The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-24

great many other things to no purpose. In
the meantime Mrs. Hackney wss put in
dursncs under guard and questioned, and
Duffy were dispatched: by Col. Kisr-
stsd 10 Locklsad after Briggs. The
result of their expedition is given below.
About 0 O'Clock Yesterday evening Capt.
Welsh Obtained private information 10 the
effect that q colOred man named Briggs, who
rents room over Badderack's confectionery,
at the corner OF Harrison street and Broad
way, knsw something a. TO the whereabouts
of the stolen money. Officer Quincy and
Capt. Welsh than took the train to Lock
land, and, n good luck would have il, found
Briggs at homs. Briggs at first denied
knowing anything as to the whereabouts OF
the money, and ironically bado the officers
search the premises, which they did. The
yard was dug up, the cellar thoroughly
searched, and everything in the
house turned topsy-turvy; but no
money was found. Then Welsh
told Briggs that he must consider
himself under arrest. A barouche was pro-
cured, and the two officers drove off toward
the city with their prisoner. On getting to
Carthage, however, Briggs begun to weaken,
and informed the officers that the money
might be found somewhere on the College
Hill pike, promising to show them the spot
on certain conditions. He was questioned
and cross-questioned as to how he came by
this information, and finally acknowledged
that he had hidden the money there himself.
1t had been placed in his room, he said, one
day while he was absent, in a small basket.
He had found this basket und his bed, full
of money, but had no idea as to who put it
there, and fearing some ~"dodge" had k
it out, put it in a Tin bucket n
hidden it in a hollow on the pike.
The officers on reaching the pike drove up
the road for about a mile and a half, until
they came to a small frame house on the
right. Here Briggs babe them stop. The
horse was hitched to a tree, and the Occu-
pants of the barouche dismounted. Briggs
led them in a circuitOus direction up a hill
behind the house for about half a mile,
when they arrived at a small hollow, dotted
thickly with rotting stumps OF trees. Briggs
then told them that the money was hidden
in one of the stumps, but which one he
could not point out in the dark. 1t was then
about IL 80 o'clock. The officers searched
for a long time, but finally found the tin
bucket containing the money
SLOWED AWAY IN A HOLLOW STUMP.
1t was a common tin dinner bucket. The
officers Immediately drove for the Ham
mond street station house, which they
reached about l o'clock, taking Briggs with
them. The money was counted up stairs,
and was found to amount only to $40, 1854.
Abraham Monroe has opened out good. He
says hat all three were equal confederates
in the robbery. He had employed Hackney
to work the job with him, and to get another
man to go. He had never seen Black until
be saw him enter the express Office with
Hackney last Sunday. He says that they
were 10 meet in st. Louis as soon as the ex-
element about the matter died out, divide
the money, and go from there to Oregon. He
says hat the very same game with the trunk
was tried the Sunday previous, but the trunk
| came out empty because the German porter
was in and they could not work the game
with him. Monroe is from Madison. Ind,
and since his discharge from the American
office he has been with a relative travelling
in the show business through Illinois. Mon
roe, on Sunday night, deliberately took the
l., G. 81 l.. train at the Plum street depot
and went on. In delivering the money over
to Hackney and Black, Monroe said he did
not want to 'be caught with big money on
him." He says he has been two or
three months working this plan up.
Three expeditions were made yesterday
after the afe-the first by Meade, Amp
thauer and Julian, of Cleveland; the second
by Sloan, Bates and a representative of the
American Express Company; the third by
Lew Vein, Ampthauer, Black, Blacks
father and Capt. baylor. The second expe-
dition recovered the trunk and safe buried
together. and returned the safe to Frank
Clark's house in Newport. where it was de-
posted. At half past 2 O'Clock this morn
ing, Officers Lippencott, Wappenstein and
Gleason arrested VIM. Hackney, the brother
of Z. J.. Hackney, on suspicion of compile
ity in the safe robbery, and locked him up
in the Hammond street station house.