The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-05-08
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Inc New Haven papers, ,commen ting on the con.
nction OF Tuckerman for robbing the mails. and
his sentence TO q years imprisonment, give some
OF the testimony ELECTED on the trial. They say
~ mas been strange and unaccountabte proce.
dure from the beginning, on his part Ii Is sun
posed that he has taken all of the t3 missing mails
lie did not, however. destroy all that he took rro
them, but has retained documents. book. daouar
reotypes &c. which have served TO convict him
hsd large number of daguerreotypes. several Con
gressionai documents, deeds of land aud legal ns.
pers, love letters-safeiy preserved ~
HIS mode Of operation was, to engage roons 40
different hotels, and there leave what he did NO,
wish to retain. On the night of the arrest he /,
engaged room adjoining his family room NJ the
Florence Hotel. lie gave directions that If An
ohe c@'ed ior MN 10 have them sent to his family
room, and not to the one especially engaged foy
the night. IL is ascertained that the eutire Cnba
mail for Portland on the 2lst OF Nov was burnad
probably at Boston. Five hundred foreign letters
iouhu ia trunk AT the Florence Hotel we're for.
warded TO their destination soon after his arr.s,
He had accumulated about thirty-Hye bnnsra5
dollars worth OF postage stamps 1t is NOT sun.
posed that he obtained much money Fifty dolIsrs
IA counterfeit bills were found on his person A
large amount of drafts were DESTROYED bv him as
u would be running too much risk to negotiata
them
IL is singular that he should have kent a memo-
randum OF the profit and loss attending each dc
probation; but under da.e of Nov. 2lst in A not g
=
That night no took six fifty dollar bills ON tho
hensington Bank, from letter sent by Mr. Hind.
ley, OF Iarrytown, 10 Portland. The entry charges
himself with three hundred and ninety dolIars
and credit is given of the less amount by dis
count oi money, which probably was done at a
brokers'.
Tho memorandum has other similar items. while
other things have enabled the efficient District
Attorney to trace him with as much certainty as
II he had followed his footsteps in newly fallen
snow. There are items showing the purchase of
window weights at different times, which were
used to ballast his empty trunk to eude suspicion
and which also sent the canvas bags to the bottom
OF the East r'yer-dropped into the water from
the Brooklyn ferry boats.
| learn from reliable source that Mrs Tucker.
man is supposed 10 be innocent of all completely
with him; she probably knew nothing Of his pro
eeediDgs until after his arrest. She has exhibited
a tender devotion to him, but bears in her counte
nance signs of sorrow which touch with pity all
who behold her
Perhaps it may not be out of place here to give
a word of advice to a certain class of persons in
the community-ladies and gentlemen who have
dmouFS not authorized by the parson-that if they
DO not want 10 have their tender sentiments ex-
posed, they will do well not to put them into the
malbsgs. If all the letters in the thirteen miss
ing mails were printed certain persons in certain
localities undoubtedly would hardly fail to change
color in presence of their friends.
But enough. On Tuesday next the poor man
who has recklessly wasted his great opportunities
will be taken to his prison hoGse. He has iust
reached the halfway house of life, for he is in his
thrty-ifth year, while three score aud ten is the
sum Of lifetime. He has slid with almost un-
paralleled rapdty from post of honor, RESPONSE
bilisy and influence to meet the just reward of his
deserts. 1t is sad sight and a solemn lesson
Thus retributon sooner or later follow all viola
tors of law,