very large amount
/ of money, by some parties who, by their
work were known TO the police as sex
perts On Thursday night Of last week
man named Mark Shinburn, alias Henry
I Vreeland, alias Wheeler, was arrested in
/ New York. The entry on the police re-
| turns read simply :-"Henry Freeland, aged
/ thiriy-five, No. SO Chauncey street, Brooklyn,
/ Suspicious person. IL leaked ont that the
1 prisoner was arrested on suspicion OF having
/ been implicated In the Manhattan Savings
Bank robbery, but the police were very retl-
cent about the matter and refused to give any
particulars.
The New York Herald of Saturday last
says :-Shinburn' history is in complete har-
mony with the reticence Of the police, and as
the recovery Of part of the stolen property in
cases Of this kind is paramount TO the punish
ment Of the criminal, all these secret manip-
ulatious become a necessity. Never yet has
this daring burglar received punishment ade-
quate to his crimes, while his crimes have been
among the most remarkable in criminal an
mails. Shinburn is the man who robbed the
Ocean Bank in this city nearly ten years ago.
IL was a singularly daring and successful crime,
and will be recalled by every reader OF the
Herald on account of the boldness aud COM
| pleteness which characterized it. Previous
to this daring robbery Shinburn had broken
into and robbed the First National Bank of
Co.,
which offence he was arrested in Broadway,
in this city, aud turned over to the Maryland
authorities; but he managed to escape pun
ishment by the restitution of about $4,000
of the stolen bonds and securities. IL may
well be imagined that such feats as these were
not the work of tyro, and long before the
daring robbery Of the First National Bank,
OF New Windsor, Carroll county, Maryland,
and the still more remarkable skinning of
the Ocean Bank, in this city, he had accom-
plished feats almost as marvellous. One of
these was the robbery of the bank at keene,
n. II. In that case he was not so successful
in eluding punishment altogether as he has
since been, but not escaping conviction for
his crime he managed to break jail, and hestill
owes the old Granite State about ten years of
his time. All his attempts to settle that mat
ter by making restitution of part of the
stolen property have proved Intellectual, and
it is not impossible that the New Hampshire
State Prison will open for him now if be man
ages to escape from the charges in connection
with the Manhattan Bank robbery.
During the last three or four years Shin
burn has been very quiet, and part of the
time he has spent abroad. Like others in
this country who have grown suddenly rich,
he has endeavored to make up for the lack of
early opportunity by European travel. His
return was prior to the Manhattan Bank rob-
berry, however, and before that event he was
seen several times in the streets of this city.
His probable connection with the burglary
has been discussed in police circles ever since
the robbery, and it may be even now that his
arrest is only based on general principles.
His presence in the neighborhood at the time
of the commission of so gigantic crime is in
itself sufficient to suggest his probable partic
ipaiion in it, and his well-known principle of
making restitution in order to escape punish
ment may have had something to do with it.
Evidently the hope that he will squeal or offer
some compromise is at the bottom of his
rest and accounts in part for the reticenee of
the police in regard to him.
In appearance Shinbnrn is described as
rather good looking, and he occasionally
adorns his face with luxuriant pair of side
whiskers. He is a German by birth, about
FIVE feet eight and a half inches in height and
still in the vigor of life.