Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-28
The Hanscom Robbery.

GOODS.
An important arrest in connection with the
Hanscom robbery in this city was made at the
banking house of Drexel & Co., Philadelphia,
yesterday morning, and correspondence by
! telegraph between Pinkerton's detective
of police here, followed, which resulted in the
! latter dispatching Detective McDeyitt yester-
| day at II O'Clock to Philadelphia, where a
! hearing takes place to-day, and the probabill-
! ty is that the prisoner Will be turned over to
| our police authorities.
ACCOUNT OF THE ARREST.
| This morning Major Morgan received let
! ter from Mr.. BENJAMIN Franklin, superinten-
| dent Of PinkertOnS detective agency in Phila-
! delphia, stating in reference o 1.-THE HanScom
at Drexel & Co.'S with $1,000 and two 500
| bonds, published in the list of HanscOm's miss
ing bonds. Drexel & Go. detained him until
of the officers on the beat. i brought him to
! our office, searched him, but found no other
bonds on him. He had memorandum book
a regular professional thief. He at once rec
ogniZed me, and said / had seen him at
Cherry Hill, and ! find he is an old thief by
| York, and convicted here July, 1875, under the
name of Anderson, and served two years. He
would have nothing to say about the bonds.
| would be held responsible for balance o. them.
l then went to Drexel & Co., and found that
the same man had been there on two or three
|
! OF $1,000, under the name of E. Perkins. This
makes, with the $ll 600 sold to Drexel& Co. by
j; Carpenter, of Chicago, about $4,000 worth
| of the bonds connected with this robbery that
| have been disposed of at DreXel & Co.'S The
! prisoner decided that he would have hearing
| at once. He was taken 10 Magistrate Smith,
Their hearing today. He will be turned over
! to the Washington authorities On the proper
papers being presented.
BOSTON PETh
This is about all that has been done in the
way of arrests for this rather mysterious rob
berry but Il is likely the c0nfederateS of Perkins
Is John Petiingall, alias "BOSton Per- an ex-
pert and audaciouS thief and forger. In 1875,
in connection with Bill Bartlett, an old Sing
Sing, convict, Boston Pet passed forged
check Oh the City Bank of Philadelphia Bart
lett passed as drover, and Pet laid down this
check They were caught in New York. and
got three years in the Eastern penitentiary and
served he full term, less the communication for
good behavior
ANOTHER STATEMENT.
n special dispatch to the New York World
from Philadephia,. June p, says: Nearly a
/ month ago ex- Chief Naval Constructor Hans
comb was reported to have been robbed in
hard earned salary of $1,000 a year Surprise
being expressed at the large amount of his &C
eumulatI0ns, Mr.: Hanscomb, then witness
before Mr.. Whitthornes naval committee.
gave out that his total loss was really only
about 81 ,500, his will and some private papers
This story did not tally, however. with the
try by McElfreSh and McDevtt, the Washing
ton detectives, who offered 5000 reward for
the return OF four city OF Pomeroy bonds OF
SI,W0' two Marian county Undiana) bonds OF
$1,000 each, two East bonds of 500 each. thirty
United States 80 coupon bonds of the same
character. This makes total of $4,000. Ben
Franklin. Of Pinkerton's detective agency, got
lot OF The circulars day or two ago, and
while distributing them among PHILADELPHIA
brokers' learned that on the llth of June man
had called at DreXel & Co. sin regard to bonds
fnplyJ
tremely particular in the smaller details of the
negotiation, and finally sold 5000 worth of $50
coupons to the firm. Next day he returned and
disposed of Sc 900 more bonds OF the same char
acter Shortly after this another busineSs-lik
looking individual sold to Drexel & Co., on
thlee dlIterent occasions, 5000 worth of the
FRANKLIN was satisfied that the two flush gen
tlemen We're notorious thieves, who had re-
Gently attracted his attention by their reckless
expenditures of cash. Careful examination
proved that the numbers on the $4,000 worth
OF governments disposed of to Drexel & Co.
correSponded with certain Of the numbers on
gentleman who had sold the last 5000 of
bonds walked into DreXel & Co.'S and offered
for sale, one $1,000 and two 500 bonds. The
bond clerk was on the alert and referred
TO his circular. The numbers on the three
bonds tailed with those on the circular.
ana messenger hastily ran after Franklin.
While the latter was on his way the thief was
taken to the agency, and when confronted by
the detective mutual recognition took place.
The prisoner was willing to have a speedy
hearing and was at once taken before a mag
lstrate, where he gave his name as Edward
Perkins. of Easton, Penn. Franklin & DreXer>
bond clerk gave in their testimony and Per
klnS was put under $4,000 bail for hearing
John Pettengill and is known in New York as
the Boston pet"
THE DISTRIBUTION OF JAY COOK & Co.'S
EsTATE.-Ihe Washington creditors of jay
COOK Co nave received notice that the COM
mittee appointed by the resolution of the cred
ltors OF that firm in January, 1874 TO dis
tribute the estate of the bankrupts, will hold
meeting at the Peoples Bank building No. Az;
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, at II 0 clock on
Monday, July y. The trustee, Mr.. Edwin NJ
Lewis, Will then submit, in print, a statement
OF the creditors, as proved since the last re-
port, and also statement OF the property and
estate OF the bankrupts converted into money
or realized and collected since the last report,
together with statement of such as may be
outtstanding specifying the cause of its being
outstanding. He will also report what debts
or claims are yet undetermined, and what sum
remains in his hands. After the accounts of
the trustees are audited and settled the com
mittee will make such order as to the dividend
and distribution among the creditors as they
shall consider proper and warranted by the
condition OF the estate The session of the
committee will continue until the 9th Of
July.
TONER LECTUREs.-The eighth lecture. on
the foundation established by DR.. j. NJ Toner
OF this city, to encourage original research
and the discovery of new facts in the advance
ment OF medicine and surgery, was delivered
last night by DR.. E. o. Shakespeare, of Phia-
delpbia, on The Preparatory Inflammation in
Arteries after Legation AcupreSSure and Tor
SION" The lecture was delivered in Marini's
Hall, and was largely attended by the profess
sion. 1t embodied the result of careful study
and a great number of experiments made upon
the lower animal. 1t was Illustrated by repro
duclng on the screen microscopic views Of the
process OF repafatiOn. The lecture will be pub
llShed by the Smithsonian Institution as one
OF It's contributions to human knowledge.
THE CONvOCATION OF WASHINGTON vester
day afternoon continued its session. DrS
Lewis Paret and Addison were retained as
the committee on cOOred mission work The
memorial asking for the retention of REV. A.
A. Roberts as assistant pastor of st. Mary'S
Mission Chapel was referred to committee,
consisting OF DR.. Elliott, Mr.. Chew, and Hon
Montgomery Blair, who reported adversely to
granting the request. THE standing commit
tee-Drs. Lewis, Paret and AddisOnehad pre-
ylOuSly reported thai it would not be advisable
TO retain Mr.. Roberts as assistant to Rev. Mr.
CROMWELL The report was, after some de-
bate, adopted. Pledges for the support of the
work among the cOlOTed people were received
and the convOcatiOn adjourned.
BURGLARS FIRED AT.-AbOut 23O o'clock
this morning, officer Duvall, of the 5th pre-.
cinct, noticed two suspicious persons stand
ing near an alley on 9th street, between H and
L streets. On approaching them thew ran