Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-01-04

)unhAm hAu lelI lHc c'o''uN
Wv York on his trip out, after M
the warrant on Camp street No
n September. The party with h'
yhom he had left them was bound ne
o recognize tho mystic signature o.;
4 kl
and whom the order camo hc w2s q
bound to sbey. The warrants we're "
.ent TO Swan in an assumed name, I,
and in care of a third party. 1t ha. .
since t~ranspired that $4,000 instead " "
of $4,000, were so Withdrawn, ana :,
hat the fail amount of tho forgery !
one hundred and twenty-ono "
thousand four hundred dollars, Bell :
having at a later stage Of the game Il
captured in Dunham's own writing -.
a list of tho warrants, numbers and :
amounts. Mcbride has acknowI, !
edged to Capt. Bell that Durham >
and herself lad planned to give up :
$4,000, aud it he (RelI) WAS "liber- :
AL" they would eventually "discoV- :
err" the remaining $4,000, aHd for
a consideration" give them up al
so. For some reason Durham at
once became silent after sending
the $4,000 to Bell, and it was eyl
dent that trcachery was again at
work. :,
Boil returned to Jackson and
awaited results. In a few days Nc
Bride FASTENED to Jackson, met
Bell at the Edwards House ana
bathcd in tears, handed him n lot
ter from Durham, in which the lat
ter, tired of n cold world, and full Of
l %liouor, remorse and trouble, DIS
=. closed his ~intonSiou Of "going up
, tho spout" In sther words, he
would be dead when the letter was
+ read. Bell was full Of sympathy,
r and spoke kindly of the supposed
deceased and gave Mcbride some
, money, to enable her to locate DR.:
" Swan, whose whereabouts she could
easily fad, she said.
On December3d 3D., dispatch reach,
cd Jackson, asking what was bla
: icr Warrant 1924 for $500. Now as
Warrant 1924 had originally boon
y issued for S., it follows here w"s
d another forgery. The dispatch WA,
from Levy & Brog, brokers, Broad
G street, New York.
ii, Capt. Bell to~legraphed Co. II. G
whitley, Chicf ofthoSignal Service
n to "pull" Durham in.
The next morning Whitley tele
AZ graphed back, "Dunham ARRESTED
IN With 500 dollar warrants; wants tt
n blow shall | send him to New VI
N, leans with oficer?"
st; To this Bell responded, "hold o
ad till | hear further from Now VI
Sn lie now eams to this city an
ag Gound Mcbride, who according I
nromisc, was to have been III leI
his AZ, in tho hands Of Capt. Fitzpatrlcl
*, That arrest had been made at Ben
re- request, through Col. Whitley, as
wn was believed the woman had vai'
me able papers in hOr possession, II
elk. belief was correct. Letters and ?
Of pers of tho most important chara
i'm Ter WAS found upon her person
am in hor room. Thinking she hi
'ur, completely outwitted Bell, bec"u
md Of bis %apparsnt trust and confidon
t to in her, the woman neyor.,drsam'
ne she could come to grief 10 Sueh
but manner, and she readily boliev'
wo' Fitzpatrick had "worked tho thin
ms himself, and that Boil knew nothlI
Of the transaction.
seu The list Of names given BY DV
ham to Bell in October reads
Tor follows. Jas. N. Currie, Ito
sparsd,) N.G Steele, Jas. Considi'
er's Now Orleans; VIM. McCree.
the Houston, Texas DR.. G. 5. Swi
,'eu alias Woodward, alias St. eyre
nor; f. Durham, Mary Mcbride, h
ana Curtis, Now Orleans; Ed. Toni
'gn' son, Now York city.
,'o"' A consultation with Capt. Fl
patrick resulted in a plan of ope
pIOt' lions being formed, and 1t wat
once resolved to interview Cur
a Nv Mcbride, with her usual treache
.h'' warned him in time 10 enable
non non to destroy his papers, and he
Ano consequently, prepared for the
. OF GERS but when he found Dunh
Q re. had been "bagged," he caved
gave SWANS nav aIiaS-L.
am > Cyre--and promised to recover
MN give up tho missing $4,000 sp
d tns Gus warrants. lilo was aires
noi Swami was captured AT VcrmlIl
'grsa Vile, La, where hc was esgaSc
toox a petty lottery scheme with a I
10 named Levi Steele and CoSsld
who were arreBtou OH Il IOquIS'
OH" from Gov. Powers, and taken
PhAa, Jackson. 1t is believed Steele
SiSeG the pen work on the warrants.
, M Most Of the parties engage
lnlo this vast conspiracy have at Il
snaV occupied offices of trust and no
rsohs punham was a street eomml''l
a ~ ar -
ec.eu of AIgiers CurriO was u ilon'e
s"ry' colonel in a Federal regiment
lrus, ring the war; Steele was a M
~ az and Swami was II prominent
, was .h' sissippi politician. Currle has,
tmO ever, brought them down to
AT, level Of feIons, and most pf the
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