Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-11
Those WalpoIe Burglars.

The Captive Refuses to Reveal His
 Name-Arrested on 8 Charge of Drunk
 enness and His Case Continued Until
 TO-MOrrOW.
 Nothing was seen yesterday of the man who so cleverIy eluded the clutches of Officer Grant at the depot Sunday night. His con- federate who was captured refused to give his name and was dubbed John Doe by the City court officials. The baggage of the pair contained, besides lot of fancy articles such as toilet sets, combs and brushes, an immense five-barreled revolver and 8 large steel bolt with 8 sharp thread cut into it. Also finely constructed tool like druggists spatula used in pushing back window catches. The club of Officer Grant was found near the depot yesterday morning unbroken. The coat that the escaping burglar shed Sunday night in getting away was also found by two boys named George Adams and John Deve- lin. In the coat pocket was 8 ticket from New Haven to New York issued at Spring field. This was redeemed by Ticket Agent States at $175 and the money divided be- tween the two boys.
 The prisoner engaged Lawyer Biydenburgh as his counsel. He was brought into the City court and refused to give his name. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Daley said the man was charged with drunkenness and aSkeQ GuAG HIS CHS6 D0 COQC1nu0O uQCu Wednesday. Judge Deming did so and placed the bonds at $500. The prisoner was put in the lookup.
 Marshal Hamilton is still looking for the missing man, and is assisted by several de- tectives Postmaster Clark of Birmingham is also at work upon the case, believing that the men belong to the Paddy Ryan gang who robbed the Birmingham postofice. It is supposed by some that the missing man is James Higgins or Richard Hadley, who escaped recently while being transferred to Wethersfeld. It is believed that the men are without doubt the burglars who robbed the Walpole bank.
 Sheriff H. A. Perry arrived about four o'clock yesterday afternoon from Walpole &C., companied by F. A. Lebourveau. The latter is proprietor of livery stable and black smith shop near the bank which was robbed. He heard the noise made by blowing open the safe, but thought it proceeded from his horse barn. He says that two men came from Westminster, town about mile from Walpole, to that village. They inquired what time the train left and finding that train had just gone they walked up the track. Mir. IebOurveau says he noticed the man who IS now prisoner in the New Haven lookup particularly and is very confident of his identity.
 The other man was heavier built Sunday morning MT. Lebourveau noticed that some of the tools in his shop were missing and that fact connected with the peculiar noise of the night before aroused his suspicious and he called up several of the neighbors. The bank was entered and the fact that it had been robbed discovered. It was ascertained that two men got on the south bound train at Bellows Falls early that In orning and word was teleeraphed to Springfield. The rest of the story has been told in the papers.
 It is not known here to what gang of burg lars the men belong, but Inspector Byrnes of New York will be here today and will prob ably be able to tell. City Marshal Hamilton, of Springfield, left last evening for Philadel- phia. It is thought among police circles that he did not use very good judgment in his dealing with the case. He telegraphed for policeman to meet him at the station saying nothing about the kind of business he had on hand. Had the chief known the size of the job he could have had 8 number of men at the depot and both burglars would have been secured AS it is only oneis caught and number of men are looking for the other, who probably took an east or northerly bound train yesterday at some country town hereabouts and is now good distance from here. Chief of Police Webster is of the opin. ion that there is still another man in the party. The chief thinks this man took the poodle and left for some other part of the country. The other two were going to New York. One of them was to get of here and take the boat down, the other going by rail, as only one had ticket for New York and the other left the train here. That capture was made at all is largely due to the exertion Of Mir. Lebourveau, as the deed would not have been discovered until late Sunday after noon and the burglars would then have got safely in their haunts in the great city.
 Conductor Herkins says that two of the gang of burglars who have been east on raid from New York wens down on his train Sunday night Captain McClinchy, of New York. says that four of them left New York last week to go east to do ''big job" He has no doubt that one of the burglars was Higgins and that he was the one who escaped from Officer Grant at the depot in this city.