The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-02
Daniel Dockerty, No
ted Grafton Bank
Burglar.
LIBERATED IN ENGLAND.
Said to Have Been Serving
on a Life SEN
tence.

|
Daniel pockertv. one of the famous
| .a,... 80 hLd tba
SANG Vi ClacAsiiien .iia' to0ou 'a
Grafton bank OF $lsO,OOO, Oct. 70, 1900
| was released 10 days ago from prison
| in FrglanC whore he was serving sen
| - $500.
Iehce LOT murder started LOT Aiiieil e'
a week ego Saturday, and is now sup
/ posed to be in this country with the
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killing the man that TOOK MS VILE
| away.
Chief nj Police James M brennan.
|
ota'N DelectlNe Joseph Dyson anu ca
| Chief of Police w. Ansel Washburn
| knew Dockerty well, and are, much In
| terested i'll his movements. Chief Dren-
nan recalls the events of the Grafton
| bank robbery as though 1t was com
| mittod but yesterday. The chief knew
| Docksrty very well, and said he was u
| man of consummate nerve and daring
| He lived in Hoboken, and of all the
| robbers, his relation with Gleason was
| the most intimate. Sam Paris, better
known to fame as Worcester sam,
Dockerty was associated with only IN
| professional way.
| Dockerty, said the chief, with the en-
| tire gang, was captured some time at
ter the robbery but owing to the fact
that he had saved the life of the night
Watohman of the bank, whose name was
Daniels, ne received a year less than
his associates Paris, it is matter of
| common knowledge, never served his
| sentence. having succeeded in escap-
| ing from the house of correction on
| Summer street.
| The morning after the robbery when
news of the crime became widespread
| there was tremendous sensation all
over the country. 1t was evident that
| it WIS the work of a professional gang
of daring and desperate bank robbers,
and extraordinary efforts were mad5 to
| effect their capture. The police of all
| the big cities co-operated with the
| Worcester officers in tracking down the
| gang.
Gleason, Dockerty's partner, was cap
| tured in Springfield, but Paris and
! Dockerty managed to reach New York,
where, for time, their identity was
| lost almost as completely as If they
were in Timbuctoo. Clever detective
work on the part of Assistant Marshal
| Washburn, Captain H. H. Comings, Of
ficer E. D. Mcfarland and Detective
Squires, with the aid of the police of
New York, Jersey City and Hoboken,
| finally got line on the gang, and Par
ris ard Dcckerty, after putting up q big
BATTLE were taken and ironed Dock
erty, when the officers came into his
| room, made a dash for a revolver, but
one of the metropolitan officers
| Chief brennan says, fired a bullet close
| to his head This took the starch Out
Of him, and he wilted and surrendered
So close did the bullet come to his cheek
that Dockerty probably still carries the
mark of the powder on his face.
Dockelty was fortunate, said the
CHIEF. in the fact that Daniels,
the night Waterman at the Graf
ton bank. overheard the CONVERSE
ton of the robbers while lying helpless.
Paris arG Gleason were for putting
| him out of the way, but Dockerty put
| his foot down firmly, and said that not
I while, ne could prevent it. would muir
| der he done.
DanieIs told of this on the witness
stand, ana added a personal plea for
| Eockerty. which induced the court f.,
| impose q. lesser sentence upon him than
| he did upon his companions. Chief
brennan saw Dockerty when he was
| released. The robber fold him that he
| intended to go to England. There the
| CHIEF lost ali track of him and II was
| news TO MIN, he said that Dockertv had
| been in prison for murder.
i ''Dockertv was a. clever fellow said
! the chief land his gang was one of
the most sIkillful in it's line in the coun-
| try. Their modus operandi showed the
! gigantic scale on which their robheries
| were MANNED lin walsh of shreus-
| bury and his father fish nedlars need
| to travel around the country ostensiblv
! selling sea. food. hut In reality Ioolxine
| out for favorable onnortunifies for
| robbery. The washes located every
! Important safe in WORCESTER county and
| safe robberies for a long time before
| the Grafton affair were exceedingly mn
| merous.