Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-01-04
From the n. .. Times, Dec. %.
The Great mississippi WarreRt For
gerry Case.

bSiJ NS"N
ifost Of the Parties in this Conspiracy
hare occupied places Of trust and
honor.
Boil, who is acting private score
tsrv to Gov. Powers of Mississippi,
was desired by the Governor III
September to take iu hand and IN
vcGiigato ,ho matter Of certain
forged and raised warrants OF the
State of Mississippi which had been
presented at the bank in Jackson.
Bell found that W. f. Durham,
ouartermastsr on the steamship st.
LoniS, of the Cromwell Line, had
sold one and offered others Of these
warrants to y certain welI-known
| Camp street broker, who, smelling
a mice, declined to purchase at tho
time o, the second visit. About this
time Dunham sailed for Now York,
and Bell was forced to await his re-
turn. The warrant sold was kHown
to DO a duplicate of a genuine one
of recent da.s, disposed e in Jack.
sen, Miss, by Mrs. Swami, wife Of
DR.. G. 8. Swami Of that place, i'm
plicAted in the great Cunningham
forgery of August last. II WAS sur,
missed the Doctor might have a hand
in Dunham's case, and Bell went to
Mobile TO interview the Doctor ; he
was absent but . few days, but
while he was gone, a certain wo'
man known to have been Dunham't
, mistress, appeared on Camp street
W tn another warrant. AS arranged
BY Captain Bell, prior to his depar
ture from Mobile, she WAS paid fol
the warrant, then nabbod and takoI
10 Col. Badgers Office. All effsrt
S to force or persuade from her tn
secret of tho "greai ring" prove'
l. futile, and they had TO release her
, About this time Boil returned, an.
Mary Mcbride waU again brsugh
% in, and, after a long examination
d Mary Mcbride told an cert true tall
@ and disclosed somewhat of the pic
"a She warned Durham Of his DANCE
and caused him to be warned 1
% Quarantine, sixty miles below tn.
70 city. and Durham at onoe abandon
n, ed The ship and went ashore. III
If party who took Durham off the 5
n Louis was none other than the r
y. doubtablo prince Of forgers, Doct'
y Swami himself. After Durham
's, escape Mcbride offered 10 bring hi
Dir face TO face with Bell, provided Il
cd latter would piOdg" himself TO n
attempt any arrest. This was agr'
to by Boil, and the meeting too
10 place. Duaham now proposed
or disclose the whole affair provid'
~ he could save one friend and BIZ
ba self. Boil agreed to this, stiPn!
ting, however, that all the rsls'
no warrants should BIO given up, a
the chiot countcrfeiteF given in
got his hands. Durham nov said th
lis. there were at least a dozen Perso
in. namiBg then) directly connect
with 6e raised warrant forge
The original plan, which was fir
trated by Ganninghan's arrest
nv Jackson, Miss, in August last, W
to issue simultaneously on t
4 States of Mississippi, Alabama, !
ing kansas, Louisiana And Texas fore
eg- warrants to the amount OF So,OO
tod 900. These warrants were to
manufactured in toto, but
- praised" plan contemplated the
'e' tering of q small warrant so as
the make i.represent a largersGm tn
ish that for which it was originally
-, sued. The written portions OF
warrant werc Skilfully renpV
OBS with a colorIess liquid, discove'
mes by Swan himself and then exp
The penmon reilled the warrant as
,ht pidity and interest might dicta
m. As the seal, signature and paper
= Tho warrant wac genuine,
nc 0raisOd warrant" became the m
a"- dangerous forgery cut 80 TAR