The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-03
From the Sunday Mercury
A FORGER'S CONFESSION.

oiorinio'
Among the criminals whose name Is
known to the police throughout the length
aud breadth of the land IS the forger, f. ;.
Piper. But, lately released from Jail, he
has determined, he says,to turn over a new
leaf in life, and. as preliminary to that
step, has made long confession to- cor
respondent, of which the following are the
most interesting points
al am known as a criminal as L. 8. Pr
per under hundred aliases The bankers,
brokers and all the great corporations know
me as the lnvinciblc, from the fact that
no note, stock or bond was ever issued but
what l have process to alter 1t, raise 1t,
or do whatever like but loved my wife
ald,w everything was clean behind me,
l resolved to become an honest man. took
my family to Rochester, N. y, and there
opend large Yankee notion and furnish
ing-gcods store. and started peddling
wagons in the country did well ; sold
out well, went to Albion, N. y. and there
engaged in the stove business. Everything
touched turned BY magic INTO money.
About 1850 purchased large saw mill.
| took 100000 dollars into Iowa and left
it five years later, having III the meantime
become worth half a million dollars, pen
niless, descending from solvency OF inc |
latter amount tc an insolvency oil iuiiy |
500 OOO. My nnancial rum came from |
| iBdorsing everybody paper thaI would ask |
1t. From that moment became criminal
in thought and action again. went BACK
to chicago, out nnulhH nothlnB lhere,
everybody poor, scared and running away,
l went to Fremont, ONO, with SoOO oil TINS
money in bills, and the balance, ABOUT 49,
| OOo, IN gold: Making great snow WIN
this, 1 deilDeistely sci ABOUT e"ihullhg
someoooy, anu SUN ,ounu spenu
thrlit frenchHan, one raiduet' VINO NJ
once saw was my vic.im. ne result was
l went 10 Me" 1Vrh anu purcnaseu LOT
| @loo @iio,oov "oi'n VI 'HO 'n1n apoolu',
| ~ "oItn,.so iennss i'auia 0oal oouipany
ponus, my mex. stcp was 10 get aoou' S soV
copies ol I"ontl,s0n 'otouh Meporter' loo
OF TWO years previous, anu tVo tnen cur
REM, TRANSFER VIC coFsis, anu siip ,hcin into
tneir places III 'ne business nou7es "heie
they were TAKEN. renueyivahia coal COM
Pany oohus eoon ven up rom III ~
ABOVE par, auu WIN SSiovo VI eleii ana
@ooo Ia goiu oecome nv Ine uona i,uc ihno-
cent W purchaser oi faiquets business,
making T@o,ooo anu senu,n8 MN on 10
NEW 9TH III 'noss naPl's ranhe VI inlnu.
~ o9u,so u.s., was diies.eu i9i siauu, uu. ~
irAuu couiu oo sioMn, anu siloi cohuuc'-
ing lne business ,nohorsoiy Ior SOME tiihe,
|
became desperately dangerous IorSer.
From some further conversation with
this remarkable man the correspondent as
certalned that MS daring during his career
as forger had beeh 80 great, relying so
thoroughly upon the apparent genuineness
OF ms WORK, ni' tnorough knowledge OF
the french language-his mother having
been french lady OF more than ordinary
culture, and his own education IN that IAN
guage having consequently been well at
tended to-and MS good business aDihty,
with MS rare gut Tor creating confidence
and friendship, he mad been Whlrled mo a
scheme 10 AZ one stroKe
RELIEVE EMPEROR MANlMiLtAS
OF nearly TWO millions in gold stored in the
treasury vaults OF the Mexican capital
preparatory 10 TINS ne sailed Tor England,
PROVIDED hlmself WIN large nunoer OF
bills OF exchange on different French banka
and, after proceeding TO iarls. rented quiet
lodgings, where he INFLATED the bills un-
I'll they represented fabulous sums A'ter
this Work was completed ne set ABOUT fufg-
ing letters accredited hlmself ne @ secret
agent IRON the french Government to the
mexican emperor ana poor CariotIa. his
Iorgeu papers gave eAuaustiVe poi''-
cal and private reasons why Official
e advlces Should not be burdened with
me mIorma.lon OF the secret agents com
phcniy uuseu anu cte" ooey GU nnou0
e the cohui.ion VI tnins' IA Mexico upon III,
j. afrivsl warrant liIgnl. AS III 'ne casc %
faiquet, MS scneme was 70 'nuuce Wv
= nail CIaleu emperor WIN ms WIG au'
SUITE, 10 90 something rom "hlch ne uat'
r net tuln oach. nc "ouiu cnance tnc lest
n On arriving at brownsville the three mel
VINO were 10 assisV nun III th's o"li ano
uespera,c scheihe, iealnins % 'lie a,u' III
e ing cohui.ion Vi .ninss at ,pc cl'y VI hleA
lco, refused rel, 10 20 euy nur.ner' ana ne pHr
D sueu MS Journey VI auVeu'ure aione. Ar
rlVing az tne caPi'ai ne ut ONE ea'ncu al
iu'eisie~ WIN tne eniPoior' why seeu's'
u ID aiistiess' P"isieo copIl'ioti' ~ II u,lenu
1t Dead ana merely senslpie Oh an unuesie'
n EXISTENCE ana "no' WINE acKho"le1S'n
!. the genuinehess " Oh the agents cre1eh
: t,ais, anu tne Necessity ior luitneoial
nlght' uesiIeu hVe uays III "nicn 10 YAK
counsei ana give decision, though ac,us
~ ordering count Oh the com ana ID
oulilon pileu III 'he treasury vaults RIPE
!. Immediately saw that he could not remov
o. this vast weight-not knowing or daring t
g, trust soul In that wild country, wher
:, every hand held dagger and knew how
~ drive it home, too-and felt that it wa
t. useless to waste his beautiful English p,
T. per where he could get no return for it
r. and. though holding several subsequent il
terviews with the fated emperor, he SAL
y that his own death was only a mere que
in ton of time there, and the second day a
I'd ter he had arrived in the city of Mexic
no he left it for Salt Lake via Santa Fl
Three days after Piper left the Mexca
capital-making five days for the decisio
er "a bullet had placed the Austrian dur
e. beyond the need of 'raised" bills of e,
If change.
The correspondent asked him; .'Wh
MAS youf n Jet 70 - o ,u,s h;s 70 ,ha " Mil
nv now, too. But, do you know, my ablli
- to do just anything with paper and IL