Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-26
OFFICE OF THE ALBANY DAILY ADVERTISERS
o'f''N - Tuesday, 2. d. 5
ANOTHER MAIL ROBBERY, AND HE
pnRRER TAKEN.

ROBBER TAKEN.
I'm the delivery of the Northern Mail at the
Pos. office in this city. on Monday night, at o.
clock. it was Immediately discovered tha' u hao
been cut open and that the contents were mis'''I'
A nrompt. vigorous & ultimately successiui search
under the direction Of the Postmaster was I'M
diately commenced, which resulted IN the ref"'e-
nv of the lost mail, and in the arrest OF person.
who had been previously suspected Of roDoihs 'ne
western mail last week, and VINO proven 10 o'
the robber. r. NJ
7 .,tbron of Sandy Hill was one OF them, VINO,
,rben hearing of the robbery. suspected one OF
tho two MESSENGERS on the back seat. who pre-
tended to be asleep and leaned forward over the
stran. letting his hat fall twice, mis- hands were
all this time in motion. He said he wished TO be
cot down at the North Dutch Church, but the
driver declining to 90 out Of his way, he was let
mt at the corner of North Market and Patroo Oh
street From Mr. LIS description, ne was in-
mediately recognized as an old offender WINE
search was making. he presented h'mse'' al
Thorp's stage office to engage passage ior ,le
west. where he was identified by one OF Mr..
Thorp's drivers, who heard MIR. l.. describe MN
in the nost-office. He was Immediately COM
,nittcd and searched, considerable sun, OF mo,
nov and one letter. post marked at White Hall
lime o.. wa. found on him. lie soon after con-
tossed where he had left the contents OF the mali,
which was found His name is John Fisher;
Fisher gave the following account OF himself:
He rot into stage at Troy, with two or three
nersons whom he did not know. Another man
got in when the stage was on 6oarc the horscoo;'''
and seated himself on the back seat, ana spoke
to Fisher and said he had seen him on noafa a
steamboat: but Fisher did not recollect HIM. Al
Al -. l. half II
observed this person cutting open the mail bag.
F. was going to speak, but ne toid MN not Us
that there was good deal of money in the bag
took out the canvass bag and let it lay under their
feet, till they got into Albany. at the corner OF
PATRON street, when +. got out and took the bag
with him, having previously agreed TO meet said
person at the n. Dutch Church yard. F. went
directly to the church, and soon after this person
came and opened the bag, and opened the letters
and handed +. the bank bills which were found
IN his possession; the bag and packages were then
put under some stones F. then went away and
left the other man there, whom he has not seen
since, nor does +. know where he was going nor
who he was. F.. said that the letter which was
found on him, he picked up himself.
4 knife found on him, ne said he had bought
in Troy Yesterday forenoon. He came from Troy
in the morning. and returned again in the after
noon. He came after bis mother-in-aw. but she
did not 90 with him. When he came last night,
il vas for the same purpose, but he was arrested
before he could see her. He took passage in tn,
western stage Tart evening, as, after he had got
the money, he thought it best to 90 away. He
mas lived here and in Troy these ten years; he
says ne moved to Waterford last week. When
he was arrested last evening, he told Alderman
Hart he had no accompliee.
Alderman Hart and Mr.. Migs, one of the po-
lice constables, Immediately went to the church,
where they found the letters as described, under
some curb stones lying in Van Setback street, at
the southwest corner of the church. Some let
ters were found in the gangway of Mr.. Solomon's
stable in Columbia street They were, no doubt,
thrown there by Fisher, as he passed down the
street to the post Office, fearing that they might
by found on him. The one letter which he had
was probably accidentally left in his pocket.
As Fisher passed the post office, western
mail stage was standing at the door, and he asked
the driver when he would start. The driver
having heard MIR. Lathrop's description, suspect
ed him, and stated his suspicious to the postmas-
ter; he was followed to the stage office, where
Mr.. Lathrop identified HIM as the man who got
out of the stage in Patroon-street
II may be stated, as in degree confirming |
Fishers story that he had an accomplce, that one
Of the passengers in the stage SAYS that the two
persons Sitting on the back seat were engaged in
much whispering; at last one of them changed
his seat: this one got out of the stage when it
first stopped at the post office, and went away.
The sum found on Fisher was Sill in bank
bills, besides small amount in silver; this last
he says ne had with him before the robbery. his
Sis is no doubt all the money there was In the
mail. There were but three letters containing
money. so far as appears from reading them. One
contained 500 directed to Josiah Sherman, of
Albany; another contained $40, and another IS.
This makes the amount of Sis.
P.S. Last evening several more letters, bro
ken open, were found in an alley adjoining the
circus. in Beaver street-they had contained no
money.
Still anothcr.--We have been favored with