The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-07-25
CHARGED WITH CRIME.
Mrs. Myers Says that Mrs. For
shay is Guilty Of Wash
ing Stamps.

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charge made therein investigated:
SEDALIA, July 3, 1882.
Mrs. FORsHAY: You will very much
Oblise me in the future by keeping your
mouth shut and not talking any more
about me, as have heard you are doing.
Old Mrs. Arnet has told me a pack YOU
should have told her about me and
Myers. If hear anything more coming
from you about me / am determined TO-
when court sets, report you and have
taken up for
WASHING POSTAGE STAMPS.
You know can prove IT, and will You
was talking to Charley johnson about
Myers and myself and are both mad, and
we are going to have you jurked up.
Rocks MYERS.
Thinking the charges above made of suffi-
Client importance for investigation, BAzoo
reporter visited Mrs. Myers residence, in
Stringtown, last night, for the purpose of
seeing if she would substantiate the charges
made. She is half sister of joni Pitt
man, while Mrs. FOrshay is an own sister
of Pittman. For some time past the two
families have been on the outs, and the
statements of both were taken with all due
allowance.
The above letter was produced and Mrs
Myers was asked if she had written it.
She said she had not, as she was unable to
write, but she had dictated it and it was
written at her solicitation.
"ADd are you positive that Mrs. For
shay is guilty of having washed postage
stamps" asked the reporter.
"Yes, am; and can prove it, too,"
replied Mrs. Myers.
h, Iol Ill II
knew in the premises and told substan-
TALLY
THE FOLLOWING STORY:
Early last fall, she said, j. F. Forshay,
wife and child came to her house in des-
titute condition and she and her husband,
John Myers. day laborer, provided for
their wants. While living with them Mrs.
Myers little girl had first caught Mrs
Forshay in the act of washing postage
stamps, which information she impaired to
her mother. Mrs. Myers then kept watch
ON Mrs. Forshay's movements, when she,
too, apprehended her in her unlawful
calling. She would, Mrs. Myers said,
place the stamps on the table, take piece
of linen cloth, saturate it with soap and
water, and thus remove the ink, after
which she would again use the stamps.
She knew of at least
THIRTY OR FORTY INSTANCES
in which stamps had been used sec
ond time, and her statement would be
made oath to, and corroborated by the
oaths of her twelve-year-old boy and
her eleven-year-old girl. The practice
was carried on for months, Mrs. Forshay
never thinking of purchasing stamps
when she desired to mail letters. She
further stated that her half-brother, John
Pullman, would make oath that all she had
related was true.
Mrs. Myers went on to tell considerable
of Mrs. Forshay's past history, among
other things saying she had never been
married to Forshay, but was merely his
mistress, by whom she had had three child
zen.
Thanking her for the information given,
the reporter took hisdeparture and return
ed to town for the purpose of hunting up
Mrs. Forshay and learning
HER SIDE OF THE STORY.
She was found at her home on the cor.
nsr of Fourth and Lamine streets, to
which point she removed but recently. |
She was shown the letter charging her
with having washed stamps. and appeared
greatly astounded. She had never received |
the letter, she said but the charge was
wholly false. She said she had lived in |
the same house Nth Mrs. Myers, but their |
relations were so unpleasant that
she was compelled to move else
where. She was of the opinion |
that Mrs. Myers had had the letter written |
and dropped on the street purposely; but
although it was addressed to Mrs. J. F.
Forshay, and bore the Sedalia postmark |
of July Sd, she affirmed that she had never |
received it.
Mr.. Forshay was present during the in
terview, and bore his wife out in all that ,
she said. As to their
NEVER HAVING BEEN MARRIED,
that, too, was a lie, as he could prove
that tn. ceremony was performed at Column
bia, in Boone county, some six years ago. |
He said he would refer to Col. Switzler, of |
that CITY, who had known him for years,
and Charlie King, of this city, who haG
been acquainted with him since the war.
He declared that the whole thing was
piece of spite work, and the authorities
were at liberty to make thorough investi
cation.
While visiting at the calaboose, to-day,
John Pittman, by whom Mrs. Myers said
she could prove Mrs. Forshay had washed
and again used postage stamps, was in
terrogated on the subject, and pronounced
the story "a id lie" He knew nothing,
he said, of any such transaction, and did
not believe it was SO.
The BAzoo gives both sides of the story,
SO the reader can pay his money and take
his choice.
A Dogs Fidelity.
Capt Thomas of the steamer Scioto.