The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-01

WASHINGTON, d. C., Oct. Is, 1883.
To O. s. Bresse.
Received at 4OS Lombard Street, Baltimore.
My daughter passed away at this morning.
Send me check at once. d. NJ. ST. CLAIR.
A PREACHER.
The officers ascertained from his captured
correspondence and other papers that he
had wife at Nashville, Tenn, another at
Philadelphia, and yet another in New York !;
also that he had been Methodist minister
in the Maine and New Jersey conferences.
The statements in the letter and telegram
printed above being false he was indicted on
this case as well as the Smith transaction.
In the latter part of November he was tried
on the Bresse case and convicted, notwith-
standing the defense made by his counsel,
Campbell Darlington. that the offenss was
committed in Baltimore, and the court here
had no jurisdiction. His counsel filed mo-
tions in arrest of Judgment and for new
trial on exceptions, both of which motions
were denied by Judge Montgomery on
March last and Newman was sentenced, as
before stated, to two and half years i'm
prisonment at labor in the Albany county
penitentiary.
HIS LIFE IN JAIL.
A formal appeal to the court in general
term having been taken, and Newman being
unable to obtain his freedom, he had to
patiently wait in Jail for action of court
and counsel During the long months Of
doubt and anxiety exactly the same treat
ment was accorded to him as to his fellow
prisoners; but being a man of education
and q good talker, he assumed an air of
superiority toward them, and had no con-
fidants nor companions among them. In
fact. he seemed "a fish out of water" Not
outstanding his close confinement his
health was excellent. After spending some
he I,abind tho harz rnNaivinO ViaIfS
occasionally fropa a person living near
Philadelphia, he secured the privilege of pen
and paper and started in Ito write book"
This, however, in the light of subsequent
events is thought to have been merely "a
blind" although he spent many hours
upon it and had written several hundred
pages.
HEIR TO HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
Last August he received what purported
to be telegram from his mother, living at
Harrisburg, stating that his uncle had
died in California, making him (5he
prisoner) his heir. and that the estate was
estimated at $500, 900. His demeanor at once
was changed; he became so nervous
he could not content MinseiI
and most of his time was taken up
with receiving congratulations and writing
notes. Some of his fellow prisoners be
promised to see righted. and few of them
listening to his honey words "built castles
in the air." By some means ne
received a few hundred dollars, when
he said came from California. and THIS
gave color to his claim. Some OF the older
prisoners looked on the fortune business as
| a myth, but the younger ones believed tnas
| Newman would soon be out OF jail, ana
that he would not forget them. "lt9ln
| few weeks he was in possession Oh large
envelope, bearing blurred post mark ana
containing what looked like Legal papers;
| These. however, he showed to but few, II
| any. of the prisoners or guards, alleging
| that his family name was unknown 10 bne
authorities or people of Washington ana
| he would rather rot in the penltentlary tnan
| divulge it. The police court van IN Ine
| meanwhile was making its daily TRIPS
| taking down hardened criminals, and some
not so hardened, few white and many
colored men.
| COMPLIANT AT LAST.
| Among the arrivals in the early part OF
| Septenber was a white man sentenced Io l
a short term for trifiing ofense. ne wao
we'll read in the law, but had had NIUE
/ la9al experience. He and the man with the
neny aliases and occupations were soon Z
/ boon COMPANIONS. For hours they wouid
walk and talk together, discussing arr anu 1
POETRY. aad works OF fact and fiction, anu !,
finally they got on to family anairs' anu