Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-21
MRS. %FORREsTER.
-
She b i~aieryiewed by an Appeal Re.
porter, and Tells the Sters
Of Her Life
The Whereabouts OF Forester when Ma
than was MHrdered-Mrs. F. Rather
Wild in Her Statemesth
SOsaething Further About the Diamond
Cluster-What James Kenny Knows
About the "Swag."

DDInGeAAAA III NnNI ABNAt ~ OAhAAN4e
Cluster-What James Kenny Knows
About the "Swag.'
Sinee tbs q lest of the noted Desperate Bis
FcfTe.ter, in Washington, charged with The
murder Of BENJAMIN Nathan, public expecta
ton has been on tiptOe for everything con
nected with his charmed careers And the easl
incident on fact rouebirg ms residence N
Memphis has ee1r read Win more thau
usual avldity.
The net having been publicly stated thai
HIS wife was at preSentin Memphis,an APPEAL
man called at her residence yeSten0RY N ofdel
to interview her. With
GRACE AND EASE
which would have done honor to one occupy
ing q FAR different situation, Mrs Forester
received the reporter, and Immediately placed
his mind at ease by politely lpiofsstnS tnt
lions TO answering any questions ne might see
PERSONNEL.
Mrs. Forester is a natural blonde, q little
above the medium hight OF woman, with
light blue eyes, in which there Is q pleasing
expression, rOundf face, nose slightly aqulllne
small mouth, which, when she SPEAKS, dls-
closes a perfect set OF teeth, with "a expires
sion more than ordinarily intellectual, OF q
graceful figure, slightly given 70 eal60hp0tat
and cOnverses with an ease and httency not
often found in female OF her present station
HER STORY.
al am the lawfully welded wife ofl3IIy For
roster: 1 married him. as Alexander McClem-
ons: I was married in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, or the seventeenth daI Of Octo-
Der, 1869; I was married by a squire; at thai
time / did not know my husband as Billy For
roster; he was a gamblerwhen married MN
I was at the school, ongh4ossom
street, in Boston, when 4 first met MN 4
knew nothing about his history until l ar
rived in New Orleans IN June, 80; i've
,-..f-- of4ar ma a Trfuaf hp WQg arrested as an
escaped convict from theI Stale PRISON
this was the rstintimation / had Of Yhatkind
Of a man he was; / was sixteen years and
eleven months old when l married
him: on his release from custody
in New Orleans he left me attn Second street,
kept by a Mrs. Corners This was on the sec
ond day OF February. 1871. Since tt1t time I
hare nepeT heard from him or seen him. ! read
the letter in this mornings APPEAL, signed
~Moliie Mack" ] never wrote such 6. letter as
that: Mr.. COnnOrs did not create any mus
about seeing his name in the papers; I re-
NAMED six months at Mrs. after
that. I left Mrs.Connors's aboutthe eighteenth
or nineteenth of March, and removed TO John
.Connors's, sc GirOd street; 1 left Mrs. Connorss
because I did not ike her: 1 remarked win
John Connors from March untu Ine elgh-
zenith day Of July; then came 70 MemPhls
and stopped at the Commercial Hotel Two
weeks. Lehner House three weeks. The date
Of the murder is the Uwenty-nlrth day
Of July, ISL; on mat naght fofTsS5eL
rrgS in bed tCih me at So GfrOd street, Men
Orleans: have read so much OF
the Nathan murder that the date Is well liked
in my mind so that there can be no posi-
bfftV of Forester ever having killed Nathan
I again state that I hare not seen Billy since
February, 1871. III had heard one word from
MIN, I never would be found where l am, Tor
10 was the wan of money that drove me 10
to where I am: I could not 90 home, FOR l was
afraid of my parents. as I eloped rom the
schoolin Boston with Forester.
Mrs. Forester then told the reporter her
maiden name and the residence Of some Of
her relatives, who are OF the most Respectable
walks in life, and which are withheld, as they
are of little importance.
roster indicated a degree of intelligence and
refinement which does not accord with the
p~enmanship or etymology OF the Ietter slgned
sMollie Mack" which was evidently written
by q very ignorant and unlettered person, aSls
shown on the face of it. This letter was cor
rected BY the reporter before going to the
ME date o (this letter is March Is, 1871, at
which time, according to her own statement,
she was in New Orleans, as she left Mrs.
