The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-06 00:00:00

TILE NORTHERN RAILROAD FRAUD. an account of the robbery of the railway shares is
though the director of the railway specially charged
,_____ France similar to that of Grelet ; but says that,
with the care of the shares had, like him, a key o
We glean the following particulars of the capture
of Carpentier from the .New York Tribune and from
one of the locks of the safe in which they were ke t
a private letter : • he (the director) always' left his key in the office!) I
Charles Carpentier, the principal person impli- that he (caepeee ier) was able to possess himself of *so
t
eated in the late enormous frauds upon the Nur them He declares, moreover, that he committed no for-
Railroad Railroad Company of France, was arrested on gery or falsification in the shares, or in his accounts,
i
Thursday last, 7th. Soon after the publication of and that consequently the only charge that can be
the de'ails of these frauds iu this country, and the i made against him is that of simple theft. He seems
belief that the parties had fled hither, the brothers ;'convinced that for robbery his extradition eannot,
Grelet and the broker Perot were captured, but i be granted, and accordingly is perfectly calm, and
Carpen tier adroitly eluded arrest and fled the city, I declares that ho is certain soon to be set at liberty.
going no one knew whither. It is said that he hint- He, however, expresses himself greatly puzzled to
ed, when last seen, that he would go to Philadel- know how his retreat could have been discovered,
phia, and it was believed that he had set out for especially as he hesitates to believe that any of the
New Orleans. So skilful were his efforts to cover persons in whom he trusted could betray him.
up his retreat that while he was quietly wending Carpentier is still attired in his labouring dress,
his way through the interior of this State one of but the polish of the gentleman is plainly visible
the keenest of the United States deputy marshals
room with other prisoners,
through his disguise. He is confined in a large
of this city took the steamer for New Orleans in
pursuit. The Rothschild, who are said to be large They speak no French, and but few words of Eng-
lish. He said his lawyer. had been to see him, and
both white and coloured.
losers by these frauds, have manifestedgreat anxiety
have intercourse with Gre-
their agents, to effect their arrest. When it was about tau escape of these parties, and extraordinary he didn't wantei
tttoe
dto say anything. Carpentier has not
efforts were put forth, both by themselves and yet been permitted
!let, or any of the other French prisoners in this
known that Carpentier had left the city, Mr.
case, although under the same roof with them.
Christmas, the agent of Auguste Belmont, caused
The prisoners were quite anxious to see each other
a minute description of his person and appearance yesterday, but the keeper of the prison,
in accord-
to''
be extensively circulated, together with the offer ante with his orders from the United States Mar-
of 1,000 dols. for his capture. This tempting prize
slial, refused them that privilege.
set all the catchpoles in the country on the alert, --
and Carpeutier's chance of escape grew proportion-
ably small. There were plenty of aspirants eager
for the honour of catching the fugitive and gin ecl.y
of the golden reward which was to follow.
Late last Thursday 'night Capt. Dowling, of the
Sixth Ward police, was awakened by a tall mys-
teriohs-looking fellow coming into his sleeping
apartment and shaking him roughly by the shoul-
der. Starting up, he saw a man by his bedside,
wrapped in a thick cloak, which was so muffled
up as to conceal the lower half of his face, while a
slouched hat concealed the upper part, leaving
only his eyes and the tip of his nose visible. "Who
are you?" asked the captain. "An officer. Got
a prisoner for you."—" Who is he ?" " Carlson-
tier, the French railroad robber."—" Show nee
your authority for arresting him." He drew out
from under his cloak, a warrant issued by Justice
Osborne. " Who are you, anyway ? Where do
you hail from ? If you are an officer, where do
you belong to ?" The stranger coolly replied, " I
have brought you a prisoner ; there is my autho-
rity.
By what right do you thus question me ?"
