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The Rhode Island Republican
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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Gilman O. Dixon, Vermont legislator from Jericho, eloped with $15-20k, including forged bank notes and $6k in Rutland bills from Boston. Efforts underway to apprehend him since last week.
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The Rutland, Vt. Herald says: We are informed, from sources which leave no doubt of the fact, that Gilman O. Dixon, of Jericho, in the county of Chittenden, and a member of the last legislature of this state, has eloped, in default of some fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, some of which, it is suggested, was obtained of the banks by forged paper, some by genuine, and about six thousand dollars in a package of Rutland bills, handed to him in Boston on Monday week, by an agent of said bank, to bring to Rutland.
"Since the fore part of last week no certain traces of Dixon can be had. Great exertions are making to apprehend him, which it is hoped, may not be ineffectual."
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Rutland, Vt.
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Monday Week
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eloped in default of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, some obtained by forged paper; great exertions being made to apprehend him.
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Gilman O. Dixon, of Jericho, Chittenden County, and member of the last legislature, has eloped after obtaining money from banks, including six thousand dollars in Rutland bills handed to him in Boston to bring to Rutland. No certain traces since the fore part of last week.