New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-28

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From the New York Herald
Public interest in the celebrated criminal
now locked up at police Headquarters. in.
stead OF decreasing, continues unabated
crowds OF people call at the detective office
every day and see him, but friends only
are admitted to his cell The evidence in
Tle hands of the police and what the an
E1or1tles can prove against Forester are
Che principal points of discussion. Recent
~ when he was taken into court on the
order issued by Judge Leonard to his coun-
selor, Mr.. William +. Howe, q representa-
tive of the Herald sat behind him during
S11e proceedings in the court, and the follow
. sug conversation occurred:
''Ihe people manifest a great desire TO
Gook at you" said the reporter
Yes" answered Forester, 'and it is not
ca pleasant kind of curiosity either, but /
54aye to thank the newspapers for that"
Yes, suppose So.
"If that was all they did / wouldn't so
much mind, but they lied about me most
CJutrageously"
~ saw the other day a statement to the
effect that you were born in the parish of
LafOurche, Louisiana, on the sixteenth of
august 1888"
THAT was not the truth. l was born in
Glasgow, Scotland, on the thirty@irst of
December, New Years eve, in 1885, and
brought up at place called Dumbarton,
fifteen miles below Glasgow on the Clyde
. "Then you did not begin life as news
soy on Mississippi steamer2"
mo, don't think / could"
did you ever steal from passengers
'1aIise on the board the steamer Pride Of the
West, on trip between New Orleans and
&atche2, as you are charged 2"
mo, sir; / was never arrested in the |
South for any crime committed in that |
country. The charge is a false and malie |
sous one.'
Your name, suppose, is not Forrester7" |
mo. My real name is Alexander Nc
EIymOnt."
There is a story about your being ar
rested eighteen times in three years on
charges of petty theft. Have you heard of
that 81
"a have, and I can prove it is not the
truth. They say / robbed drunken man
oof $1,000 and was sent to the Penitentiary
cat Baton Rouge for it, / never was in the
Penitentiary at Baton Rouge. Then there's
another story about the penitentiary in
oJackson, Mississippi. They say / was sent
there in 1858 for rObbing member of the
Legislature. Now, to show you how far
s.hey are from facts, was in Nagasaki or
Hong KOng-I forget Wilhelm 1853 The
records in Washington will shoT was on
tue United States steam frigate Susque-
hanna as messenger boy at that time Com
1iander Buchanan, who had charge of the
Merrimac during the late war, was with us, :
and Commodore Perry now dead, had c
charge. His son was secretary to Com
Chandler Hunter, whom | believe to be in
Washington at the present time In 1854 =
our vessel, the Susquehanna, got to Benicia
from San Francisco to coal, and l left her :,
1E1ere." I
They say that from 1854 to 1858 you =
sRere lounging about &atchez, and were the +,
associate of thieves, murderers and bad :
characters generally"
eyes, and that the principal haunt of the
gang was a place known as Mag Reynolds,
SRhO was driven cut of town and her house =
sorn down. | have seen that They say {
likewise that when that wOman's house in
sRas pulled down six skeletons were found N
e3ne of which was recognized as that of a al
prominent State official of Mississippi who 'e
had been missing about three months l ST
would like to have seen that fellow recOg- hi
nizing the skeleton. In fact, l would like al
70 know him as @ man of penetration. | =
should say he had no equal in the country.
In 1856 l was in Bordeaux, France; from
there l went to New Orleans, and then
sailed back home to Scotland. / started
from GreenOck, Scotland, for New Orleans /
IN the third of April, 1860, some days be-
fore the Heenan and Sayers fight" Be
"Were you ever in the House of Refuge r.
n California ?" ID
"NO; never was arrested In California on 81
n my life, nor put III the House of Refuge, M ne
md consequently could not scale the walls an
Ind come on to New York on one of the Du
steamers of the Pacific Mail Company l 4 f2a
LEN6E Whb Ou Oll0 VI Luo56 VESSELS, anu can Jul
lrove that emphatically." be
~ saw statement accusing you of com =
hitting a murder in Michigan r. r. r.
eyes; it said that / went out West from by
Gew York and on the train to Windsor, ST.
canada West, fell in with drOver named eat
Jeely, and beat him out Of $3500 at cards On,
nd then killed him. l was arrested the an,
tory goes on to say, and acquitted on the Eat
round of selfdefense | never was ar g.,
ested in Michigan; never travelled under ~,
he name of Matthew Brown, and never usu
new q man called Neely. If that story att
yas true there would be no difficulty in -, A
Getting the facts from there" ~
'gDtd you ever keep faro bank in Chi ELI
ago with man called Carr 2"
II never had anything to do with faro ~
ank IN Chicago in my life. There's where Sec
le police authorities know me well, and
rat can be easily proved" R
"YOu were keeping saloon in Peoria, mn
ere you not, at the time of the robbery of on
le Merchants Union Express Company p Car
mo, was not. l have been in Peoria pun
1T never stopped there more than two the
,nCs. simply passed through it on the No.
ain. never went by the name of Frank Sam
and consequently could not GuIS
I've kept house for bad characters under TT
at name." Cons
You married the daughter of a man called blac
Id Bill Thomas, didn't you p carp carr
''No, sir. / know nothing of Old Bill t tngs
tomas except by hearsay / never saw and
) daughter" All
You were arrested in Springfield. Iii sHRRe
rs, with man named Dunn for bur III
81 sale.
II was never arrested in ingtield-hoId
yes | was. was taken there one night
4 sent on to Decatur with party named SUCC
IN Williams l got four years at Deca-
:. Seco
They say that, on the first of April 1869,
INN and | attacked a keeper with stone
lille We were going to work; the blow Dy
ocked him senseless, and we escaped by u
ling the walls. Now, was arrested in SATI
u. and came out of the Joliet prison the az I.
of April, 1867, as old Simons, and
detective, in Chicago, knows. He was Duvii
al warden at the time | came out. ! for Il
YER knew man named Dunn, and in I IobI
king my escape hurt no one. The au- | be so
'rltles there know that and can prove it, A c
ey say that in the fall of 1869 made the imprt
Iuaintance OF George Ellis, James Elliott tT1ct
Tom Riley, and the Headquarters of the Eated
~ were at No. 533 West Twentv-nintb dated
Get. / was in Baltimore in 1860 and of A.
8 never in the house No. 533 West Iures,
street." i irn5s
What about the robbery of Mipepa TER
re, in East Fifteenth street They saw States
we're connected with that" with {
| was in Philadelphia when heard that y Aet
was tried to be done Now they say expen
arrested in Pittsburg, by Chief Hague, and "a
a b1,tvlorJr 5,,,a 7+,ors. IA +La+;s IN -
the rest l have told you of, lie.
er was arrested by Chief Hague; but
as arrested in that town by one of Pin oAA
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