The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-17
FHF CHAMPION IIAR
To Secure a Reward Accuses His
Father Of a Foul Crime.
YOUNG STAINS CONFESSION
Exposed-startIInG Developments of
u Celebrated Maine Case-A Too
Entcrprising New York Paper
and u Very Bold Perjurer.

BANGOR, MAINE, July 1G.-The latest
developments in the Stain Cromwell case
are startling. Just as it is closed and an
appeal is to 60 to full bench for new
trial, the Winthrop bank produces n
package OF literature which, had it been
given out at the time OF the trial, would
undoubtedly set the men free. 1t seems
to establish beyond doubt that young
Stain, lying in a Maine Jail, racked his
brain to concoCt some scheme whereby
he could gain few dollars, even il he
sent his father to the gallows or to
prison for life.
A few years ago the Winthrop bank,
situated in Winthrop, in Central Maine,
lost by robbery in the nighttime over
$4,000 in paper, which was afterward
recovered on the payment, in New York
city, of SO, 900, although the bank peo-
pie never knew Just who robbed them.
In February, while young Stain was
in the Norridgewock Jail, he confessed
to Mr.. Mitchell, the officer who arrested
Stain and Cromwell, that he, his father,
Cromwell and one Gleason, q New York
"crook," did the job. Mitchell had him
write out the confession, and this he
took TO the bank officers, asking at the
time about the reward. Being promised
this if the confession proved true, it was
left ior inspection. The bank people
found there were some glaring errors,
and so wrote Mitchell, and young Stain
corrected them, he being all the while in
Jail. Later, the bank folks wrote out
thirty questions, which were answered
by Stain. The whole story was then
written out, inspected and rejected by
the bank. All the letters OF Mr.. Mitchell,
those OF Stain and all his answers were
kept, however, and it is the production
at this late hour OF these that causes the
latest sensation.
The story, us it appears in these, and
which relates wholly to Winthrop, is
almost word for word like the so-called
confession OF the Dexter affair, save that
the names OF towns are changed to fit.
The same departure was made for Mid
field, the same horse Flora, and the
same beach wagon are mentioned; that
the steamer Star of the East was taken
and the arrival at Gardiner, and the
mention Of the hotel and bowling alley
and departure from that town are alike
in both confessions.
Then, simply substituting the names
of other towns, he tells how he drove
near the scene OF operations, leaving
the men to do the job, and how, later,
he took them up again and they fled
from the scene.
In all the details the same and similar
language appears and he puts in the
Winthrop account whole sentences into
the mouth OF Cromwell which appear
in the Dexter story, as having been
uttered by his father. Then, in the
matter OF instructions, which he claimed
his father gave him, there is no material
difference in the two accounts. In both,
where he says his father told him not
to recognize him, he uses the same
words. The bank officials declare he
must have Just altered the story, after
they had rejected it, to fit the Dexter
case. Catching the county sheriff,
Mitchell, and the New York paper
which was desirous OF outdong al de-
LeCLlVH DuTehub, lucy ul4 SuOu BlVuAA
for rejection. Two weeks before
Mitchell first appeared ut the bank, a
stranger called, introducing himself as
New York detective aud asking at the
same time for full particulars of the
banks loss. This was given him and he
departed. Soon after it was learned
that he was brothef-in-law OF young
Stain, and, on being called to IN account,
acknowledged that Stain had written to
him to gain this information, as well as
dates, etc. He forgot to learn OF the
weather on the night OF the robbery,
which was rainy, and young Charles,
guessing ut it, put it down as clear and
beautiful ..-
LAWYER Parker. counsel for Stain, has
all the papers here in his safe and there
can be no doubt but what Stain is the
author. With this writing arc all the
minutes and memoranda made by court
officials, who do not believe either OF
the men held here are anything but the
victims OF the treaCherous prison bird,
who swears he saw and talked with Bar
ron's ghost. 1t is hard to tell what the
six Judges OF the Supreme Court, who
are TO sit in judgment, will do, as this
new evidence cannot be introduced, but
II vote was taken by the people Stain
and Cromwell would so free. Stain
and Cromwell still maintain their in
nocence.