New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-02-17
TIE BOSTON FORGER.

WINSLOW UNDER ARREST IN LONDON
TIE STORY OF HIS ARRIVAL IN HOLLAND AND CAP
TURE IN LONDON-THE BElnsu AUTHoRIIIH
ACCoMMopATING-PR PROCEEDINGS PENDING For
THE CUIPgIIs RETURN.
LoSDoS Wednesday Feb 16 1870
Col. w. II. Chesebrough, the Second Secre-
tary Of legation who attended To the Wins!ow a1air
here furnishes the following particulars: Wnsow asked
tue Captain OF the steamer Rotterdam II the United
states had an extradtion treaty with Holland The
Captain replied that he thought there such treaty
This frightened window, who then concluded Ia come 10
England. lie left the steamer piloboat and landed
somewhere the Dutch coast His wife, sister, ana son
went Rotterdam. In order TO battle his pursuers'
he telegram to his wife bearing date Erusscs
IL is impossible to say II Winslow really went to
BRUSSELS where he when he sent this telegfan
Wusow subsequently went 10 70 terdam, and thence
came on 10 London The clew To his whereabouts MAS
discovered by interccptng letter be addressed 20 MS
wife, telling her to write him at Murrays' the great
publishers etod her To address her letters to "Mofon
Ilrcrt-, OF Muuavs, Pub.lshrrs.' He sSned tha
letter Clifton" lie himself 10 Murrays on Nor
day. and wrote and left letter there addressed to MOE
ton Iacrts" the name he had assumed For TINS letter
be- for some nexpcablc reason, called on Tuesday,
when detective in waiting arrested MN lie
acknowledged HE identity. and went along quietly.
Wiu.low says that md $4,000 when lie started from
the United aos which he declares il the proceeds
OF the sale Of hs wifcs private property. He says ht
has plenty Of evidence to prove this and appears only
anxious that his wife not suffer any Inconvenience
sir Thomas Henry, the Chief Magistrate of tho Bow
ST. Police Court IL given great credit FOR his extreme
orlignsncs There was not sufficient evidence Ia OBJ
tam warrant when Sir Thomas first called upon.
lie. however. personally called the American L'ea-
ton aud offered Ia issue warrant out VI official hours
upon the necessary proof
The Mayor Of Boston, saturday night, ,clegraphed
that The Grand Jur, Of Suffolk County, Massachusetts,
Tor NJ
and warrant for his arrest had been issued FOR forging
To- the extent Of $50 900 This sufficient Ia Justify
the English authorities In issuing the warrant upon
which whslow arrested on Tuesday.
The detective after arscstmg wuslow, took from him
a telegram which he had prepared, asking his wife to
join him in London TIE detective forwarded THIS III TIC
hope of enticing mis- wife over from Holland The police
OF Rotterdam will wDsows luggage and send 1t
on to London 80 that IL can be searched
WinslOw seems very compOsed. foreign detective
and Mr. Balch the correspondent of The Hosfon Hsrdid
came over from II tterlm To see about the affair. The
Dutch police state that Wnslow, by writing letter
signed with ne assumed name. "Cfion," had brought
himself within the Dutch law suspicious person lie
could have contuctcd to the German frontier The
Hon. J. G. Bancroft Davis, the American Minister at
Berlin had been adv iscd 10y telegraph to have German
officer ready arrest lin unncr the provision of the
eAtradition treaty. Wn-ow disturbed this calculation
by coming /, England.
Wncn he examined at Bow-st, his GOODNESS was
sue That when the detective In giving evidence mispio
Iouncci his alias Morton Licrts," Wirslow corrected
him.
A pocket book has been found upon Winslows person
in which were Inscribed the words. Morton LaacI;-
-. Louis. Missouri
When Winslow was arrested he was cautioned not 10
commit himself because he stood merely In the POSI-
tn OF an accused man. and would have to stand trial
III America.
TUE POLICE REPORT OF THE ARREST.
The police authorities furnish the following
In relation 10 WnsOw the Boston iorger He at PRES
eat confined in the Cieikcnwcu House Of Drtcnon.
telegram from his wife received to-day announcing
that she will leave Rotterdam Immediately for London
The case far tracking WnsOw In concerned seems
| TO have been pretty thoroughly worked up be
fore il came into the hands Of the London police
The first application for his arrest made 10y Dutch
detective Friday night In the form of suggestion To
SUPERINTENDENT Williamson. the chief OF the detective
department, of the propricty of such step. Supern
endcnt Williamson directed the applicant Ia obtain the
! assistance Of the American Embassy whereupon Col
Chcscbrough's Intervention secured When tele-
gram neccssay 10 Justify detention wac recey Ell from
Boston officer Of thc London force was dt1" g." ar
rest Wiu.luw Murra" - Wh his arrest was '0rct'd
without difficulty incident The future piocr dlnEs
here including the necessary rrmands pending ihe ar
| rival OF papers, will he purely formal