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Washington Telegraph
Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas
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Investigation into stolen money from the Dorchester and Milton Bank involves a suspicious $50 bill at a Boston broker, leading to arrests of Thomas Key, Joseph Jewell, and John H. Brooks, who possessed large sums of the bank's bills. Links to a prior Westerly Bank robbery. Bank plans to wind up affairs.
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About two weeks since a man went into Goodwin's, the broker in State street, with a $50 bill on the Dorchester and Milton Bank, and requested Mr. Goodwin to send it to the bank for him and get it changed, promising to call for the amount in the afternoon. He left; afternoon came, but the man did not.
Officer Starkweather was notified of the circumstance immediately after the man left the office in the morning, and was on the lookout, which fact the "unknown" probably was aware of. The $50 note has been lying in Mr. Goodwin's office ever since, and will to-day be sent to the bank.
More facts about this matter are daily coming to light. A man named Thomas Key, well known to the police, was arrested in this city yesterday by constable G. J. Coolidge. He will be taken to Dedham for examination. There is nothing very strong against him, as yet.
Four or five days ago, Joseph Jewell, who formerly kept a drinking house in this city, in Tremont Row, suddenly shut up his house in New York, and "mizzled." The New York officers pursued and arrested him. On his person was found the sum of $10,000 in Dorchester and Milton Bank bills. The justice asked him where he got the bills, and he said from John H. Brooks, of the "Grey Eagle Saloon," in Providence.
Information was immediately sent to Providence, Brooks was arrested, and held to bail in the sum of $30,000 for examination next Saturday. Meanwhile, Jewell is held in custody. He is supposed to know something about the robbery of the Bank of Westerly, R. I., which "came off" last April. There can be no doubt that the officers have a strong clue to the Dorchester and Milton Bank robbers.
If nothing is proved against those men, (and they may say they won it at play, from parties unknown to them,) the bank will recover a large portion of the stolen money. However, we learn from good authority, that the bank is about to wind up its affairs, and settle all its business—honorably of course.
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Boston, State Street, Dedham, New York, Providence, Dorchester And Milton Bank
Event Date
23d Ult., About Two Weeks Prior; Four Or Five Days Ago; Last April For Westerly Robbery
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A man attempts to change a suspicious $50 Dorchester and Milton Bank bill at a Boston broker but disappears. Police investigate, leading to arrests of Thomas Key in Boston, Joseph Jewell in New York with $10,000 in bank bills, and John H. Brooks in Providence. Connections to Westerly Bank robbery suspected. Bank to wind up affairs.