Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-06-29
ARREST IN ORWELL BURGLARY
Three Suspected OF PostoffIee
Break Last JulY Now Held


After nearly a years hunt, Canada
ilackle', whose real name IL said to be
Harry Smith, wanted for the alleged
burglary OF the Orwell postoilice, has
been arrested in Massachusetts, and he
was this week brought to Rutland
county jail where he will be held for
trial In October, His is the third arrest
in the case, the success of the postoilce
detectives having been due to the
prompt work of Deputy Sheriff Sanford
Of Cornwall in tracing the burglars,
II was on the night Of Friday, July
Is, 1916, that the Orwell postoiice was
burglari2ed Professionals blew the
safe with niroglycerine, and got away
with little booty, their charge how
ever smashed the interior of the safe
and blew the stamp drawer to the top
where it stuck so fatty that the burglars
overlooked it,
Upon discovery of the break the next
morning, Sheriff Sanford and +, h.
foote of Cornwall set out to trace the
crime. At Eagle Inn barn in Orwell
il was found that four strange men who
had driven in with a car on the night of
Wednesday, the 18th, had left IN the
barn a discarded inner tube from their
tire, This tube was stamped with the
name of the Ticonderoga garage,
In Fair Haven, a little town south
Of Orwell, Sheriff Sanford found fur
Their clew. On Wednesday evening,
about O'Clock, men from the Far
Haven garage had been called to point
near Mr. Barber's farm to fix a car IN
which four strange men were travelling
rough. looking men of middle age who
had been detained from six O'Clock
until midnight by the broken tires,
While waiting for the repairs the men
had been regarded closely by Mr.
Barber; three of the men conducting
themselves very quietly but fourth,
young and little fellow, had been quite
laxative and had helped Mr.. Barber
milk the cows while he was waiting
At midnight the four strange men
drove on to Orwell and registered at
the hotel there as John Larner, John
Murray, II. NJ. Smith and c. A. Brews-
ter. After few hours sleep at the
hotel, and an early breakfast, they made
telephone call to the Ticonderoga
garage and apparently made no secret
of the fact that they were returning
there. At the Ticonderoga garage Mr.
Sanford learned that the men had ar
rived there late Thursday morning and
had further repairs made to their car
a Stoddard- Dayton. 1t was also learned
that one of the four had from there
telephoned to his wife in Albany, and
on that Thursday afternoon the men
drove north, returning to Ticonderoga
Friday afternoon and that evening
crossing the lake again into Orwell
the night of the burglary. Their first
visit, presumably, had been to inspect
the ground.
With all these cews promptly estab-
lished by Sheriff Sanford, United
States postoflice detective was assigned
to the case and has since been at work
on it. From the description Sheriff
Sanford's witnesses were able to give,
the detective recognized the men as
notorious safe blowers, whose pictures
he readily found in the rogues gallery
He later found one of the men in an
other burglary case and he is serving
sentence; a second, whose name is un-
known, was arrested some time ago,
and with this weeks arrest of Smith
there is only one other man wanted.