People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — SEARCEY CONFESSES. [ARTICLE]

SEARCEY CONFESSES.

He Points Out the Hiding Place of Some ot His Plunder. Calverton, Va.. Oct. 24.—Before being brought to Fredericksburg, Charles J. Searcey, the Aquia Creek train rob ber made a, confession which was taken down, put into typewriting and is now in the hands of the proper authorities. After being brought here Searcey agreed to go and show where some things, consisting mostly of bonds and bank drafts, were hidden. On Monday he was taken in a team from Fredericksburg, with Mr. Robert Pinkerton, of New York, Sergt. C. W. Edrington, of Fredericksburg and Mr. W. Seymour White, commonwealth’s attorney for Stafford county, over the route traveled by him in trying to escape, to endeavor to locate the spot where the bonds ha I been hidden. After searching for the spot all of Monday and Tuesday, Searcey apparently having become somewhat mixed in his endeavors to locate the roads over which he and Morganfield traveled, it was finally discovered about dark Tuesday evening, and under the roots of a blown-down tree, just as Searcey had described, the bag was taken out Its contents were not examined. The party drove at once to Culverton, where the bag was sealed and shipped to the Adams Express company at Washington.