The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-08-24
"ALMY" IS ABBOTT.
The Hanover Murderer Proves to
Be an Escaped Convict.
HE HAS A RECORD OF CRIME.
Identifled by Ofncers from yer-
mont's State .Prison-while Yet n
Young Man Abbott Was the Leader
of a Gang Of Desperate Characters
and Ciassed as an Expert Burglar.

and Ciassed as an Expert Burglar.
HANOVER, N. H, Aug. 2t.-Frank G.
Almy is George H. Abbott, the ver-
mont highwayman, who is wanted for
an unfinished term of fifteen years in
the Vermont state prison and who es-
capped about six years ago. Warden
Oakes and two superintendents from
Windsor have just identified him posi-
lively as the man sentenced.
Almy's past life has been definitely
covered now. He lived for some years
IN Concord, N. H., and his father COM
mitted suicide in or near that place. He
left the boy quite a sum of money, and
he at once invested in a steam yacht,
Yachting proved to be as costly to him
as it is to others, and his money was
soon'gone. Then he went to Thetford,
VT, and became knight of the road.
With almost incredible intrepidity he
held up teams and broke into houses
and stores. In the latter part of 1880
Deputy Sheriff $. K. Berry, Of Vermont,
went to Boston and requested assistance
from the Boston department in the
search for Abbott, whom he had traced
to that city.
The Leader of a Band.
Abbott hal been the leader of an or
ganized gang of burglars, who had op-
Grated along the line of the Passumpsic
railroad and had established beaten
track Of breaks from Barnet, Vt, to
Lyme, N. II. Their depredatious had
become so numerous that tho neighbor-
hood was in state Of terror. They even
broke into the house of Sheriff Berry
and stole $500 and a valuable gun, and
that gentleman commenced active opera
tions against them. When he arrived
in Boston and told his story he was
given the assistance of inspector Leggett.
and a thorough search of pawn and loan
shops was made.
They found that Sheriff Berrys sus-
picions were correct, for from one of
these shops Mt the north end they resur-
rected the very gun which had been
stolen from the sheriff's house. They
found that Abbott made his headquar-
ters at the old National house, in Hay-
market square, but when they went to |
look for him he had fed. Shortly after |
that news was received here of his cap
ture in cave near West Falrlee, vt. |
Before being captured, however, he |
made desperate resistance, and it was |
only after he had received twenty diff
ferent wounds from shot and bullets
that he was finally overpowered
He was almost dead from loss of
blood, but while the attendant was absent
from the room in which he was con-
fined, some four days after his capture, |
he managed to escape and ran mile |
and half with no clothing on him ex- |
cept his night clothes and an old bed |
spread. He was found crouched in a |
culvert and was taken back to his room. |
He eventually recovered, and in JAN,
1881, he pleaded guilty to nine different |
indictments for breaking and entering
houses. He was sentenced to fifteen |
years in Vermont prison and he stayed
in prison nearly seven years.
Almy Missed.
Then one morning in Oct, 1857, the
authorities awoke to find that Abbott
had escaped. A thorough search was
commenced for him. but he was never
recaptured. Sheriff Berry went to Bos-
ton In hopes of finding come trace of
him, but nothing could be learned.
Abbott was born in Salem, Mass, and
is the son Of Harris E. Abbott His
mother is supposed to be alive and is Z
said to be living in New Hampshire :,
Abbott generally lived with an uncle at
Ely Station in that state, and prior to
his sentence in Vermont had served n
four-year term in Concord for burg
larry. Inspector Leggett spent his vaca-
tion in the vicinity of Hanover, and had
many long chats with Mr.. Warren. He
IS strongly impressed with the belief
that Alnly and Abbott are identical.
Alnly lived around Salem for some
time, and that place was the birth place
of Abbott, Then again he told the
Wardens that there were some things
about his past life which he wished to
conceal, and it is supposed TINT he re-
ferred TO his career rs burglar
Then, too, he showed Mr. Warden a
bullet wound in one arm, which he ex-
planned had been received by being acci-
dentally shot i'll Georgia. According to
the theory built up by the Boston eff
GERS in their discussion Of the case, this
wound was received in his great fight at
West Fairlee at the time of his arrest
for burglary. The description tallies
fairly well also, the only material diff
erenee being that according to tile best
belief of those acquainted with Almy
be is about 20 years old, while tine state
prison record would mike him j years
old.
His Condition Critical.
Almy's condition is considered crit
ical. Blood poisoning has set in, and