Gold dust robbery [SEP] point in time
Gold dust robbery
The Gold dust robbery took place 25 March 1839 in London at the Dublin Steam Packet Company. According to the "New Newgate Calendar", pp. 480ff, "The extraordinary robbery to which these persons were parties involved circumstances probably more singular than any other which ever came before a court of justice".
Events.
Lewin Caspar (1815–1842), a clerk at the Dublin Steam Packet Company at 16 John Street Crutchfriars (now Crosswall street), found out that of gold dust,
in gold and treasury notes. One of the victims, Leroy Southmayd, reported the robbery and identified the road agents to Bannack sheriff Henry Plummer. Members of Plummer's gang confronted Southmayd on his return trip to Virginia City, but Southmayd was cunning enough to avoid injury or death.
- In November 1863, Conrad Kohrs traveled to Bannack from Deer Lodge, Montana with $5,000 in gold dust to buy cattle. After talking with Sheriff Plummer in Bannack, Kohrs worried about the risk of robbery on his return to Deer