The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-07-11
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June carried mail from Bowling Green To Non.
faguea gate one mile north of Rufher (yiec -h...
met rage and We changed mails he returninv
TO the junction and / to Bowling Green rhs
mail bags were then In good order. Mr. WoedforL
was IN the stage with Page when met him He
got into my stage. On the 26th my son Ricbar I'd
drove to Junction and Page from Junction to BovI.
ing Green. On the night of the s6th Richard came
up and told Us Of the mail robbery. Page said he
knew nothing aboutit His friends persua AIDED him
George Court House, and remain on the line =
Page drove for his brother John. That njeht his
brothers paid him Sl65, and he left He did net
tell me he was going to leave the State and think
he would not have done so but for the persuasion
of others. My wife was sick at the time and we
were all excited. II had been in my right ele.
ment he should not have gone. Idon't know where
he is at this time. DR.. McKenney has received
letter from him, and has gone after him. The sta
ole in which the letters were found belongs to the
railroad company. The key TO the door is kept by
aservant Pages friends tried to get him back
before Wingfeld was arrested
ID. T. Bibb. sworn-I live near the Junction :
was there on 25th of June, when Page Ennis came
Ion remember seeing Wfngfield, the prisoner
oeverai OF us were playing "crack loo" at the
time and Page Immediately Joined US and contin.
ued 10 play till the cars were ready to start for
tEImond, th;,il when he got on them and left Don
came to Richmond that day on the Central cara
l dd not see Page till he came in with the NAIL
he generally leaves his horses and stage at the
,aoie and brings the bag to the office in his hand
Iue Iosl olhce Is IN one corner of the room in
winch we were playing. After Walstrum left for
Richmond saw Wingfeld. Page did not appear
excited and had no bundle of any kind that saw
Rufus Hackett, sworn.-I live at the Junction.
and rode in the stage, with Page from nv mothers
gate, in Caroline, to the Junction a distance of
three miles, When we got to the last eate .hout
three hundred yards from the post Office cot ont
and opened it l asked him if he intended 70
drive to the Office He said no, he wsuId on hv
the stable and put the horses away. He then
handed me three letters given him by Mr.. Fox's
school boy, and told me to have them mailed which
did, giving them to the prisoner In fifteen or
twenty minutes after, Page came in with the mail
bag. l rode on the same seat with Page, but saw
no bundle He did not seem confused. His man.
ners were as usual Page had no other passenger
when got into the stage, about seven miles north
of Moncures gate. His horses did not seem iaded.
Page generally drove to stable and carried the
mail bag TO the office in his hands. Mr.. Mallory
told me of the robbery on the Goth June
Randolph Peyton identified letter found in the
stable, which was written by him to a friend in
Baltimore.
>. T. Reamy, Postmaster at Stony Hill, recog.
nized a communication written by DR.. Battaile for
the StethoScOpe and mailed at his office which
was found in the stable at the Junction
VIM. w. Mallory lives one mile and a half South
of the Junction Was not at the junction on 25th
On Goth his son and Mr. Tally came down to con.
suit him about the letters Being a magistrate, he
felt 1t his duty to 60 up and make investigation
He expected Page Ennis to return to the Junction
that day, but as he did not come, he went to the
stable and examined the bundle of letters which
were deposited in the feed box. Two bundles
We're produced-ohe containing the letters wrap
ped in the Daily Dispatch of the 2jth June and
the other q pair of shoes and two blocks of rib
bons, on one of which was the name of Page En-
mis-. The negro hostler said the bundles had been
given him by Page to take care of. Walsrum and
Richard Ennis were present when we examined
the bundles. Richard seemed deeply grieved
proposed to Walstrum to take the letters-he de-
clined doing so, and kept them. told Richard
Ennis he had better go to Bowling Green and
bring his father and Page. He promised to do SO,
and left. The next morning returned and saw
Richard He said bis father and brother would be
down on next tran-that his mother was very
sick, and if his father could not come. John would
John Ennis did come, and said his father wor Id be
down if be could leave bis mother There is but one
subscriber to the Daily Dispatch at the Junction
though number of them are sold there every
morning. Have seen Page reading the Dispatch
frequently.
Joseph r. Mallory, sworn-I am agent for the Cen
trail Company and live at the Junction, within 400
yards Of the post Office. On the 24th, asked Page
Ennis to get me some powder, shot and caps at Ru
tber Glen, and he promised to do He boarded
with me. On his return Thursday, he told me he
had not made my purchases, but would do the next
day, 25th. When he came next day, was engaged
in playing "crack loo" and forgot to ASH him about
the powder and shot l went to dinner about two
o'clock, and return, called Peter the negro boy
who attended the stage horses and told him to go to
the house and weed some corn. As got to
the junction. l remembered the powder and shot
and asked Wingfeld if Ennis had left q bundle for
me. He searched, but could fad none / called Pc
ter back told him to see if bundle had been left in
the stage and if so, carry it homo Peter carried
bundle to nay wife, which, opening, she found to
contain letters pair of shoes, and blocks of rib
bon. She put the bundle away until O'clock, at
l. ~ Akl,a.
As saw the letters sent for Mr.. TalIey. my
neighbor After looking at them concluded the best
plan would be to make the boy put them where | .
got them, which did. The next morning, in COM
pany with MIR. Talley, went to the stable and ex.
amin ed the bundle minutely than before. After
this told the negro boy, Peter, to lock the door of
that whichi usually kept lover the door, that
no one could find it then went to breakfast, and
on way to the Junction. told Page would ride
with him down. We went to the stable, hitched the
horses, and when ready to start saw him feel over
the door for the key and hen said Peter had it. AT
ter looking around, he discovered the whip in the
sta ge, and said, ''Ah here it is" When we got to
the Junction, he told to tell Peter he wanted the
key the feed house; but l. OF course, did not tell
him. as l had sent him out of the way. The letters
were in the Dispatch of the 18th told Richard En-.
mis- about the discovery Of the Letters, and wanted
him to see them examined. He appeared much dis
tressed Page returned from Richmond that ght.
Messrs. g. w Cosby and +. d. Tally were with the
Messrs Mallory when the letters were examined
T.B Bigger had heard of the loss of three letters
that ought to have to the Junction and thence
to Richmond, one OF which contained $55.
Walter g. Hudgin lives near Bowling Green
card of the robbery the night of the 18th. Have
not seen Page Ennis since. Went to Junction next
day with Dr. McKenney. Heard Walstrum say all
he knew he had the bundle at the stable the
2Gth asked him If all the letters ware in one bum
die. He turned off very Indignantly and said he
would answer NO other questions-hs did not intend
to commit himself, or give any clue or hiches -
When examined in court he would tell the whole
truth. In the conversation he said Page Ennis was
yar foolish for remaining at Bowling Grce1 and ii