St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-08
MORE YECCMEN CAUGHT
States Attorney Simonds and Sheriff
Worthen Succeed in Getting Three
More Desperate Characters.

hearts because the men are most des-
many sections of the country for
bank and other robberies. Their
capture is the reward of the most
persistent man hunt on the part of
States Attorney Simonds and Sheriff
Worthen that has ever been conduct
ed in Vermont. The discovery of a
large gang of desperate yeggmen
with headquarters in Vermont is the
result of the robberies committed in
st. Johnsbury homes last spring.
When States Attorney Simonds
learned this fact he set Sheriff Wor-
then on their trail. The hunt has
necessarily been a quiet one and
many a night these two men have
left their beds to visit the yeggmen
camps in this vicinity in the hope of
getting some of this gang. With
this latest capture of three, 16 mem
bers of the gang have been caught
and are not likely to be at liberty
again for years.
These three men we're arrested in
Rouses's Point, N. Y, last Wednes-
day the arrest being made by Mr..
Morgan of the Wood-Morgan de-
tective agency of Boston, Deputy
Sheriff Ravelin of Winooski, Deputy
Sheriff Ben Adams of Chelsea and a
constable in Rouse's Point just as the
men were coming out of a saloon.
The desperadoeS were well armed;
two carrying loaded Colt six shoot
ers. They were taken so much by
surprise that they could offer but
little resistance. One, F'The Kid
tried to fight but was quickly over
come and the three landed in jail.At
first they said they would not return
to Vermont but finally decided to do
so and were brought to Burlington
where they were taken in charge by
Messrs. Simonds and Worthen and
brought to st. Johnsbury on Thurs
day and placed in Jail.
The Men and Their Records.
These are the men:
Eddie McCarty, alias 1.-The Old
Man." alias columbus Eddy" Mr..
McCarty has already served 10 years
in prison in Canada for robbery of
the Danville bank and ten years in
N. Y, for bank blow
ing in that state.
Arthur c. Burns, alias, 'tThe |
Kid" alias Arthur Norwood" This
S one of the men who robbed the
houses in ST. Johnsbury last spring. |
He was first arrested when he was 6 |
7ears old, in Manchester, N. H.,for
'obbing a man at the point of re-
rolver and sentenced to the reform
school for the rest of his minority.
lie was pardoned a year later. He
vas next arrested in Claremont, N.
l., and again sent to the reform
chool but was released in about
ear and since that time has been
member of the gang. He had fake
hrowout of his joints by which he
ould make himself appear as
opeless cripple.
The real name of the third man
as never been known but he has
one under the aliases of Charles
Y. Clark" and "Old Jed Prouty." He
as served three years in Charles
own, Mass, for blowing up a post
flee, a term of 10 years in Dame
lOra and another term of 10 years
l Auburn for bank robberies in
lew York state. He finished his
ast term in 1908 and has been with
he gang since that time.
Guilty of Many Robberies. ]
Three more men wanted have ]
,ng m time. Since their incar- F
grafton in Jail here two high J
hcials from Canada have been here i
nd identified them as men who have I
cen terrorizing the whole of Lower L
anada for several years past. They 1
lead with Mr.. Simonds to allow T
lem to take the men to Canada for
but he did not want to
,are them. A federal detective has
so been here and identified them
men connected with several post
fce robberies in New England.
They are the men who made the
'eak in the Mcleod mill here last n
IL but it is probable they will not q
, punished here. They express a Z
termination to fight any charges Is
at may be made against then in a
ermont but say they will plead
lilty to the robberies committed in v
ew Hampshire. These robberies u
e at Warren where they got a good g
Lul, at Jefferson where they secured
,out $1,000 and at Twin Mountain tt
here they got about $500. Under II
e federal law they can be incarcer- e
ed for a term of 20 years and as u
is is longer than they can be held u
lder the state law it is expected
ey will be turned over to the feder-
authorities. These are the men A
40 robbed the Lyndonvi1le post
fee also and their capture accounts
r every break made in this vicinity M
r the past two years. h
Alleged Forger Caught. 0 0Ie
Thomas Casey, until month ago =
resident of st. Johnsbury, is ex- -
cted back here very soon in the ec
stody of Sheriff w. H. Worthen, cr
10 started for Worcester, Mass,
1nday evening to get him. Casey's
st offence was stealing a fur oy- 81
coat of John Sias here about al
month ago. He was next heard of st