DARING ROBBERY IN BOSTON, U.S.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 651, 22 March 1870, Page 4

DARING ROBBERY IN BOSTON, U.S.

The Neio York Tribune states that a gang of; thieves entered the Boylston National Bank' oh Sunday, November 21, and perpetrated one of the most successful robberies we have known for many months. On Monday morning the bank o,fficials, on opening the outer safe at the usual hour/, were astonished to find a hole iti the rear of tne safe; ; This hole .is about large enough for a man to crawl through easily, and is , about three feet from the floor The shelves in the safe, which contained 25 to, 30 tin boxes, deposited there for safe keeping at the owners' risk, were missed, and on looking through the hole their, contents were seen scattered promiscuously over the floor of a room jh the adjoining building. The steel safe, which was on the left of the outer safe, and contained the funds and collateral securities of the bank, was undisturbed. The scattered papers were collected and carried to : the;. president's room. An Examination of what was left by the robbers was then made; and it was discoveredthat all of the national bonds belonging |to various parties, and tp a very large amount, had been; taken, while all \he other valuable documepts that the trunks contained had ; been left. Two yigilant watchmen are employed by the bahkj and ye&;np.s.ound was heard) and there, .was; no suspicion that, all was not right, until, the ;safe was, opened ©iy 5 Monday morning. Want of time,- or. the difficulty" ofV the work, probably kept, the robbers frbmJatr tempting to force an entrance to the steel safe within. " It appears that aboutthe 20th of Octpber, a man, giving thenapie of W. A. Hudson, bought out V.a barber's slipp in the adjacent buildiiigy on the decbnd.floOr (the same as" the; bank) paying- therefor sptne hundreds of .dollar •', ; Between,.this room and the b- n.; foomaie two > walls ; of tH«s; : building,;togechbrti(venty inches thick. , The walls pfthq rooiu were w^nsootted up to the- Veiling, that or bo^^d ;! .the boards rnnijing : laterally. The rogues then went to work and cut off a front corner of the rooniby a little partition,, making an inner office. This little office 'was' parallel to the location of, ;the- Boylston Bank, safe ou the second , floor of the next budding. The wainscot or wooden sheeting of the wall in the private office of Judson and ;Co. was then cut sq asto form a door, behind which was the brick wall. This door was '<*ft high and 4ft wide, and wapfixed on hinges at; the top. An old-fashione.d secretary; w^ set back against it so"aa..to hide,;.it.:>.';::Whenthe rogues worked, they n£~do;Ujbt,:.'hanled away the secretary or bfepk\«4se^ v rJEUiod' the door, andxut out froi^ii^^^lfefipk by brick. These briok*;Stoa |tW^e6>'W were packed in boxes ij^dicine* When tired, the do'br#-' TOOvalile piece of the wainscot was shut dpwn,.the hinges being above,' land vthe secretary wheeled back against' it,' In this way, by i-ep'eated 3peratip^fjiT.they cut a hole through two bjick walls, together twenty inQhesthicl^rQarQfully! packing the 'tfebris as they wont, till the bac.fc of the : ]6fty

iron safe in the next building was exposed to view. To work on this, of course, required a day when no one was i \ the bank. The Sabbath waa that day, when, no doubt, the rogues in their private room pulled away ' the secretary, raised the door in the wainscot, and with drills bored a number of holes in the back of the safe in a circle of eighteen inohes in diameter. Then, at some propitious moment, they knocked out, or drew out, and beßt down the. piece enclosed by the drill-holder, and thua made a hole eighteen inches across into the back safe. Through this they took out all the private boxes which were ranged on the shelves of the safe, broke them open, selected, the bonds, and scattered the rest, mortgages, papers, and boxes, over the floor, No doubt they had enough without risking detection by breaking open the steel box of the bank. It waa an easy matter now, protecting the bonds, to leave their room in the building No. 124 Washington street, and, locking it, walk off in the open streets with the proceeds of their villainy. The total loss ia estimated at from 300,000d01. to 5J0,000d01. ...:..:■ ,-.