Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-07-01

lie as Immediately committed ami searched,
n considerable sum OF money. aud one letter.
posi- marked al White Hal June -. was found
on him. lie soon after confessed where he had
leli the contents 81 the mail, which was found.
Ills name is John 1 isher.
Fisher gave the following account OF him.
self
He got into stage al Troy, With two or
three persons whom he did not know. Ano-
ther man got IN when tie stage WIS on board
tho horseboat. and seated himsrIiou tue hack
seat, and spoke 20 Fisher and SID he had seen
him On board a steamboat but Fisher did mol
recolleet him. After the stage got this side
the hall way house. r. observed this person
cutting open the mail bag. I. WAS going TO peak,
bgi he told him not to, that thru was good
deal of money IN the bag aud he would give
Z. n share OF it. lie then took out the canvass
bag and let II lay under their feet till they got
into Albany, at the corner .of PatrOonsreet,
when L. got out and took the bag with him,
having previously agreed to meet said person
at n. Dutch Church yard. L. went directly
10 the church, and soon after tbs person came
and opened the bag, aud opened the letters
aud handed +. the bsnk bills, which were
found in his possession the bag and packages
were then put under some stones. +. then
went away and lett the other man there, whom
he has not seen since, nor does L. know where
he WIS going, nor no he was. +. said that
the letter which was found on him, he picked
up himself
A knife found on him, he said he had
bought Ia Troy yesterday forenoon. He came
from Troy IN the morning, aud returned again
IN the afternoon. He came after his mother.
in.lay, bat she did not go with him. When he
came last night, il was Tor The same purpose.
I 4 a a.. l. A
took passage in the western Stage last evening,
as after he had got the money. he thought II
bes 10 90 away, lie has lived here aud 10
Troy these ten years lie says he moved to
Waterford last week. When he was arrested
last evening, he told Alderman Hart he had no
Hccomplce.
Aidermiu Ilan and MIR. Meigs, one Of the
police consIablrs, Immediately went To the
church., where they found the etets as desert
bed, under some curb stones lying IN Van
sGhach street, at tie southwest corner of the
church. same letters we're found in the gang
aay of Mr. Solomon stable la Columbia
street. They were 10 doubt, thrown there ny
+ Isher as be pissed down the street 10 the
post Office, fearing that they might be found
on hun. The one letter wi ish he had was
probably accidentally left IN his pocket.
40 Fisher passed The post Office, western
mail age was Standing al the door, and he
asked tae driver when be weald Start. The
driver haylng heard Nh Laihrops descriptions
suspected hlu, and stated hi, suspicious
Ia The postmaster he WINS followed to the
stage Office where Mr. Lalhrop identified him
as the man who got oat oi The stage in Pa
roon.sreet.
II my be- stated as in degree il confirmed
Fishers story that he had IN accompIiCr, thai
| one OF the passengers in TIE re saws TINT the
Two persons sitting on The back srat were cngag-
ed III much whispering; nj lasl one of them
changed his seat this one got ont of the stage
when it first stopped at tue post Office, aud
went away.
The SUN found 90 Fisher was Sll5 IN bank
bills besides a small amour, in SILVER this last,
he says he had with hlm before the robbery.
This D II is no doubt all the money there was
IN the ma,l. There were but thee iettsrs,
combining money, SO far as appears Gonl.
reading them. One contained SlOO directed
To Josiah sherman, Of Albany another con
famed &io and anothes So Ihls makes The
amount oil SllJ.
+. ). Last evening several more letters, bro
ken opsn, were toTnd IN An alley adjoining the
cncus, III Beaver St'eet-ihcy had cOnta.ued no
money.
Sill a,lolher.-We have been favored with
the reading of letter from The postmaster at
Springfield, Mass. 10 the postmaster in this city,
under date Of Iune 60 from which it appears
thai the pos Office at tia, place was brnken
open III the night the maI bag cut, and the
package containing the letters for the Albany
post oliiGe tor disti button taken ont aud Il
part Of them opened: il is believed that none
Of the letters are gone. The villains proba-
biz gut alarmed hr fore they could open more,
aud they went of no doubt in hurry, as The
tools winch we're used ~ breaking ia, "ere eiI