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

left on the first sally; when the mail wag-
gon came up, the driver saw them by the
moon light, and said, g What does this
mean" Hutton said, 1t is not you We
wish to burt; we only want the contents
Of the mail" Hull having seized the
horse by the bride, Hutton said TO the
driver, $ follow that man." He accord
ingiy drove cut into the woods and got of
The box Hutton lock one OF the reins and
| tied the driver by one arm 10 sapiihg,
and Hull tied him by The other arm TO
another sapling about ten feet from The
other. Hul ard Hutton then took out the
mail bags, having Grst given Hull the pis-
ioI: they then opened The mail bags ard
took all The money they could find, all Of
which has since been found, on Hull and
| 10 their trunk at kecks, aud some oil it
or Hutton--while they we're piilaging the
mail by moonlight, for they had 40 fire
light, Hutton told Hull he had better un-
harness the horses, to be ready for a re-
treat in case of AN alarm--af,er they had
finished The collection Of the money. Hut
ton requested Hull TO unite lie driver;
Hull replied that he would know them !;
Hutton said, they we're sufficiently dis
euised, and he conid bot know them; Hull
vent 10, and came back from, the driver,
and repeated the same thing. Hutton
again desired he might be uH,ied. Hull
returned 10 the driver, and when Hutton
was about fifty yards off, he heard the
pistol go off. and Immediately Hull re-
tnrned and said The driver had kicked
him while he was nnfying him, aud he
(Hull) had shot him, 1.-THE driver.) Hull
again returned TO The driver, on Hulton's
asking him If he was dead, to see if he
was actually dead, and soon joined him
again, saying that his pulse beat regularly,
ard that he was not then dead. Hutton
sold Hull it was a bad thing, il ougli; no,
10 have been done, and that that of itself
would certainly lead to their detection.
Hall ssid Il was better so han otherwise,
as he would have beer sure 10 have recog-
nized them by their sizes, il nothing else;
they then mounted the horses, and rode
off towards Baltimore, along the main
road, aud left the horses in the woods This
side the Herring run, thence they walked
into the city, and breaklssted together al
Kecks', where they remained until Satur-
day evening, when they went ont together
and were apprebeDded ia Gay-street.
They looked over the money in the
afternoon. at Kecks', but did not count II
or make any entry in any pocketbook, or
onx, o.Lar r,nrrorond,,r, af fha s.,,r..,.t
but guessed there might be about twenty
five hundred to three Thousand dollars !;
after they, Hutton and Hull, dismounted
near Herring Run, they changed their
clothes in which they committed the rob-
berry. brought them to town wifi them.
and threw them all into Jones' Falls. Hut
ion threw bis clothes into the Falls at q
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 Fails Hall threw his
clothes. Hutton does not know.
PEREGRINE HUTTON.
I do hereby certify, that the foregoing
denomination and confession was written
entirely by me, aud, that, after the same
was carefully read over By me, to the said
Peregrine Hutton. he assented thereto, as
being correct throughout, and freely ami
voluntarily signed the same with his own
pre- per hand. in my presence.
Given under my hand and seal, this
twenty-nintb day Of March, eighteen hun
dred and twenty.
THEODORIC BLAND,
Judge of the District Court in and
.ko AIan, I.n1