COnnOrs's on the eighteenth OF nine
teeuth, and went TO Johns, and Forester
was in Memphis about the tine OF
Mrrdi Grag, and stayed a month IN the city,
which was the thirteenth Of February. The
discrepancy in dates which are italieised in
her statement, is difficult to account Tor. II
had never heard from or seen Forester
the nineteenth day OF February, how
She have been with him at So GirOd
street, New Orleans, on the night OF me Ma
murder. which took place on the TWEEN
ty-ninth day Of July subsequent 70 the time
shelstates he left her at Mrs. Conners?
These two statements do not agree; one OF
them must be erring.
JAMES KENNYsS LETTER.
MEMPHIS JAZZ, October p, 1871.
Athy:
DEAR SIR-Last New Years morning be
tween twelve o'clock and sometime before
daylight, the jeWelry store Of Mr.. SehOaler,
IN Camp street, two doors below canal, New
was entered by burglars aud the safe
-.H.F.la - ah.- Hrh~-H harrEar nd dollar. uvnrfh
DAGO FRANK
md Dave Cummings came to that city a few
lays before the robbery took place.
BILLY FORESTER
been in the,city all winter. He disap-
about a week before New Years, and
The impression on my mind was that ne and
DagO Frank and Dave Cummings had COM
mitted the burglary. About the first Of Feb
-uary / received word from Forester, he be-
.ng Just returned from Memphis to New Or
and l Immediately went to see him l
Oun him in some business he had on hand,
put II did not amount 70 much. be asked me
Il would go with him to Memphis, as he had
swag to take there, and l was the only
man he could trust in the event Of his
1ing arrested. I agreed TO go with him.
he went somewhere to get
THE SWAG,'
we stayed at his wife's room that night,
at sunrise we started TO walk 10 The sec
station on the jackson railroad, and the
day, about two O'Clock IN th,a after
nOon, We arrived in this city with thirteen
pieces Of jewelry, all being diamond rings and
pins. We went straight 70
JOHNNY MARRE'S SALOON,
the Ovorton Hotel, and there met Dago
Frank and Dave Cummings. jim hickey,
also, was there, and to him (FOrrester in
mel was Entrusted the task of selling
the "swag.' l stayed there a week, in the
front room upstairs, and in this time L sup
pose they sold the jeweiry, as Billy let me
have annuuh nancy 70 take me hack 10 New
The balauceo of the jewelry, Forrest
sr informed me he would send to New York
me, his wife going along. However, l
-old him that did not care to have anything
more 10 do with the business, ash was liable
10 come 70 trouble If IL was knoWn that l had
sort Of connection with him or his wife,
have not seen Billy since. The day I
tried.
MET FORRESTER'S WIFE
n the jail. h and Melrose, it seems, went
10 see Padden tBurr's murderer). She recog-
l1zed me, and has been to see me several
lines. She Is now boarding in the same house
Joe Lee. don't know who bought the
diamonds. I heard Billy refuse to agree 70
some price, and remark 10 Dago Frank that
he would rather throw them in the river than
ct the d-n sheeney have them. / think the
cluster pin which Angelo wears was
of some of the diamonds. He told me
himself he bought II rom some party who got
& mp North. It's possible hat some of the
.ings might have been sold to
SOME MADAME,
IS it is a common way thieves have Of selling
iuch small articles. They are so very easy to
liter and reset. Ireceived a frSt-clas, set of
.ools since Ihave been in this Jail, hut as !
lave no intention TO get out exceptin illegfti-
nate manner, l handed them to Captain
Jackson, the jailer. don't want You TO i'm
IgiDe that Mr.. Forester gave them to me, as
he has seen trouble enough. / viii simply
that some friend, whose name was not
iVen TO me, sent them TO me by a friend.
Loue can see them on application to Captain
'ackSon.
Mrs. Forester has resumed her maiden
lame, IL being
MOLLY CLENIONS.
tell any one who she is. The proprie-
or OF the house on Main street thai opens
tack into Melr0seis went bonds for a man
Irving, who was charged with stealing
silver goblet OF "A boat. Irving gave him
ALADIES' GOLD ENAMELED WATCH
q return for bailing him. he had stolen the
yafch of some boat a few days previous to
is being bailed. He, in turn, gave il 10 an
man. who looks Ike a Jew he has a
lack mustache and smooth face, and when
nan named Meehan5 an ex-Constabls, and
hin he went his bonds, but Frank, the
roprietor Of the saloon, gave him the watch,
conditions thai he would sign bonds for a
MITCHELL,
rho is sentenced to five years, he having ap-
called 70 the supreme Court. The party who 1
Dst the watch went TO Alabama, so said Irv-
NJ. There are two initials on the back Of the |
Inside case of the watch. Could you send me
own the two late Police Gazettes, and oblige,
ours, respectfully,
JAMES KENNY. /
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