Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-03

,4;n. 6rstbehind BY the two arms. and then
tied his right arm to sappling. Hutton then
Win bis knife ripped open the mail. Hull
then tied The other arm Of the driver to ano-
ther sappling Hutton then threw the mail
BAGS on the ground, snd they pillaged the
/ letters. and collected the money as fast as
they could one Of the bags had in it meal
or something Of the kind before they had
collected the money Hutton Told Hull TO I'M
harness the horses ready for a retreat: after
they had done pillaging the mail ). Hutton told
Hull, in low voice. s now you must go up
! and shoot him." Hull said. no, he don I
know US, we had better lei the man go, il we
Go do it we shall surely be hung" Hutton
replied, cit must be done, be knows me,
you must shoot him OF shoot me- {" Hull beg
ged of Hutton to let the man go, but he said
not, and insisted on his being shot. Hull
then went up to the driver, and shot him -
he jumped up, hallooed, 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 and
killed him. Hutton and Hull then mounted
the horses and rode on towards Baltimore as
tar as the wood on this side of the mill, where
they tied the horses and left them, and then
came 10 Baltimore little before sunrise; and
on the same Gay, in the afternoon, were APP
pretended in Bridge-street. They counted
the money in their room al Keck's and there
was about five thousand dollars in good notes.
besides the post notes and cut notes. After
they had counted the money, Hutton said lie
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 poe
ket books, and the rest, with the post notes,
he put into bis trunk. After they were ar
rested, and brought into the Jail. Hutton was
.ex mined, and on finding fifty dollar note
in his pocket book, some one remarked it
was forged note, when Hull stepped up
near him, and Hutton struck Hubs 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 his pantaloons. where they were
found. Before and after they had robbed
the mail, Hutton proposed that they should
go to the southwark, to Petersburg, in Vir-
gina, and there Sc: up the Druggist and gro
Gerry business. They had disposed Of none
Of he money before they were apprehended
The over cloathes in which they perpetrated
the robbery, and their knives, were thrown
away. Hull tied stone to his cloathes, and
threw them into the Falls, at the upperside
of Market-street bridge. Hutton's trunk was
sent from Newport to New castle, and thence
brought to Baltimore in the steam boat, by
an order from Hull, under the name pf Nor
ton, which he then assumed, and also by
another order from Hutton
{Signed) MORRIS N. B HULL.
do hereby certify that the foregoing ex-
animation and COME ssion was written entire.
~ by ne, and after the same was carefully
read over by me to.the saidM n. B. Hull,
he assented thereto, as Icing correct through
out, and freely and voluntarily signed the
same with his own proper hand in my pre-
sence.
Given under my hand and seal this TWEEN
ty-ninih day of March, eighteen hum
dred and twenty.
(Slgned) THEODORIcK BLAND, +
Judge Of the District Court,
in and for the District of Maryland,
WARM WEATHER IN A COLD CLIMATE.
On the 25th March at HaIlowell, District
Of Maine, the thermometer at o'clock, P. NJ.
stood at IS deg Exposed few minutes on
the south side Of building it TO l04 de-
grees.
A.. Poetor an The OSfh tho therrn oin efer In