Arrest of Man for Robbing the U. S. mail

 

The Mobile Ledger announces arrest of a man named Benj. Whitney, on a charge of robbing the U. S. Mail and killing the driver on the 18th Jan. 1838, near Stockton, Alabama. It was alson known that several were engaged in the murder, and one man named Larkin was arrested, tried and hanged.

All efforts to discover the other have proved ineffectual up to this time, when from circumstances, the marshal was induced to arrest Whitney. At the time of the arrest, the prisoner was in the service of the United States at Pensacola.

Transcribed from The Newport Mercury (Rhode Island), dated September 10, 1842

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