The Portland daily press., 1879-10-08
MASSACHUSETTS.
Attempted Bank Robbery at Winchen-


Attempted Bank Robbery at Winchen-
don.
WINCHENDoN, Oct. 1.-THE First National
and Savings Bank of this place was entered by
burglars this morning. A young man named
Albert Perry, who sleeps in room openin
out of the banking room, was awakened about
3 O'Clock by hearing two men in the bank
They Immediately rushed into his room and he
fred at them One of tlem Immediately re-
turned the fire, the ball entering his arm.
They grabbed him and took his pistol away
from him, remarking that they would fix :
him, but III the squabble III some way ne got
away from them and rushed down stairs and
out on the street and gave an alarm. When
help arrived, the burglars had departed, leav-
ing the doors open On examination nothing
was missed. The vault has time lock and
tho burglars could not get into it. At last ac-
counts Perry was doing well. The ball passed
through the f1eshy part of his arm. tie de-
scribes one of the burglars as being large
man. No trace of the burglars yet.
Accident at the Parker House.
BosToN, Oct THE elevator at the Parker
House was purposely let fall distance OF
eighty feet to-day to test an air cushion which
il is claimed will prevent damage when eleva-
tors fall accidentally. Owing to some misad-
justment. however, the sudden descent badly
smashed the elevator, and all parties in it were
more or less injured, but not seriously.
A Strange Death.
BosroN, Oct. THE report yesterday that
Geo. A. Gardner, OF New York, had been pois-
soned by an arsenical compound put in his
tooth by G. f. Waters, dentist OF this city, is
untrue The dentist states that during his
practice of twenty years he never has used
particle of arsenic.
1t is said Mr. Gardner, while in Boston. was
operated upon by Mr.. Waters for an aching
tooth Mr.. Gardner requested DIR. Water to
stop the pain and plug the TOOTH and the latter
did SO. He found the tooth very badly de-
cayed. He washed out the cavity with a sou-
ton of carbolic acid to remove the decayed
matter and food which had settled in the
tooth, applied nitrate of silver to the nerve,
and then plugged the tooth with utta-percha to
keep out the air and food After the operation
Mr.. Gardner went to New York and while
there his head troubled him so that he thought
he had neuralgia and he went to physician
The physician told him he did not have neu-
ralgia, and advised him to go to dentist and
have his tooth attended to. He went to Cor
nelius A. Marvin of No. 147 Clinton street,
Brooklyn, and there had his tooth again treat
ed. That was On Friday afternoon. The next
day Saturday he was unable to leave the
house. and Sunday Dr. Guy was called to at
tend him. Mr.. Gardner previous to his being
poisoned was in good physical condition, and
showed in every symptom that he was suffer-
ing from poison alone. His blood engorged,
the tissues decomposed and his system alb
sorbed the gangrenous matter, SO that one by
one the connections between his head and
body decayed through, a new hemorrhage
arising as each was severed until he died on
Sept. q. DIR. Guy and also DR.. Lewis who
were with Mr.. Gardner all through his illness.
positively assert that the cause of death was
from arsenic placed in the tooth.
When Mr.. Gardner was dead, every connec-
tson between his head ond body, except the
spine, had been eaten through and completely
severed by the action of the poison. Every
time blood vessel was thus severed there
would be a new hemorrhage. A few days be-
fore he died one of these hemorrhages sud
denly occurred and the blood spurted up into
the attendants face. The sloughing of the
decayed parts was so great that four iAcisions
clear Through these missions the sloughed
parts had to be continually drawn ont, and
they came in long strips like soft gum and had
to be broken off He was dying while. alive
all the time. Mr.. Gardner was native of
Portland, Me.