Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-26

An iulcEHaLiOHhl AlaAbul-AlSAt5 tOA-
gress viii be held in Vienna during the
exposition.
A fifty thousand dollar fire occurred at
Waco, Texas, Monday night.
Governor Dix, of New York, has re-
fused to interfere in the sentence of
Frolick, another condemned murderer.
Three American gardeners will raise
vegetables in Austrian soil during the
progress of the Vienna exposition, to
compete for the agricultural premiums.
BY HALL
Arrest az Havana OF the Bank Of EnE-
land FOrserE-
= New YORK, March 23.-The follow
ing special dispatch to the Herald, was
received from correspondents in the
capital of Cuba:
HAVANA, March 2l.-ByrOn or War
ren, alias a. Bidwell, pretending to be a
native of Chicago, with an American
issued by the state department
at Washington, his wife, an English
woman, and Harry Noyes or Num-,
travelling with the former as a servant,
who arrived here last Saturday on
board the French steamer from st. Ma
zaire, were arrested yesterday at the
Hotel TELEGRAPH, through the efforts of
the British cOnsul-general, who had
been previously instructed by kilograms
to be on the lookout, as these par
ties would probably arrive here on their
way TO Mexico, and were cOnfederates
OF gang of foTgers on the bank of Eng
land. Warren and Noyes, or Num-,
are confined at the military barracks
and deprived of all intercourse. The
wife is under surveillance at the hotel.
Warren is about thirty-four yearsof age.
His appearance is not prepossessing.
The wife is about twenty years old, good
looking, with abundance of golden hair.
Their baggage has been examined.
Nothing eliminating was found, except
a notebook with leaves torn out. Bid
well, when arrested, turned to his wife,
saying, "Don't you say a word about
who you are, what you are, where you
are from, or anything about u.s." After
the foregoing he was stopped
from further conversation. Bidwell is
supposed to be the principal operator in
the frauds on the bank of England, and
answers to the description telegraphed
by the London pelice. Travelling with
an American passport, he went through
France into Spain and reached Santan-
der, where he embarked ON the
French steamer for Havana. There
is no extrsditiOn treaty between
Spain aud England, but the captain
general has received instructions from
Madrid authorizing him to act as if a
treaty existed. The authorities will
send the whole party back to London if
the proper proofs are furnished. A de-
tective is expected here from England
soon to identify and take charge of the
prisoners. 1t is stated that the confess
sions of the confederate now in London,
fully implicate Bidwell in the forgeries.
Ingenious swiudIins.
From the Troy u. y Time.I
Two months ago man appeared in
the Times counting-rOom, and asked to
have inserted in the paper an advertise
ment for desk-roOm in an office. His
request was compiled with; the adver-
tisement appeared, and was answered
bv a well-knOWn firm, with whom he
made bargain. Having secured desk
room, the stranger procured desk, and
then launched out into business. He
caused cards to be printed with the fol-
lowing inscription: "W. w. Gray,
lumber by the carload only, office,
No River street, Troy, New York, I"
Mr. Gray was very successful in secuT-
ing orders for lumber. He represented
as agent for several large lum-
ber concernsin East Saginaw, Michigan.
4 short time after he installed himself
in his office, his wife, a lovely young
woman, arrived. Gray made the ac-
quaintanCe OF many business men, and
they regarded him as a business man OF
rare ability. But Gray, with all his
and with his guileless fea-
lures, was a fraud, and an unmitigated
one at that.
With the aid of an accomplice located
out west, he deliberately laid
his plans for a swindle Of unusual mag
nitude. Five or six weeks ago he re-
ceived a package containing fifteen dol
lars through the National express COM
pany. Two or three days afterward
smother package contsiniDg fifteen dol
lars was received, and thenceforward fol
q fortnight otherpaekages arrived every
two or three days. After q time Gray
sent by express drafts ON a person in
New York. These drafts were paid upon
presentation, and the money returned tc
Gray. The person to whom they were
presented in New York was a confed-
crate. Their payment, however, salts.
fed the express agents that he was all
right.
About the fourteenth of February
Gray gave the express company for col
lection 8 draft for fifteen thousand dol
lars made by St. Louis firm in favor
of J. c. Aver & Co., the patent medicine
manufacturers of Lowell, Massachusetts
The draft was payable at the bank o.
North America, IN New York, and that
sum, less the expense of collection, was
returned to Gray. a week or two after.
ward he forwarded another draft for foul
thousand dollars upon another bank fol
collection, and the proceeds were re-
turned to him as before. When he re.
ceived the svails of his last draft be
counted his money and then started
down the street, remarking as he went
out that he intended TO deposit the
money in the State bank. Although
nearly twenty days have passed since
this remark was made, Gray has moi
been seen since in Troy. His wife has
left her nicely fitted up dwelling in Ian
singburg, and followed her husband t
other scenes.
The express company's officers die
not learn Of Gray's disappearance unit
they We're notified that something wa
wrong with the two drafts particularly
referred TO above. A terrible suspicion
intensified by the intelligence of Gray'i
disappearance, took lodgment in thei
minds. They investigated the draft'
and found that, although they wer'
genuine, yet the Endorsements upon thei
backs were forgeries. Payment haC
been made by the banks upon the sup
position that the Inducements wer,
genuine, and when it was discovered
that they were otherwise, demands 70
a return of the nineteen million dollar
collected were made upon the express
company.
1t has been learned that the two draft
were stolen from the mails while beinl
carried from st. Louis to their INTENDED
destination, and ii is believed that Ora,
had an accomplice in some postoffice OF
the route. OF course they We're worth
less until the Endorsements were fOrge'
upon the back, and then the bank
which were made the payers honOre'
them because they were presented b,
the express company.
Superintendent Virgil has learne
that his man is by no means a tyro 3
the business. Pinkerton's Chicago de
tectives have been searching for Gra
for several months past, and have evi
dence satisfying them that he carrie
on the same game in Chicago, Bait
more, Philadelphia and other cities.
The Governors Receptions.
From the Nashville Banner, 2Sd.
The spacious dining-hall of the MAJ
well was the scene of magnificent n
ception by the governor, in honor Of th
members of the thirty-eighth general a
sembly, whose duties, perhaps we ha