Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1843-07-18
NEW sERIEs.-voL. iii NO. 81.

in the United States, and At last. for ~.
purposes Of amusement, greater expan.
sion OF mind, and moro complete i'm.
proVement in the grand art of inancier.
ing, he resolved to cross the Atlantic.
a1d had the taste to select the occasisn
Of the cIowniDg Of Britain's youthful
queen; Meaniim9, Dart, who was living
IN the Uuited States, principally at Rod.
ne!' Miss, could get no account how
.n'nes were going on in Texas, and was
~ The deepest ignorance of the copdi.
uoh OF his partnership affairs n that
c"uRlry. He knew but one thing with
certainty, and that was he had not re-.
ce'yed one dollar Of profits whatever.--
unoer these circumstances, Edwards
not oelhg yet returned from EuroDe. be
determined (iS3S) to visit Tsxss and
personally investigate the state of M.
business and property in that country
de did so,and found every thing in'Sc.de.
ranged condition that be EMPLOYED a
lawyer and sequestered the whole prou.
erty as last means both Of obtaining bis
share of the same and al the same Iima
securing Knight & Co., for whom he
very honorably entered upon record :
confession of judgment for the 5000.
which had been borrowed for the concern
in the Havana.
Soon afterwards Edwards returned
ani hearing upon his arrival in the UNI
ted StBtes of Darts energetic proceed.
lngs in Texas, not at all abashed, be in
due time makes his appearance in TEX
as, armed with two forged deeds-ths
one relating to the land and negroes. and
the other 10 the inferior transactions of
the partnsrship-by which it appeared
that Edwards was the owner of evsrv.
thing. The forgeries had been made bv
taking two letters OF Darr's written 10
Edwards from Rodney, Miss :, and ex.
tracing every thing but Darts signature
ny means of some chemical agent, and
as in the process the texture Of the pa
per had been destroyed, the deeds were
written BY means ofthe principle of the
manifold letter writer, in which no fuid
is employed. Dart boldly proclaimed
the forgery, but as Edwards had greatly
the advantage Ofhim in eooIness and
dignity of manner, the general impress
sion was greatly in Edwards favor, par.
ticularly as Dart was thought to be q
weak man in business matters, and Ed.
wards was known to be extremely keen.
In the meantime Edwards had The deeds
recorded in the counties of Harris and
BrazOria, and proclaimed Dart as labor
ing undera mWnomania upon the sub.
ject OF his Texas estates, and wondered
why his. friends did not take care of him,
and offered 10 subscribe literally towards
his support in some fit receptacle for lu-
mates.
But the sagacity apd perseverance Of
Darts lawyers at last established the for
gery,and Edwards for the uttering in Bra.
zOria county was incarcerated TO await his
trial at the regular term ofthe court, for
the crime of forgery, punished BY the
laws of Texas with death. He was ta.
ken from Jail IN Brazoria by Habeas Cor
pus and removed to Tsxana, where the
question of bail, was, by a circuit Judge
OfTexas, determined in his favor--s-
mount Ten thousand dollars, Texas mon.
ey. Immediately after this, new capiss
arrived to arrest him for the same Of
fence, to wit, uttering the forged deeds,
by recording, in the county OF Harris,
but he narrowly escaped and reached
the United States, kidnapping as he left
three or four Of his own negroes, who
we're underjudical sequestration, when
he brought TO the United States and sold,
with the exception ofone negro girl THE
the same whose name frequently occurs
in his trial at New York. His subse-
quent history is we'll known: how, he
went 10 England with forged letters Of
introduction from Mr.. Webster to Lord
Spencer--borrowsd fsOO of Lord s.
and dined with tho gentry and nobility
ofthe country for several months, and at
last getting out of funds returned 10
the United States in 1911; and commit
ted the great forgery for which he is nov
in the penitentiary of the State of New
York. Orleans Tropic.