Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-09-05
The Mail Robbery.

The Cleveland Plaindealer, of the oath, contains
the particulars relative to the plot laid arrest and
escape of Gen. o. Hinton, recently He was ar
rested on charge of robbing the mail of seventeen
thousand dollars:
Several large packages of money have been distracted
from the mails within few months past, and Deputy
Post Master Haskell and Government Constable Me-
Knstry, have been at work to ferret out the rogue
Hinton has been in the habit of travelling and fro in
the stages protesting always to be business for the
company, and consequently a privileged character
among the mail bags He was suspected some time
since, several robberes took place when he was
known to be aboard With an eye him, the word
passed along the line, and decoy packages, with
money marked, were dt into the mail purpose to be
stolen out. Whenever II known that the General
was about to travel, he to be accompanied
with one OF these packages in the mall II it passed on
to its destination unmolested its wrapper changed
and sent in another direction.
At last the bait took The old fellow, after smelling
round the hook awhile, swallowed it and caught
He was arrested, and large quantities of the marked
money found his person. He was examined and
bound under a Thousand dollar bond. He APP
piled to several citizens for ball. but without effect The
old Jail yawned to receive him, but the General did MT
like the accommodations He had been used to stop
ping at the best hotels and living the best they al
iorded. The company, although select, not pre-
ciscy to his They thieves and robbers on
too small scale to be respectable. He preferred the
Weddell House, and imporuning the Post Master,
permitted take up quarters there for the night and
remain in company with his keepers, privileged guest
Thus, in well-lighted, beautifully furnished at
the Wedde do we find this genteel villain ~ O'Clock
last night, his kind and obliging Government loaers
keeping vigs DER him. But where is he this morning
All, ha! Where now is this royal guest, General o.
Hinton?
1t appears that the General in
The sma hours of night"
committed breach of generous confidence" as he
had often done before He took his guard while off then
guard and vamosed through the door ,ohich left ar
quickly turning the key upon Them locking them in
Here pickle, and such rumpus followed made
night hideous. Stamping, haoong, and kicking against
the door, brought up the sleepcrs of the Wedde from
pit DOME and in dishable such ghosts said
wear. What is the matter! cried an outsider 'Open
the door!" responded the enraged Gen. Hinton has
escaped Bar the doors" FIRE." % Rouse the cyI'
But the General had taken good care of himself He
had either gone down into the underground passages
the Weddel, vanished in the moonlight. AT all
events he where be found and of his
whereabouts has been discovered.
1t is supposed however, the General has quit staging
and gone II steam boating, perhaps yawl boating
The Lake is hard by and the land of rogues lies just be
yond. The General is doubt after that Mistress the
Poet sings about:
a. Rule Britannia, Mistress of the Seas"