The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-11-08


other matters TO attend TO IN the city o
New York, he started for that place a
once, and had the imposter arrested, bu
the warrant proved invalid on hearing
on hebeas corpus, and before Mr.
could get warrant out at Williamsburg
the fellow had been discharged and ran of
and nothing was heard of him ill his ar.
rest in this city on account Of the treasu.
ry notes obtained by forgery from the
Messrs. Bunker, Mobile, which came to
the Boston post Office addressed to Henry
Van Zandt.
lie endorsed the notes by that name,
but when arrested in the brokers office,
he said that his name was Henderson,
and that he was authorized TO endorse the
notes by Van Zandt, who was his broth
er-in-law. For want of sufficient evil
dence to sustain the complaint in that in
stance, he was, after several postpone
ments, discharged, and has been in Bos-
ton and the vicinity ever siuce.
OF the other letters in our possession,
all written in the same hand and style,
and containing the same pretensions of
iormer correspondence and professions Of
poverty and penitence, the first is dated
white Plains Jail, Nov. ID, ls43,' sign
ed 'E' and addressed to a gentleman then
recently deceased, in Acton, Me. Refer
ence-Dr. Samuel II. Hawley, New
York city. Postmark-'New York
This letter was not answered, and on
the 10Th OF November the pretended jail
bird wrote another. The widow of the
deceased, in reply TO this second appeal
to her late husband, wrote to DIR. Haw-
ley for information, and his answer to
her is in the same hand writing as that of
DIR. Prince above.
The third is also signed e. dated
'Hicksvillc Jail, Nov. Sd, ls43,' and ad.
dressed to gentleman, then deceased, in
Limerick, Me. Reference 10 DR.. Prince.
-Postmark-'Boston.
The fourth is signed H. dated May
4, 1874, jail addressed to a gentleman,
Philadelphia. Reierence-'Dr. Sam'l H.
Rupert, Cambridge, Mass Postmark-
Boston,
The fifth is dated May z, 1914, Jail,
signed H addressed to a gentleman, de-
ceased, in Wakefield, N. II. Reference
DR.. Rupert, Cambridge, &c. Post
mark-Boson.
The sixth is signed III dated May
9TH, Jail, addressed TO a gentleman, de-
ceased, in ParsonvlIe, Me. Reference
DR.. Rupert, Cambridge, sc. Post
mark-Boston.
In all this series of letters the conclu-
ding line isl depend upon your secre-
cy.'
The widow of the late Mr.. Mundy of
this place, has also been favored with two
letters from this same gent; the first adj
dressed 10 her late husband, Frederick
Mundy, Esq. dated at White Plains,
November 5, 1913, mailed at New York,
and identical with the letter first above
referred TO, except that the name of Mum
dy is substituted for that of Blake, and
the party referred TO is DIR. Samuel II.
Hawley, N. Y. city. This letter re-
naming unanswered, a second was re-
celved, of which the following is a copy
My Dearest Sir: How have | oflen-
ded you that you do not answer me
Can it be possible that | have displeased
you! or perhaps am too imporiunate
can assure you, Mr.. Mundy, had not
been in the greatest distress and want
could not have applied TO YOU again. But
you are not offended feel confident
you are not. No! you have too kind a
heart for that: some other cause must
have prevented your answering me.
Write, do; and please send me little
money, for am truly miserable and des-
tl'ute. | have none other but you to APP
ply to, for none other would trust with
my disgrace. In the greatest distress and
anxIously awaiting your reply.
| remain, my dearest Sir,
Yours, most truly yours. f.
Direct, post paid, Dr. Samuel II. Haw-
ley, New York city, N. Y.
Nov. 25th, lS13.'
Neither of these communications were
answered, though their perusal naturally
occasioned much distress TO the widow
OF the deceased. We doubt not that sim
liar evidences of rascality are to be found
IN other parts of the State, and give pub
LEFTY to the above not only to put the I'M
wary on their guard, bat to contribute our
mite in bringing the scoundrcl to justice.
Genera ~. ~ Courier.