The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-15
An American yidoca.


One Nathan Maroney has been convicted at Mont.
gomery, Alabama, of robberies committed upon
Adams Express Company, OF which he was agent,
TO the amount OF S53 900. He planned his rogue
res so adroty and secured his spoil so successful.
y that, although suspected and discharged, it took
ten months of constant surveillance by skifn de-
tective, and most ngeniously contrived series of
plots, to get proof against him and recover the
money. The exposure so perfect that he final
y pleaded guilty, and received the sentence of ten
years Imprisonment in the Alabama Penitcntiary.
The police agent, to whom the affair was entrust-
ed, was one Allen Pinkerton, Adjective policeman
Of celebrity in Chicago. He was sent for to Mont
gomery, and had the full confidence of the compa-
ny, who, having paid the money, were extremely
anxious to punish the faithless agent, and if posi-
bic to recover the fifty thousand dollars, which
they felt convinced had not been parted with.
The rogue and his accOmplice were hunted back
wards and forwards through circuit OF thousands
of miles Of travel; every movement. from day to
day, and every night, watched and noted. Spies
were set about them in their most confidential hours
their ntimates were pressed into the service against
them; and finally detective brought into contact
with the rogue, under such circumstances as to gain
his confidence, be accepted counsellor, and
obtain actual possession of the money in trust.
Maroney stole the money from the private pouch
of the express company-ten thousand dollars at
one time, forty thousand dollars at another, and,
We believe, three thousand at another. The ten
thousand dollNs were employed in the purchase
Of cotton in south Carolina. The forty thousand
dollars package was put in box and sent by ex-
press 10 Galveston, in Texas, under q fictitious
name. II remained there till April, when it was
ordered 20 Natchez. He went to Natchez for IT,
recovered il, and secreted il in Montgomery.
Maroney had wife or rather lived with a wo-
man whom he made his wife, during these affairs
who was his confederate. She went North and
took up her residence at Jenkintown, In Pennsyl-
vania with brotber-in-law She came South, got
the money and had il buried in her brother inlaw's
cellar. All her movements, day by day, from
Montgomery TO New York, to Jenkntown, aud
while there and back again TO Montgomery and to
New York. were supervised hour by hour. Women
with whom she became acquainted were engaged
10 watch and to direct her movements as the police
agent desired.
When the evidence was strong enough Maroney
was arrested and put in the Eldridgo street jail.
fictitious arrest was made, and one of Pinkerton's
agents was placed in prison with him, and long
history i made Of the processes by which Maroney
was made to confde in this Mr.. - confessing the
robbery and where the money was, and engaged
his aid to get up defence and to dispose of the
money.
Maroney was made to believe that the money
was safely put away for him. Every hing he did
was under the advice Of his prison friend, until on
the arrival at Montgomery. whittier he was sent
under an executive requistion, to be tried on the
Indictment, he was confronted in court by his bo
som counsellor as police detective. He imme-
dately gave In and pleaded guilty.