Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-29
The Bold Bank Robbery.

The Four Suspected NIen Who Drove from
 Hartford to NIiddIetovvn and Returned
 -One Examined Without Result by the
 Hartford Chief of POIice-Later Bur
 glars Tools Found-The Men at Large.
 Four men who hired teams at Hartford livery stable on Tuesday to go to Middlefeld, near Middletown are strongly suspected of being the parties who put up the job and rob bed the Middletown Savings Bank on We'd nesday. On their return to Hartford the Hartford chief of police, who had been noti- fled of the bank robbery, searched one of them He found nothing at the time to war rant the mans arrest But later bunch of keys was found in one of the buggies some of them skeletons, which was 8 further evi- dence that these fellows were a part of the burglar gang. They left their almost empty carpet bags at the hotels, in their hurry to get away.
 The bank was robbed of $8. 800 in bills and three tim private boxes, one belonging to George H, Harris and the other to William Southmayd. The Harris tin box contained papers valued at $2, ,OOO, and a part of these may be negotiable. But the papers in the Southmayd box are not negotiable. The men who went from Hartford to Middletown got back about o'clock Tuesday The rob bery took place about o'clock. One of the teams was hired at Fay's stables and came back with one in it, though two left in it. short time after this the other two men came back in their team, which was hired at Wheat on's stables. A Hartford police officer fol lowed this team into the stables. Chief Chamberlain followed one of these men to the Allyn House, thence to High street, where he searched the stranger, who was cool and will ing to be searched. Nothing of consequence was found on the fellow. Officer Smith fol lowed up the other man, but did not search him. The two, it is thought, went of upon some one of the early evening trains The $8, 800 was in bank bills and greenbacks.
 Over s6O,OOO in Bonds-one Thousand
 Dollars Reward.
 The three boxes taken from the bank be- Ionged to William Southmayd, Mrs. Lot D. Vansands and Mir. Harris, clerk in the bank. The contents of William Southmayd's box were his savings bank book and his will. In Mrs Vansands' box there were five Virginia State bonds, of $1, 900 each seven Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad bonds, of $1, ,OOO each fourteen New Haven and Willi- mantle railroad bonds, of $500 each; one town of rMiddlefeld bond, of $500; ten South Carolina State bonds, of $500 each i; thirty-fve South Carolina State bonds of S1, ,OOO The bonds of South Carolina are al- most or quite valueless. Leaving them out, the par value of the remaining bonds is $19,- 800, added to the banks loss and the clerks, one bond of the Norwich and Worcester Rail road Company $1,OOo, and one Middletown city bond, of $1,OOO. The entire plunder amounts to $3O, ,OOO-exclusive of the $40, ,OOO in South Carolina bonds. A reward of $1, 900 is offered for the return of the bonds.
 MT. F. l.. Gleason, treasurer of the Middle town Savings Bank, has offered reward of S3, 900 for the return of the $9, 800 stolen from that institution Tuesday; also reward of $2 OOO for the arrest of the thieves.
 Mir George H. Harris, clerk in the bank, has offered $2OO for the return of his trunk containing various securities.
 There is no doubt of the robbers having been in Middletown prospecting for several days. One of the ladies boarding at Mr. Henry North's, who lives in the Burr house. next to the Farmers and Mechanics and First National Banks, heard noise sometime Mon day night. She got up, turned the slats to the blinds, and saw three men in the gangway talking. They heard the noise made in turn ing the blind slats and made of in hurry