bowling, who was now standing in the middle
of the room shivering with cold, suddenly fired up
at this answer, and told the stranger to clear out
and air himself in the entry, for his insolence, and
wait until he was ready to attend to him. When
he came out the prisoner had been lodged in the
cells, and his captor, after duly transferring hiui to
the custody of Dowling, left. Next day he did not
come back nor send Carpentier any food, and to-
wards noon Dowling sent out for some at his
own expense. He then discovered that the pri-
soner was handcuffed aul in great pain from the
swelling of his wrists, the cuffs having been on ever
since his arrest. The captain, after much difficulty,
succeeded in getting his wrists free, and then
placed him in a warm room and made him comfort-
able. In the evening Sergeant Brown, of the chief's
office, and United States Deputy-Marshal Ryer
went to the Sixth Ward stationhouse and.ponveyed
the prisoner to the Eldridge-street gaol, where he
is now confined on a civil suit. What became
of the unknown officer we could net discover, as
none cf those 'of whom we inquired could tell any-
thing about him—who ho is, where lie came from,
or whither he has gone. It seems that Carpen-
tier, on arriving at New York, lodged two days at
St. Nicholas's Hotel, and then went to several se-
condary houses. He had no communication with
the two brothers Grelet or Parot, and was not ac-
companied, as was said, by a female named Geor-
gette. , It was by the newspapers that he learned
the arrival of employiSs of the railway company and
of police officers to arrest him ; but he had already
taken the precaution of bribing a number of per-
sons to keep watch for him, and give him warning
of the approach of the slightest danger. lie re-
sided two weeks in a house in the upper part of the
city, and there he had a narrow escape. The
police learned that beyond all doubt he was in the
house, and after having placed a watch on all the
issues, they commenced a strict search ; every
room, every closet, was examined in vain, and at
last they reached a garret in which, on a wretched
bed, was lying an old woman, her feet wrapped up
in bandages, and apparently suffering great pain.
The officers laid their hands on the bed clothes
with the intention of looking beneath them, but the
woman raised such a piercing cry of agony that
they did not venture to disturb her, and they at
last wont away. Yet to their vexation they after-
wards learned that Carpentier was at that very
moment secreted between the mattresses ! As it
was dangerous for him to remain in the house lie
determined on leaving it, but from the manner in
which it was watched this was difficult. However,
be contrived it in this way : eight of his spies en-
tiered and left the house, as if in great agitation, •
and so contrived to fix on them the attention of the
police ; ho in the meantime got down from a win- i
dow, fiftoen feet high, into the court yard of an
adjacent house, and. from it reaclfed the street ;
three or foul' other spies were waiting to receive '
him, and they conducted him to another house at a
short distance. Tho day after (as was subsequently
ascertained) he tool: 0. drive in New York ; the day
following, he went to Yorkville ; then to Holsken ;
then he took the Erie Ithe,ilway, which goes to Phi-
ladelphia, but left it at Yewburgshaved off hi d . He ha previ-
ously mous •
ously cut his hair very stnt)
tachios, and dressed himself ets a labourer. From
Newburg he went on foot aeoss the country to
Canterbury, and there got employment as a la-
bourer on a farm belonging to one Ketfield—he
consenting to receive for his labour only trifling
wages with board and lodging. He there thought
himself in perfect security ; but a Gel man of New
York, one of his spies, in a moment of eutoxication
let fall some words which indicated the direction
lie had taken, and two police officers, acooLupanied
by an unknown individual (who has since turned
out to be a Mr. M'Knight, of Washington), soon
cracked him to the farm. On inspectingthe premises
they found them guarded by a huge and very
savage dog, and they accordingly returned to the
town to obtain the means of poisoning him. In the
dead of night, having silenced the animal, they
effected an entrance into the house and found Car-
pentier fast asleep in his bed with his clothes on.
They awoke him and announced that be was their
prisoner, and must accompany them to New York.
Ho protested that he was not the man they. sought,
but they showed him the minute description of
his person, which had been given to thew, and
produced his photographic portrait, which had
been sent from Paris. Finding further deniall
useless he gave himself up. He was securely
handcuffed, and then assisted into a waggon
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waiting outside. Two officers from Newbu lif
all sifely in Newburgh. Next day MelCuig
boat,
card.
lowed him, and an hour or so afterwards sawhbtthaehnt
Carpentier crossed the river in a row.
we have already described. Quite in keeping with Car-
pentier still handcuffed. Their arrival in this. city ,
these singular proceedings is another transactiou.in
the same case. On Friday last (17th) M.
I sandier, inspector of the Northern Railroad Com-
pany the following
the Halls of Justice, and made . .
of France, appeared before Justice Osborne,
at
of Now York, being
France, now being in the city
tb
deposition :—" Emmanuel
.Tissander, of Paris, in
Northern Railway
titles of the capital stock of the
duly sworn, deposes and says at 5,747 shares of
Company of France, with the coupons attached
stolen or embezzled from said
thereto, have been
ts that such property, or a
portion thereof,
company ; that the same are of great value, and
that deponent shs
concealeden in the house and pre-
mises, No. 197, isp
West Sixteenth-street (tenement
of New-York ; he therefore com-
plainsand prays for a warrant for
of the above, t
—h for all the proper y as concealed, as provided
house), in the city of
"E. TISSANDIER."
seal' maces by law.
in such ce
- eerie thereupon issued a warrant,
Judge Oebe- Sergeant .Brown and Deputy-
anthorising officer e. '- the suspected premises.
