The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-26


For some time past Mr.. William B. Astor, of New
York; has been in the receipt of letters signed by
"E. r. Eastwood" demanding the payment Of
$4,000 in particular and secret manner, and in
default thereof, threatening his life. As Mr. Astor
did not pay much attention to the missives, others
were sent to Mrs. Astor to the same effect and as
the affair grew troublesome, it was determined to
put the affair in the hands of the police In accord
| ance with advice given, Mr.. Astor, one fine day,
stationed himself al his office door, and delivered
| to person unknown, who accosted him, a large
package, covered with liberal quantity of sealing,
wax. This man was arrested, and gave his name as
franklin G. Bragg. He was commissioned, he said
to call for the package, and leave it at the U. S.
Hotel, addressed to A. Il. d. Green, which he was
permitted to do, and was afterwards arrested. The
officers, being on the watch, arrested man named
Bggs who called for it, on whose person was found
a letter from Eastwood, giving him directions how
to proceed. II would seem from this that the real
offender is still at large, though Biggs may be the
real one, and the letter only we'll considered de-
ceit Other letters have been received by different
persons, demanding sums of money, and threaten
ing to burn their property, if they did not pay what
was requred-al of them apparently proceeding
from the same person. The basis of the claim upon
Mr. Astor thus stated in one of Eastwood letters
To mr.. Nm. b. -astor. No "a Lafayette plaee-Yosr
life depends complying strictly with the directions
Tbs letter. ny s was on and
was with your father 1914 1917 in tie manu-
IN hsd al s r
a. smdnn ad Was s forth
his aecoun and memorandum signed BY my father and his
the avease cost Of was 81 to The sioSo and your
father me capital carry on the business with to
Ia the 1915 thsy shipped COO IN Jly
Oh sy
The Il s. the
curing Of the coin and that done father
to only SIS ter s and y
leaving baonc fathers hands of 81 500
81 s saG due e@
interest and the profits that made the business He
sides. my father made statement month of the
mahufacue ed and expenditures and remarks the sche
my uncle also signed the same and sealed them np
and them in the hands of their sister, that OF
any escon or clue to the nature OF their business they
October 1917 your father wanted my uncle to 60 to
was good judge Of the articles they wanted On The night
Of . arrival IN Phsdeph my uncle was taken suddenly
Physicians pronounced him to have been Poisoned This
and my father quit at the end Of 1917 Al tbs time your
father was generally supposed to be worth 81 $4,000
SIS 600.
At this time father wished purchase some real estate
amounting $47 Co., Your father thinking that might
surprise suspicion my fathers ability adj
vsed the buying Of it himself in his name 1t
eofdney done with the understanding ina AFTER they had
1878 father would give father the title to the prop
Your father holding the proceeds of their business he
paid for the real estate of those proceeds On the 18th
ofDecember 1877 my father also taken sick. nd on
father had left the full particulars of all the transactions of
the business and in his last he set forth the real
above mentioned He also stated all the particulars
their settlement that have taken place the LIST of
January, 1878. This the last account that have any
knowledge of his keeping.
Eastwood further AYERS that Mr.. Astor's father
actually gave him $4,000 in 1926, as compro-
mise settlement of the matter.