The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-02-26

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, if no
Europewards. Winslow, no exec
the general rule, pursued the usual,
travel, and doubtless would have L Io
delightful trip abroad, but for the Atlae u
cable, which Intercepted him so unplef.,
antly with the disagreeable information =,
placed in the hands Of these who have
such taking ways with men of his class.
The Boston heart is happy, now that its
recreaut brother has come to grief, in the
hands of Bow street detectives.
Winslow's nerves, it seems. received a
serious shock on board the steamer Rotter-
dam, by learning of her Captain, that the
United States had an extraditon treaty
with Holland. Provoking discovery. Bid
ding his family hurried farewell, he left
the steamer in a pilot boat, and landed on
the Dutch coast. Not stopping to make
useless acquaintances, he hurried on to
Rotterdam, and thence rashly turned his
steps to London, hoping no doubt to hide
bis guilty face, in the great mass Of human
ity, that GIBBS and flows through the great
metropolis. But his plans were suddenly
thwarted, by the shrewdness of Colonel
Cheesebro, of the American Legation, and
his whereabouts discovered, by intercept
ing a letter he addressed his wife, asking
her to meet him at Murrays, the great
London publisher. He is now confined in
the Clerkenwell House Of Detention
The detailed account of Wnslow's trans
actions will doubtless prove an interesting
addition to the sensational literature of the
times. His autobiography would sell well,
although it is not intimated that he was
contemplating its publication by Murray.
In turn, preacher, legislator, editor, and
speculator, he certainly must possess talents
Of the highest order, since he so readily
victimized the modern Athenians, whose
astuteness is proverbial. While Winslow
has certainly inherited great family shrewd-
ness, it is to be hoped that he can manage
to establish enough hereditary insanity, to
avail him in his hour of need. 1t would be
a pity to lock him up and deprive him Of
legislative and editorial friends for robbing
few pockets, when less amiable profess
>ional gentlemen can rob people of their
lives, and not be deprived of their liberty.
Bad man that he is, still, as will appear by
the annexed notice of his family, he has
not dishonored his name:
"Mr. f. d. Winslow, it appears, is an
honor to his ancestors. He comes of
family of dissolute characters and law.
breakers, who were well known, years ago,
in and around Barre. Thomas Winslow
was repeatedly arrested for counterfeiting,
and at last a box Of bad bills was found in
his cellar. His brother, Mark, was one of
The most noted counterfeiters in the State,
aud ended his life by suicide rather than
ward, another brother, followed the same
trade, and spent about half his life in Jail;
Lucretia, a sister, was in the gang, and
signed the bills. Afterward, removing to
Pennsylvania, she became the reputed wife
of man who was presently hanged for
murder, and had herself a narrow escape
from conviction as an accomplice. Still
later, she joined strolling theatrical COM
pany, and died at the South. She was a
person of talent and winning manners, but
of no principle. Two other sisters Of the
Winslows married we'll known counterfeit
ers. This family history accounts both for
the cleverness and the crimes of the Boston
forger. He had inherited a taste for decep-