Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-17

BANGOR, NE, July 1.-THE latest devel-
opments in the Stain-Cromwell case are
startling Just as it is closed, and an ap-
peal is TO go to full bench for new trial,
the Winthrop bank produces package OF
literature which, had it been given out at
the time of the trial, would have undoubt-
edly set the men free. Itseems to establish
beyond doubt that young Stain, lying in
Maine Jail, racked his brain to concoct some
scheme whereby he could gain few dollars,
even if he sent his father to the gzllows, or
to prison for life.
A few years ago, the Winthrop Bank,
situated in Winthrop, in Central Maine,
lost by robbery in the night time, over
$50, 900 in paper, which was afterward re-
covered on the payment in New York
City, of $4,000. although the bank people
never knew just who robbed them. In
February, 1887, while young Stain was In
the Norridge Jail, he confessed to Mr.:
Mitchell, the officer who arrested Stain and
Cromwell. that he, his father, Cromwell,
and one Gleason, a 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 con-
fession proved true, it was left for in
spection.
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 lat
est sensation.
The story, as it appears in these, and
which relates wholly to Winthrop, is al
most word for word like the so-called con-
fession of the Dexter affair, save that the
names of towns are changed to fit. The
same departure was made from Midfield.
The same horse Flora and the same beach
wagon are mentioned; the steamer Star OF
the East was taken, and the arrival at Gar
diner, 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 fed from the scene.
In all the details the same and similar
language appears, and he puts in the Win
throp 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 instruc-
tions which he claimed his father gave him.
there is no material difference in the two
accounts In both, where he said his faith
er 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 oi
cut-doing all detective bureaus.
They had good ground for rejection. Two
weeks before Mitchell first appeared at the
bank stranger called, introducing himself
as a New York detective, and asking at the
same time for full particulars of the bank.
loss This was given him and he departed
Soon after it was learned he was brother
in-law of young Stain, and on being called
to an account, acknowledged Stain had
written to him to gain this information, q:
well as dates. etc. He forgot to learn of the
weather on the night of the robbery, which
was rainy, and young Charles guessing ai
it put it down as clear and beautiful.
Lawyer Barker, counsel for Stain, has al
the papers here in his safe, and there can bs
no doubt but what Stain is the author
With this writing are all the minutes and
memoranda made by court officials, who d(
not believe either of the men held here hac
anything 10 do with the robbing, but ar.
the victims of the treIcherous prison bird
who swears he saw and talked with Barroni
ghost. 1t is hard to tell what the six judge
of the supreme court who are to sit in ludg
ment, will dc, as this new evidence canno
be introduced. but if a vote was taken BY
the people, Stain and Cromwell would g
free. Stain and Cromwell still maintain
their innocence