New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-25
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
HUNTING A HIGHWAYMAN
TILE ROBBERY IN THE GLEN-TRACES OF THE
CRIMINAL-A LONG HUNT.

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exploit of masked highwayman, on the road be-
tween The Glen House and Jackson last Tuesday,
mas OF course been the one great topic of
q tion all through the mountains but ara inclined
TO call he story of the pursuit of the robber almost
as exciting i'll its way the narrative of the crime
y itself. stout, sandy, quiet man was standing be-
fore the fire when / entered the hotel office last
8 evening, and an admirng crowd in which the rapt
: faces OF three four wide-eyed boys were comic
ally prominent, hung intent upon his conversation.
u This clearly was parsonage. He proved to be Mr.
A Palmer constable from Gorham, and he was Civ
ing by fragments. account of his hunt for the
nighwayman. But before we come to this l may as
well tell the true story of the robbery which seems
Z to have been embelshed IN Newly 1rk with sundry
melodramatic additions.
The victim Mr.. +. w. Andrews of Boston,
He was boarding in the village of Jackson twelve
Jules south of the Glen. and had driven up here in
I the morning on blackboard with his wife and
three small children. He had gone about half way
on his return, and it not yet sunset when in
lonely part of the road there is settlement and
hardly house between Jackson and the Glen. a
man jumped from the bushes and turned the horses
into the ditch. dirty calico bag, with holes cut
Tor the eyes, was drawn over his head A pistol
was stuck in his belt and with another revolver he
carefully covered Mr.. Andrews while he still kent
his hold of the horses Then lifting the reins over
the animals heads, he slipped his hand along them
until he got within reach OF the okboard angrily
demanding in the meantime Mr.. Andrews's pocket
hook. What was the unfortunate man to do IN
armed, confronted with loaded revolver. the
horses out of his control, and wife and three
children behind him9 After some pareying many
threats, and the firing of one pistol shot as % warn
ing the robber got little by little $500 in money
gold watch and chain, and valuable diamond
brooch. Then he held the revolver little while at
his victims head, and said he had good mind to
kill him for speaking rough" u want you to
know" added the White Mountain Turpn "that
I'm a gentlemanw Perhaps it is because he was al
gentleman that he relented. aud suffered the party
to drive away-a privilege of which they lost no
time in awaiting themselves
The incident which makes this exploit unique in
the annals of the road is that while the operation
WIS in progress the regular passenger coach bound
from the Glen House to Glen Station on the Port
land and Ogdensburg Railway came in sight and
the robber ordered it to halt until he got through
The command was supcrhuous, because Mr. An
drewss blackboard completely blocked the narrow
road. The coach had to halt and the passengers
two geuVlemen and a lady all riding on the outside
enjoyed the iare experience of witnessing high
way robbery. and listening to the accompanying
conversation One OF them had a small pistol, in
some unhandy place. but he was delayed in getting
II out and then at first it would not 60 Oft and
when it did it harmless, being too small for
Of the robber hal fired ut the coach, probably IN
tending 10 kill one of the horses This failing he
tried to seize the leaders by the br~e But it is not
so easy under the most favorable circumstances to
arrest lively six-horse team aud the animals ter
rifed by the firing. rearing and punging
with a violence which gave the driver full occupa-
ton for all his faculties. and threatened every mo-
ment disastrous upset. The rObber spranp "A
second time ut the bride and the horses knocked
him over Thereupon the driver. Henry William
son. OF whose GOODNESS, good and adroit man
agement all the witnesses speak highly. instantly
Piled the whip and the coach went laundering down
the road, the passengers little pistol popping in
'hectualv it passed. The two leaders had
broken the lead-bar Williamson let them 90
knowing that they would run to their stable. The
Others after dangerous gallop presently rot
under control The lady passenger was sure that she
saw two supcrnumcrary robbers half hidden in the
bushes but nobody else observed them and il is the
general opinion that they were only n deluson not
unnatural under the circumstances. In n few min
utes the upward bound coach was met on its way
from Glen Station to the Glen House The pas
sengcrs had heard the firing. and had exchanged a
few excited remarks with the despo led Andrews
family. and nothing could induce them to 90 on
They returned to the Station Williamson's coach
and their driver followed them with the horses
leaving his vehicle IN the road because there was
no room to turn it around. From Jackson and the
sta ion the alarm given by telegraph, guards
were posted on the roads. and men went out 10
search The woods The landlords of the Glen House
and of the hotel Mt which Mr.. Andrews boarded in
Jackson both offered considerable rewards for the
arrest of the criminal
On the day before the robbery a rough looking
man passed through the Glen in the direction of
Jackson He asked number of questions OF people
he met about the length of the road The extent of
the woods. the distance of the houses apart and the
character of the country. All trace of HIM vanished
some miles tins side of Jackson, although there
was no path by which he could have turned out of
the valley. That night the larder OF hotel mt l
Jackson was robbed OF n quantity Of cooked food
including ham, In the bushes where the buck
board and stage were stopped. was alcrward
found the highwayman's resting -place and some
fragments of ham scattered among the grass
1t seemed probable that the robber had provided
himself for soiourn i'll the woods being quite we'll
awar' that both ends OF the road would be closed
to him, and that no by-way branches of in the
whole distance between Jackson and the Glen i
The mountains on both sides Of the long pass are
steep and difficult. The searchers soon made mp
their minds that the man must be somewhere on the
forest-clad slopes but it two days before they
found his tracks On Thursday light someone saw
q light Tor a few minutes of the foothills E
and reported IT to Constable Palmer. The officer
looked the next morning in the neigbborhood in
dicated ana finally discovered a fcw scattered
einpors-not the remains Of campfire, but stray
half-burncd sticks. There was tall spruce tree
near them, and close examination showed that
someone had recently climbed it, making use in
his descent OF n birch sapng close alongside which
had ben pver with his weight and was still bowed
toward Lne ground The inference was that a N ght
traveller had lighted little blaze to enable him to
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