Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-31
THE NOTE WITH A HOLE IN IT.
IL WIN Connect Richardson With
the Milford Burglaries.

| on the Strength of This Note w, q.
POWDERS Prefers IA Charge of Burglary
Against Richardson - An Interview
| With the Prisoner.
| special Correspondence OF Gazettennd journal
MILFORD, March 24.-EvEgY EVENING of
| yesterday brought the news to Milford
people that James Richardson, who is
supposed to have been one of the gang
mat committed the wholesale safe burglary
IN our town, has been brought to Delaware
from Elkton, Nd, and lodged in Dover
lail. In the,same article was the surprising
statement that one of the bills found on
his person had a hole in it,
This is description of ten-dollar bill
stolen from the safe of w. q. Powders.
MT. Powders has contended all the time
that he could identify the note on account
OF this hole and enc or two other peculiari-
ties, and last night. when shown the state
ment in EVERY EVENING, he said there
was no doubt in his mind that the note
was the same, though the denomination
was not given.
Mr.. Powders left for Dover on the early
morning train to-day and will try to
identify the note. There is not a shadow
OF doubt in the minds of people gener-
ally that Richardson is one of the gang
and that the note found on his person was
taken from the safe of w. G.. Powders.
Now that he has been lodged in Dover
Jail an effort will be made to fasten the
crime on him.
DOVER, March 25.-The dispatch sent
from here and published In EVERY EVEN
ING, stating that bank note with q hole
IN 1t was taken from James Richardson,
one of the supposed Milford burglars,
seems to have furnished the link that will
n all probability connect Richardson with
the burglary.
I. e al -
burgarious raid on Milford, learned of
this particular note through EVERY EVEN
ING, which correspondent with one among
others that had been stolen from him.
he came here yesterday and appeared be-
fore Squire Jester and described the note
IN detail, also stating the denomination.
without any information. 1t was $40
note. lie also said that he had told other
parties about the note, soon after the rob-
berry, and he believed he could identify it.
ne remembered the exact position of the
mole and the size of IL. So positive was he
that he made affidavit against Richardson
for burglary. The note is at present in
possession of the sheriff at Elkton, who
took it from Richardson when he was
brought to Jail.
Through the Kindness OF Jail Physician
Frame and Turnkey Boggs The GA
zErTE's correspondent was allowed to see
Richardson yesterday. lie declined to
talk much. He said he could not say
whether lie knew Decker, or Burns, the
man who died after being brought here,
although he had seen the photograph
that had been taken. He seems to be an
Intelligent man and an excellent conversa-
uonalist. When asked by Jail Physician
frame II he wanted any medical attention
he asked him to examine his knee to seeif
any bones were broken. He said it had
PANIED him q great deal and one entire day
he was unable to walk on it.
lie has written to the l1lkton sheriff to
send him the money that was taken from
him and seems very anxious to get posses
sion of 1t. He is dressed identically the
same as the dead burglar, who is supposed
to have been his partner. Richardson said
he was not used to prison life and unless
he had some newspapers or periodicals
with which to pass away the time he
would go crazy.
ELKroN, Nh, March 28.-The note with
hole in il, taken from Richardson the
suspected Milford safe burglar, by Sheriff
Mckinney, who now has il in his posses
sion, is ten-dollar silver certificate and
looks as though IL had been folded length.
ways and then doubled over. None of II is
missing and it appears that the break III
the note, which IS in the centre. was
caused by wear. By spreading the note
out and smoothing out the ragged edges
around the break, it is impossible to detect
that anything is wrong with it, unless
scrutinized very closely