Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-21
Rurglars at Work in Derby.

the watchman at the Derby Building and Lumber company, walked into Derby from the Stratford woods where he had been car ried by four masked men who had raided the office of the company the night previous. Dyer had been home for some thing to eat shortly before midnight and on his return found the men seated on the steps and on his refusal to give up the keys they seized him, bound and gagged him. The door of the office was then forced open and Dyer taken in and placed in chair In the main office were two safes and in the superintendent's Broom adjoining was one large safe. After about two hours work the large one was pried open. It was found not to be so easy to open the small one in the same manner and the process of boring was resorted to. In the mean time the contents of the large safe were being taken out. A key was found in drawer, which one of them tried on the small safe and opened it. This made things easy, but the men were badly paid for their trouble, as it contained nothing but books and papers. All their attention was then given to the large safe. The iron box inside was taken out and the door broken open. It contained three draw CTS, one used for money, another for checks and the third for notes. Two of them went outside and came back shortly after wards and in an angry mood. One said to Dyer, who still occupied his chair, "A Birmingham man told us it was worth $500 to us any time we wished to crack this safe and we will kill him if it takes us 8 whole year to do the job" Dyer was then carried out and placed in buggy. The four men then got in, and while turning around the buggy broke down and all had to get out. A light lumber wagon which was loaded with blinds, situated under 8 shed 8 few yards south of the office, was taken out the blinds thrown of and the horses hitched. All got on and drove out, leaving the buggy behind, and continued the journey to the point near Stratford where Dyer was released. The iron box which was removed from the safe was found on the dock Several notes and a check for $20 were strewn around The amount of money in the drawer was a trifle less than $50, which was all they got for their pains.
 Personal.
 The marriage of Mrs. Mary Davis, of New Haven, to MT. Whitson Oakley, of Brooklyn N. Y, took place at the house of the bride, Il Warren street, last evening. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Newman Smyth of Center church. After the marriage re- ception was given to the friends and relatives at the house.
 Sad Ending of a Brilliant Career.
 From the Florida Times UnionJ
 One of the unhappiest of these instances of the failure of genius has recently oc- cured in the arrest for embezzlement of Major James R. Wasson, paymaster in the United States army. Major Wasson, when mere boy, enlisted in an Iowa regiment and went into the civil war. His ability was then conspicuous and secured for him the friend ship of influential men. In 1867 he was ap- pointed to the United States Military acade- my and entered class at the very foot of which stood Fred Grant. In this class of about forty members Cadet Wasson was pre- eninently first He stood first in mathemat- ics and law, in painting and languages and horsemanship. First mentally and first physically.
 He was graduated in 1871 and entered the Fourth cavalry, but his brilliant intellectual endowments, versatility and soldierly phys ique had given him celebrity, and he received an offer from the Japanese government of 8 high military position in that country He resigned from the United States army and went to Japan, where he continued until, by getting himself involved in the Corean diff culty, he was compelled to resign his plac @ and return to America.
 It was with real pain that his friends saw him accept a commission as. paymaster, place for which he was united, and which had in it the temptations to which he was most fatally inclined. It seemed like Q crim- inal desertion of his duty, a waste of his great powers, an abandonment of the unlim- tied possibilities of his life.
 And so it proved. Accustomed to flatterv, the society of the wealthy and great, he be- came spendthrift, used money from the funds entrusted to him, cashed in his pay accounts in advance to cover his delinquen- cies until the breach became too wide for his salary to bridge it, and found himself in ar- rest and disgrace. Such careers are valuable as lessons, but they appear too great sacrifice for the little good that seems to be learned from them.