The New York herald., 1878-12-04
BURGLAR BULLARD IN CANADA.

ssPIANo CHARLEY" TAKING THINGS EASY AMONG
THE cANUcKs--AN EFFORT TO BE MADE FOR
HIS ExTgADITIoN.
Mr.. Alexander Fraser. the assistant receiver gen.
eral of the Bank Of Canada informed Detective Pnker
ton yesterday that Charles W. Bullard. alias piano
Charley who escaped from the State Prison at Con-
cord Mass, on the night of the 18th Of September
last has been in Toronto, Canada, for three weeks
past.
Bullard, who gained his sobriquet from his pro-
fciency a musician, is Of the most expert bank
burglars in the world. In company with Ike Marsh
and Mark Shinburne he robbed the Ocean Bank of this
city of nearly s5o000O This followed in 1853 by
the equally daring robbery of the messenger Of the
Merchants Union Express Company, ON the New
York Central Railroad, between this city and Buffalo
Bullard, Marsh and a man named Thompson broke
the express bound and gagged the messenger
and stole s1oo 900 from the They fed Canada
but were extradited and lodged in the White Plains
Jail Their friends paid ex-Recorder Smith fee of
81 900 to defend them, and on their being held for
trial picked the Recorders pocket of the $1,000 he
returning to this city in the train. number Of
burglars, under the leadership of Billy FORESTER the
supposed murderer of Mr.. Benjamin Nathan, went to
White Plains and succeeded in eectng the escape of
Bullard and Marsh by digging through the old and
rickety walls OF the Jail
OTHER EXPLOITS.
After this nothing heard Of Buard until the
summer of 1863 when the Boylston Mass.) Bank
plnndered of s450.000. Bullard, under the name Of
William A. Judson. hired the house next the bank
y.
wall into the money vault. Immediately after the
robbery with his wife, he fed to France and settled
dow In Paris, where he opened THE American Ear
in the isue Scribe, the Grand Hotel. assuming
the name Of Charles II. Wells. faro bank
ried on in private room at the Of the saloon,
and for ~ year Bulard did thriving busi-
He very afable to Americans, and when
Mr.. Sandford. Of the Merchants Union Express Com
pany. returned from Europe, he spoke TO Detective
Pinkerton Of the kindness OF Mr.. Wells. who had
taken him all the city and showed him the
places of public interest He thunderstruck
when he heard that Wells really Bullard, who
had stolen 100000 from his express company. The
French authorities, however. closed up Billiards.
saloon and sentenced him to years imprisonment
for keeping q gambling house. At the expiration of
his he joined his wife in this city and took up
his quarters house in Fast Eighteenth street. kept
by noted burglar called Dutch Dan" who betrayed
Bullard 70 the police. He arrested. taken to Bos
ton and sentenced to twenty years in State Prison.
He serving out this term when he made his
escape in September last After his escape from Con-
cord Warden Chamberlain received postal card pur-
porting to have been written by Buard in this city,
in which he states that the Manhattan Bank robbery
planned by him while in the Concord prison.
Bulard Is of very good education. speaks Eng
lsh. French and German fucntly, plays the piano
with the skll Of professional and is Of the very
few burglars who open combination safe with
hs hands alone. His wife at present resides in this
city.
Detective Pnkerton will endeavor TO have Bullard
extradted aud returned TO his cell in the Concord