Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1857-12-10
News Of the Week.

The Boston Correspondent of the Spring field
Republican saws; I" new humhug has been
lately started here. aud elsewhere throughout the
country. 1t is called the Sons of Malta" Men
accounted respectable, Judges and members OF
Congress are said to he members OF it. 1t is a
mere olitoa alton concern. the unhappy novice
finds gu, very speedily. He however has his ow n
turn IL, the sport when he ceases to lie a novice
and comes TO witness the initiation Of new mem
her ii is dlsreputable affair and ought to be
dlscoun'enanred One OF the papers says Col.
Fremont has joined, but this story is probably de-
signed to induce ereenhorns 10 come in
MAIL RoBpER--Thc e. S Government have sue
ceedcd in a,resting man by the name OF Tucker
man, who has been carrying on series of depreda-
tons upon the mail bags between Boston and New
York. His manner of proceeding differed at times.
Occasionally he succeeded in throwing the mails out
of the car, and then returned to them from the next
town, where he rcl them Of their contents. He
formerly treasurer of of the rail roads lead
ing out of Boston, and became deiaulter to it for
large amount.
The Boston 7farc1er of Thursday has the follow
ing:
short time since, boy who worked for Mr.
TuCkerlnan, AS oifiCe-hoy in New York, came into
the office an SAW Mir. T. 1T work with a bag He
Mr. T. took the hss; and elnptied its contents on
the floor, when the boy remarked, = You have got
a large mail, Mr.. Iuekctn,an,' to which he replied,
Yes The boy then saw him open the letters
read them, and throw them into the fire. He next
cut the bag in pieces, anb burnt that also. The
boy thought nothing of the affair until he the
account of the arrest of Tuckerman for robbng the
. mails, when he Immediately came forward and in
formed the Superintendent of the New York and
New Haven Railroad
There appears to be but little doubt of Tucker
man guilt. 1t is stated that Letters were found
upon his person on Sunday night, and that other
articles have since been found in his at the
Florence Hotel, New York, which were undouht-
eddy taken from the mail bags 1t is also said that
Iuckernian $ operations mail robbcr be
traced To the oath of October last. Several Phila-
del phia bags have from time to time been missed,
also a mail from Boston to New York and several
bags containing mails to 20 by a foreign steamer
from Boston. Tuckerman has been the trains
| when these robbcries have been committed and was
on board the Sunday night train of Nov. ODD. when
the mail from Boston to New York very lnysteri-
o,lsly disappeared
| The conductors on the line of the road to New
York, have often seen Tuckcrrnan on the cars but
were greatly deceived in the man. They first sup
posed that he was ashamed to travel in the passen-
ger cars, on account of his recent transactions as
Treasurer of the Eastern Railroad. and for this
sought the baggage car. for the purpose of Sc
Guiding himself. OF late, however, the conductors
thinking his actions very suspicious, kept pretty
good watch over his movements. One conductor, a
short time since, went into the baggage car, where
he found Tuckerman. Presently he ('ruckermanl
clappcd his hands on the trunk which he carried
with him, and, in less time than it has taken to
write THE, took therefrom small package. and put
it in his coat pocket, and shut the trunk. This
same conductor frequently saw Tuckerman in the
mail car, and on one or two occasions caught him
looking over some express packages.
| Mr.: Holbrook. the Mail Agent Superintendent
Hoy.. and other detective officers, very
busy in collecting evidence. Mr.. Helbrook has
undoubtedly, already in his possession most i'm
portar,t chain of evidence against Tuckerman:
The correspondent of the N Y. Times has had ar
interview with Tuckcrman and writes to that pape,
Is follows;