Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-12-24
By NIasser & Eiscly,
Man Robbery,

| The Cumberland Md. Aleghanan says that
Peter Iialderman, who was lately convicted in
Baltimore of the crime of robbng The U. S
ma, some ten months, has made disclosure OF
facts O., injected Herewith as follows:
uaLlerm. ~ says that during the latter part
or the ve,rlS,'l peytou Sides made applca.
,;o,s ,o him q. AID in robbing the mail-lhat he
declined from, time 10 time. Sides eventually
proposed to II. that "wh, 'heVor ihere were nc
passengers in the Mail h,, W, >uid INFORM iim ol
fact, and that he would go on WI n'l,' 70 'he
Shades of Death-and then in that odfh aho
dismal place, take him from the drivers ooA
tie him to tree by the road side, and ta,e ,ue
mail off and rob it," That he, Sides, when
found in that condition, would say that "three
men came from the shades with black faces,
stopped the horses tied him in that condition
and robbed the mall
This proposition Haldeiman also declined.
But Sides, not being ntimidated. determined
that the mail should he robbed if he had to do
it entirely himself! Things went on this way
until February, }e42. At this time Halderman
was staying at the tavern of his brother, when
about II o'clock in the night the robbery took
place. Sides drove up, stopped the stage be-
! fore the door, and aroused Peter liaderman;
under the pretence Of getting something to
drink. Two persons were sleeping with Hal
derman, and heard him say, "Peter, | want a
grog." The drinking over, and the persons
near the bar asleep, Sides invited Y. Hnlder-
man out to the coach On arriving there Sides
! then opened the doors and said, "Nuw, Pete, is
your time; have no passengers"
! lIalderman declined aud said he could not
have any thing TO do with it. 'Sdes replied
"Wel sir, if you DO not, have another man
who will we will rob the mail this night, and
if found out I'll be ID if ! don't put it upon you
any how" BY this time Sides had the mail
out Of the stage, and raising it up threw il up.
on the shoulders of IIalderman, shut the door o
the stage, cracked his whip and put Off Hal.
derman pondered the thing over in his mind
and finally came to the conclusion that he would
be blamed of the matter at all events, and that
inasmuch as the mail had been given him, he
would see its contents. He proceeded with il
into the woods in the rear of the house, and
there amidst the rocks and trees of the forest
he raised fire, and opened the maih and took
from il little upwards of sir thousand dollar,
in money. All the checks, drafts aud halves
Of notes. he burned, with the mail bag and the
balance of its contents.
That of the money taken he gave Sides
$1,000, in good money, and kept the balance
it being in treasury notes and other funds no
so current here. That he kept his money il
the woods until last August, hoping to find al
opportunity to return il but the arrcstof Side
cut of this hope, and alarm drove him to Can
ada where he was arrested by MIR. Patterson
Sides says lie had part of his money in the gar
den attached to the tavern of Mr.. Fairall-tha
he put it in bottle and sunk the bottle in al
old post hole, where the fence had been reno
we'd. These facts were gotten from llalder
man himself and ere believed to be true