The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-31 00:00:00

WIRER POST OFFICE ROBBERIES AT
CORK

The discovery made in Cork of an extensive system
of pcet-office fobbed's, with whisk the Deputy- Postmaster
Hunter steeds charged, has suited a good deal of attention.
A local paper gives the following petiealaw
In the Lanni of ten weeks se by thin US lett.%
each eseteMing preperty ameimMeg in the egigegete
it mama*
a sewsidesatbleim ems, were absineled,Varegts ne.
sorbed thee were ail lost to the mmerstbeelgh the &eh'
Poet effiee. Yes the last tee er three seethe. however, ate.
ennoeleswow 'radially peisthig le the Skeevesc et the
awaits d thme tronsessises. fletpieYn eammesesd to
Mash Se en eMese et Ile eseshilment. Mr Remy Hunter,
Mlles bashed upon es sus of the bast idiom Is the do.
pinimmat, well known is this city sad county, and related
to keen* of reemotability. lie had been conesoted
with the post-odes lot the last twisty yea's, bad
~,ua.llia:dissite *ens one dep
puaible csisturo tto :other, and
Rb la that department iavolved the neosesity
eta oilemellag at the office on the opening of the night
tell each altercate Sunday niontag. On last fitay
immeneue were takes to &Met hue if he purloined any of
theffielset, mad he wee observed to take front the heap one
Mew, the envelope of which be opened, and removed the
metes % putting beth isto his pocket. Ad v
having
bora made what' asmenneed the fact, when he was retiring
from the office,
_about three a.m., with three other clerks,
they wane detained is the ball by bead constable
Crawl met eisedier pease eager. One of the clerks was
asked by the heedaseetehle bad he say objection to permit
himself to be searched, and be replied not. A search wee
midi, which, as might have been expected, resulted is
nothieg. Heed.constable Crowly then requested Mr.
Han* to submit to a search, but he replied that be would
not sans the polies officer had a warrant empowering him
to de es. The head constable then informed him, to hit
dismay, tkat although be had a search wettest these
was no umessity for its prodoetioe, for that he wee is..
abstracting a letter In the office, which letter he (Mo.
Ranter) -lad in his pocket. The head•wastable then
pat hie kande into the ptisester's pocket, and drew out a
1~, and half•notee for 221., with the ',estop*, which was
addressed to Mr. Imam' ..am:mem to Masts. Hodder and
Teelt_ey, clothiers, Paaisliotreet. The constable then took
Mr. Hunter Into custody and conveyed him to the Bridswell,
where he still remains, waiting the result of a legal Invest!.
=. The polies then preceded to Mr. Hunter's rosi-
est the Mardyke, where a search was made which
asselted in the discovery of a veet number of postsp
=, whisk had evidently bees removed from letters to
they had been attached, and not obliterated by the
pollailles die. Read constable Crowly also found a gold
dads end ether artistes of jewellery, which probably had 1
Men abelsoated during progress through the post office.
Lusedietely stirs the arrest of Mr. Hunter, Mr. Bury,
peolmment, proemial to march the prisoner's desk at the
pootaffies, to whisk ha (Mr. Hunter) had a lock sod key.
Tin been were brand therein directed as follows :—" la
Owe ee Delebery, Serylleld Cesare, Mass., lketon,
Aueseissajran ..a Omer Shearer, Tremont
lAtisry , Tens, America." These letters
resale usepessed until the arrival of the Post-offios
MM. Tke 'bow bad *, taken a idence on the
MeMyke, whisk be hadrem famished in a stresyle of unusual
eispra. Hiroshi be observed that his salary at the post-
ale was 1101. a year.