New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-20
IRREGULARITIES OF PENNANsHIP
.mours Of Jennie i'm New.Orieans'
1.e WHITING MASTER IN hATcHez.
REGULATING THE WILDCAT CURRENCY.
scarcHaRp TRIES THE QUAKER DIALECT

The case of Scatehard, charged with having mace
overtures TO various parties to forge paraoh anu e
feet the release of Chas B. Huntington, the Wall
street forger from Sing Sing, grows quite interesting
as the examination proceeds. His project a. revealed
10 Mr.. Chas. l. Kane of Wall street ana others, 10
whom he applied for pecuniary assistance to carry 1t
out, was bold, original, and by no mean Impractical
ble He said that his skill as penman enabled him
TO forge the of any accurately as to DEFY
detection Added which, he was al adept in the tele.
graphic art and while he resided in New Orleans ex-
ercsed his ingenuity upon the wires in a remarkable
manner Living in the outskirts of the city, near the
TELEGRAPH lines he made counterfeit telegraph pole,
with a hollow space through the center, in which he
inserted an insulated wire and brought II in secret
contact through hole in the glass nsulator with the
main wire of the lines. Then continuing the branch
wire 70 his own house he enabled to read any OF
the messages that were sent 10 or from New-Orieans,
and make such use of the information a. ne pleased
To effect Huntingtons release he would forge the
name of the Governor to pardon, and before il was
presented take possession Of the telegraph above and
below Sing Sing, and by his peculiar machinery inter-
cept the inquiries Of the Warden to the Governor at
Albany or the District Attorney at New-York as to
the authenticity of the pardon and send in either case,
the following reply:
"The pardon has been granted, but you give him IN
charge OF the officer who has bench warrant for his
detention.
This warrant was to be presented atthe prison. oy a
confederate, at the proper moment and Huntinston
WAS TO fy with him TO this city, where swftsallng
schooner was to await them and instantly put to sea,
and make for Havana or the Isle OF Pines
On Saturday last the lady who il reputed to be Mr..
Scatchard's wife, was examined before Justice ooh
nolly She gave her name as Jane Henneu" Scateh-
ard and deposed that she was y years Old naive
of Ireland but had resided in Quebec since she was 10
wears old. She was first married in 1850, but would
not tell who she married as might crlininate her'
self She declined answering if she ever knew man
named Henry l.. Fraser. She had resided IN new
Orleans. whence she came with her husband six or
seven weeks since. She lived in Barrone street,
Orleans, but could not tell the number only that
il was 2OO She declined answering if she went by the
maine of Mrs. Jane H. Fraser and other names, a. to
answer would both c1iminate and degrade her. She
also declined answering if she had been in the habit OF
receiving letters addressed to Mrs. Jane A. Fraser,
for the same reason. She had known the prisoner
since one year ago last February but declined answer
ing if she ever knew him James b. Cross, or if she
was hi- wife. At the order of the Court she confessed
| that she had known man by the name of Cross.
She also declined answering how long she had known
Scatchard by that name, or how long she had gone
bv it herself lest she might crimnate herself. She
knew man named Joseph Naldor, another named
Charley La Croix her husband told her the latter
war a mid-shipmsn on the steamer running between
New. Orleans and Mexico. She recolected Charles
Bird but had no knowledge of Charley Berg W.T.
ness was then shown various letters (given below in
the order in which they were presented,) some OF
which she identified others she said she did not know
ANYTHING about. Witness declined answering If the
prisoner ever went by the name of james b. Cross,
let il might criminae herself She declined to answer
if there were any point Of resemblance between the
prisoper and James Il. Cross She had not been In
Liverpool for three years but WA not sure she was
not in England in 1856 She would not answer when
she last saw james B Gross.
Officer JoHs LORD then deposed az to the manner
of the arrest of the prisoners in Pne-st what ne had
in his pockets and what he found at his room IN the
Franklin House. Letters and documents marked
to z were identified by witness rs those which he
found among many Others, in Mrs. Scatchards trunk
One of them directed Mrs. j. Is. Cross, and
signed james, and another without address, signed
81 B. c." he asked her about more particularly,
ard she said they from an old beau OF hers,
letters marked X. & 81 She said that she had been
married six months.
We append copies of the letters and other papers.
The handwriting is Of the most varied character from
the neaest script to the coarsest and most uncouth
characters But notwithstanding the wide difference
in the writing and the fact that most OF the letters
purpor to have been written by lady, there Is no
doubt whatever that the prisoner wrote them ALL ana
that they copies of letters sent to varons indvdu
ais, which the prisoner retained for purposes best
known to himself or, as his wife proessed to he a
card-writer perhaps they were merely specimens OF
caligraphic expertness. We give them however, for
what they are worth;
DocusEsr A..
THIS certifes that the 18th day Of May in the
year Of our Lord thousand eight hundred and
ffty Mr.. Henry L. Fraser and Miss Jane Fleming
were by me united in marriage, at No. l0 Second
street New-YoIk City, according to the Laws Of the
Pastor Of the Brainerd Presbyterian Church
On her examination Mrs. Scatchard could not tel if
she had seen the above before but subsequently ad-
mitted that she had brother named Fleming.
NEw-ORLEAss, January the lOth -.
MY DEAR CousIN:
I-arrived here safe but lam sorry to say that L
would rather have perisked on My ray. but can
tell you no More-but II, you nsrer see youer poo,
eousinJaae in this rOuriid-again-lu think ua sna
know that I-Aare been rronged and couid no. t m,o
in it any i0Ager-Ny d. ar John will inc ana p.a
up hc longer write to Me-ths is the rst wr,'ng
that I-have don Must bear up hI,e ,0ngeI 49, s
TO my Darling Mother and Ny Dear cnese or Sodn W.. II
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poor Dear Mothels-I wish that could tell you a.,
Ny soryes you Coud that ,Lr uo
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