The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-12-06
TRAIN wRECKERs ARRESTED.
The Three Porter Boys Arrested-Futil,
Attempt 10 Get One at Chesterfield sum
day-Heuring Today.

Attempt 10 Get One at thesterf1eld sun
day-Henring Today,
! VIM. Porter was arrested at South
Framingham, Mass, Tuesday morning
and his two brothers Julius and Bert
were captured there yesterday, on &
charge of the attempted train wreckine
here on the night of Oct. 20.
The arrests were made by Detective
John A. Maloney of the Boston 4
Maine road assisted by Chief Thomas
Manning of the South Framingham
police. Maloney has been at work or
the case ever since the attempt and
with the assistance of Sheriff. Gordon,
who has been in correspondence with
him. has been able to locate the men
and track them. 1t is not believed
now that they went to Montreal at all.
They got out of tow. the next after
noon after the attempt, doubtless be-
cause they learned that Sheriff Gordon
was following their tracks the night
before. But Will Porter, who had
been at work as freight brakeman
between South Framingham and Con
cord Junction, on the n. Y. n. II. d
work again. At least he says he did,
and Manning had him under shadow
most of the time. The other two
have been in Worcester. Maloney
who was here Wednesday was
satisfied Of this fact and went down
there to capture them, but found that
they had gone to Framingham to meet
Will, and there they were nabbed.
The capture could have been made
some time ago if it had been imagined
that it would be so easy.
In fact one of them was almost
made at Chesterfield Sunday. The
father of the three young men, Chas
Porter, lives in Chesterfield, a little
this side of the middle town. Gordon
learned that Julius had been up there
and returned and that Bert was there
last week and wrote to Maloney about
it. The latter came up and with
Officer Spaulding went to Porter's
house Sunday, and attempted the ar
rest. Spaulding was about to begin to
read the warrant when the old man
told the boy to run and, with a remark
not very polite. he took to his heels
ana he was able to outrun them
Maloney fired few shots from re-
yover to scare him. Then he went
right back to Worcester, whittier he
was so easily traced. For chaps that
want TO shine as criminals they are far
from sharp.
They all voluntarily returned 10 Yer
mont with the officers without requir-
ing requisition papers. Will was here
Tuesday night in charge of keeper
and all day Wednesday in charge of
Gordon, until he was arraigncd before
Justice Newton Wednesday afternoon
and the case continued and he com
mitted to Jail in default of 81, 600 bail.
The other two were brought up on
the late train last night being received
by large crowd at the depot and for
want of lookup they we're kept at the
American house last night.
All three had hearing 10 day, waived
examination, were held in 500 bail
and will be returned to Jail tonight.
There are rumors that Will has
owned up 10 the whole business but
nothing authoritative.
To Il Reformer representative this
morning julius and Bert refused to
talk, except to say lit is something we
didn' do.
The penalty for the otIense of train
wreckiDg is , to 20 Years in states
prison if person or property is injured
and . to 10 otherwise. If convicted the
Porters will come under the former