The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-12-18

Charles Bullard, now serving a
term in prison in Belgium for burg
larry, is the husband of Mrs. Kate
Louise Terry, the putative widow
of Dom Pedro Jaun Terry, who has
just left her $5,OOO,OOO, of which
he died possessed, from fortune
of $35, 100000 inherited from his
father, Tomaso Terry, South Amer
lean sugar planter and slave trader.
Bullard has vowed that when he
becomes free man again he will
claim the now wealthy Kate Bull
lard, or Terry, his two childrcn's
mother. He is native Of Connect
icut and forty-nine years old. He
was butcher by trade, but gave
up the occupation and devoted his
ability to the robbing of banks and
safes, for which he inherited
taste from his grandfather, who
was a burglar in a small way.
The grandson became one Of the
boldest operators that had ever
handled a Jimmy or drilled safe.
When he was thirty-two years old
he was engaged with Max Shinburn,
an alleged German baron, Ike
Marsh and others in breaking into
the Ocean bank. They hired a
basement at the corner or Broad
way and Fulton street under the
bank and opposite ST. Paul's
church, and started a junk shop as
cover to their plans. They bored
their way up into the bank, and
one Monday morning in 1868,
when the officials opened the doors
for business, they discovered $780,
900 missing. The robbers were
nearly month at the work. The
money was lost in gambling by the
thieves. Shinburn got rid of his
in Europe.
In 1869 Bullard planned the rob-
bery of the Merchants Express
company. He was aided by Marsh.
He was then known as Charles +.
Thompson. They concealed them
selves in baggage car of the train
of the Hudson River railroad in
which the safe was stored and
rihed it of 100000. The messenger
was discovered bound and gagged
in the car and was accused of being
an accomplice of the robbers. The
latter fled to Canada. Bullard was
extradited from there and lodged
in the Jail at White Plains. He
was there only short time when
he made his escape by boring under
the walls. Charley Forester, a fel-
low-operator, conveyed to him the
tools with which he worked his
way out.
Bullard became known among
his associates by the name of
"Piano Charley" because of his
musical skill. He was also able to
talk German and French among
his other accomplishments.
The accomplished criminal jour
neyed to England and in Liverpool
made the acquaintance Of Kate
Flynn, barmaid at the Washing
ton hotel in that city. The two
were married and went to Paris.
where Piano Charley opened the
American bar, in the Rue Scribe,
which he made a popular resort
and gambling place for American
visitors to the French capital. The
police raided him in 1872, and he
was sentenced to year in the gal
leys. His wife moved to Brooklyn
and he joined her later. In 1876 he
was implicated in the robbery of tho
Boyleston, Mass, bank, for which
he was sentenced to twenty years.
Imprisonment. He escaped from
the Concord Jail in 1878 and went
to Canada where he was subse-
quently arrested for the burglary
of the Kingston bank. He served
short sentence for that undertak-
ing and the next heard of him was
in Belgium. There he reformed
the acquaintance of Shinburn, who
planned the robbery of small
bank at Vivers, in that country.
He was to receive 100000 as his
share of the 100000 of the banks
money. The two were caught be-
fore they could execute their de-
signs and are now in Belgian
prisons. The present Mrs. Terry
and former Mrs. Bullard, the big
burglars wife, is now in Paris, but
is expected here soon. She is inn
mensely rich, but whether she will
ever consent to reunite with her
convict husband those who know
her best are unable to tell.
Billiards. various robberies are
estimated to have amounted to
$3,OOO,OOO. His share was mostly
lost at cards.
HERE is a fragment Of Alaskan
history of more than ordinary in
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