Richmond Enquirer

Baltimore, October 21.—Mr. Hyde, whose trunk was recently stolen from the Northern Stage, near Richmond, returned to this city on Saturday. He informs us that he has recovered of the $28,880, all but $255, which it is supposed the robber, (a colored slave, named Lewis Miner,) who has as yet eluded the efforts to apprehend him, has upon his person. $12,370 of the amount was picked up by a man named Yarrington, a carpenter, in an open field, about a quarter of a mile from Richmond, contained in a package in the same state in which it was lost, who nobly returned the same promptly to Mr. H. During the afternoon of Thursday a lad named Charles Purcell, employed in the Lottery Office of Mr. G. H. Tompkins, called upon Mr. Hyde, and stated that a colored man had offered a $50 note in payment for tickets, believing it to be a 5 note. This led to a suspicion of his being concerned in the robbery, and an inquiry as to his name and residence, when it was ascertained his name was Mina, and that he lived with his mother on Shockoe Hill, and was a slave of Doctor Briggs. This house was selected as the first to be searched, and nearly all the contents of both trunks were found upon the premises. The clothing was secreted in all parts of the house and yard. Nearly the whole yard was dug up to the depth of two feet, and money to the amount of $16,005, was found buried in a small trunk which belonged to one of the ladies owning the other lost trunk, and had contained her jewelry, &c. Much of the clothing of the ladies, and of Mr. H., was also found buried there. $205 of the money was found concealed in a razor box in the garret. The mother of Mina, the only person in the house when Messrs. Mickle and Hyde, of the police, and their party entered, had some of the clothing concealed about her person, and was taken off to the Cage. Mina, it is said, was branded in the hand, and received thirty-nine lashes, for a similar offence at Fredericksburg. The old woman stated that he had two or three accomplices, but it is not believed that they were aware of the contents of the trunks. Mr. H. speaks in high terms of the perseverance and untiring exertions of Mr. E. Mickle, and also of Mr. Deputy Sheriff Carter, and Mr. Page, of the Police. Chronicle.

We are much gratified to state, that Mr. Hyde, the gentleman whose trunk was cut from the baggage rack of the Mail Coach, near Richmond, on the 13th inst., has recovered, with the exception of about $200, the whole of the very large sum it contained. Twelve thousand eight hundred dollars were found near the road, in the vicinity of the city, on Wednesday, and about $14,000 more, on Thursday night, in the yard of a negro man. He tendered to a Lottery broker a $50 bill, in payment of a ticket which he had bought, supposing it to be only $5.—Upon being apprised of the amount, he manifested much confusion, and ran off, and has not yet been taken. His premises were searched, and after considerable diligence was used, the money was found buried in the yard. Mr. Hyde has published a card, expressive of his grateful sense of the interest taken in his loss, and the great zeal and activity of the police, and the citizens generally, in recovering the money.

It may not be uninteresting to state, that the negro was Mr. Alsop's Lewis, who formerly lived in Fredericksburg, and who was suspected at the time, of being concerned in robbing the stage of baggage, on several occasions, three or four years ago, in this vicinity.—Fred. Arena.