Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-16

THE MURDERER OF Mr.. NATHAN.-The
following account of recent developments in
the pursuit of Forester, the escaped convict
and supposed Nathan murderer, is taken from
the New Orleans Picayune. 1t will be seen that,
with consummate sagacity, he has awaited him
self of the bad feeling and open hostility of the
eastern and western detectives:
When Forester was arrested in New Orleans,
in April, 1870, by Capt. Malone and Detectives
Harris and Pearson, it was as fugitive from
justice, and to be returned to the Illinois peni-
tertiary, from which he escaped He was then
stopping on Girod street, and was accompanied
by his wife, to whose instrumentality mainly he
was indebted for his escape. After being re-
manded to the parish prison to await a requis-
ton from Illinois, Forester procured writ of
habeas corpus from the NTH district court, and
was released before the detectives were aware of
| the fact. The same night he secured his pass
| age on the steamer Beaufort, for Havana, and
| had passed into the gulf before Chief Of Police
/ Badger was aware of his application for re-
| lease. From Havana he went to New York,
| where he remained until after the Nathan muir
der. His fight from there was across the coun-
| try, and he reached Meridian, Miss, three
months afterward. AT this point he was visit
| ed by his wife, who, until then, had not left
| New Orleans from the time of Forrester's
| escape. On her way up the Jackson rail-
| road Mrs. Forester Tor Mrs Marshall as she
was called) was the recipient of the polite assid
uities and courteous attentions Of st. Louis
detective who had come to New Orleans with
| the aVowed purpose of taking Forester back
with him. But the graceful destinations of the
lovely blonde so won upon the detectives heart
that she not only worme1 out of him his name
and business, but managed to abstract from
him her own photograph, which he submitted
{ for her inspection. From the information which
T Mrs Forester obtained, her husband succeeded
in eluding detective vigilance until he arrived
| at MatamoroS. In that city he remained, prac
ticng the profession of an American barber, un
til the list OF last May, communicating with his
| wife regularly by letter, and in the preceding
| February receiving a visit from her of three
weeks duration. 1t was necessary, however, Tor
| her to be in New Orleans as a point of observa.
ton, and early in March she came back to New
Orleans and took mp her old quarters on Girod
street. 1t was feared at this time that two New
Orleans detectives had got upon the right track
of the fugitive, and from Matamoros Forester
went to the Island of st. Thomas, remaining
there, however, only a short time, and return
ing reached New Orleans on the 18th of July
last and remained until the 18th, when he left
? for Shreveport, and three days afterward his
wife left for the same destination.
One thing is certain Forester never went to
Scotland-has not indeed, been north of Mason
and DiXon's line since January last There is
no doubt of the fact that Forester could have
| been caught at any time from a period of two
months after the murder but for the jealousy of
the detectives. Northern and western detectives
came TO New Orleans, and the first thing they
did was to declare their purposes in coming
here, parade grandly up Girod street, form the
acquaintance of the inan with whom Mrs. For
roster was boarding, and offer him rewards for
any information. There was but one conclu-
sion to such a course. The detectives are either
corrupt or insane. They either wished him to
escape or were unfit for their business. When
ever Forester wished to come to New Orleans
he would contrive to have it circulated in east
ern and western cities that he was here. The
two New York detectives who came out here at
theiinstance of Eagau, of ST. Louis who thought
he had him sure, would have had no difficulty
in getting their man if they had told, in proper
quarters only, for what they came, While he
was here Bradford, of New York, and his as
sociate, rode in street car conversing wit h
Forester, and didn't know him. The real fact
of the case is that the reward for Forester has
been too large, and stimulates the avarice in-
stead of the ingenuity of the detectives. But
ior this fact, in the first months of the pursuit
they would have communicated freely with
their brother detectives, and concerted plans
would have been laid. But each man wanted
TO be the main instrument in his capture, and
hence nobody got him at all.