Phenix Gazette

From the New York Evening Post.

An Apron Thief.--Last Saturday a gentleman who was a passenger in the steamboat Constellation, from Albany to this city, was so unfortunate as to have his pantaloons stolen from under his pillow, while in his berth asleep. In one of his pockets was a wallet containing about eighty dollars in bank bills, and a draft on the American Fur Company in this city, for three thousand seven hundred and ninety-two dollars.

On Monday last he caused an advertisement to be inserted in one of the city papers, requesting the thief to return him the draft through the Post Office, addressed to S. H. Box 116, or at 140 Pearl street, at the same time telling him he might retain the money contained in the wallet.

Payment of the draft having been stopped, so that it would be of no use to the villain, he had the generosity to comply with the offer, and this morning returned it in the following letter, post marked "Catskill, June 22:".

To S. H. New York.
To the box no. 116 post office.

Sir i take the opportunity of writing these few lines by hoping you are well, as you mus think i am to.--i hav read in the paper of a advertisement which I expect you maid about your draft--now you may remember me in O. P. house--you insulted me about Gen. J. O. which i told you i wou!d have revenge and i have followed you now som time. but i thought you had some more money about you than you had, but if you had to coine to New York on a week day, i would of had even your trunk-i have pursuit closely, and you may pursue me closely as you mind-your draft vou may have, for it is now use to me, but if i would have done wright, i ought to mangle it into peces.

O remember me wen you shall see in the glow of fun a ruff on -.-T O. Pee--S-i- g -n-u-2-L-v.-draft.

The way in which the thief extracted the pantaloons from under the gentleman's head, is supposed to have been in the following manner:--

There was a space between the sacking bottom and the cord which laced it to the frame of the birth; through one of these openings the fellow who slept in the under birth must have contrived to draw the pantaloons. He was observed when he went to his bed, but was missing in the morning.

It is well known that there a set of scoundrels who are constantly passing up and down the North River in the different lines of steamboats, in the garb of gentlemen, watching every opportunity to plunder the passengers.

Such, therefore, as have money about them, should place it in the hands of the captains for safe keeping.