News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-02-24
BOY BURGLAR CONFESSES
Arrest OF Glendon Tuthill for Robbing Stowe
Post Office, Clears Up Mystery Of Other
Breaks at r. R. Stations.

The mystery of the breaks at the sta
tions at Morrisvile, Hardwick and
| Wolcott were cleared up last Thursday
by the arrest of Glendon Tuthill, he
fourteen years-old hired man of A. r.
Denton of Randolph road, burglarizing
| the postoffice at Stowe.
That is, the first step was taken in
clearing up the mystery, but it took
Deputy Sheriff Geo. E. Towne a post
office Inspector and detective from Bos
ton until Monday morning of this week
before the details of the case were all
worked out and story, which has been
accepted by the officers as the correct
version obtained from the boy. On Sat
urday night William Wallace, Boston
with Sheriff Towne, went to Hyde Park
where the young man has been confined
since Thursday. After several hours of
severe grilling the young man decided to
tell the truth about the whole matter
and in his confession admitted the Hard
wick job as we'll as the others. He said
he only got 1895 in the Belgian Relief
box at Hardwick, instead Of $14, the
amount missing. He told Sheriff Town
and the detective where they would find
the plumber secured at the breaks made at
Wolcott and Hardwck at the home of
his parents, where he had lived before
going to Denton's. They went there Sun
day and in a room over the shed, in a
partition over window, as directed by
the young man, they found mileages and
tickets to the amount of $3.50.
AS everything that has been missing
from the various breaks has been ac-
counted for, the officers think the boy has
told the truth in his last story. In max
ing thorough search of the room occu
pied by the boy in the Denton home,
Sheriff Town found 81 45 in money, as
cents in stamps and two pencils and a
pad taken from the Stowe postofice,
also quart of whiskey. The quart of
whiskey previously unaccounted for the |
sheriff found in some bushes near Fred |
SmalPs, acting in this case as well as the |
other according to Tuthills last story.
The young man is one of large family |
OF children. The family is a highly re-
spectacle one and deserves much sym
pathy.
Postoffice Inspector Buckley, Deputy
Sheriff Burt and F. S. Boardman, who
visited young Tuthill at the Hyde Park
Jail Friday, were unable to obtain any
admission that he had help in The break.
He declared that he committed Hard
wick, Wolcott. Morrisvile and Stowe
a conviction result in the charge OF rob-
bing the postoffice at Stowe, a substan-
tial reward will be given by the govern
ment to the, person or persons instru-
mental in the apprehension of the burg
lar.
Young Tuthil displayed unusual nerve
for one so young and was apparently
unconcerned about himself throughout.
He gives as an excuse fol. his actions the
reading of cheap "Wild West" literature.
He told an officer that any boy with
sand would do the same il they read
enough of that class of books. |.
The work of Sheriff Town and Deputy
Burt and F. 5. Boardman of Stowe is to
De commended as their persistence in the
,ase has cleared up a mystery which has
1affled the B g. M. officials for some
ime.
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