The sun., 1878-12-04
PIANO CHARLEY.
The Great Bank Hobber Turns Up In Canada
-soUie OF his Deeds of Daring.

Detective Plnkcrton received Intelligence
yesterday from Mr.. Alexander Frasier. the As-
sistant Receiver General Of the Bank of Canada
that Charles W. Bullard. alias Piano Charley"
the famous bank burglar who escaped from tho
State prison in Concord. Mass. on the night OF
Sept. l3. 1873. is in Toronto Canada. Bullard
who gained the name Of Piano Charley from
his proficiency IA a musician. is one Of the most
expert burglars IN the world. With Ike Marsh
and Mark Shinhurne he effected the famous
robbery Of the Ocean Bank in this city, by which
nearly $500 600 was carried Of. Then. in 1863
WAS the equally daring robbery of the messen-
ger OF the Merchants Union Express Company
on the New York Central Railroad. Bullard
hnund nhd gagged ~" mrssei ger, and stole
sluuNoD from tle sNio. They fed 10 Canadn
but were cxtralitod and lodged in the White
Plains Jail, Mrs. Geo. Roberts retained OK
Ercorlrr Smith M their counsel and pad him
81 600 us Zee. The examination resulted m
their ,lng hold Tor trial, and AIRS kObrrie and
her friends relieved the eN-Rccordrr Of the fee
while ho WIS coming down in the train TO this
city. Annmt"r of burglars, under, The lcndor-
ship of Billy FORESTER. met IN the Eighth Ward
and planned the escape Of BullArd and Marsh
from the Jail IN White Plains. They dug into
the Jau while the prisoners SISTED them from
the inside. Nolhihg WAS then heard of Buliard
until tho robbery of the Boylston Mass1 Bank
in ,, 1860. 10y which 100000 wqss secured
Billiard, under the name Of William 4.
Judsrn, hired the house next 20 the bank
arc with his confodrrates cut through the wall
INTO the bnnk vault. He AT once fed 10 Paris
with his vile. and under tho name Of ChAs H.
Wells opened The American Bar" in the Hue
Scribe near the Grand Hotel. A faro bank WAS
carried on in a private room M the rear of the
saloon. The place WAS continually crowded by
Americans. and Bullard did a thriving bust
ness. When Mr.. Sandford Of the Merchants
Union Express Company returned 20 this city
from Paris he told Detective Pinker,on how
Nj. Wells had treated him in the most kind
manner, and showed him through the city
" So well he might" said the detective. after
Stealing tl00OOO from your cOmpany, But
lard's hATroOm was broken up by the French
police. and lie Wns sent tO prison Tor n year for
Keeping a gambling house. His wife jour
neyed "a this country and was robbed of valu-
able lewelry and furniture by n woman with
whom she boarded in Brooklyn, Bullarl. re-
leased from prison in France returned to this
country and took up his quarters in a house in
East Thirteenth street kept by Dutch Dam
This man betrayed BullaTd 10 the pOlice, He
WIS arrested. t.lkon to Boston fer trinl and sen
tenccd 10 twenty years imprisonment After
his escape from The Concord State prison. War
den ChHnberln receiv''ua postal card purport-
ing to hava been written by him in this city,
thanking the wilTdrn for his kindness and
snYing that the Manhattan Bank robbery was
planned by him while ia the Concord state
prison. Builard speaks French nnd German.
and IL one Of the very few burglars who can
open combination safe with his hands alone.
His wife lives IN this city.