The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-24

Arrest Of the Mail Robbers.-We are glad to an
nounce thatseveral men have been arrested and are
now in custody, who, there is good reason to be-
lieve are the perpetrators of the daring robbery of
the United States Mail in the south. western suburbs
of Philadelphia, ON Saturday night last
We have been able, as yet, to obtain but little
information in regard to the arrest of the implicated
parties, and even such particulars as we have
learned, are rather of confused nature. As well
as we understand the case, so far, the following
appear to be the facts:
man of doubtful repute, from Baltimore, named
Isaiah, Isaac, or Joseph Downs, and better known
by the not very fecitous Soubriquet of "Sommaky,"
yesterday evening, while under the influence of
Liquor, encountered Mr.. Thomas Stubbins, an eN-
police officer in South Broad street, and informed
him that he knew all about the mail robbery; that
he was himself concerned in the robbery, and as
he had been treated badly by the robbers who plan
ned and executed it, he was resolved to blow on
them.
Downs communicated to Mr.. Stubbins the whole
of the circumstances of the robbery, and Mr.. s.,
obtaining the assistance of a party of the day and
night police of the Southwest Division, between
nine and ten O'Clock last night, proceeded to a
suburban settlement Of low Irish and English, on
Federal street, between Broad street and Long
Lane, in West MOyamensng, known as " Rum
Row" where five men, indicated by Downs, were
arrested. The men were all taken IN different
| houses. The entire Row was in state OF carousal
| and almost every one of the inmates seemed to be
| drunk.
| The names of the prisoners are Thomas Veltch
| James Bell, Thomas Brannan, John McCarty and
| Robert Mcdowell. They were taken to the sta.
| ton-house, corner of Schuylkill Eighth and Brgh.
ton streets, where, this morning between II and
| o'clock, they underwent examination before
| Mayor Jones-the u. S. District Attorney, John
| w. Ashmead, Esq, being present to conduct the
| hearing on the part of the Government Downs
was examined as States evidence, and his testi
| mony against the accused was direct and positive
The examination resulted in the prisoners being
fully committed in default OF 10000 bail each, t.
answer at the next term Of the u 5. District Court
| About 10 o'clock, this forenoon, the prisoners
were conveyed to the County Prison. They are
all Englishmen or lrishmen. Most of them are
| well known old offenders, and two Of them arr
convicts not long since enlarged from the Peniten
tary where they had served for protracted periods
Three of them are gray headed, and they are al
men of the hardest appearance.
According to Downs's account the mail car wa
entered by false key, and the pouches thrown out
The bags were then gathered up and the robbers
wadng through pond to prevent themselves from
being tracked, took the pouches to stable in the
rear Of Rum Row, where the letters were sorteC
out. Downs has been detained in custody.
| The raed letters scattered in 4 Clump c
bushes adjacent, on Remembers farm, where the
were discovered on Sunday morning.
| The prisoners made no defence. They wer
silent as to the robbery this morning. The none
they obtained is supposed to have been buried, AM
it was thought that it would be recovered. Phil
| adelphia Evening Bulletin, 18th.