Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-10-28
cireuil couri, doherebr. cer,ify ,ha. ,Jemes Hol.

cHCut Coutty 90 hofevY Gctuiy Wut Suulos ttVt-.
man, Of the county aforesaid, did on this 9Th
day Of July, IS43, before me the3said clerk,
make oath that he, said Holman. on the 10Th
dey Of June last, RENTED to Woods, ChHsty,
q Co., OF St. Louis, check OF Nashville In.
sursnce and Trust Company, for six hundred dol,
lars and that his signature on tbs, back thereof
was genuine. Witness, w. G. Williams CLERK
Of Ray circuit court at Office, this 9Th day Of
July, 1S43. w. c. WILLIAMS, Cle,k.F
These forgeries were successful, and in
reply six hundred dollars of Kentucky
money forwarded by mail, and stolen
therefrom by Freeman. Woods, Christy,
& Co., had not only retained copy of
the number and date of each note, but
among various other endorsements added
that of "E. w. c. 81 Bros" the initials of
E. w. Clark and Brothers, the brokers from
whom they purchased the money. This
unusual precaution, which we have heard
spoken of as Providential, was the means
of his detection, as the robber had altered
the number from 60 to Gal.
After two months of confidential and
indefatigable search by Messrs. Mediation,
Brown, and Jackson, agents of the General
Post Office, one of the notes was found,
and traced directly and certainly to Free
man. upon which he was arrested. He in
stantly attacked the different number of the
note, but upon being foied by the endorse
ment of "E. w. C. & Bros" changed his
front to declaration that he had received
the note from Mr.. John Wilkerson, of
Richmond, who he charged to be the agent
of Mr.. Quesenberry, the Post Master al
Richmond, in changing the suspicion from
Richmond to Carrollton. This he declared
himself ready to prove, by one present and
two absent witnesses. He also made va.
rious enquiries about making an affidavit
against Wilkerson, and taking out war
rant of arrest, but finally abandoned the
idea. He sent to Richmond for an attor-
ney, prepared his witnesses, and procured
a sufficiency of bail, in the event of COM
initial. H..... ... .. ....
He was arrested under n warrant, CON-
manding the Marshal to take him before
the Hon. Austin A. King, who lived some
thirty-fiv miles west, but upon making ex-
animation, the Post Office agents found
Mr., Erect, an indispensable witness, con-
fined to a sick bed. and entirely unable to
travel. This made it necessa ry to guard
Freeman in Carrollton, and res ort TO the
unusual means of sending for the Judge to
try him. His wife, a lady Of fine character
and sensibility, had been so shocked by the
neighborhood rumors, which preceded the
officers some two or three days, that she
rapidly passed from one to another stage
of excitement, until she was utterly pros.
trated by the most delicate cause which
acts upon the female frame. Her life was
actually in danger, and in consequence of
this, and her prayers and tears, with those
of his mother, he was guarded at his own
house until after ten o'clock, when he was
removed to the Hotel, because of the prox-
unity of his residence to dense and in
terminable thicket and forest. At daylight
in company with the officer, he was per.
mitted to return, and guarde through the
day in his adjoining office--going to hi:
house some ten or twelve times, and when
ever sent for by his lady. On one Of these
occasions and the last, he must have passed
Immediately through, as the Marshal re
NAMED near the door, and in two or thre,
minutes sent for him, and was notified o
his absence. A moments investigation
satisfied him of his flight through the bacl
yard to the thicket, where fine horse hat
been prepared for his escape, by his brothe
before alluded to,-and although men wer,
employed, and every means resorted TO-
aided by a reward of $50, one hundred
of which was from the private means o
Messrs. Mediation Il Birch, nothing wa
or has since been heard from him. MI
Wilkerson, the respectable citizen of Rich
mond, who he attempted to involve, ha
gone in the direction of Texas, and grea
hopes are entertained, and there is som
reason to believe that he may be successfr
in capturing him.
/ Nearly all the money stolen was procure
by means similar to those already stated
That from the Receiver in this place, wa
government check in favor of D. Ragal
of or near Liberty. He stole the checl