The New York herald., 1866-05-22

prisonmsns-Letser from Giadwin-ti's
Description, &c., Sc.
The following letter received in this once on
Saturday last nnlat.
TO rnR EDITOR OF THE nERALp.
Nxw YosK May 1s, ls6S
the part OF September last year uso5l you will seo
ward nve thousand dollars for the Of some
die Of last August Said bonds am willing to give up
provided you can hnd out the man they belong To-
you WI ascertain VINO 'hey oeons 20 shu WIZ 20
but not 70 put anything as yet into the baper about
them but have them write 10 mo, am willing 70 giye
up am here now In tho New York County jail on ths
charge OF having counterfeit money on my person, WIN
the lnteht To pass IT, wish you would call and see me
Y not send me one Of your reporters, aud VIII clear
h thng up The property lost u the amount o. some
forty thousand dollars viii do all 10 clear this
up ! am here through spite. wish 70 show up party
here IN THIS city aud how ana placed hero. .
am the man who got the bonds out of 81
Nicholas Hotel last August, and forged check on n
Of this month by Governor fcnton and arrested
Saturday, the 18th the same week. by party who got
me pardoned out The morey was put into uiy pocket
be pleased reporter 10 me Il YOU can and have
him come TO my room lie will have 20 get permit al
the United s.ase nashAia once on Gaa@9sTS se,
PS-Have the party that IN bonds belong to wri,e
to my friend oa 20. r, 70 me ray ~ ySH % 1 M SF any nta
have any one 10 see me hope you Will come your
SELF Get permit and VIII give you Information -
that the party obtain their property
Direct all letters to my friend W II Taylor Brook
Z iyn Post office, New York
The object OF the above letter to discover who the
parties that ownod the bonds, that the reward
offered rs 000 could be obtained their delivery and
the HERALD considered by Gadwn the only ro able
source by which this object could be effected without
dividing the reward.
The following remark able confession the result %
an interview with Gladwin at the County Jail LudloN
street
He said pardoned out Of Sing sing ON tho
eighth Of this month by Governor Fenton. j was rent
A son. New Haven, for s3,soa 10 The check was gen
uiDe, and all did 10 obtain the money was u foiss
Trowbrdge's name the back Tho nrst Information
that gave about the bonds TO lnwysr n New YORK
wrote to him from fng Sing asking him 10 npd ous
who the bonds belonged to- The reason tha, wrote 10
him was thni he had been my LAWYER In that affair
libcincd on the condition that gave them all up,
when arrested they fonpd seven OF the bonds Ia
possession Tho bonds In tho ~ Nicholas affair weto
given up Ia Captain John Gordon Captain Of the sNth
Ward Police got nothing but my liberty for giving
them up know Of no reward offered i1 Tie eoVery
Giadwin continued In rccr,ncc the forty thousand
bond robbery The lawyer found out w ho owned the
bonds and also that they had not an offered IN the
market, aud then wrote a. for moro Information
about them promising that step. should be taken to get
Through the chaplain of the prison sent another
letter To the lawyer, giving him the Information he
asked After receiving the second letter ho went 10
prominent Official to afs,s him In obtaining my pardon
They obtained the pardon cond ton t,ai would give
mp the bonds aud after left sing sins with them
a detective, went with me 10 Berlin, Conn, for this
purpose that they could get tho bonds aud share The
while was In Sing sing Of any reward bsins offered Tor
the OF the bonds, bat who on tho way To ber
lin heard OF the reward and ~ was not under
| gave the detective and tbs prominent ofnoiai IN"
| slip and came on TO New York. leaving them
is Connecticut When they came the de
| tectvs put up gane have arrested
was In a drinking saloon IA Houston street on Saturday
last when the d-ective Ia and OF spite had
arrested for carrying counterfeit money with the iptan
on Of passing H. They searched mo and they said boy
found In my coat pocket package OF one hundred and
sixty Eve twenty hyo cent pieces, fracional currency
| That money clipped into NV pocket for excuse
10 arrest me- ~ did not a cent Of bad money With
| me when the detective came In have had two hear
ings before Commissioner Osborn and my lawyer has
put OF the trial III neat Thursday for the purpose of
1nding out all about en-. They sad that they s1nd
me back where came from, bat my lawyer Aays that u
Ill give him three hundred dollars before I'm erut back
TO Sing Sung. he show parties up 10 stating how the
bonds came into ht possession Clsi~in says.-"The
bonds were given by smother person on Wesnes
day August TO- and put en- IN tin box Ths placed
| IN wooden boz aud tbsn barred em under stab'e
door Tho bonds belonged 10 parties 70 boston. ons
| There wcrc some railroad bonds They Adver-
i-cd Tho latter part OF August and 'hs loro part u Sep
| trubyr 1906.
Gadwin appeared very anrious that the place wlor, hs
aid The bonds buried shoah b. Published ~ no
repeated the satcmoni tha, they ysr- buried under
describing them he requested ths, the HrnAfp would
insert, "Boston papers please copy, and also that
HrR,tD by the owners and be would reply through s
columns n have written a. the Chief % Police al Bo
ton shout the bonds he sad, 'bsi don't know ~b~h
erhn get tho letter o. not sbykow b-foro they make
confess where they're hid that they act The
reward. In 70 bses 10 -1ng Sing
George oad~n Ass Ira 0i.tdins states that he ~as
born In Berlin. Conn, thirty three yesra 81 age. and
by trade esrprD,er Giaf~in Ia about hye feet ten
inches IN Insight and stoops rshtiy HIS face ~ almost
enprcsonsss The syea are grsy notr large and PROM
insnt hair and complexion rssdy, with lo- snd
vriukicd forehead II. under Jas pujor,H slightly he
yond the upper ne 10 sow his vsh, act and
Conversation To Judy. of the ssn by Inteilee
features he merely tool Ia the hands OF other Ia
the forgery and bord robbcrs.