Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-11
FAMOUS BANK ROBBERlES
HOW THE NORTHAMPTON BANK
WAS THRICE LOOTED.
mer Robberics-A Defau1tlng Treas
urer, II Rich Resident of.Argentino
-"Red" Leary and Other
Burglars.

The city of Northampton, Mass, is
chiefly Interested in the manufacture OF
buttons. But at frequent Intervals some
one robs its bank and then it forgets but
tons and enjoys "a real sensation. one
might fancy that 1t was an Illustration of
the law OF exceptions working contrary
wise because in one generation the
Northampton Bank has known three Sc
we're and successful attacks upon It's re-
scrN es of cash and bonds. The first was
cold theft by its treasurer, who slipped
sonc $4,000 in notes into n portmantoau
and started to Springfield, seventeen miles
away, to attend the wedding OF relative.
He never came back, the bank never got
the money and the robbcr lives on Il ranch
near st. Nicholas, a town the La Plata.
in the Argentine, rich and comfortable.
His efforts had been made just as another
moro eminent citizen of the state OF
Massachusetts, had got loose from Eng
lish law and fed to South America, where
he dcned cXtradition and had invested his
questionable money to become rich Then
came the famous Northampton Bank rob
berry, in which Dunlap and Scott Evans
and their party got Il million ana matt
Their story Is recalled by the third case
aud which is now current news or the day,
in which the president Of the bank, Lewis
Warner. wrecked the establtshmcnt-dc-
I faulting in the sum of S6io,O~-ned was
recognized by an old employe In the
streets OF Louisville Ky, was arrested
and to-day passes through Philadelphia
on his way back to Northampton to stand
tIial.
! Now comes the interesting link In this
curious repetition of crime in small
town. IT Is proposed to show that Warner
I was party to the two preceding cases;
! that he really planned and directed their
execution and without taking part in tn"
act of robbery and violence which Dunlap
aud his men committed shared with them
the proceeds of their brutal crime as he
had the profits of the absconding clerk
years before.
Whether they will prove that Warner
backed the Dunlap burglarics in any given
case *. of course, very doubtful The
witnesses are lost trace of, the detectives
have told the story over and over again
with so many embellishments that in all
probability they couldn't undergo cross
examination, nor remember the little they
knew of the case to begin with, but there
remains n written confession In the hands
% Bob PinEcrton which at least gives
moral evidence of his association with the
great Northampton Bank burglary. There
larc besides many collateral facts. With
the Nreckage of the two bank the Com
monweath will probably secure all the
penalty that Warner will live to undergo,
land this link of association with Dunlaps
mon may never come to test and proof
in the courts, as it would be useless to
sock to do It,
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/. lh"N haa come Tor 'he k'ES OF me p'hl
, ana th' conpinat'oh Oh 'hc vault ai''
Ihat 'leN "ouiu H"N' II NOV I"r mn
unless ne gave mem What they wanted
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: 20 attempt 10 preak INTO the pank' as th
locks were 100 strong lor thelr enorts
: ana ne Would hot ne'raE ms trust a
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: surrender inc keys Agaln ne refused A
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hana III the cashier trousers pocket am
= drew torth Key
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" 10 gam tline
. on Ne sald the rohper, Wit
y threatening gesture at the same tim
v trying the Key IN the lock at the iron
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u 'ilon.t ut nm yet SAID the other IN
> l. SICK,
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) ed drink OF brandy, Mr.. Whittlese
= shook his mead no. Then the man In tn
= linen buster renewed his demands. II
= wanted the combination or the vault. Nj
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