Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-10
A GREENEvILLE SENSATION.
Revelations of a Crank Concerning the
Recent Safe Robbery.

Four Parties Arrested, Tried and Ae-
quilted,
The Greeneville Herald, of Thursday,
gives publicity to a decidedly sensational
discovery made in that town Monday morn
ing, to the effect that one Humbard had
peached on the parties who burglarized the
safe of the county trustee of Greene County,
last October and robbed it of about ST, 600
The story is as follows:
Napoleon Bonapart Hubbard appeared be-
fore Esquire G. H. Shown, at Rheatown, on
Thursday last, and made his statement
charging that Peter Chambers, Henry Nc
Cracker, William Morgan, John Carter,
John Chambers and Andrew Chambers
robbed the trustees safe.
Hubbard begins in 1878, with his recital,
and says that John and Peter Chambers
murdered old man Irwin, of this place.
They then fed to Missouri, where they
committed another murder and obtained only
Sl2 by it. They then went to Kentucky,
and there, by getting a clerk intoxicated,
took the key of the store of which he had
charge, broke open and robbed the safe of
$500. They remained there unsupported
while the clerk was sent to the penitentiary,
for long term, for having robbed the
safe
The Chambers beys Che continues, and
we should here say that he is only repeating
John Cham rs confession to him), then
went to Texas, where they joined the Frank
and Jesse James gang, John Chambers as
Stunning the name of John Younger. Peter
did not stay long with them, but returned to
Greene County. John followed after
while, and formed society of regulators,
but after while turned it into band of
thieves OF this band, Hubbard says he
was member, and that John Chambers
gave him the signs, grips, &c, of the James
band. Their first exploit about here, was
the robbing of NJ. Patton Reeves safe last
summer, which he details with considerable
minuteness, and says some things about the
condition of the money found in the safe
which correspond with Mr.. Reeves recol-
lection about the matter.
At or about the time of the Jonesborough
fair the plot for robbing the Trustees safe
was communicated to him by other mem
bers of the gang, by signs, and they want
ed him to forge and temper q drill from
some ax-steel which they had obtained,
which he refused to do, and they subse-
quently got Alexander Morgan (father-in-law
to Peter Chambers) to make it for them,
who incautiously said something about the
drill, and, becoming alarmed, they managed
to give him dose of paris green, from the
effects of which he died. And we may here
add the fact that Morgan died very suddenly
last January.
The statement is a very volumious one,
and it is impossible to do more here than to
indicate its nature. Hubbard is about 30
years of age and unmarried. Some regard
him as weak in mind, while others look up
on hi n az shire Gd man. The mans story
is not altogether without confirmatory cir
cumstances, but it is SO sensational and the
parties concerned are SO far removed from
the commission of such bold and heinous
crimes, that the public is almost unanimous
| ly incredulous. Peter Chambers is about
the only man of the number i'm plicated who
can be looked upon as smart enough to de-
sign such deed, ahd he is a poor man, in
dustrious and upright, according to the tes-
timony of those who know him. Nc
Cracker and Morgan are not the
kind of men who do great deeds, good or
bad. Peter Chambers, McCracken and
Morgan were arrested on Sunday; Andy and
| John Chambers are not in this part of the
country, and we understand that Carter,
y.
town and gave himself up.
The trial began Tuesday, at Rheatown,
before Justices Shoun, Phillips, Gauntt and
Gfellers.
| When arrested. the accused men quietly
submitted, and no one has made any at :
tempt to escape Their neighbors, who
know them best are indignant and ready
to sustain them by all lawful ways and
| means
The trial at Rheatown resulted, as we
have reliable information, in the acquittal
of all the parties concerned aud their hon.
orable discharge. Hubbard is doubtless
one of the numerous army of ''cranks
which are being developed all throughout
the country, and should be dealt with
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