Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1882 — MASKED ROBBERS. [ARTICLE]

MASKED ROBBERS.

A Fprm-Honae at Went Charlton, M. IT., Entered by fffasked Wen and Bobbeil-The Inmate* Gagged and Round and $150,000 In .Securities Carried Off. A recent dispatch from Troy, N. Y., says: The farm-house of Thomas M. and Alexander Gilchrist, and their sister, in the town of Charlton, Saratoga county, was entered by five masked men. The inmates were gagged and bound. * Two of the burglars went for Alexander and forced him into the pantry, where a desperate straggle occurred, in which Gilchrist stabbed one of the robbers with a two-tined fork, one of the tines breaking off in the man’s body. Mr. Gilchrist was badly injured about the head by some instrument, probably a revolver, in the hands of one of the men. A pool of blood was found on the floor, supposed to have been from the wounded man. Alexander was shackled, and Thomas was secured in the same manner by two men, while the fifth took care of the sister. The brothers were then carried into the cellar and securely tied to a post. The sister was left up-stairs, tied to a door and a lounge. She was, however, very plucky. She would not put her hands behind until forced by three of the men, who placed a revolver to her head. The burglars were evidently well posted in regard to the house, as they went to a bed, lifted up a tick, and found the kev to the safe. They toon about SBOO m money, and fully $150,000 in securities. Shortly after the men left the house Miss Gilchrist, whose wrists aro very large, slipped her shackles and liberated her brothers, who gave the alarm and started in pursuit of the robbers, tracking them to Hoffman’s ferry, where they are supposed to have taken a freight train on the New York Central road.