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Domestic News
May 28, 1817
Delaware Gazette And Peninsula Advertiser
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
What is this article about?
A major mail robbery occurred in March between Fayetteville, NC, and Baltimore, involving three letter mails with large sums in drafts and bank notes stolen before reaching Petersburg, VA. Follow-up inquiries were also intercepted, with no clues discovered.
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Fayetterille N. C. May 8.
Robbery of the Mail.
One of the most high handed frauds was practised somewhere between this place and Baltimore, during the month of March. We understand that three entire letter mails, which were sent on from this town in due form, did not even arrive at Petersburg, Virg. In these mails were contained large sums of money, in drafts and bank notes, remitted to New-York and Philadelphia by merchants in this town. Wilmington and Charleston.--So deep laid has been the fraud. that many subsequent letters, intended merely as enquiries of the fate of former ones, from those persons who remitted the money. have been cautiously intercepted. Not the slightest possible clue to this grand scheme of iniquity has yet been discovered, and ever will be. perhaps. unless the General Post-Office see fit to look into the business.
Robbery of the Mail.
One of the most high handed frauds was practised somewhere between this place and Baltimore, during the month of March. We understand that three entire letter mails, which were sent on from this town in due form, did not even arrive at Petersburg, Virg. In these mails were contained large sums of money, in drafts and bank notes, remitted to New-York and Philadelphia by merchants in this town. Wilmington and Charleston.--So deep laid has been the fraud. that many subsequent letters, intended merely as enquiries of the fate of former ones, from those persons who remitted the money. have been cautiously intercepted. Not the slightest possible clue to this grand scheme of iniquity has yet been discovered, and ever will be. perhaps. unless the General Post-Office see fit to look into the business.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
What keywords are associated?
Mail Robbery
Fraud
Fayetteville
Petersburg
Post Office
Where did it happen?
Between Fayetteville, N.C. And Baltimore
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Between Fayetteville, N.C. And Baltimore
Event Date
March
Outcome
large sums of money in drafts and bank notes lost; no clues discovered
Event Details
Three entire letter mails sent from Fayetteville containing remittances to New-York and Philadelphia did not arrive at Petersburg, VA; subsequent inquiry letters intercepted