The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-01

likewise, that when that woman's house
was pulled down elk skeletons were found,
one Of which was recognized IS that of
prominent state official Of Mississippi,
who had been missing about three months.
would like to have seen that fellow rec
ognizing the SHELTON. In fact, I would
like 70 know him rs q man Of penetration.
should say he had no equal in the coun-
try. In 1855 was In Bordeaux, France;
| from there went to New Orleans, and
then sailed back home TO Scotland. l
started from Grenock, Scotland, for New
Orleans on the third Of April, 1860, some
days before the Heenan and Sayers fight.
| Again, it is said was In the house Of
refuge in California. No; never was
arrested In my life, nor put into the house
Of refuge, and consequently could not
scale the walls and come on to New York
on one of the steamers Of the Pacific Mail
Company. l never was on one these ves-
sells, and can prove that emphatcally.
| They say that l committed a murder
in Michigan. Yes; it is said that went
West from New York, and on the train
from Windsor, Gambia W est, fell in with q
Drover named Nelly, and beat him out
of three thousand 1--we hundred dollars at
cards and then killed. him l was arrested,
the story goes on to say, and acquitted on
the ground Of self.defense. l never was
arrested in Michigan never travelled I'M
der the name of Matthew Brown and never
knew Q man called Medley. Ii that story
was true there would be no difficulty in
getting the facts from there.
They say that, on the first of April, 1869,
Dunn and a,tacted keeper with stone
while We were going to work; the blow
Knocked him senseless, and we escaped by
scaling the walls. Now, was arrested
in 1853, and came out Of Joliet prison
the seventeenth Of April, 1867, as old
simmons the detective. in Chicago,
knows. He WAS head warden a, the time
l came out. never knew man named
Dunn, and, in making my escape, l hurt
no one the authorities there know that,
and can prove il. They say that in the
fall Of 1859 l made the acquaintance Of
George Ellis, Jane. Elliott and Tom
Riley, and the headuArters of the gang
were q, No, 5s3 West Twen,y -ninth street.
l WAS in Baltimore in 1869, and was never
in the house No. $50 West Tweniy.ninth
street.
As regards the
RoBBERl IN EAST FIFTEENTH STREET,
Billy Forester says; IL was in Philsdel-
phia when heard that job was tried to
be done. Now they say l was arrested
in Pii,sburg, by Chief Hague, for burg
larry done there but that is, like all the
rest have told you of, lie. never was
arrested by Chief Hague; but was ar.
rested in thst town BY one of Pinkerton's
men, named Stock!ey, on the Wilkesbarre
charge. l was taken at ten o'clock in the
morning, on my way to the post-ofiice. l
left that very night for Wilkesbarre, but
the train not connecting, I was taken to
Philadelphia. l got away from the police
in Philadelphia on Monday morning, at
four o'clock precisely, and the story that
asked the officers TO let me go into the
saloon during the journey to Philadel-
| phia, and then jumped of the train, is
false. They say the train was going at
the rate of thirty miles an hour when
jumped of, that is not so; did not Jump
of and did not escape until got to Phil
| adelphia. / did not run across the fields
and get a country blacksmith to take the
hand-cuffs of. Why on earth should do
that? When escaped went from Phil.
adelphia to Baltimore. From there
went to Key West on the steamship Cuba,
myself and wife, with Captain Ducrat.
We got off at Key West and waited for
the steamship Liberty, Captain Reade !;
went with him to Havana and from there
to New Orleans in the same vessel.
travelled all along the line as frank Mar
SHALL" The books Of the steamship com.
pany will show the time of my arrival at
New Orleans. ! remained there about
two months, and during that time the Ma
than murder was committed"
|. So Billy FORESTER, the man of so many
evil geEiuses, who has kept the whole de-
tective force of the north in obeyance for
over three years, and whose name has been
heralded throughout the length and
breadth Of this land as the most noted des-
perado of the times, after outwitting AL
len Pinkerton, of Chicago, out of fifty
thousand dollars he goes back to the Jol-
let state prison to serve out his term, and
leaves our great detective force of the
United States to mourn over the multabil-
ity Of all mundane affairs. Billy Forces
ter, according to the law, is innocent Of
| tho Nathan ynurdar