The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-12-19

death that same evening. A citizen
named Huntingdon MAS walking on the
aevaik al thefoot offln common when
one Of the r4idsis on horseback called
auan him 70 halt.
Not understanding tie peculiarly q
tht sitnsaaa al the time. and Therefore
not recagaiging the rghi Of am "a 10
order him 10 atop. he kept on his way.
The raider ~.heneupon frei at hin, the
bail striking him on Il e breast bat CLAN
cling OF on n Of has rib. p~rodaec1 only
a flesh wouad.
-By lie aay, among our cash appro-
priaiei-b y the robbers was a considera-
bic amount Of sfi7er dollars, which they
pnf iEto their coat poekets Il IS proba-
BILE that IN their fight the motion Of the
horses disturbed ihese deposits, for con-
siderable numbers Of these coins were
found scattered about ia ibe streets after
tleir departure 0fcourse when il was
realized WHIT had happened there was a
good deal Of CONSERVATION Among ihe
people Of 81 Adams Tie raiders had
with then. a ~c5mbnsiibie which they
called Greek d5e, WIZ when they said
taey we're going to bura GOV. snifh's
mansion 81 the town. but tie threat aas
not executed. They did ty iosei TIRE 10
an OLD store but did rot succeed ia De-
stroyiue IT, Atthe time Of the rand there
were a few cavalry officers in ST. Adams,
a. home on mriough. These men al
once orglni1ea a pursuing raTtg, but even
then there were no arms flr Use for such
a purpose. However a pursui. was made
and the robbers followed. In crossing
Sheldon bridge, the raiders aitemptelto
fire tie structure, but failed here, too.
They tore up some ofthe planks t. delay
pursuit but this caused little delay. anu
the pgrsuers kept amer them to the from
tier soue ten miles beyond Here tue
pnrsuit was abandoned. but, information
having been sent TO the authorities at
stanbridge and slab City, fourteen OF the
raiders Mere arrested in these places, and
the plumber they carried was taken from
thetn- They were sent un lea guard lost.
Johns, and there lodged in jail. They
were Afterwards transferred 70 Nontreal.
to be tired Tor their acis. The trial wasa
lengthy one, at tho end OF which Judge
Course, before whom the case was tried,
decided that they could not be held for
what they had done in a foreign country
under The circumstances, and ordered
their release and the money which had
been taken from thcln, whsch was II the
HANDS Of the chief Of police, 10 be return
ed 10 them. Our case was conducted by
Judge Elmdnjs, through counse. en-
pioyed ia Montreal. Our counsel. antici-
patiug some such result as had happen
ed had prepared charges and papers for
a nearresi Of these men, for trial Of the
ease at a higher court. But when the
prisoners were discharged not an officer
could DE found competent 10 serve these
warrants, and the prisoner went of de-
family an possession Of the stolen funds.
After awhile four or five Of them were
arrested, bot nothing could be done with
them. the fact was, the sympathy of1he
Canadians for the rebels vas a. that time
SO strong that IL was useless 10 try 10 yet
Justice from them. As Under the cireum-
stances the money, at least-which was
shown 20 have been stolen from us
should not have been returned to the
robbers, our counsel proposed to hold the
city Of Montreal responsible for the un-
~warrantabie act OF one of its local Judges.
and made preparations TO bring suit
against the city for the amount thus dis
posed Of. At the time Parliament was in
session, and 20 simplify matters some one
introduced a bin TO pay the 81. Adams
banks the money captured from the rob
bers and return il TO them. The bill
was passed and the money paid. The
snare OF our bank was about 10000.
Our net loss by the raid, including X
penses Of prosecution with money stolen
was, in round numbers, about $4,000.
The Franklin County Bank was owned
by "A man, Oscar Burton. He immedi-
ately put that institution into insolvency
and telegraphei to the suffolk Bank of
Boston not to take the bills Of his bank.
As the raiders got mostly MS bank bills,
and as he put his bank into insolvency,
II is fair 20 assume that lbs loss was not
very great. When the Canadian govern
ment rendered him his proportion Of the
captured money il was in his own bills,
which, however he refused to take, and
therefore made nothing by the restitu-
ton. The First National Bank lost from
$4,000 TO $4,000 in money by the raid.
and some $4,000 worth Of government
bonds, which had been deposited with it
for sale. DO not know exactly how the
bank came O u on the bonds, but have
the impression that the government did
moi insist on payment for them.
+" such was the St. Adams raid, and the
strangcst thing to my mind now in con
nection with ii is that It is Just - years
since Us occurrence. Il don't seem pos
sibie, 80 wildly are all the incidents con
nectcd with II in my memory. Bat So il
is We are ali growing cider, and it will
not be many years before all who par
ticipated in this episode of war history
will be-raiders and raided alike-num-
bered with the silent majority"