The true Democrat., 1854-07-19
NO. 40.

court o1 boroon county, Ky, proving the mar rlage of the pretended claimant to said Jesse Swan, in 1789
 when the papers came to be examined at the pension once, certain discrepancies between thelr statements and the statements made by Jesse swan Tn ms declaration, in 1920, led to tne suspcloh that the claim was fraudulent About a month ago J. J. Coombs. esq an at torney -at-law of Washington, having occasion to visit this State, was requested by the con- missioner of pensions to go into Clermont coun ty and investigate the matter. Up to this time all correspondence with the pension office in re- lation to this claim had been carried on in the name of Catharine Swan, through the post-of flee at Goshen. When MT. Coombs visited Clermont county, he ascertained that said pa- pers, purporting to have been made out before the court of common pleas of Clermont coun- ty, were all forgeries, county seal and all; that there was no court in session on the 17th of Ja- nuary last; that Jesse Swan left no widow sur vlvlng him, and said witnesses Thomas Man. ming, Alex. Blair and John Hulick, were all dead-two of them having been dead many years. After his return to Washington, on an examination of the files in the pension office, 1t was discovered that several large claims had been admitted within the last eighteen months, and the money paid thereon, at the Louisville agency, amounting to over six thousand dollars, an o0hach the papers acere draaon up an the some haa1d aorating as in the Swan case On further investigation, the department became satisfied that these cases were all fraudulent, and made out by forged papers, similar to these above described. The papers in some of these last mentioned cases had been filed by resident agent at Washington, who received the certif- atpq ha off hoy nx inquiry being made of this gentleman, it ap- peared that the papers had been forwarded to him from Cincinnati and Newport, Ky., by person signing his name c. J. McNulty, jr.- Previous, however, to the receipt of any of these papers, man had called upon said agent, ln Washington, about two years ago, introduce ing himself by the name of c. J. McNulty and had engaged said agent to assist him in the pro- secutlon of certain claims to be forwarded on his return to the West
 About year ago, 1t was ascertained at the pension office, that one of the claims, thus pre- sented, had been allowed upon false testimony, as to the date of the widows marriage, and the fact was communicated to the agent aforesaid, who had received the certificate, with demand for the refunding of the money which had been improperly paid. On his communicating the facts to his correspondent, c. J. McNulty, IT,, he received an answer full of virtuous indigna- tion, that he (McNulty) should have been made the victim of such an imposture and promis- ing to see that the money (about S8OO) should be refunded. This letter was filed in the pen sion flee, and (the money being shortly after refunded) no intentional fraud on the part of McNulty was suspected. Before the money was refunded, the Washington agent received a letter, signed W. w. McNulty, announcing the sudden death of his brother the said c. J. McNulty, jr., on the 21st of June last accom- panied by three city papers, containing an obi tuary notice, and announcing that the funeral services would take place at the residence of his brother, on Front street. between Elm and Plum. He soon afterwards received other let terS to the some effect signed D. w. McNulty, Calling himself also the brother of said c. J. McNulty, jr,) and enclosing receipts from the pension agent at Louisville, for the money which he had refunded, on behalf of his said deceas- ed brother, in the case above referred to-
 Having possession of these facts, and others which we have no time to mention, MT. Coombs arrived in the city on Monday evening last, with authority from the government to investi- gate the matter, and to institute any proceed lngs which he might deem necessary Through the assistance of Mir. Rufin, the city Marshal, he ascertained that there had been no death or funeral of man, named c. J. McNulty, at the time and place mentioned in the obituary mo- tlce, and came to the conclusion that the letters signed c. J. McNulty, jr, w. w. McNulty, and D. w. McNulty, were all written by the same hand and by the said D.. w. McNulty. He also became satisfied, by inspection of some records in the clerks office of this country, written by said D. w. McNulty, while tempo ralily employed there not long ago, that said forged and counterfeit papers in all the above mentioned cases, were written by the same hand. lie got out warrant, upon which said D. w. McNulty was arrested on Wednesday evening" and on Thursday evening he was admitted to bail on S5OOO bond, for his appearance on Sa- turday morning, at o'clock
 On Friday Mir. Coombs visited Batavia and Goshen in Clermont county where he found witnesses by whom he could identify the de- tendant with the fraudulent papers in the Swan case, in the most conclusive manner. Among other things, he was prepared to prove by the postmaster at Goshen, and young man who stays in the post office there, that the defen- dant had called for and received the letters ad- dressed to Catharine Swan, from the pension office. He passed at Goshen by the name of Newkirk. Also by gentleman of Batavia, that some year or more since the defendant was at his tavern house in Batavia, making particu- ltu ilqlil0o III ieia1loH tO Une Ialnlly ol Salu Jesse Swan, deceased. He there went by the name of McNulty. Saturday morning, at nine o'clock, MT. Coombs arrived from Clermont, with four witnesses fully prepared to enter up on an examination of the case, but soon learn ed that his labors were cut short by the escape of the defendant
 NEW WAY OF MAKING CHANaE.-We do not vouch for the truth of this story. We give 1t as we find it in very respectable Virginia