Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-06
FOREIGN DDArrs


FOREIGN DRAFTS
The main object of the Bosto,
bankers, and other victims of M
iorger' oil course WAS TO recover. If ms
slole, n part or the whole of the monny
they had lost, and steps in that direc
ton We're taken. 1t was discoverad
That Dewey had purchased throngh
Daniel Meyer of san Francisco. drain.
10 lhe amount of nearly $4,000 ON
itoscnheim " Co., bankers i'm Berlin
Alduey, Peabody d Co. instructed M q
Hong hong-Shanghai bank of san
FRANCISCO to take proper action in tn
mater. An attachment was issued
| against the money paid Daniel Aieyer
lor the drafts, and the Berlin bankers
were cabied not topay the drafts when
! presented. Advertisements were in
serted III Pacific coast papers warning
bankers and the public against nero.
tiating the drafts, and thus il was
thought portion of the swag mirhf
be recovered.
MNSTTFlED.
Inspector Handsome of the BOSTON
police was in ST. Louis en- route for
san Antonio 10 ge! Halpert when he
learned OF the arrest in San Frauciscn
He wired the Frisco folks that he
would 20 to San Antonio first and
would 20 from there to san Francisco
While here the Boston officer was Inc
worst puzzled man ii has ever been n
I reporters lot TO interview. He couId
not see how the man could be in both
places mt the same time hut there he
was-Dewev in San Francisco and
lialpert in San Antonio.
He went on to San Antonio. and on
the 10Th of October had Halpert rear
rested, and he was released on n second
$1,000 bond. On the 18th he was re-
leased from the first bond by writ of
habeas corpus, but was held under the
second bond.
FRAUDULENT DISPATCHES.
Here again the plot thickens so as
To almost drive the average intellect
distracted endeavoring to get ut the
bottom of the matter. The Bnston az
iicer wired TO san Antonio and 10 SIN
francisco that he was on the way To
see the fellow in the latter place. At
the same hour that this dispatch was
delivered, u dispatch to the san Firm
cisco Chronicle was received. dated
san Antonio, simply saying: "Chgs.
J. Dewey identified by Boston author
tiles and held in custody" This was
signed Correspondent The Chron-
lcle did not Know who il was from
but rs ii WAS The second of the kind.
the first having been received before
The boston officer had reached San
Antonio, IL was evident that somebody
was teiegraphing TO create the i'm
preston That the Dewey is custody
IN san francisco was no. TIL man
wanted in Boston.
Is THERE \ THIRD?
About this time there came n hint of
a most sensational character from Tex
as. A correspondent of the Republi-
can, In special from San Antonio,
said of Halpert: "ile will have no
trouble in proving an alibi; but the
officers have strong circumstantial evil |
dence that he is Il brother of the forger |
and operated with him. The officers
now think the man in San Francisco |
is the real criminal. They seem to
have lost sight of or to have never
known that there is third brother,
who is probably Dewey, the real
This was startling, indeed. II hint
I'd one of the shrewdeSt schemes for
covering up rascality ever recorded
gigantic swindling by which over
hundred thousand dollars. probably
twice that amount, was secured; otli-
GERS thrown of the trail by one OF the
gang, n man who had never been in
ihe city where the crime was commit
ed, awkwardly stumbling into the
clutches of the a,tute detective; more
mystery added by second member
breaking into jail by throwing himself
nto the clutches of the minions of the
aw Just rs he was apparently about
% sail away to China, thus completely
checking the chaee, white the real raS-
al with the plumber disappears, and
.he trail gets so cold that even IA blood
hound couldn't follow it. This was
what was limited at by the suggestion,
81, more correctly speaking, assertion,
hat there was n third brother and
partner in the project.
AFFAIR OF ALIBIS.
On the sd OF October the case Of
on n writ OF habeas corpus,
was called in court in san Antonio,
jut rs the Boston officer had no. re-
urned from California, the case was
post poned. The accused seemed III no
hurry; he knew lie would never Toe
aiken out of San Antonio ~ il was
not the least trouble for him to show
hat he had not been in either Mont
cal or Boston. or even in that section
If the universe, when the crime with
which he was charged was committed
IA reporting this fact, the Republic
ans correspondent at san Ant ONTO
gain said. Nothing will be made out :
II either arrest, however rs they can +,
10Th prove alibis, and by the time the
,flicer finds that out, and that n third ,
,rother. alias Dewey, is the real cni- /
,rit, the latter will be well out OF the /;
way aud his tracks completely covered ,
nd the gang. whose headquarters are /,
n Texas, with branches in other
,laces. will be safe from exposure" /
GOT THE MAN But no MONEY. u
On the 2srd, Inspector Hanscome
rived in San Francisco, having with .
lin Inspector SHELTON, who left Dos $
on after Hanscome started for san 3
.ntonio. Tho two met after the for a
ner had been TO San Antonio. and TO- II
ether they went to san Francisco. q
heir first Step was 10 secure some OF u
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