The sun., 1873-09-12
NATHAN'S ASSASSINATION.
REVELATION FROW THE ABLEST
or the DETECTITES.
A Bloody shirt in the Hands of Chicn0o
Detective The PiHusb'iitv OF ir'ing5
story-Ncw aud Interesting Views.


story-Ncw aud Interesting Views.
CORRESPONDENCE Of The sun.
WASHINGTON, Sept 10.-Your corrcspon-
dent Yesterday met col WIN. =. wood, late
chef Of the Secret Service Division of the
Treasury Department, who, while In that post
ton, was "a terror to cOuntcrfeters. There Is no
man in America more intimately acquainted
with the mode " life, the habits, the history.
and the pccular;tics OF the criminal classes
than he. While he was Chief of the Secret scr
vice Division he literally cNtcrminatcd the great
gangs Of countcrfeters In the East and West
who for years had been flooding the country
with their spurious ira h. At one term Of the
United States District Court in New York city
he, with the assistance Of District Attorney
Courtney, convicted aud put away in Sing Sing
and Auburn nearly one hundred desperate a.
welt a. clever counterfeitcrs. He became so
thoroughly acquainted with the manner IN
which counterfeiters work, the capabilities Of
each man In the different gangs, that the mo-
ment he was shown a counterfeit grccnhack he
was able to tell who did the engraving, VINO the
printing and who were circulating u. Nhen
the $500 counterfeit greenhaCk was received nt
the Treasury Department few days ago, MIR.
Geo. B. MCCartce. the Superintendent u the
bureau of Enaravns AM prnilnS' ,,, sHiI tnSte ,,
down the hist ,ry Of that note and teiI who did
the work at the first glance, More than that,
can capture the crowd and put them away and
that man is Bu wood. But this useful man Is
lie refused to be the tool Of Ben Butler, Bout
well, and otheTs. and was forced to resign.
| had heard that Col. Wood knew something
about the Nathan murder, or bad theory - tu
who did the job, and therefore asked him II
he had noticed in the newspapers John I. lry-
iinvrvG KNOWS SOMETHING.
Col. Wood lee. have. II lie is not crazy he
Il telling the truth. " =,
a story that would 50 closely resemble the truth
as to make YOU partially believe IA himf
Col. wood lie might In his sane moments
have heard some facts from his associates c'n-
cerninV the murder which he rcla.es In his raw
in--. But he he sane or crazy he knows some
thing about the job.
Col, wood-No. not drs,,i;. was consulted
about It, have my own notions about II.
Cou0sunndcut-Wh consulted YOU
Col. Wood We'll. have no objection to tell
yuu the story. sam Felker, Chicago dct ''t,c
vino had done some work for me and whom
| had taught several things, came t. me
and told me he thought he had clde i1 1 !e
Nathan murder. He had found In New YORK,
In an uptown house whore a certain gang flr-
uIIrul'. CnuErcgd'cl, a bloody smut lie
showed me the shirt and NJ once knew where
1t came from IL was Ihi'adelphia Shlrl =
peculiar make. what the> call an ola Ia hi"nei
shirt: the collar and wristbands attached "a
peculiar cu and make. Ihcrc i- only one h"I q
in tie country uakvs and sells that kiud ul a
shirt. II WIS extra hrZe, and required a hi.
man to i IL. The bosom was spl lttcrcd with
blood. ! saw at once how tnat had been done.
The man VINO wore 1t had uetn LEFT To watch
the odd man Nathan while his luS ere ctdcN- o.
Ing the safe. Tho cuoi-c startled the old man. aud
he started up. when the fellow who VIZ watch
ing him put tue crank uu him-thds t, lac threw
his LEFT arm around the old man nc,' anu a, %
tcm.tcd 90 mother his cries, bat the old man =
struggle making good deal u noise one of TIE
fellows at the safr ran IN aud dealt the o.d man
a a. adly blow with tine dog. which nNed hini,
and spllttered MS nlo,d on the shirt ot the man
who neld him. ihat i the way the killing Wa
done, certain. am Just - positive al ut II "s
II | saw tht WNni" thing with my oNh cyt-.
ina sulUr GIVES To JUDGE CARpo1p.
Correspondent VS. this shir, found sh ortly
after the murdcil
Col. wood Not safter
GORE pondcnt What became Of it Wha'
Coi' WOOD The shir, was taken to Judge
/ Cirdn1o. hut nofnre II was given into hi- poe
/ mi.ht always be able 10 Identify It, That piece
I have Nct. sam fckcr wanted ne g. t'kc nold
and work the ioh uU. hut declined. had my
/ hands fan of other Things, aud Thought also
/ there WI uu great anxiety un the part u some
. people :" have thr mystery s.iNrl hl the cap
/ tue and conNiction ot the murdetcr-
Correspondent DoyOu believe Twins party
I did the job
Correspondent DO YOU know Irving hi an
/ col. Wood know all about them. lie has
I named sD me of the men who were concerned II
] the murder Dan Kelley Wa one. don know
/ whether Irving himself participated "a ihe j"h
/ it-whu did II, and how IL was done. / have IA
! doubt he will he abie to produce tuc Wetuurau
b uum book, and perhaps some of the VIZ.
Cores -puudeut. liut what became Of tina
! bloody shirt; Has tarduz1 got il YETI
! Col. Woo. No: sam Frlligr has it. Whom
/ declined To- 20 into the case sam was coWpehe'
! o. throw it up. lie couldn't hlndl" II, lhrr
/ were men to deal with that were too much "a
/ AlW.
Correspondent Do you think Billy Forre,te
. had ANYTHING To- de- with the murdtrt
col. Wood When thcv had lin Iu View Iur
the, could not hni sufficient evidence to hoI
him.
Correspondent That may ot may not he true
. bat want your opinion.
Col. wood am not iu the ha'it ~ giving On
opinion to neVspai ermcn ur ot haNtut auNtutu
t. de- with such ropstrT-; hut VIII tell ~
something. when FORESTER Wa, arrested d
Washington and taken to New York his hassa2
wa checked To- Barney Aaron. just tcior, tia
there was an
ATTEMPT TO CRACK BASK
. In Jersey Ciiv and pccu Frank wa one ~ tn
/ PARTIES IheY were all caught, and Diego Frank
. lawyer was paid los Barney Aaron.
orrespundcnt-Du You mean barney Aaro
the priyp nLsnters