The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-05-12

set down and get up and arrange
themselves in a half-dozen differen,
positions in as many minutes, He
has a broad face and heavy underjsw
which gives one the impression that
he is a man of wonderful reserve force
and has the will power to carry out
any design that his mind may decide
upon. He wears trace of burnsides
which extend to the lower tips of his
ears. His hair is dark, some might
call it b'ue black if such an expires.
sion be allowed in speaking of the
color of the hair. He wears short
well trimmed moustache and a few
hairs on his chin just under his lower
lip which he has fashion of carress-
ing tenderly when he talks. His nose
is Grecian In form and dilates when
he is in passion which, however, is not
very often.
The only change of countenance
observed on him this morning was
when they unlocked the cell door and
invited him to walk within. He
blanched with something like fear,
f, hesitated little, but soon recovered
himself and walked it with shoulders
well thrown back and head erect. His
hands and feet are small and exceed.
ingly well shaped.
THE IDENTIFICATION.
Mr.. F. Merrigether, of the First
National bank, who went to Atlanta
to identify Sibley, talks very enter
tainingly of the trip. He says that
when he first reached Atlanta he pre-
terred to give the police description
of Sibley before seeing him as it would
then shift the responsibility to great
extent. His description was very &C.
curale and ON the strength of it the
prisoner was brought into room
where there were several gentlemen,
and Mr.. Merriwether had no trouble
whatever in picking him out. 1t then
became question of who would get
him. Mr.. Merriwether spent several
hours with the governor eudeavoring
to convince him that there
was good case against him in Mis-
souri,. He finally succeeded, and
after financial interview with officers
Sibley was kept out of the way of
habeas corpus proceedings which his
lawyer, Col. Abbott, one of the best
in Atlanta, attempted to spring.
Sibley seemed to have plenty of
friends and would have had no trouble
in giving bail had the thing been per-
mItted.
HIS SOUTHERN SCHEMES.
From the charges which are coming
up against Sibley in the south it looks
somewhat like he was a plunger. His
success here seemed to give him new
life and he went to work to make a
fortune with a vim.
The details of Dunn's crookedness
in the south to date are these: Under
date of April %, sight drafts were
drawn on three different firms In
Memphis. One of these was on Hill,
Fontaine & Co., for So, 200, the other
on Toof, MCGOWAN q Co., for SO, 900
and the third drawn on Brooks
Nicely & Co., for 50, 500. All these
drafts were drawn in favor of G. Guy,
Corbett & Co., and dra gn by ]. Stew
art Crockett, Endorsed to the Southern
express company for collection by c..
Guy Corbett 81 Co. by j. w. Watson,
attorney. Attached to the draft on
Toof, MCGOWAN & Co, was bill of
lading for 10 bales of cotton con-
signed to the firm from s. Crackett,
at Columbus, GA. The draft on
Brooks, Nicely & Co., was attached to
a bill of lading consigning to them 11S
bales of cotton, shipped from West
Point and consigned by Crockett.
AWAY BILL
for 10 bales of cotton shipped from
West Point was also attached to the
draft on Hill, Fontaine IL Co. ALI
the way bills are of the same date.
They were all written in the same
hand, and on the Richmond and Dsn-
vile blanks. The handwriting of
Crockett, the consignor, and that of
the agents names at the bottom of the
bills are the same. Accompanying
each draft and bill was letter from
Crockett referring to the drafts and
hoping they would be honored. The
inclosed way bills were also mentioned
and Crockett concluded the three let
ters by stating that he would be in
Memphis on Monday, the 26th. These
letters written upon paper bearin g
the printed letter-head of j. Stewart
Crockett, cotton dealer, Atlanta, GA,
representative of G. Guy Corbett &
Co., of Liverpool. Investigations
failed to discover any such person as