Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-01-19

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ed with stars within circlc(a embroidered in gold
the Pail bordered with ernine and through its whole
body large white worked with silver 10 all ap-
psarnnce ike lace The Sarcophagus is made of black
| Ebony, highly polished, resting on four bronzed feet.
| "NAroLEoS, in brass letters, s inserted the top,
and the letter Y. in brass, on each of the two sides.
The inside has the death and age the deceased,
as King ard Emperor of France.
IMPORTANT ARREST
/ FouR MAIL RoBBERs CAPTURED.-Thc recent rob-
berries of the mail from the West TO New York and
Boston, of which notices have appeared from time TO
time in the papers, induced the Post Office Depart
men 10 plan means for ascerlann9 and capturing the
! depredators, which, we learn from the Baltimore
Sun, have been successful. letter received by Mr.
Vansant, the Postmaster of Baltimore, from Howard
Kennedy Esq, special agent of the Post Office De-
partment, dated at Union Town, Pennsylvania, the
Sth inst, states that the previous day at Washing
tom in this State, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. George Pitt,
also special agent of the Department, arrested man
named German, mail driver, whose volunteered con.
esson implicated some what celebrated doctor named
| Braddee, of Union Town, named Purnel, who
nlfciated his clerk, and another by the name OF
Strayer, who acted the part OF his tool.
"On the same night, those persons were arrested
and Messrs Kennedy and Pitt took possession of the
doctors establishment During the night they found
several mail pouches in the prvy, besides trunks, car
pet-bags, &c, which circumstance shows that the rob-
bers extended their operations among the baggage OF
the travellers, we'll among the ma bags On the
4 W.,
now and number of the notes of which that sum is
made up, can be identified having been mailed at Lou
isvlle Kentucky, in November last, by Mr. Tyler
Corman the driver of the mail stage, has been commit
ted, and Braddee, Strayer and Pnrne have been or
dered find bail, the first in 50G00, the second in
$4,000, and the third in $4,000, and time given
them until this day to find it. At the date Of MIR.
Kennedy's letter, Mr.. Pitt engaged in farther
search, and the citizens active in their en-
deavors to make additional discoveries Of property.
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that has made and viii doubtless yet bring about, and
which will have the effect TO root out yIllanors gang
Of counereiters and ogucs, of whom this Dr. Braddee,
and those arrested as his accomplices, are believed
10 form part. The so.called doctor either is pre-
tends to be- very illiterate, much that he can
neither read nor write yet he halls doctor, is
pued TO be very wealthy and supposed to have made
himself rich by dishonest means-and vainous ones
besides.
"His real or pretended eracy rendered clerk me-
cessay what with his mid and that of his tool together
with the cooperation ofthe stage driver the plumber
of the mail baggage matter of easy accomplish
and forgery and other acts Of rosuery might also
| lose the difficulty of their preparation. But the I'M
potancc of this arrest will be still more apparent when
it known that the following robberes of the mail
that line, for New York and points beyond it, have
been perpetrated between the 9th Of November and
The 18th Of December inclusive. The mails from
Wheeling Of the 18th, 10Th, I'D and 29h Of No
ven,ber and the 9th and 18th of December from
!
November and the 18th and l7lh Of December from
Cincinnati of the llh, 2ls and 9th Of Novem-
ber and the Sd and l6h of December; from Lou
isville of the 10Th, Goth and 9th of November, and
the I'd and 10Th OF December; from Nashville, of the
7ih 18th and gid of November and the llh, 9th and
2h Of December; and rcn St. Louis Of the 9th,
10th, DIST and a2d Of November, the 9Th Of Deem.
Der certain, and that Of the 18th probably The exact
amount Of loss by these robbcres cannot of be
uow known, nor would il be easy Of ascertainment-
anl n less than half n million of did.
lars, enough TO enrich pretty large number nt aii
Lated pmGdrrcrs Nor the preparation OF the rob
berry difficult with the aid Of the driver, when il IS
considered that the mails from the above mentioned
places from y. ork and places beyond that point,
all H. he found in ponch at the point at which the
rnlbrrles committed thus, lie who stole thr
pouch containing the mail from Wheeling OF the 18th
of November, took necessarily that from Columbus
of the eth, from Cincinnati of the llth, from Louis
Vile of the 10TH from Nashville OF the 9TH, from ST.
Louis the G and of all the others mentioned; but
Baltimore could lose nothing by the robbery Of that
pouch, the mail of this city beng separate bag and
for similar reason, Philadelphia could lose nothing
For the detection and arrest OF these robbers aud tie
cuy which lis consequences must hcnccforth give to
the contents OF the mail, bY its effect on tho fears o
the dishonest the public must feel largely indebted 70
Messrs. Kennedy and Pitt. They started on this mss
sion with determination to leave nothing undonc which
nuity and sagacty could devise suggest and
energy and pcrse verance accomplish TO discover and
bring justice the perpetrators of those rohberes which
had become known to the Department. The eye Of Of
fetal suspicion had been directed 10 than one
point or section Of The route from those places to New
York. hut the result proves at the sagaclty Of
Messrs. Kennedy and Pitt, and their activity and
gy in giving effect TO their purposes. They deserve all
praise and will doubtless receive it at the hands of the
public
The Sun of last evening adds the following additional
particulars;
In relation 10 the arrest of the four persons engaged
in the robbery of the mails in Pennsylvania, uhc full
particulars OF which we gave Yesterday the Wash
ngton (Ia) Reporter gives the following facts of the
manner in which these robberles effected. On
reaching the post Office in Unionown where the coach
es usually changed, all the mails were discharged
except the Eastern mall this was retained in the coach
per arrangement until driven into the yard where the
accompces of the driver received it, and conveyed il
to the Office of Braddce, when, being rhed Of its
contents, the bags thrown into privy appurte-
nantt to the premises.
FEEsHEr IN THE SUsQuEHAsSA.-We learn from the