Constitutional Whig

From the Cincinnati Chronicle, 10th inst.

MAIL ROBBERY.

For some time past several failures have occurred in the safe arrival of letters and remittances of money, sent by mail, between Springfield, Clark county, and this city, and also from Post Offices connected with that route. These failures occurred about the period when the epidemic made its appearance, which for a time delayed the prosecution of measures calculated to detect the offender.

Steps were taken, however, to give the Postmasters and their clerks, and the stage drivers, a knowledge of what was going on. To detect the offender, it became important to ascertain what bank notes had been mailed at Springfield, and if found in circulation to trace them back to the purloiner.

Our Postmaster, Judge Burke, assisted by Mr. Burrows, who had lost money, commenced the investigation. It was soon ascertained, that a one hundred dollar Richmond Va. note, had been mailed for Cincinnati, by Mr. Bancroft, at Springfield, about the 25th of September last. On the 6th of October, the same note was offered in this city, and taken in payment for goods by C. Macalister & Co.

This house had endorsed the name of the individual from whom they received it, Thornton S. Carnell, Postmaster at Sharonville, (15 miles north of this place,) on the back of the note.

A few days since, the Assistant Postmaster, in our Office, Mr. E. P. Langdon, accompanied by Counsel J. Starr, Esqr., and Mr. A. Morgan, agent for the stage proprietors, proceeded to Sharonville, to look more particularly into the conduct of Mr. Carnell. The result was the arrest of this individual, and an examination which left little doubt of his guilt. Being unable to find bail, Mr. Carnell has been committed to prison at Columbus, to await his trial in December next.

These are briefly the facts in the case, so far as we have learned them. The vigilance and success of Messrs. Burke and Langdon, in cases of this kind, is creditable to them as public officers.