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City Gazette. XJyiag cortftssiun of Joseph Bare, j Alias, Joseph Tliompson Hare, one / of the mail robbery who was ex-.' ccuted at Baltimore, on the: tOtb; of September* 1818. Written by : ^bUnaelf. BaHinwwe, published by Joseph Barling, 1818. v v v J '[The pobKshcr States that he has the MS. hi Hare's hand writing. We have phoseq, such extracts as will give the reader a connected view of the principal robberies : the minor -parts, with the inflections of the cul prit, are omitted, on account of their taigth. No person in this coantry, before the publication of this pam phlet, could possibly have believed that the United mti ites contained ? ? t ? ? t l' * such an extraordiwWy aud duuiijj, bandit as Joseph Hare U represent ed to bo*^IfV?areto give ctettklo the story, (and there is but toomuch reason to believe a great portion of it true>) tlria hero of the highway e? nuals if not rivals, in perpetration of daring felonies and Attrocioua' ex ploits, tlie most notorious robliers ytkat ever growled the environs of ~ JBtnat Rinaldo Binaldinoor Charles de Moor were nothing to him? 'The only way to account for the possibil* ity of Hare and his associates obtain ing so much booty in gold and silver is the custom that nse to prevdiBof travellers from New -Orleans and j||lsewhere transporting through tlie ^wilderness (before bank notes were ib such general circulation) theyg>ro ceeds of their merchandize in specie. The total absence of dates, however, throughout tlie confession, throws * strong suspicion on many circum * 'e&M&ft, though what in related as having taken place in this neighbor , hood carries with it some color of probability.} x ; ? , < 't*6?bora Sa Chester county, in ; lbe state of Pennsylvania, and. when about Si, I went to Philadelphia, anil sailed with an eld friend of my ' fa IkitV, a sea captain, to Jsew-Gr leans, and worked my passage there. In NeW'Orlean* I suffered a good, deal of trouble, for I had no money but whafl made by dangerous thiev ing and gambling. At last I enlist ed in the Governor's guard, and at this Ume I associated myself with some desperate fellows who Were, in &he habit of knocking people down in tho streets, and robbing them. The peicson we robbed in ~ this man an, in company with a gentleman of the city of New-Orleons. I took the captain's watch, for which lie must have, paid fifty g?dness?Jn Prance. Ail was playing at cards somaJM&e after I having staked bis Witch against three otters, in came ,aFr*oeh" G teetieman dressed in iftii form, and asked me if I was not an ofllcer belonging to tlm Governors IjjjU/Af as he Wfaieeo me at the Governors dresshd in uniform ; I told him I was ; lie said he for^JSropM^ Offlrensjto "".money lie had been night. w Was I apd Tons IKat had robbed him, aiid ha3 got a great cteafck of money from him. What made us atop him ? m ? bearing his mopey jingle in ... otsanrf ftcein^feo much pow der in bis hair. This was good en couragement tcfaw )*and as for me, I ?(Wl#kave l>?enlotU to chan^o iny, place for a Coronals commission dput now, as we feared we should get notorious in New-Orleans, and saw every few days a company start from NfeW-Orlwins on horse and were told ttoiy cfrriwl a great deal of money ,vith them through the Choctaw and Chickesaw nations to get to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pittsburg ; we thought wa should do better on the highway. But before we went, we made two other robbe lies. One of my men took ?07 dol lars from a countryman ; he told me, when I came up, it was all that he had 5 I gave. Him up ,10 dollars in silver. The same evening I Went and stopped a Spaniard, and he gave me his watch and i7 dollars. He seemed poor, and I left his watch and part of the mwiey where he got it again. Now 1 saw it was slow daogercu* * ark too, to iaal; ney in the city of New-Qrleai we all agreed to get sotue good ami Hhree first rata horses, that swift and genteel. We left the mid Went as far as Nashville i; state of Tennessee, without m ? with any thing. - We rafeod th? r- derness from the Muscle Sbo; ihe Ciioetaw nation. One day we were much fatigued with hu (we depended on this for our e; we came across a company of me in ? I had hard work -to theirlives. ? We stopped them had hid all the horses from the of the road ; I stepped up to out had holsters before hinv and bim that 1 had twelve highway hers umler my Vcomuiaiu!, am -first mail thai moved shouU . ... blown to hell. ? Tliedry cane made a great craclring ; it sothick^ osi that* spot tlmt a ranii ccdlit Ook be seen ten feet from the road. Iti was a cloudy day, and every thing look ed very black aud gloomy^ ami