Marshal Ryon to esarce. ee aroused, it s said,
M. Tis.3andier's suspicion we. enication, wh ch,
by the following anonymous C0T111111.... . . interested:
we learn, was sent to one of the pariae, . ,e, No.
—" In the second storey of tenement•houb.. -,,,.0.
1 197, West Sixteenth-street, front roam, lives r..
del ick Couret, house carpenter. In the sub cellar 1
of said house, where fuel is kept, and which is di-
vided itito wood rooms to accommodate four or five
families who live there, in the woodheuse appore:
tioned to said Couvet there have recently becu r_.
ceived two tons of coal. (the coal must be removed.
Under the coal is three inches of sawdust or euanr_lier
Between the coal and paving of the cellar,
te
cellar
the flagging of brick or stone, whateverf /1
t sci tiare,
The
is paved with, is a small wooden box, a 0.0‘,,,,„
enclosing a tin box containing the vallia.de'
officer found tlal box precisely ~,, who
• bottle, .
-- -- ---
the astonishment of tho pebphe en the _ icizig
ADA.—my -
vt, the late
did not dream that so rich a treatirc wan. ./ IFARE Gaffers OP LAND IN CAN
settlers from
concealed on their premises. It was veil heavy'
d where it Canadian papers Fie learn that intending tine for
,against de e. -
and taken to the police-court uncipeile
as sfat -, , much to
country are spieoiellY warned f land are to be
was handed over in the same condition td
free ~,
cf March or April next. There
Rothschild, an
of Mr. Belmont, agent to MM. de . .
but
this
month
t in these localities for new
ts of it;
is no possible employmod 1 ady arrived out there,
obtained until the a
re .
contained ,
1 several arNies aof
P be put in possession
he has not yet stated the precise contents
it is known that amongst other thiuge it co
' the agent
, arrivals, and
at once
CI. i suffer great distress ,
tress and
likely I.►"les
of no late' grant of land, were
rocaed some hundred ?f mi.
pieces of gold, and some private papersr
100,000 f. in bank notes, two gold watches,
' latter says bad been compelled to p
-fi d etoployinent.—E, r itzg ahem
rest to any one but Carpentier. 'Phissome
~ , thinking they could .
ur to °
that the 100,000 f. are the proceeds of a 3 sale:le lv of diti:tca,rncit.to eadeo°
o,ooof. rents which ha Effected in Pa4S, g ,

THE CONCESSION OF THE RUSSIAN RAIL
WA TS TO THE CREDIT MOBILIER.

Le Nord of Tuesday contains the following com-
munication from St. Petersburg, relative to the
conce-sion of the now lines of railway in Russia :
"In the sitting of the 23d (October) the condi-
tions of the concession to the.society of the Credit
Mobilier were signed. The latter undertakes the
construction ci about 3,800 versts of railways, the
routes of which are as follow :—The first, and at
this moment the chief one, is that from St. Peters-
burg to Warsaw. The Government having already
finished, at its own expense, a portion of the line,
about 300 versts, and having prepared works for
constructing the whole, the company engages to
reimburse the outlay, which amounts to nearly
80,000,000 francs. The second line Is from Mos-
cow to Theodosia. The distance between these
t xo cities by the ordinary road is 1,356 versts, and
mtny consiuorable towns are connected by this
iine. The surprise is that it should terminate at
Theodosia instead of Odessa. I am ignorant of
the cause of the exclusion of the richest city in the
south of Russia ; I suppose, however, that it will
not be long before a branch of the principle line
will make it enter the general net-work. The
third line is from Moscow to Nijnii-Novgorod (39Et
versts). (37he fourth will commence at Ik oursk, the
capital of a province, and centre of commercial
activity in the interior of Russia, and will termi-
nate at the port of Libau. This line will cross at
Duuaburg the line between St. Petersburg and
War gaw.

" The company undertakes to finish these lines
before the expiration of ten years ; the Warsaw
route will naturally be first open for circulation,
and that of Nijnii-Novgorod will immediately
foil The concession is for 85 years ; the capital
of the company is about 270,000,000 silver roubles
(or 1,080,000,000 francs)—that is to say, the shares
to be issued are not to exceed that amount. A
third of the shares are to be allotted iu Russia.
The shares will not be quoted on the Bourse. The
Government guarantees a minimum of 5 per cent.