The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1873-01-04


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MisfisiFw, "a. desired bytle Coz
smot in September 20 take il hant
and invest gate tho matter 81 forged
and missed warrants Of thc -iata 9l
Mississippi Which bad been present
ed NJ iho bank m jackson. Bell
found that W. r. Durham. quaitar
mastcr on the steamship 81. LAnil
of the Crumvcll Line. Cal sYll one
and offered others Of these warrants
to a certain vel. known Camp street
broker, Who, smelling a mice. DE-
clincd 10 purchase 90 iho time ofthu
second yi,it. Ab0ut ma. time Dun
ham sailed lor New N0ft. aaI H,I
Was forced 70 avuit Dos uru.l. The
warrant sold WAS known to be n
duplicate Of a genuine uue ul recent
date, disposed II 10 Jaekslu. Mis-
sIssippi, by Mn. Swan vito Of hr.
{. ;. Swan, Of HAT place, IMPLICATED
in The great Cunningham forgery Of
Augurt last It wac surmi-cl the
Doctor might have had a hand IN
Dunham's case, aud Bell went 10
Mobile TO interview the Doctor. lie
was absent but a few days, bat
while be was gone a certain woman,
known to have been Durhams mis-
tress, appeared on Camp street with
another warrant, Az arranged by
Capt. Bell prior to his departure for
Mobile, she was paid for the war
rant, then nabbed aud taken to Col.
Badgers Office. All efforts to force
or persuade from her the secret Of
the great ring proved futile, and
Col Badger aud Capt. Malone were
finally forced to release her.
She warned Dunham Of his dan
ger, aud finding he had already left
New York ere her telegram could
reach lin, She caused him to be
warned at Quarantine, sixty miles
below this city, aud Durham at
once abandoned tho ship and went
ashore. The party who took Dun
ham oil the 1t. Louis was none other
than the rcdouhtublc prince Of lorg-
ers, DR.. Swan himself. After Dun
hams escape Mcbride offered to
him face to face with Bell,
provided the latter would pledge
to not attempt any arrest.
This was agreed TO by Bell, aud the
meeting took place in tho three-story
brick house ut tho corner OF Ram
part and Customhouse %streets. Dun
now proposed to disclose the
whole affair provided he could save
one friend and himself. A(tora2me
reflection, Bell agreed to this, sthb
nlating, however, that all the raised
warrants should be given up, and
the chief counterfeiter given into his
Durham now said that
there was at least a dozen persons
naming them directly connected
the raised warrant forgery, The
original plan, which was frustrated
by Cunningham arrest at Jackson,
Mississippi, in August lust, was fo
ssue simultaneously on the Suites
IF Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas.
Louisiana aud Texas, forged warrans
% the amount of five million dollars.
These warrants were to be manu-
'actured IN toto, but the "laised"
plan contemplated tho altering of u
small warrant 20 as to make It rep.
a larger sum than that for
il was originally issued. The
written portions Of the warrant were
'killfully removed with n colorless
liquid, discovered by Swan himself,
md then expert penmeu reGlled the
variant as cupidity and interest
dictate, As Tic seal, -
ure and paper Of the warra.. ls'
genuine, the "raised warrant be.
anne the most dangerous forgery
'ut. 30 far as known TO- one has
'et got into circulation.
1t has since trauspirel that eighty
thousand dollars, instead of forty
thousand dollars, were so withdrawn
nd that the full amount of the
orgery was one hundred and TWEEN
ozone thousand fur hundred dol
arS, Bell having at a later stage of
lie game captured in Dunham's
wn writing a list of the warrants,
umbers and amounts. There is now
, the hands Of some party unknown
ighty thousand dollars Of the for
but so close has been the I,
ursuit that they will probably never
Q offered in the market, and they
lay any moment be captured BY
'me of the parties on the trail !
The list Of names given By Dun ]
am to Bell in October reads as fol- !
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