The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-07

later years that one Of them ran across
him and brought the news back 10 the
United States as TO Shinborn being titled.
residing in Belgium and moving in good
| society. For fifteen years ShinbOrn Is sup
posed TO have led respectable life. II is
/ said that he operated heavily on the
Bourse and also gambled freely, and in this
way lost fortune and business. Having
no other means OF making money easily,
he went back into the bank and safe bur
glary line again. With an associate named
Charles Bullard. he broke into the Pro-
vincisl Bank Of Where's, Belgium. in 1888
but in consequence of leaving his boots in
the entranceway, where they were found
by policeman, he was caught and SEN
fenced to fve years Imprisonment. His
companion. Bullard. got ten years and
died in prison. Upon Shinborn's release
he came to this country and resumed his
old safe-breaking career.
Among the banks robbed by Shinborn
from 1860 to 1863 was the Walpole Saw
ings Bank, in WalpOle, y. H, in April
1865, and for that robbery he was arrested
and sentenced to ten years Imprisonment
Soon after his conviction he effected his
escape in a very bold manner, in the day
time, from the state prison at Concord, n.
II. He was not apprehended again untn
1868, when, with others, he attempted to
rob the st. Adams Bank, at ST. Adams,
VT. The burglars were surprised by the
watchman, and fed. Shinborn boarded a
train at the Vermont Central railroad sta
ton and was recognized. by one of the
jurymen who had convicted him for the
Walpole robbery. He was captured and
sent back TO Jail, but after serving nine
months of his sentence he again escaped,
with. it is thought, official assistance.
In 1867 he engaged in the robbery of the
vault of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Coal Company, at Whitehaven. In some
he ipd ha ir7a of f1a
vault, and such was his daring that twice
he entered the vault, and, because there
was not sufficient money 10 satisfy his
cupidity, left il without taking anything
more than his bare expenses and the cost
of his railway ticket. He robbed the
vault, however, upon third occasion, and
took from it over $4,000. Other depreda-
tons committed by him were the theft
from a bank at Cadiz, o., of about $780,
OO0 and the great robbery of the Ocean
Bank in this city, from which it was as
serted that he stole in money and Sc
curities upward of 81, 900 OcO. A reward of
$4,000 was offered for the return of .he
securities, and John S. Young, chief of
the detective bureau at that time. sue
ceeded in arresting Shinborn. and, by
threatening TO take him back to New
Hampshire as an escaped convict, forced
him to give up the securities. Young re-
ceived the reward, but was afterward
Ndiltu DtAoTe lHt ponce commissioners IOr
an explanation, and was dismissed. Shin
born escaped from custody, and it was
always thought that his escape was Tue
to police connivance
The work of this criminal and his as
sociates compelled banks TO build strong
vaults, and, after the Northampton aud
Manhattan bank robberies of some twen>
~ Years ago, no extensive burglaries In
banks were committed in the United
States until about three years ago. From
then until the present time there has
been series of such burglaries in coun-
try banks. The leading hand in these at
fairs has been proved to be Shinborn s.
and, after a long chase, he was finally
arrested as described There is little
doubt that this viii mark the beginning
of the end of his career, as he is now g.
years old. In the last year he is known to
have been concerned in the burglaries
at the First National Bank Of Griswold,
Ia; Phoenix Bank. Phoenix, N. Y: banks
at Milan and Sandusky. o.; the Thomas
ton National Bank, Thomaston, Conn. /;
St. Hyacinth Bank Montreal, another at
Toronto, and the First National Bank Of
Middleburg, n. Y.