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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs on the coast. (search)
Arrest of a mail Robber. --The mail carrier between Pittsylvania C. H. and Lynchburg (a distance of sixty miles) has been arrested by Deputy Marshal Henry Myers and brought to this city for trial, for very extensive depredations on the mails. The offender in a lad about fifteen years old, named George Melton, and his parents reside in Lynchburg. The great amount of money lost on his route first drew attention to his irregular proceedings — a good deal of money being sent home by soldiers on the Peninsula to their families and never coming to hand. On search being made, hundreds of letters, rifled of their contents, were found in various localities along his route. Deputy Marshal Myers secured a carpet sack full as evidence in the case, and brought them along with the prisoner to this city. It would appear from the age of the boy that the contractor was wrong in the first place in committing such a grave responsibility to his keeping. That he was wrong, the sequel shows.