Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-03
from the Memphis Appeal
FORRESTER,S FEMALE.
She is Interviewed by "a Memphis
Reporter-A school Girls
Romance.

charged with the murder of Benjamin
Nathan, public expectation has been Oh
tiptoe for everything connected with
his charming career, and the least Incl
dent or fact touching his residence in
Memphis, has been read with more than
usual avidity. The fact having been
publicly stated that his wife was at
present in Memphis, an AppeoJ'man call
ed at her residence yesterday, in order
to interview her. With a grace and ease
which would have done honor to one oc-
copying far different situation. Mrs.
Forester received the reporter. and i'm
mediately placed his mind at ease by DO
litely informing him that she had no OBJ
JectIons to answer any questions he
might see fit to ask her.
Mrs. Forester is natural blonde, a
little above the medium hight of woman
with light blue eyes, in which there is
pleasing expression, round face, nose
slightly aquiline, small mouth. which.
when she speaks, disclOses a perfect set
of teeth, with an expression more than
ordinarily intellectual, of a graceful
figure, slightly given to en50np0i1at, and
cOnverses with an ease and fluency
not often found in females of her pres
ent station in life.
II am the lawful welded wife of Billy
Forester; married him as Alexander
McClemOns | was married in Ports
mouth, n. H., on the 18th day of OctO-
Der, 1869; / was married by a 'squire;'
at that time | did not know nv husband
as Billy Forester; he was a gambler
when | married him; was atthe gram
mar school on Blossom street. Boston,
when / first met him; | knew nothing
Of his history until | arrived in New
Orleans in June, 1871. Two weeks af-
ter we arrived he was arrested as a con-
Wet from the Illinois state prison: this
was the first intimatiOn l had of what
kind of man he was | was sixteen
years and eleven months old when
married him; on his release from custO-
dy in New Orleans he left me at 141
Second street, kept by Mrs Connors.
This was on the I'd day of February,
1871. Since that time I have never
heard from or seen him. read the let
ter in this mornings appeal, signed
Mollie Mack; never wrote such a let
ter as that Mr. ConnOrs did not create
any muss about seeing his name in the
papers; [ remained six months at Mrs.
ConnOrs' after that; | left there about
the 18th or 18th of March, and removed
to John COnn0rs', Sc Girod street | left
Mrs. ConnOrs' because I did not like her.
| remained with John Conn0rs from
March until the eighteenth day Of July,
| then came to Memphis and stopped at
the Commercial Hotel two weeks Leh-
ner House three weeks. The date of
the murder is the 20th day of July. 1871,
and on that night Billy was in bed with
me at Sc GirOd street New Orleans. 7
have read so much of that murder that
the date is we'll fixed in my mind. so
there can be no possibility Of Forester
having killed Nathan. | again state
that haze nat seen bjIly since February,
1871, If | had heard one word from
him | never would have been found
where | am for it was the want of
moncy that drove me to what | am. I
cOul not 90 home for | was afraid of my
parents, as | eloped from school in Bos-
ton 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 impor-
lance.
Throughout the above interview Mrs.
T. indicated a degree of intelligence and
refinement which does not accord with
the penmanship or etymology of the let
ter signed ''Mollie Mack, which was
evidently written by a very ignorant and
unlettcred person, as is shown on the
face Of it. This letter was corrected by
the reporter before going into the hands
Of the printer.
The date of this letter is March 18th.
1871, at which time, according to her
own statement, she was in New Orleans.
as she left Mis-. COnn0rs' on the 18th or
18th and went to Johns, and her hus-
band was in Memphis about the time of
Nardj Gra$. and stayed a month in the
city. which was the 18th Of February
The discrepancy in dates which is itali-
CiZcd in her statement, is difficult to ac-
count for If she had never heard from
or seen Forester since the 10lh of Feb
ruary, how could she have been with
him on GirOd street, New Orleans, on
the night of the Nathan murder, which
occurred on the Goth of July, subsequent
to the time that she states that he left
her at Mrs. ConnOrs' ? These two state
be erring.
From the Memphis Avalanchel
Mrs. Forester is still in the city. and
is stopping at Annie Melrose's, No. 1913
Main street She is a genuine blonde of
about twenty years, medium hight,
stout built, and rather pleasing coun
tenance. About three years ago she
married Forester. who represented him
self as a gambler, and she had no idea Of
his real vocation until one day she saw
him going along the streets in irons.
Then, for the first time, she discovered
his character, but with a woman's love
refused to give him up. This was in
New York, and after travelling through
the northern cities, they finally came
south, going to Mobile. For about six
months, from November, 1870. until the
following February, they stopped alter
nately in that city and in New Orleans.
In March, 1871, the police got after her
husband so close that after coming to-
gether to this city they separated, and
since then with one or two exceptions,
she has not seen him. Being thrown on
her own resources and feeling a sense of
from being the wife of a
JultI, sHC CIItICQ NICIIOSC > anu HIS SINCE
followed a life of shame AS to any
knowledge of the Schooler robbery or
the Nathan murder, she protests a most
perfect ignorance. Last evening, when
a reporter of the Ag05anche called at
Melrose's, it was learned that "Blonde
Nellie Mrs. Forester - and Annie
Melrose were indulging in a genial drunk
striving to drown their common sorrow
in the flowing bowl Owing to the de-
plorable conditions of affairs, an inter
view was foundimpossible. Aperson who
should know volunteered the informal
ton to the A0alacbjan that MOllie had
stuffed one reporter that day" and
guessed that was about enough.
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