Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-01-02

.~...4! 80. ~ ..s.i ,niiiseii IN the attempt.
In 1854 Mr.. Burton obtained requisi-
tion from the Governor Of Arkansas on the
authorities Of Ohio, and several OF the al
legged conspirators were arrested at the Wal
nut Street House in Cincinnati, ironed, hur-
ried off in an omnibus to steamer, and
taken to Jacksonville, Indiana, and thence
to Helena, Arkansas. Here they were
kept in Jail for three months, tried and ac-
quilted.
But the chase was not yet over. Mr..
Burton had spent nearly all his own means
in the pursuit, and now the insurance COM
panies came to his aid. The United States
Government also employed him to track
out some extensive counterfeiting opera
tions, alleged to have been committed by
the conspirators whom he was pursuing.
In 1854 William kissane committed
heavy forgeries ontfle Chemical Bank Of
New York. He was caught, but whilst in
custody of an ofiicer-and, ii is claimed
through his CONFERENCE.-The made his es-
cape through an aperture in the water closet
OF railroad car. He was subsequently
retaken tried and sentenced to Sing Sing
prison for two and half years, but was
pardoned out by Governor Clark of New
York, in December, 1855.
Sill Burton kept on the track of the con-
spirators like bloodhound. Numerous at
tempts were made on his life. AT hotel
in Columbus, and in other places, poison
was found in his food. In the winter of
1855 ae came home broken down in health,
and asserting that he was dying from the
effects of slow poison. On the | lth of De-
cember, 1855, he died at his home on the
west side, the uudoubted victim of the poi
soner.
As an instance of the many attempts
made on his life, we may mention the fac
that whilst sick al New York. before COM
ing home to die, glass of wine was sent
TO him with the regards Of the landlady, but
as Burton never drank wine or spirits. it
was left untouched. 1t turned out that the
landlady did not send it, and on anayzation
il was found to contain poison enough 10 kill
three men.
1t should also be mentioned that Kissane
was pardoned ont on the request of Burton,
and that had the latter lived, important re-
suits would have followed Kissane's liberia
lion.
The reader cannot fail to see the unmis-
taxable identity of 8 Mr.. Sidney" with the
late Sidney G. Burton, aud there are other
smaller circumstances that confirm fh- fact
beyond dispute !" Mr.. Sidney" alludes
to woman in the gang whose strength Of
nerve and will baffled all his endeavors TO
master her schemes. In private conversa-
ton here, Mr.. Burton has often alluded to
spirators, but whose name, for obvious rea-
sons, we cannot now publish.
The myst arious part OF the magazine
sketch, namely, the power Of" Mr.. Sid ey'
to read the character and history OF an in
dvidual by his hand writing, we cannot
throw much lie ht on, as he made but little
mention of his skill in this respect among
his friends here. That he was skilfuI ex-
pert in detecting hand writing, is however, a
well known fact. and on one occasion a
forgery on one OF our banks, of which a
clerk in prominent River street business
house had been suspected, and who was un-
ker police surveillance in consequence, was
by Mr.. Burton, in an instantaneous glance
al the wiring, fastened on one of the gang
of conspirators.
He even mentioned the day on which the
forgery was committed, and stated that on
that day the person he mentioned would be
stopping at one of the hotels under one Of
three or four assumed names. Instant
search proved that the person in question
had stopped hat day al a hotel undrr such
a name. How far this incident may 90 to
support he strange story of Nr. Sid
ney's =" extraordinary powers, our readers
can judge from themselves.
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