Massachusetts Spy And Worcester Advertiser

HARRISBURG, PENN. SEPT. 11.

ROBBERS AND MURDERERS.

We are indebted to the politeness of a friend, for being able to publish the following information, received from a gentleman of respectability residing at Big Flat, in the State of New York.

The letter from which we take our extract is dated September 1.

Last week, as one of the Tuscarora tribe of Indians, by the name of Robert Douglass, who had been in Bath jail, for passing counterfeit money, and had been bailed out, was passing a Mr. Ives, to whom he had passed the money, a fight ensued between them, when Douglass drew a dirk and stabbed Ives three times, so that he died in about ten minutes. Douglass fled to the woods, and immediate pursuit was made by the sheriff and his posse. During the pursuit, a cave was discovered, which contained two boxes, a bed, and chairs; a trunk was also afterwards found, which contained silks, seven watches, and 352 dollars counterfeit money. The sheriff, after this, proceeded to search the house of a man by the name of Maybury, where he found 51 watches hid under a floor; a bloody shirt was found up stairs, concealed among some dried pumpkins; two cravats were also found concealed in an under-bed, one of which was cut in two or three places, but in such a manner that when the cravat was folded up, it made but one cut. A silver watch was also found, marked with the same letters as the shirt and cravats. The day after this, the search being continued, $1000 dollars of good money were found concealed behind Maybury's chimney, and subsequently another chest was discovered, containing valuable silks and other goods to the amount, as is supposed, of six hundred dollars.

The following persons have been committed to jail: Maybury's family, Wm. B. Jones, Griffin Jones, James Jones, a man by the name of Wallace, another by the name of Hathaway, and two by the name of Cole.