The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-26

When Tom Mccormick, the last OF the
Suffolk burglars, was acquitted last week he
was so overcome by the verdict that II C
thanked the Jury most cordially, and sank
back in his chair. the Herald says, Us weak
rs kitten. His trial cost him cool thou
sand in fees, and it required all the elo-
Guence and skill OF two Of Virsina's able
lawyers to induce an Isle Of Wight jury
to believe he was innocent. He fastened
Immediate upon his acquittal to "carry the
news to Mary" who was urged to kiss Mr..
Wise for getting him off. The freight
train on the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
railroad arrived Just then for Petersburg.
Tom Mccormick and lady left on that train.
The following is given by the Herald as :
M'coRNIcK's CONFESSION.
As the people of Nansemond have been
so anxious to know who we were, where
we came from. and what we came here to
do,-now that I am cleared, and you are
fully persuaded that I was not one OF the
party-I will tell you. ] have not been ut
! this business long; in fact, was once
wealthy, and lived like Il gentleman. Ny
| first trouble was killing IL man in gam
| bling saloon. This caused me to run
away and also to spend all my money,
and then / fell in with Big Frank
and turned out q regular "crack."
We-that is, Frank, Gus. Fisher, myself,
and another man who hasn't been nearer
Suffolk than Stevens woods-robbed q
went to Norfolk and determined to make q
raid upon the two banks in Suffolk. We
hired q horse and wagon for seven days. do
hosting their value as security, and took
the road I'D by Bowers's Hill towards SUI
folk. We camDed down at mill below
Darden's woods one night, and Frank and
myself came up to Suffolk to reconnoitre.
we ascertained that one OF the banks had
Herring's safc-a first-rate article-and that
the other kept its money in private safe,
not in the Westinghouse. We took dinner
at the Exchange Hotel, as that young
FELLOW WHO WAS so SCARED
when on the witness stand testified, and the
lady of the house hasn't got her money for
that dinner yet. hope she is a patient,
| Christian woman. 49, "
We went back to camp, moved into the
Dardcn woods, and fixed our: camp. Here
we found the pedlers that you had in limbo;
we asked them what they were after, ana
| they asked us what we were after, and final
Nv we concluded that they were no better
than we were, and so we told them our
game, and offered to take them in as accom-
plices; they readily agreed. ,.. -. .
Thursday night, May 25tb, was the time
we set to do the work. We took q part OF
our tools to Suffolk, leaving one OF our men
| and the pedlers in camp. We found the
Masons carrying on that night, and we
waited and waited until after midnight Tor
them to get quiet; but when we thought
they had shut up to 60 home we followed
and found that they went down to the fat
hote.keeper's to get supper; so We con-
Guided to give it up until the next night.
We didn't care to lug the tools back to
camp, so Frank hid them under the freight
ho,,se at the depot. We lay in the woods
ali day Friday, and Friday night VIC set out
again. We sent the pediers up to old man
Lassiter's to stay all night. intending to
-.-....- GIVE THEM THE SLIP ~
and cut them out in division. We left one
man in camp with the horse and wagon,
and Frank, Gus, and myself came, up to
Suffolk. We watched around the. depot
until things got quiet; saw two men that
we took to be tramps 60 into boS-car, as
we thought to sleep; saw Channel creep
under the freight-house, and thought he
was also a tramp going to bed; waited long
enough for him to get to sleep, and then
Frank went to the house, intending il he
was sleep not to trouble. him, but il awake
to arrest, gag him, and take him TO
the rayine and tie him to a, tree
until we got through. He struck the
match to see if CHANNEL was awake, and he
found out that he was. Frank said the ball
grazed his head and the powder burnt his
face-he tumbled backward to pretend that
he was desperately wounded, and thus keep
off another shot, and then he rose, anqsswe
legged it. We didn't want to kill anybody
then, because we knew that we were found
out, and that If we killed any one and were
then caught we would be swung up. Frank
could have killed CHANNEL under the house,
and we could have killed or wounded the
men who chased us, but we were AFRAID TO
do this-we fired to brighten them Off.
~ CHOPPER SHOT AT Me
and Frank down the railroad, but we don't
know the other fellow he saw. Your SUI
folk policemen, take them altogether, are
not the best shots ever met with.
Gus. Fisher hasn't got the wind OF q cat,
but he's the best .ffopener" OF the party.
When 1t came to running Gus. wasn't there,
he had to cave, and so we left him. Frank
and I lay in the woods this side Of camp all.
next day, and when we didn't get back.on-
time our man hitched up the horse and
went back TO Norfolk. He returned the
horse, got his money, and went to Rich
mond; hewas the unknown man that walk
ed into Mr. Wise's Office and employed him
TO come down lsrc..tl /! .s,s s., ssit,
The sconts from Suffolk passed within fif-
teen yards OF us on Saturday. we changed