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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., The Turnpike highwayman's Fate. (search)
which a faithful chronicler might mention. But is it known to people generally, that a century ago Massachusetts had just enacted a law making highway robbery, when accompanied with threat, violence and exposure of a deadly weapon, a capital offence? Such was the fact, and there are those who, on account of recent increase in crime, and the facilities of escape offered by the automobile, think it would be well if such penalty was restored. The recent hold-up of Boston bank messengers in Chelsea is cited as an example. One, nearly related to Medford, is mentioned in the Register, Vol. XXIII, p. 9, which must have caused much excitement in our old town just one hundred years ago. The Columbian Centinel of August 15, 1821, thus tells the story:— Wednesday, August 15, 1821. Daring Robbery. On Monday evening, before nightfall, as Major John Bray of this town, was returning from Medford in a chaise with his lady, he was stopped on the turnpike near the Ten Hills Farm, by