, 1877-08-27
THE DRAFT ,FORGERS.

TILE DRAFT ,EOkGEKSs
Further Information in Reenrl TO This
Very Mysterious CaAc.
Tho Now York World ot tho 24tl. hns constd.
cradle regarding tho forgcrs recently arrested
hero and taken on East. WhAt JsJo says re-
nardlng Ely d. Weston, Of this city, Is correct
When the detectives started ont on their pt-
Hsimagc they knew nothing Of Weston. In tho
course Of their Investigations out lere, how
ever, they ran across him, and found hc had
been mixed up In some OF the rascality they
were looking after. Knowing that be was not
very deep Ii the miro, they believed that hs
would be apt, to talk, and In ths they were not
niatakcn, for ho protested his readiness to
"squeal" " before ho left here. Indeed, tho
washed drafts and the tractnKs OF them, which
form 30 much good evidence against Gcs-
ncr, could hardly .uvu bccu obtained
without Weston, who told where they
werc secrcted-in horsc-trough out IN
his barn On Wilcox avenue. Nothing was said
Of this At tho time, in order that Gcsuer might
not know how Affairs stood. It Ia moro than
likely that tho primary object Of muktnR all
these arrests Was to squeeze the forgcrs and
get out OF them the money they had obtained
especially that gotten from the Third National
Bank Of New York.
This Is what tho World has to ssy,
A man representing himself as the brother OF
Nelson A. 0csner, ono Of tho foygcrs nrrcstcd
/ by the detective, Jayne, in Chicago, presented
/ himtcH al tic 'Flft1, Avenue Hotel yesterday
afternoon and asked 1or nts 1fotner: nc aot y
Jay,c'a door, md BY them vas tepulscd With
the remark that II ho Wantcd to see hts brother
| be had better Gull at Lu1low Street jail. This
found nothing. About thcn tho modest mys-
terry surrounding the movements Of Jaync bc..
thicken ln another. At csa,,, o:So p. poa,n: IN;
: dcteettves, % sane TO tho Filth Avenue Hotel and
seui Iip Ills card to Jaynes room. A porter i'm
| medfatciy showed tho Sergeant np, anl be pre-
scntcd tsia credentials 10 Jayne. The latter said;
No,son l. t|rsnar."
~ nm pleased to meet Tou.". said Mt. 'dcs.
per, putting on bis hat, md tho Sergeant md
bis prisoner walked out TO broadway, took
Thcrs Gcsner gave bis natno as William NickcF.
son. and was put In q cell for the night, aud at
| 10 O'Clock this morning will bc taken to the
oEns s1u ana uttesr @ az check % pucofns . haSe
bceu drawn OH tho Third National Bank OF New
York by Winslow, Lanscr g. Co., Of this city, Tor
to6, 00575, Dec q. 1870.
| Immediately after Gesner's departure for
| police headquarters World reporter sont notc
To Wr. J1ync, rcuut sting an Interview, aud after
bait an tlour's delay was admlttedto the proc
'"se p mn d wiins 10 siyo YOU a1l tho information
that cau,n remarked Air. Jayne, taking sent
| bY thc window. NYuu know that Qctner has
| hist hecD taken to police headuuhrtcrs, but l'M
know. fhc uewspapcrs have made an internal
| hlillnbaloo about tbie matter anu flayo cxagEer-
stci everything about tho cuse. The Chicago
new.p.pers xot Iato terrttls stew sbout tic
two-ccnt .ChieaSo constable na,nof, Tony
naftu,au, who ryialo the arrests for mo
In Chicago, and then helped mo bring
tho pr;'onsrs to New Ns, Yofk; y; ;,,. Ms..%sn
uoth,ng 10 DO With the forgery Of tho 80, ,001
uhrck uf tic Now York Life-lnsuranrc COM
pany, 80 far as / know. Sevcrl months ago
Tniri National Uank, and / started to work IN
thn cnse. What lid ID no opc,e busincss. and
Il III wouldn't interest The oablic nuyhow. On lis
iosh of August arrested Col. Sclson a. Ges-
Pul,nk. on a charso Of forging anJ ustering Tho
check for sahN;a,f3 Of Winsiow, Lanlcr E CO.
on liz Third National Bank. Col. iiesncF liscs
e / LAKE, Gty M,oa: Me % ~ t born & T. Nsx s,
youth. 1t lbs breaking out OF tbs War Gcsnrr
}plued tho army as Captain ia the Mozart Regl-
fhent, Aftcrwurtls ile became Lieutcna1t-C1l.
V"l!,uteer,, 1 o from s1racusc. N. n. Iii stste.
mcnts 10 tho contrary notwithstanding,
know that Col. Uesncr has neyrr beel
arfrsted before Tie IL seputed to l,e man oi
G1tdluEfkO}4 wealth., kfil "a certainly an AlTcpl-
plished penn,an and hne scholar. Whcn A.
rested Uoi. tiesner he took tle matter vYry
uuIetiY, Il informed him that fo might taks III
clorc, to u,n,o To New YORK im,ncdja jateIy O, Ic
tn jail ID Chicago for tl,o thirty days neceasary
fyr me to prJt1ire 4 warrant OF ext1adittou, Hc
said that be urefrrrcd to epne imn,e4liately ', and
wrote a letter signifyn0 his Willingness TO 40
tu1,tuny mo voluntarily q ny prlso.er to New
York. TLe only other pftso;1er that brought
ri,I Ina ia NV Weston antl S,s ia not eTactiv
n nrisnorr' villa in Chicago learned snms
ra1y r. ,im,,,apinv facts about Mr. Walton.
sa,2 2,Idn's a,Hrt man,s feeiiass Tor tho world
nut I went to Mf. Weston and, by = series d
u.sL hI,n ~ ssrS,,n,,any ,ns T., thn Tnat NM
II" H.. ia mt nrsoner. Ie ID pcrfutlv frre,
atn - ,I an,-nr a. ,vitnts. ,r.In:f Uo,