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anlit□alebtt’aItidIvto get tbe insurance.3Iobe . About the Macl Robbers.—P.E. Bramrd, special agent of ibe Post Office Department, arrived on Sunday last from CentreviUejJAppanoosecounty, whither he had gone to investigate the resales of the great mail robbery which occurred a conple of weeks since in that county. He brought with him a S3ck fiui.pf letters' which had been broken open by the robbers, rifled of their contents..and then dis-tribated miscellaneously onVth^'ground. During the night succeeding the. robbery, a heaTy rain fell, and the rifled letters were not collected until the following da}-. Some of them, are indecipherable: and. of course, they will never be of much account either to tbe writers nr to the persons to whom they were addressed. It is supposed that the booty, obtained by thr robbers ir. money, aid not amount to more than live or six hundred dollars, -ludgv Brainard is prosecuting bis searches into the mutilated letters, and will publish results as soon a? 5. 1 possible.» J Our readers wail remember that a doubt has been thrown over the report that jJ,lt;;robbers were killed. Such doubt should not exist Thcr* is positive evidence jn the effect that the villains were summarily placed beyond the possibility, of getting up any more excitements on top of the ground. Thai they were guerrillas from Missouri i* placed beyond doubt, Loyal Missourians cooperated heartily with tbe pursuinc lowans, and participated largely in the srt which deprived the robbers «f life.—£^rf litniXtT.thidenenhem,asstead.aind11K-h:cBtuartnrf «f Mil. Cen. Snllravl Stair, j
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Davenport Daily Gazette
Davenport, Iowa, US
Fri, May 19, 1865
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