Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-08-27
BURGLARY AT MCKINLEY
TWO SAFES BLOWN OPEN IN
RICHARDSON STORE.
BURGLARS GET AWAY IN POWER sLoop
TWO MEN ARRESTED AT sEDG-
WICK HELD FOR GRAND JURY,

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hichardson q Son store. One OF the
sales was that of the fremont savings
bank, OF which q. p Richardson,
proprietor of the store, is treasurer, and
the other as the store safe.
The burglars got away with about
sl,2O0 in cash and liberty bonds, mostly
the latter. A few of the bonds were
registered, and therefore not negotiable.
nut most of them were coupon bonds.
The burglars undoubtedly expected a
richer haul. The bank, however, keeps
but a small amount OF cash in the Nc
kinley safe, depositing most of it in
larger banks
Awo men arrested Saturday at Sedgwick
have been held for the October grand
jury, under suspicion OF being implicated
in the burglary.
The burglary occurred Just after mid
night Thursday night. The men were in
terrupted at their work by Night Watch
man Morrill, Of the Underwood plant, Just
across the roud from the Richardson store.
he heard the two explosions as the safes
were blown, and went out into the ward
OF the Underwood plant, which is en-
closed by high iron fence. Through
this fence he could see fiashlight in the
Richardson store, and apparently two men
at work, while third man walked I'D and
down outside the store keeping watch.
lie spoke to this man, asking him what
he was doing there. The man whirled and
fired revolver shot in his direction,
Then Mr.. Morrill, ran back 20 the factory
and blew the alarm whistle that aroused
the entire community, and sent the men
scurrying down the wharf.
The men arrived and left by water.
About O'Clock Thursday evening a black
sloop dropped anchor in Mckinley har Dor.
Capt. Harry Lunt, whose fishing boat was
tied up at the end OF the ''fish" wharf,
later in the evening went to the wharf
and found that the sloop had moved in
and tied up outside of his boat. He
moved his boat around to a safer berth at
the side OF the wharf, and turned in
aboard Of her for The night.
The Richardson store is just at the head
OF this wharf. Capt. Lunt was up aboard
his boat and eating a lunch, " hen he heard
a dull, heavy explosion, followed two or
three minutes later by another, and then
the revolver shot. Then the tire whistle
blew, and he heard men, at least three, he
says, running down the wharf. He sus-
pected trouble, and put out the light
aboard his boat. The men boarded the
black sloop, one of them falling over
board from the wharf and being hauled
aboard. The sloop got clear OF the wharf.
though delayed by engine trouble, and
was soon lost sight OF in the thick fog.
Sheriff Wescott was notified, and was
on the spot soon after 2 O'Clock. He kept
the telephone wires hot, sending out de-
scriptions OF the sloop to his deputies and
officials of other counties.
Friday morning bout O'Clock a sloop
answering the description turned up at
Brooklin. She did not anchor in the
harbor, but ran along slowly outside
Torrey island, while four men came in
over the bar at the eastern entrance IN
punt. Three of the men landed, and the
other returned to the sloop.
Deputy Sheriff Rodney W. Smith saw
the men soon after they landed, but did
not see them land and did not
at first connect them with the sloup.
Later he suspected they might be the men
wanted, and swore in several deputies
and organized search. They were kept
well under cover for the rest of the day,
and it was not until Saturday morning
that two men were found at Sedgwick,
identified by BROOKLYN men as two of the
men they had seen come ashore in the
punt, and they were held on suspicion.
These men gave their names as Charles
McCarty of Old Orchard and Arthur
Williams of Old Town. They denied
that they had come a hore from the sloop,
and said they had been tramping to-
gether, but they told contradictory
stories as to where they had met and the
route they had tramped.
They were arraigned in the Ellsworth
municipal court Saturday, and Judge
Ora btree, after hearing the evidence in
substance as above, bound them over for
the October court in the sum OF 81 900
each. They were committed to the
county Jail in default.
The third man who is alleged to have
come ashore with them at Brooklin has
not as yet been found. The sloop got
under way after dropping the men at
Brooklin, sailing west.
Since the arraignment OF the two men
now held in the Ellsworth jail, important
new evidence has been obtained. sloop,
believed to be the one wanted, has
been located in Rockland, the names of
the two men who were on board OF her
are known, and it is believed direct con-
nection has been established between
these men and one OF the men now in the
Ellsworth Jail.
Monday evening Sheriff Wescott was
notified by the officials at Rockland that
sloop, believed to be the one wanted,
had been located there, and the men who
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