The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-11

/ Billy Forester, the burglar, was sgotsel
to View York safely Monday nightand lodge,
in prison. Tie washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun says Il sf6s 3. 81
III" Forester insisted up to tbe last that HI
was entirely ignorant Of the Nathan murder
AMI he would write soon to this!ciff tina
that charge had fnilen through. Detectiy,
| Farley is of the opinion. however, that hi
defence is very weak. and tint he will be I'M
able to prove nm abb, although Forrestcl
has, rs is the opinion of many, prepared tlI.
| records in court I'm the South, where Il
seems that any r;,scality can be performed, Il
show that he was released from prison n
New Orleans or Mobile on the day following
the murder. -,-...-
:" He relnted some wonderful and remarka
hfe incidents of hnir-breadth escapes from
various prisons. aud said that he feels satisfied
hat he ean get out Of any prison in the
country. H
"He says that at one tune there were in d
single Suite looking for him no less than four.
teen 'fly-cops,' and that each had photo.
graph OF him, and that inside Of three weeks
he had borrowed the photograph from
every single one of them and had destroyed
It. lie admitted to-day that he had come to
this city Professionally and that he in,
| Tended to do Il Job here OF some magni.
tude, but will postpone until some future
time. He denied several times that he knew
anything of the Baltimore bank robbery, and
Baltimore detective unsuccessfullv applied
he pump to him for some time. Accord
ing to kilograms from New York, there
seems to be no probability of his immediate
arraisnment OH charge Of bein. the m;lr-
derer OF. MIR. Nathan, but that he will he sent
to Illinois to stand trial for other crimes"
The only evidence against him, as far as
the Nathan murder is concerned, is that
summed up by the New York Commercial /:
1t was ascertained that during the month
of May, 1870, Forester and pal named
Ellis were engaged in Il burglary at the house
of Mr.. Scenck, on Fifth avenue The doc, ,
il shp-calpcnteI's instrument, about eighteen
inches long, with which Mr.. Nathan was muir
dcrcd, was identified by the sons Of Mr..
Schenck is the one which had been carried
away from their residence by the burglars,
one of whom was almost certainly known to
be Forester. He managed to elude the
vigilance of the police throughout the
country, however, until finally, in Feb
ruary, 1871, Superintendent keIso offered
Il reward of twenty-five hundred dollars for
lis capture and delivery in this city, giving an
accurate description of him in circular
which WAS widely distributed throu. bout the
country and TO the heads of the police de-
mltncntS of Great Britain and Ireland. 1t
is supposed that the mai Ellis, who was in
the Sing-Sing prison, gave some conclusive
evidence against Forester, which the super
intendent of police obtained through one of
his tellow-convicts. 1t is stated also that For
roster, under an assumed name, put up at the
Fitth-Arenuc Hotel few nights before the
murder; was given room by his own desire
on the Twcnty-third street side, overlooking
the Nathan house, aud was seen in the veSt-
hulc OF the hotel on the very night before the
murder. Rewards for his arrest amount to
$4,000 outside of the Nathan murder, for
which So, 00O--not Including the Supelin-
tendent's reward--was offered. Forester
has just returned from a trip to the
South, and states that eleven months ago he
spent five months in this city. lie gave him
self up with apparent willingness, saying that
he was tired of being hunted down like a
dog. \ year ago he was within Il stone )
throw of police headquarters on one OCCASION,
but members of Tic Aliens gang ut The st.
Barnard Hotel. corner of Mercer and Prince
streets. got up mock fight, in which Il de-
tectiyc was knocked down, and FORESTER
fled, for long time thereafter disappearing
from view. The men who aided in the
escape of FORESTER were not arrest d. and
the detectives at police headquarters. for
some reason best known to themselves. have
never thought the public was entitled tUany
explanation OF the curious affair.