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CSrFKDEnAPti:TP9was called and sent* to their room.Mr, CraoDCfj one of the counsel for Jacob Varner, indicted for robbing the matt at Ripley, J ackson county, made a motion to quash the indictment upon the ground that ho is charged in the indictment withrobbing and mealing the mail, and it does not my what mail, so that the prisoner does not know what he ^is to answer.—It also charged that the offense was com*milted against the United States, when it should have been United States of America. The Court overruled the motion, ando I proceeded with the trial o! the cmae. 1Win. Wetzel, a lad 12 years of age, testified that he was the son of Jehu L. WiU act, the Postmaster at Ripley. About the 10th of December last, a party of about eight men, calling themselves the Moccasin Rangers, cam© to Ripley with arms ofnil descriptions, and broke open the post office and took away a lot of letters and papers. Varner, the prisoner, was one ofthe parly. They also broke into the court bou3e and took some guns. They also wens around to the houses of citizens andseized all the guns they could find. This occurred about 0 o'clock at night, and several citizens, including the Postmasleri fled.AfrejMr. Jacob Armstrong saw the Moccasin Rangers in the street on the night in question, They painted a gun at him, and called him to a halt. They naked him to go to his (witness’) store and get them some tobacco, lie refused to go, and they went themselves and got wbat they wanted, arousing up a young man who slept in the store, nod who let them in. Thinks Varner was one or the party. He had thereputation of being a prominent Moccasin Rangers.Ulysses W. Flesher testified that Varner admitted to him that he (Varner) was at Ripley with the Moccusslne, on the IQthof December and bad his gun there but denied having anything to do with breaking open the post office.Mr. Board thought there were about sixteen of the Moccassins in the party. Varner was one of them. Witness saw Varner going into the post office and coming out with n drawer fall of letters. Heard old man Dusky say that they (the Moccs-aiort) had a half bushel of letters. The Moccasin Rangers w ere represented to be very skillful in slipping around at nightand picking up thing s.Two or three other witnesses were examined but before concluding the evidence the court adjourned till this morning at 0 o’clock.' It A w %£ ill* 111 nnil To! n warn m a •*
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Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Mon, Apr 14, 1862
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