The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-10

CAsTyaE OF ffE ssssUs Pessp-N afiaAF MUa.
EDsas1 ,,l,Ybe baTsiat dasht M &sssins.
sda Saturday t.nnas o Il ID { orraaas,
oas Of sbs, nioss irgiais iii ill .tlils
Ico,11sry, for Shom large rewards bafyig beeeIj
fogered4 ; 81 the time q iSshe Nathan murder;
|,tn New ! ork, ibs missed, and II was
tfoGgbbitr ns might have 7isssb el niirdeFsf,
bot there Is NO evidence, sgaina ,hin,ssl Ehe
reward for shk sppfsbsnsion l9fr burg ssiies
isdver S1e,eool A,Washtbgten .sorresi,pha!
ant of the Baltimore jSgn writes linn g;ay5
asIfe was noWnt TO be ina house on Twelfth
Fstreet, where Detectives Sooms aud %hfcEL
fresh proceeded and took him into custody,
not dreaming at the time that helwas so pre-
cipus bird. While he was being locked up
id the cell at police Headquarters, Detectives
Mcpevitt, Miller, and the chief of the forre,
john Chrvoe, being present, d cotlsnlsati6n
was held, when one suggested that the .ap-
5pearaRce OF the new prisoH.r, who has every
marx of a professional 'cfacksma1, ;was Eiini
Lr to that Of Billy Forreste /, the supp used
murd eref of Nathan Soon bis descriptive
Elist and photograph were hunted up, and
every mark on the n,an tailed precisely
Chief Clarvoe' had Been informed that Billy
Forester had ship. picked on his breast
with India ink.
1.-The prisoner hesitatinggy barred his breast,
where the ship could, be distinctly seen.
After some talk he acknowledged that he was
Billy Forester, and that there was big money
offered for him, aud asked for a paper aid
pencil. with which he wrote, a telegram TO
New Orleans to one Of his pals as follows
cam arrested, Sendsmy clothes to New
York, Ia cars. Of Barney Aaron. ,tSigncd]
BILLY MARSHALL" Marshall was one OF his
fayorite aliases He further said that he did
not fcar to face the charge of. being the
Nathan murderer rs he knew nothing OF it
whatever, and he would have surrendered
himself to be tried long since had IL not, been
that he has several imprtsonments to serve
out, one in the Illinois peniteutiary, from
which place he escaped, for thirteen years,
and the Others for shorter periods. He said
that the State Of New York has spent at least
$4,000 in trying to find him, aud he is aware
that there are over S39, 900 in rewards offered
| for him. He ayers that he has never left thin
country, although he knows that three detec-
tiyes are now in Europe looking for him.
He has been South. and only arrived in this
city one week from Saturday lust. II ~ ;
| r"Joi hNnaiu VI, tnt Sullct iutcilueubp VI po'
| lice, teIegraphed on Saturday to SuperEten-
| dent Kelso, of, the New York police, 'fWe
have Billy Forester; c me on for him. \
| telegram wis received from Superintendent
| kel so to-day, in reply, Stating that he would
| arrive here TOMORROW morning. -
'"Forrester is a ScotchmaD, about thirty
years of age, and probably the most accom-
plished burglar in the United States, and has
a particular failing for cracking banks. He
says he knows nothing of the Baltimore bank
robbery, but wished he had had band in it
| He read of it, however, in the papers; ha,
| an idea he knows whose work it is. from d
description of it, but he don't leak much
| to the detectives on thHt or any other matter
Of business A number of persons called
to see him during the day, to ali Of whom
he spoke readily. and appears to be very
cheerful, pot having the slightest idea that
anything can he proved on him in the Nathan
murder case. He says he was not in New
York for week prior to or after the murder
but at this time don't propose to tell where
| he Was, as 1t will be used against him." 1"