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

stand ID the woods Hutton threw into
one branch Of the road twosor three bushes,
where they awaited The arrival Of the mail
they neither Of them were dressed AZ they
are now, or when they LEFT Baltimore, from
the shirt out; their clcthes having been
changed some distance from town. where
they were Ief. on the FIRST sally when che
mail Wagon came up, the driver saw them
by the mson- light and said : what does this
mean" Hutton said. ! II is not you we wish
to hurt. we only want the contents OF the
mail" Hull having seized the horse by ths
bridle, Hutton SAID. 10 the Driver. follow
that man." He accordingly drove into the
woods. and got OF the box; Hutton took
one OF the reins and tied the driver by one
arm to sappling and HulItied him BY the
other arm to another sappling about ten feet
from the other. Hull and Hutton then took
out the mail bags, having FIRST given Hull the
pistol they then opened the mail bags ana
took all the money they could ind. all OF
which has since been tound, on Hull and in
their trunk at Kecks, and some ct it on Hut
ton-while they were pillaging the mail oy
moonlight. for they had no Ere light, Hutton
told Hull he had better unharness the horses
to be ready for a retreat in case OF an alarm
--after they had finished the collection 81 the
money, Hutton requested Hull to unite the
driver; Hull replied that he would know
them Hutton said they were sufficiently DIS
guised, and he could not know them Hull
went to and came back from the driver ana
repeated the same thing. Hutton again de-
sired be might be united. Hull returned to
the driver, and when Hutton was about hfty
yards OF be heard the pistol go of, and I'M
mediately Hull returned and said the driver
had kicked him while he was untying HIM,
and he (HuIl) bad shot him, (the driver.)-
Hull again returned to the driver, on Hut
toms asking if he was dead. 10 see if ne was
actually dead. and soon Joined him again,
saying that his pulse beat regularly, and that
he was not then dead. Hutton told Hull, it
was bad thing, it ought net TO have been
done. and that that OF itself would certain
" lead to their detection. Hull said it was
better so than otherwise, as he would have
been sure to have recognized them by their
sizes. if nothing else they then mounted
the horses and rode of towards Baltimore
along the main road, and left the horses in
the woods this side the Herring run, thence
they walked into the city, and breakfasted
together at Kecks, where they remained un-
til Saturday evening. when they went out
together and were aarrvhended in Gay-str
They looked over the money in the after.
noon, at Keck's, but did not count it or make
a division, or make any entry in any pocket
book, or any other memorandum, OF the a.
mount, but guessed there might be about
twenty. FIVE hundred to three thousand dol
lars; after they, Hutton and Hull, dismount-
ed near Herring run, they changed their
clothes in which they committed the robbery,
brought them to town with them, and threw
al, in Jones's Falls. Hutton threw his clothes
into the Falls at street terminating on the
Falls from Old Town, between Market street
and Gay street bridges, with stone tied TO
them. In what part Of the falls Hull threw
his clothes, Hutton does not know.
PEREGRINE HUTTON.
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do hereby certify, that the foregoing ex-
animation and confession was written entire
" by me, and, that, alter the same was care
fully read over by me. to the said Peregrine
Hutton, 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 TWEEN
ty-ninth day of March, eighteen hum
dred and twenty.
THEODORlCK BLAND.
Judge of the District Court, in and
for the District of Maryland.
We have the satisfaction of laying be-
fore our readers, from an authentic source, a
full and voluntary confession. made before
Judge Bland, in Baltimore, on the 29th OF
March, Of Morris N. B. Hull, who was ar
rested on Suspicion of robblng the mail and
numbering John Heaps, (the driver9 sand
on whom was found large sum in bank
notes. Washington City Gazette.
The examination and confession of Morris