The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-25
of the Richmond Dispatch.l

| EsTNG LETTER, &C.
| correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.l
PETERSBURG, March %, 1878.
| The community was thrown into consld-
erable excitement this afternoon by the
! arrest of four parties charged with having
committed a heavy robbery in the city OF
New York. On the second day OF January
| last the office Of Mr.. james H. Young, No.
40 Nassau street, New York, was entered,
and certificates. bonds, stocks, and securi-
ties to the amount OF two hundred thou
sand or more dollars, were stolen. After
the robbery the parties, it is alleged,
separated and fled from that city, and have
not met until within the last day or two, in
PETERSBURG The case was committed to
the Allan Pinkerton Detective Agency to
be worked up, under the promise Of lib-
eral reward il success crowned their
efforts. Every endeavor was made to trace
the guilty parties, and traces OF them were
occasionally obtained. which, followed up
by smart detectives, have resulted in the
arrest OF the alleged guilty ones.
Last week stranger arrived from the
South at Jarratt's Hotel, and registering his
name as G.. Burton, asked for good room,
stating that bis wife would join him on the
following day. On the next day woman
arrived here from the North and Joined him
as his wife. These parties renamed quiet
lv ut the hotel until last evening, when
there arrived on the southern train an
other person, who registered at the
same hotel, under the name Of Rufus
Minor: Yesterday morning George Carson
came to the city from the North, and took a
room at the BolIngbrook Hotel. On Thurs
day evening Detective James A. Gallager,
of New York, reached the city, and on yes
terday succeeded in lorating three Of the
parties above mentioned, on whom, with
the assistance OF our local police, he kept
constant watch.
This morning the detective went before
the Mayor and swore out warrant for the
arrest of all four of these persons, charging
them with the theft Of Mr.. Young's bonds
and stocks. The warrant was promptly
executed, the four prisoners being found
together in a room iE the City Hotel. They
were placed in the hotel omnibus and driven
down to the Jail in the custody Of the Of
tcers. Their names are given as follows !:
George Carson alias "Littie George"
alias j. H. Cornish.
Rufus Minor alias ssLittle Rule" alias
r. Andrews.
Horace Abrams alias Horace Hovan alias
.s Little Horace'7 alias G. Burton.
| Charlotte Doherty alias Carrie Abrams
| alias Mrs. G. Burton.
| The woman is evidently somo ten or ff-
teen years the senior of the man who claims
TO be her husband. She is intelligent but
not handsome, and is dressed in an eXtray-
agant style. Carson and Abrams are both
young and good-lookinS men, well dressed,
and seem to be Englishmen. Minor, the
eldest Of the men, has the appearance OF
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great deal about The ups and downs OF the
world.
The detective gives them all bad charac-
ter. and intimates that they are suspected
Of having been at different times engaged
IN other heavy robberies OF this kind.
at the Jail, after being searched, the par
ties were placed each in separate room,
where they will remain until Monday MORN
Ing, when they will be brought before the
Mayor for examination. 1t is understood
they have engaged eminent counsel to re-
present their interests, and that they will
make strong effort to secure their dis
charge. They will, however, have strong
counsel against them.
The Mayor this afternoon advised Cover
nor Holiday OF the arrests, and it is pre-
sumed the Governor OF New York has been
advised, in order that he may make the
necessary acquisitions.
Mr. James II. Young. OF No. 40 Nassau
street, New York, is lawyer and broker.
The bonds and securities stolen were parts
OF different estates Of which he had the
management. On the I'd Of January the
clerk Of the Office was called out to see an
invalid in carriage in the street, said in
valid being too unwell TO 60 into the office.
The clerk was detained for some time at
wit no mt
about real estate and the value Of different
securities. Meanwhile the Office was en-
tered by confederates and robbed OF the
100000 in question, and made good their
escape.
The property stolen embraces the bonds
of railroads In various portions OF the coun-
try, bank stocks, gas stocks, insurance
stocks, bonds Of several cities, &c., &c.
Among the list are twenty frst-mortgage
bonds of the James River and Kanawha Ca
nal Company for $500 each; fifty shares of
the stock OF the Tredegar Company, Of
Richmond. $500 each; and two bonds Of
the Tredegar Company, Richmond, for
81, 900 each.
Money to the amount OF about S275 was
taken from the prisoners in Jail, and an
additional sum was taken from their trunks
at the hotel. An examination of their bug
gage will be made tomorrow when the
superintendent Of The detective agency ar
riyes from New York, when it is believed
some Of the stolen property will be recov-
cred. The parties are said to be profess
sionals, and known to be such by the north
ern police and detectives.
Their movements at Jarratt's Hotel were
such last night as to excite the suspicious Of
the proprietors, who placed watch upon
them. Since their lodgment in jail they
have partially furnished their rooms, and
have ordered their meals from the restau-
rants. IS s, 81 iss
1t is estimated that fully one thousand
people have been around the Jail this after
noon seeking to get q view OF the prisoners
or to learn something as to the crime with
which they are charged. .,si
The investigation tonight resulted In the
discovery of large amount of bonds and
stocks tn the possession Of the parties ar
rested this afternoon answering TO Nos;
and description of those said to 4haye been
afninr fpofsa Mr. Young NJ 4Nayvs York 49, ks;