New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-02
gqw Orleans Daily Greatent,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1865.
MATAMonos, MExrco, April %, Is

notify the reader of each change of subject by
small,cap center head 80 / begin with
THE EXPRESS ROBBERY
In brownsville. In my last. / RETAINED from Civ
ing what information | had as to the robbery, at
the request of the present officers of the Southern
Tor Iexasl Express Company who represented
Lhat the request came, also, from United States
military authority. But, since then, no new de-
Veiopments have been made, and | have found
that the request to suppress publication arose
simply from the rivalry of two sets of detective
officers, it being supposed that the new set, sent
all the way from Chicago, would find out things
not yet found out by the stationary officers at
Brownsville, who have been smelling into the rob.
berry ever since it was perpetrated. SO l now
give the points of circumstantial evidence which
pointed and still points to the Express employees
as the robbers and led to their arrest.
A young man named Miller was generally recog-
nized as being clerk in the office, though seems
he was not regularly engaged as such, but was
particular friend and assistant of the agent, Mr..
Hoyt. The day after the robbery, Mr.. Miller left
Brownsville. He afterwards left Brazos on the
steamship Crescent, and at Galveston, the news of
the robbery reaching there with him, he was ar
rested on the charge Of having lot of the stolen
money in his possession; but, with high airs and
threats of suit in heavy damages for false mpris-
onment etc. he bulied the authorities into his re-
lease, and got away for New Orleans. have
since heard that he was arrested on reaching your
city, and is to be brought back here for exanina.
ton.
The little iron safe was found in the chapparal,
at the edge of camp of U. S. coored troops,
with the door open, the lock broken, and some
5000 in greenbacks, in various sized packages.
with few dollars in gold, yet within it, 1t was
first found by negro soldier, a commissary's
sergeant, who had sense enough to Judge there
was something dangerous and suspicious in it, and
instead of beneftting himself by the discovery, at
once reported it to his white commanding officers.
Thus was foled the evident design of the robbers,
who supposed that the negroes upon finding the
safe would divide and keep the money, which,
sure to be found afterward in their possession,
would convict them of the robbery. How true is
it that 6 the best laid plans of men and mice gang
aft aglee"
The money left in the safe was found to belong
to different class of consignors from that whose
money was taken out 1t was and is believed that
no outside robbers could or would have taken the
trouble to make this discrimination.
There is full and complete mechanical evidence
that the safe was first opened with key and the
lock smashed afterwards.
On the iron door of the safe are two gashes
from an axe, The only axe, out of the many ap.
Piled, that would fit the cuts was the one belong
ing in the express office. This axe has small
dent in the blade and this dent is faithfully repre-.
scented in the cuts on the chest.
The robbery was effected through the back
door of the Office, and the door was opened by
unscrewing the lock. The screw-driver supposed
to have been used was found in the office, and be.
longed to the Office.
wooden damask table cover, stained with and
smelling of coal oil, was found not far from the
chest in the chapparal, and was identified as
belonging in the sleeping-rOOm of the express
men, back Of the Office, where it is supposed out.
side robbers would not think Of going.
The above are the chief points of material evil
dence. There are other points of verbal eyi.
dence, which I need not give. But there was
enough to justify Gen. Sheridan's officer, who
came with full discretionary power, in arresting,
as he did, Messrs. Hoyt and Baldwin I have pre-
yiOusy mentioned that Gen. Getty took the pri-
soners away from Gen. Sheridan's officer and
that the latter left without them This was upon
the representation of the new pair of policemen,
(already alluded to- who claimed to. and doubt.
less do, represent the president of the Southern
Express Company. HOyt and Baldwin are now
kept in close confinement, separately, and no one
is allowed to see them or send them anything.
believe have not hitherto mentioned that the
story of the attempt to rob one of the company's
messengers at Brazos, and pronounced by Mr..
Bemis5 the messenger in question, to be a pure
fiction, was told to me by Messrs. Hoyt and Bald.
win in their office just l was closing my letter
to send off They said it had just come by teIe-
graph. Such dispatch might have been sent, but
there was no truth in it.
THE SITUATION IN MExIGo
Is comparatively quiet and slowly improving. News
from the capital just received, represents the
whole country from that city to San Luis Potosi
clear of robbers, and things beginning to look up
cheerfuly On this border, however, things are
mixed, notwithstanding the reputed "opening of
the country" hence to Monterey by the Imperj.
alist troops. Robbers in the chapparal are as
thick as tieas in a dogkennel and nobody, and
nothing is safe outside the Notifications of Mata
moros without considerable guard of troops
Canales and his band were met and routed again,
fleeing up the river, it was reported, toward
Ell Paso The reports of these officers are gener.
ally so incorrect that do not deemi it necessary to
give all the reported particulars. Even if Canales
old run OIL up the river, the country behind him is
none the less full of bushwhackng and ambus.
cading cut-throats androbbers. Honestly believe
there never will be peace or quiet on this border
as long as the United States government permits
these outlaws to take such constant and convenient
refuge upon its soil as they do. Things do not
look at all promising along the Mexican side Of the
Rio Grande.
THE MERCHANTS OF MATAmoRos
Do pt experience the joy they anticipated upon
thef" opening of the countryn from Monterey to
this place by Gems Jeaningros and Meiia. Instead
of jingng the bright eagle dollars of the interior
and loading wagons, and being up to their ewes in
the joys of heavy export trade, thew have tboir
hands in their pockets, wear long faces and every
thing is as dull and stagnant as ever, Poss;hly
some goods may be sent up by steamer to "a.
MARCO, and wagoned thence across the conntrr
The merchants found
IT WAS ALL FUDGE
About that conduCta Of half million coming down
with Jeaningros troops and to make them feel
worse, on Thursday last they were called upon to
fork over their various assessments in
THE FORCED LOAN,
Which have previously mentioned as having been
ordered. 1t was like pulling eye-teeth, and heard
that several parties, who either wouldn't or
couldn't pay up, were sent to the calaboose. The