Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-11-08
From the Richmond Enquirer Of .Nop. S.
THE TREASURY.

THE TREASURY.
It is far from our wishes to enter fuily lbto
tho case which has excited so much interest
amonp us-We shall merely touch upon SO
much of it, as will serve to elucldate the dis
coverv Of the money and the sentence OF the
,,onr+.-nor should we even mention the name
of the accused, if it were not so generally
L,,oryn. that it would be ridiculous to attempt
It's concealment. c
On Saturday last John Nc Caul, OF Hanover,
was put TO the bar of the Erammlng Courf OF
this CITY, charged with breaking into the lrea,
sury. His counsel were, John Wlskham ana
Gurdon H. Bacehus--the counsel on the other
side. the Attorney General, the States At
torney for this city, and Benjamin Bolts
= great dead of circumstantlal testimony
was brought in, to prove the knowledge which
the accused had acquired and wished to &C
on;re of the rooms and stairs OF the Capitol,
state of his finances before the robbery, and
the sums and sorts of money which he dis
bnrsed after it. Twenty-seven witnesses spoke
to these and other subordinate points but no
clue to the money was so tar disclosed /; nor
was it in proof that any more OF 1T, (charSed
with being part of the public funds,) had
been traced, except the s $50 originally found
in the pocket-book ofthe accused.-Jas S. GRAY
was then called. He stated, that In compii-
ance with the directions OF note which mad
been put into his hands on Sunday the 27th
ult. (the morning after the commitment Oh
McC) he had presented a token Ia par oil
sleeve-buttons, enclosed in said note,) to Mar
tia Oyerton, free girl of color, who was led
IN confess that a packet had been put INTO her
hands, but was not then in her possession, yet
she would recover and put into his custody );
that in the course of that day, she did so; that
ON Friday last Francis Taylo had sought an
interview with Kim respecting this packet
and that in the course of that day, they had
made an arrangement by which Gray was to
to restore it that night to NJ. O-and Taylor
was Immediately after to come IN, reclaim 1t
from NJ. O. and restore it to the Treasurer
Francis TAYLOR (of whose honorable conduct
throuehout This transaction, it IS not easy to
speak in terms of adequate praise,) succeeded
Gray and stated the means which he had ia
ken TO prevail on M. D. to inform aim OF the
disposition of the packet, his conversations
and his final arrangement with Gray.-t1e then
stated, that he h;td received and opened tse
packet in the presence OF friends that 1t
contained only s 65o5; that he had then,
sought to prevail on M. .. TO restore the ba-
lance and that next morning In the presence
of the same friends he had received from her
G 9o5s more, which she said she had taken
from hole in her garden. Another witness,
followed Taylor, who amongst other things:
stated that he had extracted the confession
from M o. that the person, INTO whose hands
she had put the packet before she gave to
Gray, was Polly Mcdowell, white woman
of this city A search warrant was immedl-
ately taken out against the house OF the said
Med. which ended II the discovery OF 80
ffty dollar notes, nicely deposited between
the true and q false bOtton1 of small paper
box--Sae has been committed to Jail, as an
accessory after the fact
When this aad other testimony had been
gone through, Mr.. Wickham made an enqui-
nv ofthe court, which ended III this decision;
that they, as called court, would not require
the same degree of troof as would be requi-
site on triad in chief.--Mr w. then applied
for time for his client to collect testimony to
rebut that. OF GRAY, on the ground OF surprise;
the court decided that this was not "good
capse.o and refused continuance. The coun-
sci of the accused then waved the introduce
ton of any evidence on their side; and, FINAL
IL. the court unanimously decided that John
McCaul should be sent ON for trial to the CIR
cult court Tin April)
Besides the sums mentioned In the above
sketches, there have been found S 200 folded
up in letter in the pocket-book of the accus-
ell, which had been originally overlooked
s 500 more found liz the house OF Polly Nc
4 n e 4
near her own.