The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-09-22
ThE NoRwAR BANK cAsr.
'h's City Was the Base OF the
Gangs Operations. -


Langdon w. Moore, the bank robber Was
omitted by the Boston Herald. This il tbs
record OF the gangs operations in this state
Alter roobing the o'Brion store In Cornish OF
sl4'OOo Moore. Hight, Livingston and "Dr."
ioung came to this city. They registered at
what is now the Eagle hotel on India street
september IA. 1867, which was a Saturday.
Ihey remained quietly In the house, attract
ing no special attention, and behaving ne
Iour well regulated travellers should until
Saturday. the 21st. when they expressed a
desire 70 90 TO ride, and asked to be directed
70 stable. The then proprietor pointed out
what Is now GIlpatrick's stable, and here the
quartette hired horse and a two seated
wagon for twenty mile drive into the coun-
try, as they said. The horse they hired was
shod with three ordinary shoes, and one
round one, that Is, one on which the ends
were tied together by an iron bar. This
shoe proved to be their ruin.
At about II o'clock Sunday forenoon. two
OF the men came back with the horse so
blown that he could hardly stand. They
settled at the stable and at the hotel and de-
camped. 1t afterwards transpired that the
party had divided in Falmouth. Moore and
Hight tramping across country to Prlde's
Corner. where they took train for Great
Falls. N. III. "Dr." Young and Lyington
brought the round shoed horse back, went
up to the upper end Of Danforth street and
secured team with which they went to
Saco.
at about p. IN. along came Mr., Sander
son OF Norway. hot on the trail Of the round
shoed horse. lie and Marshal Heald made
the rounds of the stables and soon found
the animal. Mr.. Head telegraphed along
the line Of the Boston Il Maine to all police
officers to arrest the men. In the morning
he started for Saco himself and arrived Just
as the train for Boston pulled out with
Young and Livingston on board. Mr.. Heald
went on to Boston on the next train, but as
Moore claims, with the assistance of Detec-
tive Chapman. he and Deputy Wentworth
and Sanderson who followed, were com
pletely baffied In their pursuit.
For time the gang was lost sight of, but
on October IS Jared Burnham, a special
treasury officer, met Young In New York.
He at once notified Detective John s. Hunt,
who was In pursuit Of him on behalf OF the
Cornish people. Hunt secured a requisitlon
from Governor Chamberlain, arrested
Young, and In company with d. w. O'BriOn
took him to Cornish. Just what he did with
him Is not quite clear. At any rate, the sus-
pcions Of the Norway people were aroused,
aud when Hunt passed through Saco with
his prisoner deputy sheriff of York coun-
ty, Inspired by the Norway people, attempt
ed to arrest Young on the ground that be
was about to leave the state. Detective
Hunt resisted strenuously and revolvers
were drawn, but Young was finally secured
by the sheriff and lodged In Saco jail.
Hunt applied for writ Of hebeas corpus
and the application was heard before Judge
Rufus z. Tapley In this city on the last day
Of October.
Young was brought here and quartered at
the Preble House under strict surveillance
Detective Hunt looked after him day times
and Deputy Marshall j. @. Sterling, then a
day patrolman. watched him nights. NJ.
Sterling said yesterday that he was shown
Into Young's room. which was on the third
floor Of the hotel on the Congress street side
and introduced to the prisoner by Marshal
Head and the detective. who then turned
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said Mr.. Sterling. was to lock the door and
put the key into my pocket. Then 1 sat
down to read paper. Pretty soon Young,
who was big man. weighing. perhaps, 25O
pounds. said he guessed he would go to bed.
He laid down, and as quick as though he
had been struck on the head by hammer,
was asleep and snoring" "Oh. how he did
snore" said Mr.. Sterling, laughing as he re-
called 1t. "His idea was to be so very sound
asleep that would begin to lose my interest
in sitting up and would 60 to sleep too. But
didn't. 1 was there to keep awake and
did. After while he began to twist and
turnand throsh around. and finally he asked
me to 60 to bed He said was tired, having
been up all day. and ought to go to bed and
have good nights rest. l didn't 90
though" continued the deputy. II thought
saw myself going to sleep with him In the
room. 1t wouldn't have been more than a
minute after went off before he would have
banged me over the head with chair, taken
the key out Of my pocket and gone. 1
watched him two nights and then they car
ried him off to Saco jail"
Judge Tapley decided that the prisoner
was undoubtedly Hunts. and that he should
dispose Of him. But he said that as he was
wanted for burglary in York county and
also in Oxford, he should be lodged in Saeo
Jail and not be carted around the country.
As the deputy who made the demand on
Hunt was an officer in both York and OK
ford counties, this gentleman was given
charge Of him.
VIM. P. Frye was attorney general, and
he drew an iron clad indictment that gave
Young eleven years in the State prison.
Marshal Heald was very much put out at
the time at the carelessness of the Saco au-
thorities who took no pains to find the man
after receiving his telegram, and he hasn't
wholly recovered his good nature even now.
He thought he had dead sure thing Of 1t,
and to this day says that had his horse been
a little faster he would have had them In
spite Of the slow Saco officers.