New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-27

and am confident all he knows about any
fiat being into it outside of what | have
written is positively imaginary.
l have only to say that Forester has quit
stealing, and all the kilograms purp0rting
to designate his whereabouts, particularly
IN connection with jails, penitentiaries, etc,
are simply absurd, at any rate, while his
money lasts, and while all the world is
looking for him. Were no one after him,
he was going to quit the cursed lite. he
has sense He quit in time. No man has
ever yet thought Of looking for him where
he is. Kelso, PinkertoD, or you, none OF
you can find Forester, 1.-THE best hlder ID
the world" Hoping that if he is ever
found that you, sir, may be the hndef' 4
VALENTINE.
The identical -" jimmy" mentioned BY
Burke, as having teen made by the
blacksmith on Tchoupitoufas street, is
now in the 'smuseuuA" of thieves tools, etc.
at Colonel Badgers headquarters. and the
police know positively shat it was "o' used
in the robbery of ScooIer's storeo
noted thief named James Kenney. alias
"'the NibIer.'' wheo with his pa1tnero Pete
Munday. were run out Of New Orleans by
the police early in 1871: is now undergoing
sentence in the Tennessee State prison.
| He wrote 60 Captain Athy, chief Of the Meme
| phis police. undeg date Of October %. 1871.
the following informationo hoping thereby
to get the captain interested in having his
sentence mitigateds'
| Captain Athy:
DEAR SIR-Rast New SEARS morning, 6eo
| tween twelve o'clock and some time before
daylight, the jewelry store Of Mr. Scoolere
on Camp street, two doors below Canal,
| New Orleans, was entered by burglars and
the safe robbed of $50, 900 worth Of jewelryo
DagO Frank and Dave Cummings came to
| that city few days before the gobbery
took place.
Billy FORESTER Had been IN tne city all
winter. He disappeared about week bee
fore New Years, and the impression upon
my mind was. that he and DagO Frank and
Dave Cummings had committed the buro
glary About the first of February re.
ceived word from Forester, he being Just
returned from Memphis to New Orleans,
and. J Immediately went TO sec him.
found him in some business he had on hand,
but it did not amount to much. He asked
me if would 60 with him TO Memphis
as he had some swag to take theres and
3 was the only man he could trust
in the event Of his being arrested
I agreed 20 go with himo He went
somewhere to- GET the ''swag," and we
stayed at his wite's room that nighte and at
sunrise we started to walk TO the second
station on the jackson railroade and the
following day. about Po Ne we arrived in
this city with thirteen pieces Of iewelry, all
being diamond rings and pins We went
straight to Johnny Mares saloon, bp the
Overton Hotel, and there met Dago FranlS
and Dave Cummings. Jim Hickey, also,
was there, and to him FORESTER informed
mel was intrusted the task of selling the
''swag" 1 stayed there a week in the front
room up stairs, and in that time / suppose
they sold the jewelry, as Billy let me have
enough money to take me- back to New |
Orleans. The balance of the jewelrys Fore |
roster informed me- he would send to |
New York with me, his wife TO go along. |
However, 3 told him thai did not !
care to have anything moro to do with she !
business, as | was liable to come to trouble !
if it was known that had any sort Of cone
nection with him or his wife, and have ]
not seen Billy SINCE The day was tried |
met FoTrester's wife in the jail She and |
MelrOse, it seems went to see Padden, |
(Burr's murderer)o She recognized me, and |
has been to see me several timeso She is !!
now bOaruing IN the same house with Joe |
Lee u don't know who bought the Giao |
mOndsa heard Billy refuse 10 agree to- |
some price, and remark 50 Dago Frank !
that he would rather throw them in the I
river than that the d--n sheeney should |
have themo ] think she diamond cluster !
pin which Angelic wears was made |
OUT of some Of the diamonds He told |
me, himself he bought il from some party /
who got IL up North 1t is possible that /
some ct tho sings might have been sold to |
some maGams as jt is a common way
thieves have Of selling such small articles.
dhey are so very easy to alter and reset
received first class set OF tools SINCE !
have been in this Jail, but a. have no inc
tention to get out except in legitimate !
manner, handed them 10 Captain Jackson, |
the jailOro don't want you TO imagine that !
MTso Forester gave them 20 me- as she has
seen trouble enougho ! Wall simply say that |
some friendo whose name was not given to !
me, sent them to me by fr.endo You can
see them on application to Captain Jackson. !
Dago Frank Frank Williams. AMI Dave
Cummings are She two parties arrested By
Captain Malone and sent down TO the
Parish Prison 70 await trial. but who were
released late at night on straw oondso and
made their escape fron8 She city, 20 which
we referred in q former article And il was
at the room occupied by these two men in
a house on Derbigny streeS, near Customo
house, shat CaptaiD Malone and ootiicers
Pearson and Pocor$ were secyeted waiting !
for Blr Marshal (Forresteg's alias af that
timeb 10 come. He was 60 meet his com
fades there az six o'c9oclSe He same To the
door, put his hand on the knob. inistrusted
and walked swiftly away That
is how near Forester came to being cap
tured here the third time. after he had been
twice arrested BEFORE but both times
spirited away from the police BY means Of
judicial machinery over which they. the
police, had no control, and Of the using Of
which they had ne knowledge until it was
too late to profit by the information.
The Memphis Times of the twenty fourth
the wife of Forester, now re-
siding in q house Of ill-fame in that city.
This lady is-or was--a very beautiful
blonde, one whose @xquisitely-cut features !
and full, graceful form would make her a
belle in any society. She is well educated,
and as accomplished in mind as beautiful
in person. Her father at one time kept
4 saloon on Howard street, Boston, and
perhaps does yet. The lady made the fol
loving statement to the reporter Of the
Times:
! am the lawfully welded wife Of Billy
Forester; married him as Alexander Me
Clemens; | was married in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, on the seventeenth day of
October, 1869; | was married by squire;
1t that time did not know my husband as
Billy FORESTER: he was a gambler when |
married him; | was at the Grammar School,
IN Blossom street, in Boston, when | first /