Craven County NcArchives News.....Robbery of  the Mail April 6, 1819
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Tues. April 6, 1819,   Edenton Gazette April 6, 1819
   NEWBERN -- The following particulars relative to the late robbery of the 
Mail between this town and Wilmington, have been furnished us by THOMAS 
WILSON, ESQ., the Post-Master at this place, at whose instance the robber has 
been detected and will probably be brought to punishment. 
   The mail from Wilmington to Newbern having arrived the last week without 
letters, and it being also understood that it had been received at the former 
place in a similar situation, ELIJAH GRONIO, a youth about 16 years old, who  
had carried the mail on this route but a few weeks, was suspected of having 
rifled its contents.
   He was according apprehended on Monday last, and having been examined 
before a Magistrate, was committed to the jail of this county. Since his 
confinement he has confessed that he robbed the mail four several times, and 
that he took in $194. Part of this, he states, was concealed by him in the 
hollow of a tree, which he promises to point out to the contractor, who left 
town on Thursday with the boy, accompanied by three of our citizens for the 
purpose of recovering the money and apprehending his accomplices, of whom he 
gave an account previous to their departure. The boy and his abettors, if 
apprehended, will probably have their trial at the next term of the United 
States District Court to be held at Raleigh.                               

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