Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-12-22
Z ADDISON County colJsr.

, out the intervening week. The cour
kept at work until after o'clock OF
Saturday and the trial was to have beer
resumed at 10 o'clock Monday morning
but one of the jurors sitting ON the case
SherrOd Brown of New Haven, was a
that time found to be too i'll to take hi
place in the jury box and so nothing
was done during that day. Mr.. Brow
was taken sick Saturday night and it be
gan to look doubtful If the case couc
proceed with the original jury, bu
during Monday and Monday night tn,
sick iuryman improved so rapidly that
ne was able Tuesday morning to resume
his seat and the case went along. Judge
Slade, too. leading counsel for the de
Tense, was quite sick with bad cold
Tuesday aud Mr.. Upper was assisted
IN the defense IN the forenoon by Hon.
L. ID. Eldredge and in the afternoon by
VIM. II. Button. Mr.. Slade was well
enough to go on with the trial Wednes-
day morning, though still very hoarse.
In this case the State charges that one
night in April, 1889, John Wilson, the
respondent, in company with Frank aud
! William Bly,, all of TicOnderoga, n. Y,
rOwed across the lake to the Vermont
side and burglarlzed the store of StOd-
dard Nj. Williams on the lake shore at
Larrabee's Point in Shoreham, taking
away therefrum Il considerable quantity
of miscellaneous merchandise of the
value of $3.50 or $500. The stolen goods
were taken across the lake, which at
that point is about half mile wide,
and were taken up to the side of small
mountain called Mt. Defiance, where
they were concealed in cave. Shortly
before the Williams burglary there had
been two burglaries IN TicOnderoga, one
at the depot of the Delaware and Hud-
son Canal Co., and the other at the
store of George II. & A. ID. Adkins.
These burglaries were in the public
judgment generally credited to "the
BY hovs", and the Bly, family have been
conspcuou>ly in evidence all through
the trial. AT the time of the series of
burglaries the family consisted of Reu
bin Bly,, the father; his wife, Emma
BLY,; their sons, Charles, Frank and
William Bly,. aud "A daughter, Miss
Nellie Bly,. With the exception of the
old man, against whom 10 one has
WORT 10 say, the whole family appear
for years To have ben in pretty bad
OdOr in and around Tironderoga, and
Charles, who has since died from con-
sumption, had but recently got home
after serving term in Dannemora pris-
on, while Frank aud William were no
strangers to the in errors of iails. The
interesting daughter, Miss Nellie, was
then maiden, but has since been twice
married. She abandoned her first hus-
band within year after the wedding.
leai ming, as she alleges, that he had al
ready one legal wife at the time he
married her, and subsequently she mar
ried cousin and again became Nellie
Bly,. If the talk of Ticonderoga is any
thing like near the truth, the BLY, fam
lily. excepting always the father were IL
pretty notorious nest Of thieves
The various burglaries above specified
had made "A good deal of a stir around
Ticonderoga and firm of Delaware and
Hudson Canal Co.'S detectives, Brayton
IL Andrus, were employed to see if the
guilty parties could be ferreted out.
The Bly, house was searched twice,
nothing being found the first time, but
some of the stolen articles coming to
light there on the second search. Then
Mrs. Bly, gave the whole thing away
to the officers. and from statements
made by her and claimed to be based on
a story told her by Wilson, the latter
was arrested and had hearings in Ticon-
deroga and was there bound over for
the burglarles in New York State. The
cave on Mt. Defiance was searched and
two barrels and box of goods we're
found buried up therein, some of them
stolen from the Adkins store and the
rest from the Williams store. Mrs.
Bly's story was that Wilson told her in
her house shortly after the Williams
burglary that he aud her sons William
and Frank had committed the burglary.
William Bly, is in parts unknown or
somewhere in that vicinity, but Frank
has been here in the county i,il since
the Sd of August last, and Wilson, with
whom he was Jointly indicted last
December. has been out on bail until he
came here last week for trial.
such is the general outline of the case
aud of the claims of the State. The main
evidence for the prosecution was given
by Mrs. Bly,, Nellie bly, and Frank Bly.
who turned States evidence, and 6y
Eugene A. Andrews of Saratoga Springs.
n. Y, one of the detectives. According
to the stories of the Blys. Wilson was
the principal in the burglary at the VIII
liams store and Frank 3ly WAS merely