The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-09-25
THOSE LETTERS AND THAT SER.
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AND
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Gard from mr.. Boswcil.
We have received the following card from
Mr.. F. A. Boswell:
To the Editor If the RspuJiicda!
SIR; The letters published In to-day's STIR,
purportlng to be written by me, are correct
and, as will be seen, were truly confidential
Those letters were obtained from Perry Car
son by s. J. Bowen, Mayor, while | was
looking at them in the water closet at the
City Hall; yet they supposed l knew not
what was going on; and assure you II thcy
are not hurt worse than Boswell by the pup
LEGATION Of them, no one is hurt. will here
serenade rendered him at his residence
That sercnade was rendered by the South
Washington band and others. II may be
that because Carson and Bowen were not in-
vitcd my private letters were published. But
| wonder who feels the mcancst, Bowen or
Carson, for causing to be published my
private letters. Certainly no gentleman would
do such thing. There Is, however, one part
OF one OF my letter that must have pleased
Mayor Bowen much, and that Is wherein |
state the promise to II. NJ. Knight was TO
use him, because he (Bowen) Is the man
who has kept knight on promises ever since
Juuo last, when he promised he would have
him appointed chief OF police.
Yet this letter docs not finish the tax
books. The law to have q numerical book
made was passed and approved November
81, 1858, and If his Honor had then given
the work out as he was urged by several, all
the lnboring men would have been paid; also
the school teachers and employees, with the
other claims 10 q great extent, but his Honor
kept the law dead letter until the latter
part OF February, 1869, and when the tax
book ought TO have been finished in
August and the people paid In September,
by keeping back the numerical book they
will not get their money from the taxes until
| after November |, IL thcn. But the public Is
well aware that a drowning man will catch
at straws and that ingratltude will surely
get It's reward Who put 8. J. Bowen where
he Is If Il is not the person whose throat
he would now cut II he could | would
state that part of the price paid for these
letters was two months back pay and q
threat, OF course. F. A. Boswell,
City Collector,
SEPTEMBER ~, 1870
MRs. FRANCES FRENCu.-Wc noticed the
arrest of woman, In the REPUBLICAN of
| Thursday, giving the name Of Frances
| French, charged by Mr.. William Sandcrson
with the larceny Of household and other
articles from his residence, on Capitol Hill.
| She was committed to Jail by Justice Walter,
| In default OF $500 bail, for u further hearing;
| but since that certain Information has come
to Detective McDcyitt which justified him in
asslduously working up the case. Yesterday
Mr.. McDcyltt recovered large trunk, be-
longing to the accused, In house on Seventh
street, which was taken to police head
quarters and Its contents rlgidly examined.
It contained miscellaneous variety Of every
thing, including clothing, medicines, keys,
| pocket-books, knives, forks, spoons, furs,
womcn's apparel ofcycry description, bottles,
tin cans, old books, tvc. A buskln purse
was found In the trunk containing three
nickel cents carefully rolled up in piece of
brown paper, two children's finger rings, a
number Of shirt buttons, pins, a penknifG,
earrings, steel chain and other articles con.
yincing the beholders, by the care with which
| tribes were wrapped up In paper, while car
rings and other valuable articles were pro.
mlscuously thrown together, that the woman
| Is certainly insane.
Mrs. French Is known by the aliases of
Mary Buchanan, Mary Mckay and Mary
King, who In 1865 figured conspicuously In
| our police courts, and was arrested on u
charge OF poisoning Mrs. Edwards by put
ting In the water she drank arsenic Of lead.
She escaped from the police Office at the
| time. She was also charged with poisoning
~
Chase, and also of robbing Mrs. Pepper Of
vclvcts and other articles.
Mr.. Sanderson asserts that his youngest
child, now Is months old, was very healthy
when given In Charge Of Mrs. French, after
the death of his wife, but that II is now
| plning and in a feeble condition, aud since
| hearing tho charges of poison alleged against
the accused, he thinks she had administered
some poisonous drug to his child. The ac-
cused was brought out for hearing before
Justice Walter yesterday afternoon, when
Mr.. J. p. Weston testified that he resided on
| Twelfth and streets, and that the accused
had visited his house on several occasions,
and had left ut different times small articles,
such as knives, forks and spoons, which aC-
cused said were her property, with the wife
OF witness for safe keeping. - % .
The articles were hero shown Mr.. Sander.
81 o. ,tSis.s s.Ssissi SnIs 5iS TesldGd at
the house of Nj. Sanderson, and that she
had seen several Of the articles exhibited At
the house Of Mr.. s.; that she had lost sov.
eral articles of her own, which she had not
| recovered.
Owing to tho absence Of important wit
nesscs, the hearing was further postponed
until Wednesday next.
During the examination yesterday eve
ming, and while the back OF Mr.. McDcvitt
was turned, the woman took one or two bot.
ties from the pile Of rubbish scattered about,
containing, as she said, medicine; but tho
officer recovered them and put them in q
safe place for the purpose of Rn Analysis, II
being supposed that the bottles contain
poison.
LOST CHILD FoUSD.-Ycsterday after.
noon Sergeant German found cOlorcd Cir