Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-04-01

counterfeit. About 600 dollars yet missing, in
Guiding all the gold and about half the deposit
of the Messrs. Allen. The prisoner will not be ex
amined before morrow, the counsel chosen by him
being out of the city.
OFFICE MoRNrxG COURIER &. ENoUInER,}
Sunday yHo,ning, IHarct 27. s
THE BANK ROBBER CAUGHT
About IL O'Clock las; night, man named Smith +,
supposed to be the Bank Robber arrested by
High Constable HAYS, at private boarding house
in the upper part of the CITY, leather trunk, pack
ed completely full of the stolen notes, found in
the prisoners room-the amount contained in is not
yet ascertaned but ii is bel eyed that the whole
mount stolen has been recovered He is the same
person who participated in daring robbery and out
rage committed some time since on Mr.. SCHENcK, of
BROOKLYN village Henderson, his accomplish IN thai
transaction, was found guilty, and sentenced to an
Imprisonment of four years in the state prison
7. S.--The amount received from the Bank robber,
is SI85, 1885 ,--besides some gold
The money found consists of
All that belonging TO the Morris Canal Company
$4,000 Lansingburg Bank Notes
About So 900 of Aliens money.
S57 1923 City Bank" notes.
The rest of the $l85,735 found is in other bank
notes
The prisoners real name is Smith. He gives his
name Simpson He refuses to answer any questions
His wife has been committed to Bridewell, two small
children have gone there with her
u We have little doubt that the Bank Robber
apprehended is the notorious LOWELL JONES WIN
formerly resided here, and was celebrated as an
adept at opening locks, and for which he served a
tour in the Virginia Penitentiary. The description
given of the fellow in the slip from the Standard of
hce answers to the description of JONES' and the cir
Cumstance mentioned in the Courers slip, of his
having wife and two children strengthens the be-
lief that he IS the same person, Jones had wife
and TWO children when he left here, about two years
ago.
Presenting Lovel Jones to be the Individual ppre-
hended brief account of him may be interesting
He wrought several years as gunsmith at the
yhprn 1ISt1
skilful and expert workman He is also most n
genious lock-smith, and famous for making gas for
fighting cocks superior TO any others He Mad to
leave Richmond ten or twelve years ago. in conse-
quence of being detected in exercising his ingenuity
at opening locks without the consent of the
After an absence of several years Philade phia
he returned here, supposng his offences had been
forgot or forgiven--hut he was mistaken. He was
apprehended, tried and convicted of the char
ges against him, and sent to the Peniientiary for
two years.
tanned that he had made and conveyed to his wife,
from whom it afterwards obtained, KEY with
shifting wards so ingenously contrved that he could
open the lock of every door in the city with it.
with much if he had the proper kew of
each-and supposed from the skill he exhibited
in that way, that If he had had much logger to re-
main in the PenitentIary he would have sue ceeded
in opening all the doors, and making general all
delivery.
After his liberation be wrought some time at his
business as journeyman. in this city. But his pro-
pensity 10 exercise MS ingenuity opening locks
without the proper KEYS, still continuing, least
being strongly suspected of that and other ingenious
practices which rendered honest mems property I'M
safe where he was, he found 1t necessary about two
years ago TO leave here He has since wrought some
time at the Gosport Navy Yard, and has been to
Philadelphia and Connecticut, his native State
Lowell Jones may be identified by large seal
from his forehead to his chin the trace of
wound he received by the bursting of grindstone
while at the Armory, which split his face and nose
open all the way down
~ in stating from memory the few Observable ms
made on Monday in the House of Delegates by Mr.
Bryce, on the motion made by him to discharge the
Committee of Finance from the further considcra
ton of the resolution offered by Mr. Atkinson, to
provide some means for protecting the claims Of Re
volunuonary Officers and Soldiers, from fraudu-
lent speculatons, we omitted one two material
ideas.
We now understand, that Mr. Bryce did not
mean to say there were perhaps some of those spe-
culations in which he would not have engaged,
though he did not believe any which had come to his
knowledge to be fraudulent The remark was not
intended to apply to the speculations.
Its due also to those engaged III those speculaions
20 report another observation made by Mr. Bryce,
(wbo in bis legislative capacity, had bad much &C
quaintance with the class Of revolutionary claims 10
which this whole matter refers)--DameiY, hat at
one time previous TO the decision of the Court of
Appeals) he should have considered contract allow
ing two thirds Of The claim for the prosecution and
collection of the other their by no means excessive
viewing those claims as in a great measure dcsue-
rate. Of coursc, Nj Bryce REJECTS the idea that
fraud was implied N the amount OF compensation fono
half) demanded, and gwen in some Of the cases; aud
regards tnat amount as no more than evidence Of the
desperation in which the claims Of the supernumc-
rary officers generally held.
boundary Decision The Portland advertiser SAYS
lately received by Gov Smith, President Of
the u States communicating the fact that received no
official information Of the decision Of the Umpire regard
the Boundary Line.
g. w. Ewing mot the avtor) who appointed Charge
des Affairs Constannople has declined aud David Porter
appointed Professionally in his stsad.-.1iass Jour.