Burlington Free Press

BANK ROBBER TAKEN And MONEY Recovered.--We learn from Providence that the Merchants Bank of that city has recovered all but about thirty thousand dollars of the two hundred and ten thousand, of which they were lately robbed. The robber has been, for the last four or six months, a resident house-keeper in Providence, enjoying a respectable reputation and receiving visits from the people of that city. Some weeks ago he removed his family and furniture to New York under the plea that he intended to reside there during the summer and took lodgings for himself at the City Hotel. While he was living at the City Hotel the Merchants Bank was robbed, and he went to New York some few days after. In New York he lived with his wife and family in our different houses, and also went to one in Brooklyn: his frequent removals attracted the attention of the Police and this week he was arrested. It is reported that he entered the bank with false keys four or five times, took out the money on Saturday, packed it up and sent it to his wife in New York by the steamboat on Sunday. On Monday the robbery was discovered, and on that day he went to New York in the steamboat, with the Police officers of Providence, and frequently conversed on the subject of the robbery, and was examined with the other passengers on board the boat.

It is reported, that on being arrested, the robber confessed the whole affair at once, but refused to tell where the money was, except on receiving a pledge from the bank that the officers and directors should not appear against him, and the sum of thirty thousand dollars for his own use and benefit, and his terms were complied with.

The New York Commercial says, in addition to the above, "Mr. Bell alias Laidly was concerned, it is said, in robbing the Boston Railroad Office, sometime ago, of $24,000, and has been claimed by the authorities of Massachusetts for trial on the charge. It is probable, therefore, that his compromise with the bank will not save him from the state prison until he--Bost. Cour."