New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-16

| out of reach and then joined then. The million
and half of dollars We're carried out in broad day
light in their hands. in sight of Ihe crowd upon the
street, in the busiest honr of the day. 1t was
therefore the holdest robbery as well as the
greatest ever committed. Whether the hops made
the old gentleman sleepy. or the pleasant talk OF
the smart man drew his thoughts for the moment
from his dollars and his bonds--from his treasure
on EARTH that took legs to depart if not wings to
fly away, We cannot tell but this story we tell as
it was told to us, confirmed by all the circum-
stances.
The four men went on till they came to an entry
way, where they stopped and covered their noosyt
and then proceeded up town to their headqaaflefs
near the park, where the boxes were opened alu
the contents examined. Now 1t was that the row
beers were more surprised ut the amount u suell
illgotten gains than was Mr. Lord, the day fooW-
ing. when the hon merchant forgot to call on him,
at his great loss 1t was beyond all their antlclpa-
TONS and their eyes glased ana ther cnhs dropped
to ind that they were the biggest 'hieves OF the
world Here were the papers loosed from their
| confinement in stacks upon the table-national
bonds State bonds railroad bonds, private papers
and even the last will and testament OF that
venerable broker, Rutus L. Lsrd-still richer than
anv man in the State OF enthusiastically
on the verge of eternity, having passed to the last
score Of his century, who might die in an hour
with the deyisement of his vast estate unproyided
for. Some of the party were SO staggered that
they begun to ask what they should do with it. and
it was proposed to burn or sink in the harbor all
papers of little value to them difficult to dispose
Of. In their secluded quarters in the still hour of
night, they met to determin 9 their arrangements
Then it was that Jones {Brown) whose tongue
was as persuasive with his comrades as with Mr..
Lord, dissented. No, he said though the papers
might not be valuable to them, they were to that
aged broker upon whom they had drawn so largely;
and they should return to him what they could not
easily use; and when it was suggested that such a
return might lead to their detection, he took the
to perform the task and thus all the
papers were saved. The property was then d.
vided into seven parts-those who got up the case
coming in for shares-and each one had 1921. 900,
but it all remained within the control of their
leader, Jones BROWN and on his terms were
given up.
Jones Brown stopped about New York some
days after the robbery, and then came to Boston,
where he remained week, and was started for a
second visit, when he was arrested.
While here, he was perfectly at ease, appearing
to feel no apprehension for the result. The Ne 1t
time we hear from him, we hope he will be in bet
ter business. He will not probably see the inside
of prison for this, and he don't deserve it half
as much as some of the men whose names we have
suppressed. Though we know not the terms upon
which he gave up the money, they were probably
like those upon which the Concord Bank received
money. 1t is time that these compromises with
crime were stopped, and they must be, or robbery
will soon be upon par with stock gambling and
similar speculatons, and in the multiplicity of
evils there will be no safety for honest men.