the sound of the cane, though it did not frighten me; made me feel 'very, strange aiwfcout of the jp ay pny~twoJ mensaid we had luLpainted our fa ces, which we ought to have dor#, and that we slk>uTil be known, and- it was better to murder rascals, than let them live and tell tales on %us. ? An oldish man spoke and snid, " for ?God's sake spare my 'life." I told ii was Well thought of ; that if there should one man move till I gave leave, they would all be landed: ii> eternity ; and with this ( called to one of my companions to come up and take the money. Up s1ip|>ed one with a pair of double barrelled pistols hanging in a helt buckled round his body, and a dagger hang*, ing on hid breast in sight, and a good rifle in his hand. I told him not to fire on them, until they should make battle. We took all that they Ipad, and after I had talked a little while longer^vith my men? we set them on their road/ ' - kr- ^ * - A day or two before this, while we were hunting in the woods, we came across a spot tlmt seemed a ve ry good retreat from any danger of being overtaken by justice, and a ve ry comfortable home foo. It was on one side of a cane brake where the cane grew very thick mid tall and would have concealed us from the best eyes, near the Chichasaw Blufts* Here we l&id ourselves down to sleep, as we had dept but litile fiMr two nights back. As for 1 could not sleeps but lay, / looking sometimes in the fire we had kindled, aiul sometimes at the stars, and lis* tening to the wind in among the cam^ brake, which made such a mournful rustling noise, that I often thought something or somebody was coming through the ci toe after us. ' Bo I got up, and went to see if our horses were near, which we had let loose near the brake ; add after 1 found them I employed myself counting the money, while my two companions slept on as if nothing had happened, 1 had not suflfcttll the two |nen to o pen fye months of all the &*?*# !? see what amount was in them. There I was one bag I told them they need not open. I Imd heard the man say, when it was got out of his sad dle-bags, " I>ord bless my sool." and and give a very heavy sigh. I re member I thought he w|Ul frightened for liis life, and told hb? I bad never asked any man for his life and if we - - * - were Wot so strongly artmnl, he woyld take mine ; hut that he should nolle hnrt. * \ good ileal of the money we took was ih gold a ntf specie, and Ih has;* of 'buckskin. The one In* sigh ed to r, had 180 pieces* in it, and a good deal of them gold. I iftaite each man a belt, and put all. ttm gold in three belts, made ouMftwm deer's hide that I bought frofti^ an Indian that lived in the Cherokefe nation when lie Was at home. The whole that I had to my share from tliat robbery came to 7000 dollars. We lay in the mountain A month, in which time we lived on wild meat, wild turkey, deer and racoon. I was in Nashville once in that time : I took my horse with me, my money I hid Where no man knew. led iiis name * hail Indian ; they hail taken thetejiorses^ ta bU hous^, which sTauTLi l>et? eon Bear Creek and 'i>nws?co f iVer. X rode on l>efore ibv co^P^y toiufunu. my men- th ai wem*:Vl* likely get somediins; from these men. Oue of my fellows* would hardly hear me to fcbc end* sq greedy was Ije after ^Fe .fmrkr saddle 1 mentiouttd.~~Ji^igft. the neighborhood of Bear Click, took to tho great vond again, and make as fast as possible after the company I had left, , which I wjjs muclr afraid we should miss. About twenty miles from tho -'rousa cf Thomson, who wa$ knowfr in those parts at that time, 1 over took the7] company again. This 'I homsoti is a while man, married to a squaw.? We made oft* into the woods when we got the travellers in sight, made a bead, and iti a cane brake just off the road> we [minted ouv faces likelhe Indian whetiJko is gains to wari? The party wlffipretty #ell armed ; 1 n*)de op to them ? thfoy all started ve ty much at seeing us, as we showed our arms and looked vejy threaten* lug. I spoke to them in the Cpeelc tongue, of which I knay a Jew words, as if I bad Ifefelj an Indian. They did not understand me. One of my men asked if they could a par ier anglais" They-- stoj>j>ed and4 spoke broken English. r I told them we were Indians, ttraldid not think it any harm to tafee 'monfcy ftom white people ; and if tliey raised One of their aftns to fire on us, we wt^dd send them to eternity, ever&maut of [lmtn f),1P nf ??i#l liivttV* Vffw til tWrXIl utliu tri tzm ry thing we have ; we have more at homeland only wish you to he^jvil to our persona. The two men I had with frt, stood still with their rifles cocked, and each had his pfstpls at his side and a dagger. I took away 1 *jtiie arms Wi the travel lent, \^ho made no more resistance. On the pack horse we fwtindl&CO doubloons and 604 pieces of different sizes, antf^ * forge quantity of gold in bars, six inches in length and eight square ? 