Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-04-11

his right arm 10 sapling Hutton then,
with his knife, ripped open the mail.
Hull then tied the other arm of the driver
TO another sapling; Hutton then threw
the mail bags on the ground, and they pill
LACED the letters and collected the money
as fast as they could one Of the bags had
in it meal, or something Of the kind. Be-
fore they had collected the money. Hut
ton told Hull in low voice, snow you
must go up and shoot him. Hull said
g no, he don't know us, We had better let
the man go; if we do it, We shall surely
be hung" Hutton replied, " it must be
done-he knows me; you must shoot him
or sheet me-" Hull begged Of Hutton to
let the man go, but he said not, and III
sisted ON his being shot. Hull then went
up to the driver and shot him he jumped
up, halloed and then fell and groaned.
Hutton told Hull to go up again and feel
his pulse, which he did, and found him
still alive. Hutton then went up to him,
and stabbed him twice with his knife, aud
killed him. Hutton and Hull then
mounted the horses, and rode on towards
Baltimore, as Far as the wood 90 this side
of the mill, where they tied the horses
and left them, and then came into Balti-
more a little before sunrise, and on the
same day, 10 the afternoon, were appre-
hended 10 Bridge-street. They counted
their money in their room at Keck's, and
there was about five thousand dollars 10
good notes, besides the post notes and cut
notes. After they had counted the money,
Hutton said he would wait until they had
lighted fire, and then he would burn the
cut notes. Some of the good notes he put
into each of their pocket books, and the
rest, with the post notes, he put into his
trunk.
After they were arrested, and brought
into the Jail, Hutton was examined, and
on finding so dollar note in his pocket
book, some one remarked it was forged
note, when Hull stepped up near him, and
Hutton struck Hull's hand and slipped
into it the cut notes which he then thought
had been put into the trunk. Hull not
knowing what to do with them, slipped |
them into bis pantaloons, where they were
found. Before and after they had robbed
the mail, Hutton proposed that they should
go to the southward, to Petersbnrgh, 10
Virginia, and there set up the Druggist
and Grocery business. They had dis
posed Of none of the money before they
were apprehended. The over clothes in
which they perpetrated the robbery, and
their knives we're thrown away. Hull
tied a stone to his clothes and threw them
into the falls, at the upper side of Market
street Bridge. Hutton's trunk was sent
from Newport to Newcastle, and thence
brought to Baltimore in the steamboat, by
an order from Hull, under the name Of
Norton, which he then assumed, and also
by another order from Hutton.
(Signed) MORRIS N. B. HULL.
do hereby certify that the foregoing
examination and confession was written
entirely by me, and that after the same |,
was carefully read over by me to the
said M. N. B. Hull, he assented thereto,
as being correct throughout, and freely
and voluntarily signed the same with his
own proper hand in my presence
Given under my hand and seal this
twenty-ninth day of March, eighteen
hundred and twenty.
(Signed) THEODORIC BLAND,
Judge of the District Court, 10, and
for the district Of Maryland.