The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-05
Chr 5lurfolk gost.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1866.
Robbery of Safe by a Brevet BrigadieI
General.

UerdM furnishes the following addi-
tional particulars in regard to the rob
hery recently committed in Lynchburg,
Va, by Brevet Brigadier General Bris
coc, Of the 10th Pennsylvania Nolun-
:. teefs
The military authorities and citizens
here were profoundly astonished this
morning upon the announcement of the
arrest of Brevet Brigadicr General j. c..
F, Brlscoe for robbery, having been caught
in the act, and placed under arrest with
in six minutes at Lynchburg, the scene
OF the affair. General Briscoe passed
through GOrdonsyille on last evenings
train, and is now doubtless committed
to the Old Capital Prison to await trial
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On the 2lst OF the present month
man, formerly suffer OF the old TWEEN
1 ty-lourth army corps, named Lackey,
approached Captain NJ, II. Alberger,
! the Quartefmaster at Lynchburg, and
| seeking and gaiDinga confidential inter
view with him, said that all the quar-
! termastcrs were leaving the service poor.
/ and that in his case there was no need
OF his doingso. Upon inquiring how he
! was to avoid it, the sutIer told A iberger,
| who is brother of the Canal Com
missioner Of New York Of that. name,
that his safe could be robbed by
an officer Of high rank, whom he could
and would produce, and that the pro-
ceeds could be divided between the three
parties. Lackey asked Alberger how
much money there was in the safe on al
average, and was told about the sum of
sixty thousand dollars. Alherger pre-
| tended to second the plan of the sutler
| heartily, and agreed to enter into 1t with
zeal lie asked who the officer was that
would perpetrate the overt act of the
robbery, and was told that it was Gen.
eral J. G.. Briscoe, with the additional
information that the General would un
doubtedly he the president of the militia
ry commission too investigate the affair
and by this means all parties would es
cape both immediate and final detection
Captain Alberger at once laid all the
facts before the War Department, and
was duly directed to cooperate with the
! department detectives, and at the same
time lend all countenance to the opera
! tons of tho villains. Briscoe was to rob
the safe ut six O'Clock last night by
means of false keys, which Iackey, the
! incrimnated suffer, had caused to be
made in Philadelphia but the sudden
arrival of General George s. Dodge il
Lynchhurg, upon his tour OF inspection
of the QuaFtermaster's Department, lie
termined the guilty parties to expedit
their movements. Accordingly at ON
O'Clock yesterday afternoon Brisco
entered the room containing the safe
and by means of the false keys, felo
nolsiy distracted therefrom the pack
ages containing the funds, which subse
quently proved to be guy money, com
posed of Confederate notes to the amour
of some forty thousand dollars-savt
some three thousand dollars in gold be
longing 10 The civil fund of Major Gene
raj \. NJ. Curtis, commanding the dis
trict. 'Briscoe, whose movements Were
being duly watched, bore the package;
containing the money TO his room in al
adjacent part of the same building; i'm
mediately after which he was +'-eped
upon the shoulder by General Curtis
who said TO him: "General Brscoe,
place YOU under arrest, and turn Nuu
over to an officer for search and safe
keeping. which act will disclose to yor
the reason of the arrest" General Cur
It's, much exercised with emotion, there.
upon left the room, but afterwards had {
short open interview with the accused
who desired to state in full his version
of the melancholy transaction. Gene
raj Curtis declined this, and directed
that the guilty parties should at once be
sent under guard and in irons TO Wash
ngton, where they arrived this morn
ing. Lackey, the unprincipled sutler
and camp-toilower, was not present in
LynchbIlrg ON the immediate occasion
Of the robbery, but was arrested on his
way 10 the town from the North, where
he had been to procure additional faeili-
ties with which to make the undertake
ing sure thing.
ANTECEDENTs oF GENERAL BRisCoF.
General Briscoe is an Irishman by
birth, and a graduate of Trinity College,
Dublin. He entered the war early in
1861 as a private soldier in the Foftieth
New York Volunteers, and rose by
merit rs a soldier alone to the exalted
rank from which he has Just now 50
ruthlessly and ignobly descended. He
was Colonel of the One Hundred and
Ninety ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers,
which was mustered out OF this depart
ment some weeks since, General Bfis-
coe having seven days leave of absence
in which TO accompany the command
home and participate in the ovations
rendered to II. He was afterwards made
Colonel of another regiment, and as
signed to duty in accordance with hi:
brevet rank. In appearance the accused
is tall and slim, not of a really bad cas-
of countenance, and deports himsel
with great soldierly bearing. | knew
him we'll in the old army of the James
where he was famous for his skill, dar.
ing and bravery az an officer, and the
scattered members of which will deeply
deplore his sudden fall from a dazzling
position, won after four years of unre-
hitting toll and gallantry.
GENERAL DEisroE TO BE TRIED b MILITARi
COMMISSION TO-DAY
WASHINGTON, oct. 2 1865.
The I.ynchburg safe robbing case vii
come up before the military commission
of which General Green is Presden
Tomorrow. The evidence against Bris
coe ia of course conclusive; yet he ha
been studying q copy of the charges to
day with view TO stubborn defence
An error in the dispatch yesterday 10
Gated him in the One Hundred an
Ninth PENNSYLVANIA Volunteers, II
WAS brevetei from the One Hundre
and Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania,
. The distinguished party of English NJ
bles and gentry who are in New York |
r inspect American railways and examir
into the condition of Wall street, al
i advised not to inspect our railways te
IF closely if they value their lives, aud
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