Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-11-18
series of viIiaiales confessed--A Con-
 frdernte af Monroe Edwarda.

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 The San Francisco Herald contains the comics sion or Robinson. one ofthe three men lately hung st Sacramento by the people. which is aa account uf series of successful villainies, withpnt pa- raltel, in Baltimore, New York. Phils6ephsa, Louisville. and other cities. The soIlOwing em- psacing his operations in several plsaes is interest ing:--
 November, iS37, was in Alttmy, then be- cane acquainted with Monroe Edwards. at4ise Ex- change Hotel; he inquired for M. Hint he said be was very anxious to find himI told him lie was al the Howard House. N. Nil went with him and found him there, they consulted together for scmc time, and concluded to make me their partner, as l was very good scribe.--T was dressed rather rough; they expended abont $500 ln jewels and clothes, to make ne look geHtsei, and not snspioi GUS; then we vent 10 business VIC forged check on Hodges, Real, & Co.,, I presented the check; they told me the finn had not as much money deposit as the check called for; returned to my partners and told them what hsd happened.
 Mir. Il. took $500, and made a depcsite in the name cf H. B. & Co; by this means sscertained the amount; he drew smother cheek to The amount of s20000 presented Il; they psid 1t without any heslaton got three Sl eco bills and tie balance in s5U0 bills; took if 10 ou. roon and my part ners gave me sa. 500 for it. April 4ih, mel them in Philadelphia. al Jones' hoie in Chestnut sheet, above Sixth; after being there two days theyasked me to write Ridgeways name; praciieed thee er four hours every day. for four days by this time could counterfeit very well; there was laid before me twenty bank checks; wrote on them all and out of the number go, one with perfect signature of Mir. Ridgeway; flied the check for S20, GOO; then Mr. Edwards finished the check by writing Brown & Go at the end of Rldeway which made the frm Ridgeway Brown X Co.,; Hunt took the check very cooliy and put .ls in his pocket and walked out; presented it 10 cettain Bank, and then drew S20000, all in $l00 and $50 notes; he came back with his wallet full; it wSs divided; I goi St .e00; sent $i.tO0 to my mother, and wrote to her that drew Ii in lottery.
 Mir. Edwards said must put the Baltimore bank through nest; on the 18th cf May we met in Baltimore; Mir. Edwards and me 10 draw check for Si5 GOO, signed KothS, Coles & Co he gave # to me and told me to get the money for it. refus- ed to do 1t; says he what are you afraid Of; am afraid of nothing, but will not take this check there; by that says Edwards, will go in the bank and get some gold for some paper money; then agreed 10 goand take the check; he told me to let hm 20 and get some gold and when they gre pay ing Ine the gold you present the cheek; did so; the cashier merely looked at the cheek and told the teller to pay me- he gave two thousand dollars in one hundred dollar notes and the rest in five hundred dollar notes; Edwards staid there some time afterwards in order to detect any suspicion; we separated. met in Wheeling, Cumberland and Cincinnati; we were in Cincinnati in January. 1S4i ;remained there about four days, Edwards ana Hl}SSh cbech on the tfuS Light tptfl- pany Bank. belonging to Hoages& Co signed Hodges, as President, and Edw ards signed WiIeS name across the back of the check, which had to be done before the check would be good; Hunt signed the cashiers name TIant took the saoney, the amount was &20 GOO I got S5, 900; Edwards said he despised check tAat was drawn for less than S20 900: he either wAated to make big rise none at all.
 We then went to Louisville together; Hunt and Edwards forged a check on Hiram Goodrich for S20,0o0; Edwards presented ii at an exchange office at a heavy discount for the money; the banker said he did not have that amount in his ofice (this was after banking hours was the reason he offered it at discount but would take him 10 the cashier of the bank fl was drawn eas we went to the cashier; presented it. he told me he would go to the President, we saw him, presented il, any of that money; we quarreiled and separated they went to N. Orleans, and another direction.
 They forged checks on the New Orleans and Mobile Banks, they returned to New York, and forged note there, which caused his convictions was not interested in the three last crimes: not having time, am compelled to close my confession in relation to Edwards and Hunt
 On the scaffold this fellow made another comics sion. duplicating some of the most respectable in California in his yillainies His last confession We believe to be occasioned by spite, because those persons did not interfere to save him. In his last confession he said his name was Wm. Benia min Heppard.
 Ii appears that Robinson was found enlisted in the mounted rifles, on his way to Oregon, which seems rather strange, after years of successful villainy, making his thousands. /,