Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-20
ROBBERS BOLD WORK.
successful Raid on Philadelphia
Trolley Company's Office.
EMPLOYEES TIGHTLY BOUND.
Cracksmen Prove They Are Expert.
ny Blowing Safe Open In Ten
Minutes - Four ThOusand
Dollars In Cash Secured.

" i0Dpeis, proDaDly ten In number,
raldsd the receiving office of the Fair
mount Park Transportation company at
Belmont, in Paramount park, and after
holding up the receiver and five other
employees of the railway blew open the
safe. securing $4,000 the company's re-
cslpts for two days.
FRANK Levan, receiver; Frank Wat
son and Henry b. Whitehouse conduct
ors; James Cavnnaugh, fireman of the
power house; Philip caves, electrician.
and w lam Cadmus, laborer, were
bound hand and foot with wire In addi-
ton to the men who actually committed
the robbery others operated miles away
from the scene by destroying telegraph
and telephone wires connecting with the
trolley company's main office.
The Paramount Park Transportation
company operates various lines of trolley
cars through the park for pleasure riders.
The traffic being unusually heavy on
Saturdays and Sundays, the robbers evil
IDENTIFY decided upon this as being good
time to make big haul.
The men named were all in the office
when the burglars made their appear
ance Each intruder was armed with
two revolvers, and they took the EN-
ployees completely by surprise. 1t was
the work of few moments for the rob
bers to pinion the workmen, who were
rolled over to one side of the room, with
their faces to the wall. Ten minutes
later the safe had been cracked and the
gang had disappeared.
The entire city detective force Is on the
case, but the cracksnen left no clew
Frank Levan's story.
Frank Levan. the receiver, one of the
men gagged and bound by the robbers,
told this story OF his experience:
while l was standing at the southern
door OF the office next to the stalled cars,
l heard footsteps in the rear. Turning,
saw two men with masks on their faces.
They had two big revolvers apiece in
their hands and came directly up to me
at the desk. | saw at once that 1t was
up with me. They told me not to move
nor to cry or they would kill me. One
fellow, who was Of enormous size, stuck
one Of his pistols against my ear.
"They took me into the conductors
room and tied my hands and feet with
wire picture cord and laid me Oh the
floor, with my face to the wall. The
electric lights We're burning brightly all
the while, and when | got in the con-
duc.ors' room l saw Whitehouse was be-
ing held up in the same way by other
desperadoes also with masks on, and be-
Ing bound and gagged.
when we We're laid on the floor, a
man was detailed to guard each of us
In few minutes in came another vic
ductor, and he went through the same
thing. Then some more of the men came
in and were bound. and by this time
thought there must be IL or 10 despera
does at work in the car barn and that
they expected to gather in the whole Hist
Of employees and then crack the safe
which contained about $4,000.
"The burglars worked very quietly. They
whispered whenever they said anything
to any of their number. They turned
our bodies away from the safe so We
could not see them and started to work
on the safe. They must have been &C
complished cracksmen. for it only took
them ten minutes to blow the safe, The
works inside, however, got tangled up
and they worked and hustled to open the
door wider for an hour and half.
The Dynamite's Work.
1.-THE explosion of dynamite filled thu
rooms with a vast lot of smoke and near
" choked us. The tools they must hav'
gotten from the machine shop, as the!
started to work at once when they hat
us bound.
1.-THE guards put MS in most unpleas
ant frame OF mind, for they frequent!
threatened to shoot MS if we made thu
least cutlery or motion. think they mus
| have had a wagon ia take away the cash
| because it was largely made up of dimes
uickels, quarters and half dollars, whicl
| are very heavy and not easy to get ava.
| with.
SHORTY after the money was taken
the guards. who were over us with draw
pistols, left, telling us to be quiet or w
would get shot. After considerable tuss
ling Philip Eaves. the electrician. VIII
was one of those bound, got himself un
loosened, and he then Embossed us.
II tried to reach city hall by wires, bu
the wires of both telephones had bee
cut, and | had to run in the pitch dar
cross country to the Belmont pumpin
station. where gave the alarm, an
they telephoned in from there to the cit
| hall and informed the detectives