The Daily Herald

Recovery of the greater part of the money stolen from the Branch Bank of Darien at Savannah.—In the month of June last, this Bank, as our readers are already aware, was entered in the night time with false keys and robbed of nearly $100,000, in bills and specie. Shortly after the robbery, about $23,000 of the money, in bills, was found in some cotton bags on the wharf where the steamboats come in at Savannah. But though some persons were arrested on suspicion, no clue could at that time be obtained to discover who the robbers were or what disposal had been made of the remainder of the property.

In the latter end of September, a man named John Fitzgerald, came to this city from Savannah, having in his possession a sum of five or six hundred dollars, most of which was in bills for one hundred dollars each, and for getting some of those bills exchanged he paid a person in this city thirty per cent. and also evinced extreme caution in the negotiating the exchange. Jacob Hayes happening to hear of the matter, suspected that the fellow had obtained the money dishonestly, and took him into custody, and Mr. Hopson examined him so adroitly, that he elicited from him a full confession that he and others were the persons who entered the Bank at Savannah, with false keys, and robbed it of nearly $100,000. He also informed Mr. Hopson where a large portion of the money was concealed at Savannah, whither Mr. Hopson despatched two officers, Messrs. Benjamin Hayes and Huntingdon, on the 2d inst., the day after he got the information. and a letter from them arrived at the Police Office yesterday stating that they had recovered $69,000. which along with what was found in the cotton bags, makes within a few thousand dollars of the entire amount stolen.

It is worthy of remark that immediately after the Bank was robbed, Fitzgerald was arrested at Savannah on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery, and though detained two or three days in prison, nothing could be elicited to prove his guilt. Since his arrest in this city he has acknowledged that some time back, he three times entered the Butcher's and Drover's Bank of this city, by means of false keys, with intent to rob it, but was each time scared away from it before he accomplished his object, by hearing, or imagining that he heard, some person about to enter the Bank.—N. Y. Jour. of Com.