30 weight of it. IVith the owne $ I found 71 doubloons and 3 silver dol lars, and 400 French guineas, and 67 picces, the value of wbicli| I \ could Hot tell, till I weighed them. * I> ?or id>000 doHars, alto&s tlirr, from the company, alt in scold. 9* the fifths day *Oei? reached nuv cave again. v after this 1 left the cav^ #n way nut n man on horaeba ..... a on I t campauy with lum. and he toll he had been At B^JUonis to htiy J|jji<l. In a few moment* we came to a k beatftiful spring, and dismounted to | take a drink.1* He laid hi* rifle a gaiiwt a tr?e, asked trie to takfe some hramtyftnd water with him. Whilst lie Wan stooping to ^??t Home water from the Spring I seteed his rifle from Hie tree, and told him I was a high- way tobber and would take ft drink of water with liitn after 1 had ctainted what money he had; tlint I never drank brandy or any kind of spirit*, a* ( always had spirits en* ongh in me, without taking brandy, and that if Tie *dM not instantly de liver to me every cent lie had, I would sent I him where he would get something hoter than brandy. He wm very much alarmed and trem?f bleil worse than I do now tinder the gallows. ^ He delivered op all bis money to mc. I r^ot from him $700 sin tut Uag <;f shed to .ve k i \vsU:!i. lie, Tenti. ) ! iwo .lioi'ae* e\v d*vs we lior. -From * K\ . i * \ 9 % n ilhv*at tlio ? ?w appetj un i a gciitlc bjnck bov ? first bbirk hj^k^ny i\ fifty <loi :;vihg sold plact*, in ;; , down tlivi :i there to v/ut? lll&iu M c um sill UlUCli :ttt tllrt gaining tqfole^tiiar Wjv s vWSriniet ! n n;1; vvasTUi bjidone. > I set mv Muck boy free iu .New -Oilcans, \wncti * jdace we left,, after ifurctuisinH; tMfef'euod horses, And ^ 4"~ " 1r" ** LI o cure. here he bad 4hw, n&froni Jw >0 1)21(1 A - . ^ ?urv?w*a ?.?VuvjV> lli^cc I got a passport froiu Governor ttrandpree, mm|?" intend^! to fc/b on tfte road bciwecndBatmr^tuuge ciul LfiyqciJa. ,???.: ?* v v> -v\ I We started fiWl&iton Itouge, (o a fit place for our camp;*" About i 80 mile* from Pensacolu, and neat a track that led to tlte Girid Mints, \\ o found -a clofl of yocks - that > formed an adotimble cave, which no ftum visits ed before, I expect since the flood. Gamewas plenty, &c; We hunted here nine da\s : &t the end pf that. lime we hegau to Wont powder ami shoL and thought thai two of us should go tu PetiancoU wtfr &t it. I was the owe 1b*atay at I boau*. They were day s. I One who married tiiero titan began to | tell me of all the news he had heard at the. hotel iu Pensacola, had put up at. He said t seen - a Spanish gentle. from old tstykihi, that was lVnsncola to Baton li.ouge?, and tliat he had seen <hat v unu n ^podjfdeal of gold abouthim. V/?j immediately pHt arms in order? I had a pair of pistols, a dirk, ft cuthtM and b ride; my two robbers bad each of them a ritifr, n pahr fki?(oU, and a daggeivi On tlieeighthday, 1 aaw a company passman .watched the toad, aud directly, went back to our oave^feidioHr Jinrsca constat and saddled, and we 'monntaffitfretn, with our arras, in pursuit of ibein. On. the next^ftaji we^atne nptdJhem. My tipanisbrtalking' mm, wW bad seen the old Spaniard W Penancoln, said that it was thetipflifepn^imy, fur he-knew the ojd Spaniard % the " cot of hi* gihtf^fsl rodto pfet tltfm to see what arm*rthey list], wad ia'ur w 1 past them, there Wet;1 tWe in company, nr.il tliat " they hnd two pair of pistols. I Jut the / woods to kt them j'untH nfcy tworqbbe plMh ft ban4**? when I <*W our Ucd h#d Kt, Ifiey ittd lined* our m* We we iiilw pit%en(in ?TO OT!SFflPlV.B v*y lob ,:T/ %ful tliat if they niado any re sktanco or offered to nm, until they y hatl delivered np their money to u?, would stop tlielu with powder ' " and ball. I told them to dismount from the i i- horse#, or fre Would fire and brio* th$m dowfl. They best* tated at first, but sceiogu* resolute, with our rifles cocked, and presenfed tollman, and ready to fire, they got down from their b&ses. 1 then *trp? ped up (o them With my dagger u\ i toy hand, and t?K>k from them two pair of pistols and three daggern: i)jy two highwaymen atood Ifffabout feet with their rifles oocke<l, a da*> ger in their hand*, and each A(Jr of piatob belted aruu&d thei^i. i :-4 wouhl not miffier thom to .sp^iik Ui each other whilst I vfa* robhiiij^Uiem, "Ifi as 1 did not understnud their lingo, and was afraid of some scheme. \Vo got 40 weight of ^old from thisrom * pany of five, and H58 in silver. JVIy shfcre of this robbery amounted to &8& douldoons (