The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-09-15
Examination OF G en-. q. fiiatoe, OF Ohio. for
Robbing the Mall.

FROM the Cl-v-la nd (0hio) Herald. Sept IL !
brought Into the Court House fo- a preliminary
examination before Mr. u q Commissioner Stetson. On
charge OF robbng the United States mall. Thu room
was excessively crowded and . great anxioty mani.
Tested TO catch glimp,e OF a man who had 50 sud
denly fallen from houorsble position In society The
prisoner looks usually hale and hearty and after the
trst embarrassment consequent upon his novel POSI-
tion psssed away, bore himself With his usual air
The Commissionr ruled that the charges need not
b fsparsted
DIN Haskell, r. NJ, called for prosecution On
Rsturdsy August 3d. became satisfied Hintsn was
about to leave Clevelsnd some nail route Lea ned
he going out In the Coun,bus cesch The repeated
failures the route had excited suspicious that in
ton had committed depredstions. Os sunday plased
in the Wooster bag O.0 package Of bank bils H.d
placed before General Hinton The fact that two pack
sges Of money we're put IN for the mail. which
TO leave on that day-onr aiarsscd to A. A.
blta, Columbuf, and one 60 q fictitious name,
ut Mount Vernon In those pae cages no partiouiar
amount was put Ip. After wss informed the money
had been shown to Hinton. made arrange mepts 10
place In Wooster beg package tanning $500 d.
then made arrangsmepts 70 ssceran 1b.SSer Il ven,
safl ~ through. mt Mr. john Wheeler TO Seville on
Saturday night to get Ia tbo coach next day q spy
10 watch the oats Of II noR followed the coach
next day hin,ef directly after dlDner; Hinton grt
into the eosch a; Cleveland; followed the coach 10
Mount Vernon; reached Mount Vernon tvo
hours after the eosch got there the 9TH Of August
the dscoy package wa addressed TO W A. Jennings
Mount vernon, CT New YORK City. Had those packages
mentioned been deposited In the post ofoe Saturday
evening they would have gone In the same coach la
which Hinton LETT
J. T. s.rsranc.. Teller Of Commercial Bank. was
eentd ent sworn-Nr. Haskell, some t~o days before
90 e Auguft requested me 20 put up package, OF
ney gsvc mt address, and directed where to phase
then % attract the ntion Of Cen Hinton when no
she cid come into tn bank 90 transact busin Al
Pscseges scro addressed as stated by HASKELL hsd tu
srcss With Hinton At the desk whore the packages lay
snd links h. cav them, but does not know pcsitvN
~ they vcre In toll visT; tiaks Con. n. told him
trs he IVES gcing 90 leave for Columbus By the woo
ter stage on Sunday AID afterwards faid be had
changed his route Gen u told be bad ehsrSrs be
plan % leaving aud in bnsts TO have hi. anorcy
Jthn Whfeler called Oct On board Of the gtaT.
coach at Seville on sunday, sth Auguft. about tina
middle ~ aiternoon psssenssrs two ladies' naa
kuvaLts. a man named hons. General Hinton and
some others Who soon left lett Wooster about o..
clock AFTER tea, 1t the rscusst Of Mr H., vent to
Moust Vernon O. watch the mail; vent by private
conveyance q Seville; before lett here. examined
specEnge q money which TO be mailed here; at
Wooster examir 81 fbs mail sni found the pac hAes;
put IN tk- Mount Vernon NAL bag there mysrlf and
locbsd the Tag; had my eye on Gen Hinton. h. vas
pointed 20 Eas susraoiei man; vstchei his,
when got to Tace eleven miles this eide u Mount
vernon Gen eot out and assisted In nnhi:chiog the
horses. ~hleh were 10 - changed tbs driver vent on
the iight ard In the rtar u The Ccssh Eat on the
coach on the left eide, the tavern Nas On my right;
hesfd no copversstion between Cen II and tho driver;
no other rastengrrs got out. thry ~ero apparently
asleep this vas about thres O'clock Nobdsy morning
We we're delayed about ten fifteen minutes; after
The diivtr lrft heard shsking on the coach. sav
msn.fhst supposed 10 he Gen Hinton, pass With a
msil teg ADD so 20 barn or ehed; gone Eve
ling u papers IN tAst distance this building pro-
badly not 10 exceed 50 90 feet from wher. the stage
stood ia. fepc@ between that building and the pub
lie house; the parson returued, stepped mp on the
whippletrees, and put the bar IN the boot got down
and went into the public house; While the horses
being hitohsd up the General came and got I'M that
perton ~ss the def ndstt uho sits at the table t'
j bad no doubt Of II at the time nor no.
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