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rode the best horses, and often travelled
with servant; his appearance in the
little villages in lhe country was sure to
produce great sensation, from the supe.
riority Of his equipments over common
travellers.
lie spent a large portion Of each year
IN The United States, and OF last, for the
purpose OF amusement, greater expan
sion OF mind. and more complete i'm
Provemenl in the grand art of finan :ier.
ing, he resolved to cross the Atlantic,
and had the taste to select the occasion
Of the GROWING OF Brilain's youthful
Queen. Meantime, Dart, who was Iivlng
in the Uniled States, principally al Rod
ney, Mississippi, could get DOT account
OF how things were going on 10 Texas,
and was 10 the deepest ignorance Of the
condition OF his partnership affairs 10
tha: country He knew hut one thing
with certainty, and that was that he had
never received one dollar OF profits what
ever Under these circumstances. Ed
wards being not yet returned from Eu
rope, he determined { 1889 lovisil Texas
and personally investigate the state Of
his business and property in that coun
try. He did so and found every thing
SO deranged and embarrassed a condition
that he employed a lawyer and scqles.
tered the whole property as a last means
both Of obtaining his share OF the same
and at the same time securing knight q
Co., for whom he very honorabY enter.
ed upon record confession Of judgment
for the $35 900 which had teen borrow.
ed for tho concern in Havana.
Soon afterwards Edwards returned
aud hearing upon his arrival in the U
States oil Darts energetic proceedings 10
Texas, not al all abashed. he in due time
makes his appearance in Texas, armed
with two forged deeds-lhe one relating
TO the land and negroes, and the other
TO The inferior transactions Of the part.
nershlp--by which it appeared that
Edwards was The owner of everything
The forgeries had been made by taking
Two letters of Darts written to Edward,
from Rodney, Miss, and extracting eve
ry thing but Darts signature by means
OF some chemical agent, and as in the
process the texture Of the paper had
been destroyed, the deeds were written
by means Of the principal Of the mani
told letter writer. in which no fluid is
employed. Dart boldly proclaimed the
forgery, but as Edwards had greatly the
advantage OF him in GOODNESS and dignity
of manner, the general impression wa
greatly in Edwards favor, parlicularI,
as Dart was thought to be weak mai
10 business matters, and Edwards wa
known TO be extremely keen. In tn,
moantme Edwards had the deeds rccor
ded IN the counties of Harris and Brazo
ria, and proclaimed Dart as Iaboring un
=, der monomI MIA upon The subject Of hi
, estates, and wondered why his friend
did not take care of him, and offered +
subscribe literally towards his supper
in some fit receptacle for lunaics.
But the ssgacity and perseverance, O
4 Darts lawyers at last established th
i, forgery, and Edwards for the utterlnG
! in BrRzora county was incarcerated Il
await his trial, at the regular term o
court. for the crime Of forgery, punsha
BILE by The laws oil Texas with death, -
n he was taken from he jail 10 Brazori
by HabeaS Corpus and removed TO TeS
, ana, where the question OF bal was, b
!, a circuit Judge OF Texas, determined i
his faVor-Rmount ten thousand dolar'
n Texas money, Immediately after thi'
new caplas arrived toarresl him for III
n same offence, TO wit, ulterlng the forge
deeds by recording, in the county G
II Harris, but he narrowly escaped an
reached The United States, kidnappin
, as he left three or four of his own NJ
groes, who were under judicial seque
4 lratlon, whom he bought to the Unite
- States and sold. with The exception {
4 one negro girl, the same whose nam
. frequently occurs in his trial in Ne
:. York. Ills subsequent history is we
# known; how he went 10 England, vii
Is forged letters of introduction from NJ
Webster to Lord Spencer borrowe
= E2G0 of Lord s. and dined with the ge
y try and nobility Of the country for seVc
i al months, and at last getting out Of fuut
= returned to the United Sales in le4
e and committed the great forgery e
:, which he is now 10 The penileuIiary
the Sale of New York.
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