The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-01
FORESTER.
WHO HE Is, WHERE HE WAS BORN,
AND WHAT HE HAS BEEN Do
ING DURING AN EVENT
Full LIFE.
HIS REAL NAME AND BIRTH
PLACE-HIS CRIMES, TRIALS,
PUNISHMENTS AND
ESCAPES.
THE STORY OF A GREAT GRIM.
INAL AS TOLD BY HIMSELF
HE Is A THIEF BUT NOT
A MURDERER.
from the Memphis Appeal

rrOm the memphis appeal.
Ever since the fatal blow was struck to
crush the life tide out of one of the most
estimable gentlemen Of New York-Ben-
jamin Nathsn-it has been the province of
the New York detectives, assisted by the
machinery Of
ALLEN PINKERToN,
To fix that most heinous crime upon some
individual whose conviction might allay
public excitement, and satisfy the people
at large that the perpetrator of so foul q
crime had been brought to justice.
IMMENSE REWARDS
we're offered for the capture of the muir
derer money, even to the amount of fifty
thousand dollars, was placed before the
public for the capture Of the man who
had perpetrated SO heinous crime.
At the New York police headquarters,
where it is supposed the best detective
talent in the country ought TO be congre-
gated, suspicion Immediately rested on
Billy Forester, and it seemed 10 be the
end and aim Of the authorities TO ix this
foul crime on him, whether with q view 10
the furtherance Of the end Of justice, or
their own sggrandizemen,, we are unpre-
pared TO say. It's enough tbs. VIM. Fos-
roster, with his many aliases, has been
b'oGgh. before the country, and, on e1-
animation, has been discharged BY Judge
elected By tie people, AID thereby pro-
no1ncst inrosn; o. the Ss.ksn mur.
der.
GEoEgK ELL,s
nov occupies . cell .. Sing Sing hi.
friends 70 tie c0.;:a-y Notwithstanding.
s!nee our articles on this man have been
I'D f- -
country, ard a. il 10 our wish 70 do
NO MAE An IsSUEY,
We give history Of Billy Porres,ers own
life taken from bis own lips, and procured
BY = reporter Of the New York Herald
who 81! by his side during his late exam
inAtion before New York court After
preliminary conversation Forester
went on 70 say WAS borne in Glasgow,
Scotland, on the thirty-frst Of Decem Der,
New Years Eve, in 1888, and brought up
At place called Dumbarton, about fifteen
miles below Glasgow, on the Clyde. I
did not commence my life as a newsboy
on Mississippi river steam boat, a. has
been stated by great many of the news
papers. Nor did ! ever steal
passengers valise on board the steamer
Pride Of the West, on trip between New
Orlens and Natehez, - has been stated.
My real name is Alexander McClymont-
not Forester, as has boon given to the
world. There is q story of my having
been arrested eighteen times ON the charge
of
PETTY THEFT.
/ can prove it 10 not the truth. Thew
say ] robbed o drunken man of twelve
hundred dollars and was sent to the peni.
Tertiary at Baton Rouge for it. / never
was in the penitentiary at Baton Rouge.
Then there's another story about the pen
itentiary in Jackson, Mississippi. They
say was sent there in 1853 for robbing u
member Of the legislature Now, TO show
you how far they are from facts, was in
Nsgasaki or Hong Kong-I forget which
in 1852. The records in Warrington
will show you was on the United States
steam trigate Susquehanna rs messenger
boy at that time Commander Buchansn.
who had charge Of the Merrimac during
the late war, was with us and Com,nos
dore Ferry, now dead, had CHARGE, His
son was secretary to Commander Hnnt.r
wnom. believe to be innWsshinoton ~
the present time. In 1864 our vesssi 80"
Susquehanna-got to Benecia from San
Francisco to coal, and left her there 7,
has been laid TO my door that from lshs
to 1858 ! was lounging around Natcbez
and the associate Of thieves, murderers,
and bad characters generally. Yes, II hs.
been charged to me that the principal
haunt OF the gang was place known as
MAG REYNoLD's,
who was driven out OF town and her house
torn down. / have seen that They ssy,