The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-31
A Very Loving Young Couple,

burglary committed at Norwich, Conn.
Young Yerrington, who is still in his
teens, has been living with Miss Gabel
in the houses of wealthy residents Of
that city, who were away on summer
vacations, since July 5th. They spent
their days and nights In the houses
behind closed blinds and drawn curtains
living on the luxuries of arlstocratic
iarders. AS far as is known, they visit
ed the residences of Ebenezer Learned,
Col. G. A. Converse, e. A. Converse,
and Mrs. Selden, all among the wealth.
est citizens of that town. In these
dwellings they drank the choicest wines
and liquors, and smoked costly Turkish
tobacco in $25 meerschaum pipes, and
cigarettes in holders of solid gold with
amber mouthpieces. When they aban-
doned the dwellings they took with
them the pipes and cigarette holders.
Their identity was betrayed, and their
arrest effected by the discovery in the
residence of Mrs. Selden of pill box,
the purchase of which at city drug
store was traced to Miss Hattie Gabel
The couple had fled TO New Haven and
taken room at hotel, registering as
man and wife, where Capt. Whaley of
the Norwich police arrested them.
The amount of plunder they gathered
in their Norwich raids was not made
public until to- day. The people plum
dered did not know of a quarter of the
goods that had been taken until they
saw them on exhibition in Police Head
quarters this morning. On Wednesday
afternoon Capt. Whaley set to work to
induce O confession from Miss Gabel.
He visited her cell at the Norwich Jail.
He found her in tears. She is a pale,
faced, and exceedingly pretty
girl, nineteen years of age. She is of
respectable family, and her connection
with young Yerrington was her first
step downward.
She replied to the Captains salutation
cheerfully. He earnestly besought her
to make full confession, and Jailer
Beckwith Joined in the officers entreaty.
She fell to weeping afresh and said that
she could not betray her lover. The
officer and jailer continued their efforts,
and at length, overcome by grief and
their opportunities, she promised that
if she might go into the sitting room of
the Jail she would tell.
In the pleasant reception room of the
jail, with a burst of tears, she said that
large quantity of the plunder was con-
cealed at the foot of tall pine in grove
on the west bank of the Thames River,
three miles below the city. She added
that after leaving the Selden House, on
Broadway, Yerrington hired carriage
early one morning, and she and he
drove with hair trunk they had stolen
from Mrs. Selden, and which had been
filed with booty, to lonely nook in
pine grove, where they had buried it,
They dug hole with spade about
foot or two deep, placed the trunk in
the pit, and covered it with earth. They
marked the place with strap that was
tied around a stake opposite the trunk
of the pine at whose foot the plunder
was buried.
Capt. Whaley procured carriage, and
with the girl drove to the pine grove.
The road is a lonely one, winding along
by the rivers brink. The grove covers
several acres, and is almost the only
cluster of pines in the town. The pines
rise sixty or seventy feet in height, and
throw perpetual shade over the ground.
AS the carriage neared the copse, the
girl said:
This is the place."
Capt. Whaley drove to the middle of
the wood, and by direction of his guide
the carriage was halted. They alighted,
stepping among the laurels by the road
side. Miss Gabel babe the officer follow
They passed under the trees several rods
away from the road, following an old
and rotten fence. 1t was nearly night
fall as the young woman halted at the
foot of a great pine, many rods from the
road, and, pointing to the foot of the
tree, said:
1T is down there.''
The strap to mark the place was still
tied to the fence stake. The Captain
fell to work with a spade, and in a few
moments unearthed the hair trunk,
which he lifted from the pit There
was also in the hole common leathern
grip satchel, which was placed in the
carriage with the trunk. 1t was dark
when the two reached Norwich. On
the way Miss Gabel still further confess.
ed that she and Yerrlngton had conceal.
ed considerable jewelry behind hen