Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-03-16
rue NATHAN MURDER.
4 Man Accused rosliyely.

It Superintendent Kelso, OF III
a New York police, has sent a circl
n lar, of which the following is
: copy, to every Chief of Police !
0 the United States and Canada, an
q many Of those in Europe:
New York, Feb, 27, 1871
! [Confdential. twenty-five hun
dred dollars willbe paid forth al
rest and delivery attle office of til
: Superintendent Of Police, in TIN
City Of New York, of Billy Fo + $
ter, alas Billy Marshal, alias Bill
or Frank Campbell, alias Fraul
Livingstone, alias Frank Harding
alias Frank Howard; aged thirty
five height five feet six inches
slim built but tough and wiry
rather broad. square shoulders, anc
weighs one hundred and forty
pounds; rather long, spare face,
with black eyes, having wild ex-
tpression high, square forehead
mouth narrow and corners drawn
down; upper lip stands out lit
tie; medium sized; straight nose
straight black. hair, heavy nous
tache, curling at the ends toward
the mouth suDken cheeks with
high cheek bones small, narrow
feet Generally walks with his
hands in his coat-pockcts Has a
tooth ont OF the left upper jaw;
bracelet in Indian ink on the left
wrist. Signed JAS. J. KELso.
Sup't of Police, N, Y. City.
The Superintendent declines to
crafty curious people by giving
the facts on which he bases his be-
lief Of Forester's guilt One Of
the New York papers says;
"Although the Superintendent
declines to give source from which
the information is received that
fastened suspicion on Forester, it
is almost certain that it was OBJ
tanned from George Ellis, burg
lar now serving out a term in Sing
Sing, for burglary committed on
the night of January 27, 1870, when
the office of S, & M. Nigel, at No,
23, East Twenty-ffth street, was
robbed of diamonds valued at.se
eral thousand dollars. Nathan wss
two months after the sen
tence of Ellis. Not long after the
Ellis informed one of the
officers of the prison that he knew
who the assassin was.
Superintendent Jourdan quietly
writ of habeas corpus
from Judge Cardozo, and brought
Ellis from prison to the Franklin
street Police Station. Ellis con-
'essed he and Forester had plan
ned the robbery Of Nathan's resi-
lence, and he believed Forester
rad carried the plan into effect.
rhey did not suppose Nathan or
lis sons were in the house, as it
vas known that the Nathans we're
passing the summer at a country
at Morristown, New Jer
ey. The thief was discovered by
Nathan, while operating on the
afe, in the room adjoining the one I
n Which he slept, and was killed I
" Forester with an irop dog, I
,hich has been so often described, t
nd which is alleged to have been !
tolen from the wine cellar of j I
'. Church, in Fifth Avenue, which c
,as entered some time previously t
y burglars. These are believed r
, be the principal facts on which d
uperintendent Kelso, Justice Dow
ng and Judge Cardozo base their I
elief that Forester is the assas, t.
n. In addition, ever since the s
Iurdcr, he has avoided all Of his il
ID companions, and has not been
zen in any of his well known {
lunts in this and other cities, 1t l.
more than probable that he is in n
'me out-of the-way place in the a
r West, or in some small country
,wn, working as O laborer, or at )
trade, endoavoring by this means l.
divert suspicion, Certain it is b
at he has not been seen by the v
1lice Of any Of our large cities o.
nee the date of the murder. .,
He is too well known to the po.
e Of the various cities, to have
capped their search had lie made h,
5 appearance in any Of the large te
wns. m
Forester has been u thief from 4,
) youth, and has served several in
rms in the State prisons. Heis N
lnted in Joliet, Illinois, having Of
capped from there after serving q ~
lall part Of q term Of thirteen in
drs, for burgarly committed in III
inois. en-