Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-01-23
[FRo,I THE BALrEIoRE PATRIOT, Jan. II. !
WESTERN MAIL ROBBERIES.-ARRES OF
THE ROBBERS.

Il has been known for some time that extensive
robberics had been committed on the Great Wes-
tern Mail for n York and points east of that city
and from the evidence which the case afforded,
there was no doubt entertained that these robbie :
res were committed a some point between Vince
ling and Baltimore. Circumstances having ten
dcd 70 fix suspicion upon the neghborhood Of
Unontown. Pa. in reference to these depre daions,
Messrs. Kennedy and Pitt, agents of the Post
Office Department., directed their particular Mt
teDtI0n TO that quarter. The discoveries there
made were such to induce DIR. Kennedy to OBJ
tain warrant from Judge Ewing of that district,
fer the arres, of certain persons believed TO be
implicated in the robberies The warrant
obtained on WednasJay a:t-hs and r.ocecdiuU
with II 10 Washington, Pa. stage driver named
William German, employed on the route between
Washington and Uniontown, was by the aid Of a
police officer arrested at the first named place.
German was asleep a bench in the bar room
Of the stage Office hotel, and when arrested be-
trayed great alarm.
On being taken before magistrate, German
made disclosures which implicated with himself
IN these rob5eries, a certain DR.. Braddee, q clerk
Of Braddee's, named Pnnell, and a third person
named William Strayer-all of Uniontown. On
Thursday afternoon DR.. Kennedy left Washing
ton, with his prisoner in charge, for Unon,own;
and in the course Of that night the three persons
above named we're also arrested, and In default
Of bail, which was fixed at high figure, the four
were committed to The Jail Of Fayette county, to
answer to the charge.
Suspicion rested upon German, before his last
trip from Uniontown TO Washington, on Wcdnes-
day night; but it deemed best by the agents,
TO make the arrest at the latter place, 10
prevent his supposed accomplices from taking tho
alarm, and making their escape hefore the arm Of
law should be upon them. With these views
the agent Of the Post office. with the warrant for
Germans arrest IN his pocket, rode on the dri-
vers seat with the latter all the way from Union
town to Washing on-Corman of course wholly
So Il, r.
the lmPe"dng arrest, at the end of the route.
The following fact to the manner which
these mail robberies have been effected, gI-
ven in the Washington Reporter Of Saturday
based on the confessions of German On reach
ing the Pos, Office in Uniontown, where the
coaches are usually changed, all the mails
discharged except tho Eastern Mail above refer
red to: this retained in the coach, per
rangement, until driven into the yard, where the
accomplices Of the driver, received it, and CON
veyed it to the Office of DR.. Braddee, hen on be-
ing rified Of its contents, the bags were thrown
into privy appurienent 20 the premises. This
was done the nights Of the 18th, 19h, 23d.
and 29th Of November, and on the 9th, 18th and
18Th Of Dec
German charges Braddee and his confederates
with having been his :ernpters 10 the commission
Of these MISUNDERSTANDING that he had resisted
their opportunities to embark in the robbery Of
the mail, for period Of eighteen tbs, but piled
alternately by their threats and their promises,
he at last yielded, and became their co-worker IN
crime. Braddee is said to be the master spirit OF
the concern. His character seems TO have been
heretofore anything but good, as We learn from
the Reporter tia, he had sometime since been
tried in the Fayette County Court, two several
terms, on charges Of arson and forgery. He was
acquitted in both cases by the jury (from INSULT
cheney Of evidence.) though not by public opin-
ion " hich is won't TO be less technical in making
up It's verdicis.
The subjoined letter from correspondent at
Tnion;own contains some farther details concern
ing the arrest, there made. II will be seen that
upwards Of 10000, Of the money stolen from tho
mails has been recovered. Besides r'fled mail
bags, carpet bags, &c sundry apparatus for coin
ing money, were also discovered on the premises
of Braddee; from which il would seem that the
evil operations Of the confederacy were carried
On various and extended scale.
LIE: US hope that their arrest, and their con-
vic,ion, if guilty, will tend somewhat to arrest
the progress Of crime.