New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-21

a PASSENGER ROBBED OF SEVEN THOUSAND DOL
LARS, Worth OF PROPERTY.

FROM the New Times II
Among the passengers by the ship Robert Peel,
which arrived at this port from Liverpool on the
8th instant, was German named Carl Yrafsmer
With view probably u Speculation, he purchased
before he left his fatherand gold watch set with
diamonds, which cost hin $1,000; sixteen sets Of
surgical instruments, worth $500; eight suits of
clothes, valued at $500; five gold rings worth s10O:
four dozen dress shirts that cost $50; two
dozen Of the same, valued at S45I aalper watch
worth $50; foEr dozen pairs cotton socks, valued
at $50; one dozen pair draw 5rs, worth s25: one Z
dozen undershrt5 that cost $2j. and four dozen
pairs wooden socks, worth so. He then eonvertgd Z
some of his money into English soveref9ns and
half-soVereigns to the amoaut of about $3.50 in
value, and invested the Balance Of his funds in
United States demand notes, as folloEs: Five Of
the value OF Sl0p each, and sl74 of the value Of
$50 each. He was thus worth in round numbers
about s7d60-for these items embraced all that he
was worth in the world. He then procured A.
large chest, and locking all his treasures securely
therein, he had it conveyed to the vessel and
locked in his staterQom.
All went well foba WHILE But, unfortunately
for him. he was too commune atfve, and told some
one of the precious charge he had so securely
lockedup in the box in his room.
ON the night OF the Sd of September he was
awakened, he said, by the nose Of some one
attempting to force the door of his state-reonl.
He listened, and was soon satisfied that some
party was endeavoFing to etfeetan entrance. just
as he wasreVolving in his mind, and asking hipn-3
self what was best to do, the door yielded from
the pressure without, and five individuals entered.
| The mcah was shining very brightly at the time,
and he was enabled BY its reflection to discover
| that the burglars were seamen attached to the
vessel. In the presence of such odds. he said he
| concluded that it would be well to lie still and
especially as he heard one of them suggesting the
il proprlety OF throwing him overheard If he made
any noise or gave any alarm. While one Of them
kept watch over him as he fegned Sleep the
other four deliberately carried the chest out Of the
room. s4taG#g5T IA -E@
After his guard had left him, Mr.. Yraismer arose
and to the door, just in time to see the thieves
II nj hv her
did not alarm the officer watch at this time il
not explained; hut for some reason probabIyf for
fear of the thieves being reyenged on him If he
| did so, he retired again TO his bed. and awaited
the coming Of day. A little after daYlightas the
passengers began to leave their rooms and gather
upon the deck, he yentGfed out and inf otned the
captain of the daring transaction committed by
his men. The captain ordered a thorough search
to be made in every part of the vessel which was
Immediately done, but no clue could be obtained
TO the missing property, and each ot the parties
4 accused by Mr.. Vraismer denied having had any
thing to do with the robbery. sa 81 gls
/ Here the matter dropped for the time being.
On Friday last the ship arrived in HeR3Y ORR, and
the owner Of the stolen goods and moneys re-
solved to spot !" his men, confident that he could
| trap tlIem t.as
| on Saturday three of them went into store in
South street, where general ship-stores sold,
| and stada long time-a sufficiently long time to
arouse Mr.. Yraisrners suspicious that they were
there upon some business c0nnected5Tith the dis
posal OF his property, He therefore procured the
services Of the police and arrested the three men
just as thay leaving the place. Their names
4 are Henry Jones, Edward Pelham and Benz CHM.
| tthe latter is colored.1e Upon being searched,
nothing was found upon them that Eolld tend to
fasten the robbery upon them but Mr.. Vraismer
Il swears positively that they are three of the five
men who came into his room on the night of the
third. The other two have left for parts unknown,
and have, no doubt, the bulk of the property with
them. The party probably took the goods and
the money ont of the chest, andI then threw the
chest overheard, dividing the spoils and setretng
them where no one but themselves could find
| them. f nose s4s
i The prisoners were conveyed before Alderman
Reilly at the Essex Market police court, where
they were committed for trial without bail.