Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-10-28

1t is understood that the officers OBJ
tanned their information about Holbrook
and the other members of the Newfane
gang from j. f. McCarty whom Chief
Hall arrested in Brattleboro soon after
the burglary Aug. 3, and who was con-
victed at the last term of the Windham
county court. Counsel for McCarty took
the case to the supreme court on eX-
ceptions and McCarty was taken to the
state prison at Windsor for safe keep
ing pending the sitting of the court this
week. ON Monday Sheriff wilkins and
States Attorney Schwenk took McCarty
to Montpelier to be sentenced, he hav-
ing waived his exceptions. McCarty APP
peared before the supreme court Tuesday
afternoon and made confession to
checkered career.
on Wednesday morning Chief Judge
John w Rowel sentenced McCarty to
serve not less than seven and not more
than eight years in the state prison al
Windsor. remarking that in view of con-
fessions that led to the arrest of several
other persons the sentence was somewhat
lighter than II would have been other
wise. After receiving his sentence Nc
Carly walked calmly down the corridor
of the state house lighting a cigar Many
people remarked on his intellectual APP
pearance.
Montpelier despatch says of Nc
Carty's appearance before the supreme
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stances leading up TO the Newfane bur-
glary far as he was concerned or
knew. He said the burglary was plan
ned in Boston weeks before and after
/ this he, McCarty, went West where he
belonged At the appointed time he came
East from Detroit to take part in the
job. He went to Brattleboro but was I'M
/ able to find his accomplices and as there
/ was no train from that town to Newfane,
| he started to walk up the narrow gauge
/ track. He reached Willamsville and sup
posed. from the description he had OF
/ Newfane, that it was the town. He was
/ still unable to find his pals. and think
/ ing some mistake had been made he
started back to Brattleboro the next
morning. In the meantime the burglary
at Newfane had taken place and later,
while at Brattlehoro, McCarty was arrest
ed as a suspicious character He spoke
Of the Newfane burglary as a very bung-
ling piece of work, and said II he had
J been there he could easily have made a
clean job of 1t. His confessions led "a
the arrest OF several burglars IN Boston,
some of them being implicated in the
( Newfane affair"
While In Montpelier States Attorney
. Schwenk conferred with Gov. Charles j.
Bell in regard to issuing a reuuisition on
/ tho governor Of Massachusetts FOR Hol-
brooks return TO Vermont On his re-
turn to Brattlohoro Mr. Schwcnk made
'lut litf llttH0SilN hdItiH ~ Nt lhiWtlt-
ed to Governor Bell. II is likely that
either chief Han Of Sheriff wilkins vii
go to Boston after Holbrook next week
In its report Of the arrest Of the Bos-
ton gang the Boston Herald Of Satur-
day said: 'IIolhrook Is no newcomer II
this city, as last spring he was arrested
with one William Murray. who entered
Pleasant street saloon shortly before Il
O'Clock, where armed with revolvers sim
liar to the one found last night. the,
opened fire in true western style and
sergeant of the United States army, sta
toned at the WATERFOWL arsenal. wa,
shot and killed. Both Holbrook and Muir
ray We're indicted on the charge OF muir
der, but Murray pleaded guilty to muir
der In the second degree and was sen
fenced to 20 years and Holbrook got gu
of the scrape
Since that time he has been heard from
with other yeggmen in different sections
of the East, and from information in tn
possession of Chief Watts and from tn,
fact that part of the gang arrested thi
morning has just returned from Provi
dence ii is believed that they are tn
men who have recently been blowing
safes in Fall River, New Bedford Provi
dence and the immediate vicinity"