Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-09-23
LOCAL NEWS.

CHARGE OF HIaHwAr RoBBERr-On the
iaht Of the 18th inst Jos z. Z uisiey. late =
lieuten ant o. the 2sth Massachusetts, volunteer
regim Mt, engaged hack in front Of WillarGs'
HOTEL. and in 10 went to Madam Joe's, bstwe, q
Twelfth and Thirteenth, on ID, about half. past
tn O'Clock, where be spent . considerable sum
OF money. Lesving there, two men got in the
hack with him, and one mounted to the box
with the driver. They took him out Third
street, near Virginia avenue, although he told
them 10 drive 10 the National Hotel, where he
was staying. They stepped the coach and told
him to get out. They then knocked him down
and robbed him of $3.50 and . discharge paper
ne parties Were well known at Datch joss,
one ne;a house where he stopped first; and Lieut..
9uigiey was warned by the women that he
.ouia Dc robbed, and they refused to let him
say mere Tor fear OF q robbery.
~ J1s.eeuses Barry and Kelley were immedi-
ateiy put on the trail OF the robbers: and on the
2lst, they succeeded in arresting John Mona
mara, ALIAS Mack, who admitted that he drove
Ihe haeE, and stated that the other two men,
heuay george and man named Tom, knocked
the Lieutenant down and robbed MIN and If,
him insensible on the ground, and got in the
mack and drove away. McNamara was locked
up ior TURNER examination; and the detectives,
upon Information mat the hack owner had left
the city with two men, by way OF the Anscostia
bridge, got q carriage and followed the traiI TO
Roses Bluff, on the Potomac, where, with the
assistance Of the engineer ON the fortiflcatons
there, Mr.. John Collins, they arrested Thomas
donovan, alias Thos. Reddy, alias Tom the
Creeper. Donovan left his hack and team with
ME. WHERE Tue uumDer was changed
from 3C5 to "a, pasting the false over the gen
uine number.
Mullett was also arrested, but was subse-
quenty dismissed, there being no evidence
against him. During the absence of the detsc.
tives in pursuit Of Donovan, McNemara escaped
from the Second Ward station; the cells of
which are very insecure, the fastenings, by
constant usage, having become loose and easy
to be moved from the catches Donovan con.
fessed enough to implicate all in the robbery
Reddy George has not been arrested, but will
hardly escape. The case was heard to-day
at eleven O'Clock, before Justice Clayton.
At the hearing, Lieut. uigley swore to the
facts OF being robbed.
VIM. Mullen testified that he drove Thomas
Donovan, alias Reddy, across the Eastern
Branch and that Reddy remarked to him that
he was going away because he was afraid he
(D) would be arrested.
Louisa Stetler and Rose Sherwood, two Of
Madam JOes boarders, testified that Iieut
Quigley, accompanied by the prisoner, Red
George and John Mack, (McNamara) visited
Madam Joe's, and while there the Lieutenant
spent q great deal of money, and treated ALI
round. Louisa testified that Red George said
they were stgoing to make stake" out of the
Lieutenant, and Rose ore that Donovan 1.-THE
prisoner) took her into side room and told
her the same thing. Rose then went to Lieut.
q. and told him he had better look out for those
hackmen. as il was night, and she (Rose) tried
to persuade him to stay all night. Quigley,
however, refused, and after some parley as to
the price demanded by the ha ckman, (slU) he
paid it and asked to be taken to his hotel, and
the party then went Off
detectives Barry and Kelley testified to the
fact Of having arrested Donovan at Roses
Bluff, where he was working on the fortihca-
lions and had given his name as Thos. Raddy
At the conclusion OF the testimony, the pri-
soner desired to make a statement and after he
had been warned by Justice Clayton that he
should say nothing that would crimnate him
self. he acknowledged that he was with Lieut.
Quigley on the Sunday night referred to, and
that the hack used was his. Mack, however,
drove the hack until they left Madam Joes,
when Mcnamara got In side with the Leuten-
anti and instead Of driving to the National they
drove to Third and 6 streets south, when
Mcnamara, the lieutenant and Red George
got out and walked away, leaving him 1.-THE
prisoner) On the hack box. A few moments
afterwards Mack and Red George returned
aione, and said they had left Quigley at house
TO which they had gone, and the party then
came back 10 the city. donovan said he was
the owner of the hack, but could give no good
r. ason why he allowed NcNamara to pretend
ownership; and he was therefore committed to
Jail for court.