Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-12-07

! IHE NAIL RoBBERIEs BY EUCKERMAN.-The
| New York Times, commenting on some speoula-
tions of the Daily AdUertjser, relative to these
| robberies, says:
''His manner Of robbng the mails was so much
like that adopted BY the miscreants who commit
ted the great bullion robbery on the Brighton
Railroad in England, few years SINCE that we
think he must have formed his plans after read
ing the account of that transaction, which was
published in our papers. The man not only fell
before the first temptation, but he seized upon
the first opportunity that was offered to rob and
after having been detected in his first great crime
he deliberately plans another more base than the
first. His father died absolutely of a broken
heart soon after his SINS shame became known
and with this terrible fact in his mind he plunged
deeper and deeper into vice. He might have
committed almost any other kind of robbery,
and have reconciled the deed to his conscience on
the score Of his necessities but as an intelligent
and educated man Of business, he knew the enor.
nifty of his guilt, and the incalculable harm he
must intiict upon others by destroying the letters
whose contents he purloined He knew very
well when he was destroying the letters he had
stolen, that he was causing all manner of griefs,
OF disappointments, of confusion in business, of
estrangement of friendships, that ne was depriy-
ing mothers and wives of the consolation Of anx.
iously anticipated letters, and inicting irrepara-
Die damage. Yet he remol selessly did all these
things for the paltry gains which he was not ab-
soluiely in need of.
The man must be, and must always have been,
a remorseless and heartless thief Yet the Dahl
AdOeylSer thinks his last act must have been the
last Of a series which had its commencement in
some great temptations acting upon a character
weak, perhaps but not bad But this is a perni-
clous sentiment to utter over such base miscre-
ant. A man who had even a spark of manly
honesty in his breast could never have fallen to
such 6aseness, or committed such atrocities.
rha NJ.
York Times, under date of Thursday writes as
follows
To-day, by favor of the officials was permit
ted to see Tuckerman He was brought from his
cell to the jailor's office, "a business looking
apartment, with handsome parlor on one side.
and an unpleasant vista of ugly grating and iron
doors on the other, where he was accom- modated
with chair behind the counter and entered into
conversation with Mr.. Holbrook the mail agent,
who accomplished his arrest, and Mr.. Shipman
the courteous and efficient District Attorney of
Connecticut who conducts the prosecution on
behalf of the federal government. Tuckerman's
appearance is the last in the world to excite sus.
picion. The contour of his face forcibly remind
ed me of Wendell Phillips, though he is some
what coarser-Tisaged. He has the same fair com
plexion, however the same sandy hair, the same
softened expression Of feature, and appears TO be
about the same age. His hair was closely cut
and his beard of several days growth He was
nervous, detected, and fearful. One could hardly
imagine creature more haggard audi care worn.
l asked him about missing two. thousand dollar
note, drawn New York bank by Boston
firm, and forwarded by mail on Sunday night
week. but he vehemently denied all knowledge Of
it. 4 declare, gentlemen said he, with a nery-
GUS tremor, L know nothing about it, and he
wiped the gathering tears from his eyes. He new
er spoke save when addressed l asked him
whether his family had visited him lately He
replied in the affirmative, aud wept again. was
glad to leave him. His guilt is beyond doubt,
and his conviction almost equally certain What
moral his career affords"