The evening times., 1896-10-28

know of Sigourney, Huntley, Silloway, or
Sulloway, until in-I tlink-leSl, wheh Il
letter appeared in the sun in LehalI oi
needy and remarkably yaccumplishedprinter
w 4. Cilluway. The letter was rcprlhteu
in the Bangor, Maine, Commercial
"Itwas from tue Bangor Commerciallhat
the writer in the Portland Evening AdVer-
tiscr before mentioned, took tie clipping
which proved the text of the reminiscent
skc; ch part Of which In cen quoted. Later
on IN tie sketch the Advertiser says
He CSilIowayb never understood q word
OF amy foreign language nor a character OF
Greek. He never went out Of his own coun-
try, excepting. perhaps. TO slip into Canada
when lie was wanted for bounty jumping
during the late civil war.
''BI when did The rebels attack the James
Brooks? And how near nd President LIN
coin come To teing captured by them?
And If anybody saved him from capture
wny didu We near or u tciurc!'
II VIII have been noticed that the claim
or having saved President Lincoln's life
pat up for 'Cilloway' by his friend
''nrouts'' is the sane hat more recently
Col W. A. Sillowaye has made to Rob
crt I. Lincoln.
MISSING FOR FOUR YEARS.
For four years after 1881 Siloway was
not neard from particlarly, but in 1885
an item credited to the Springfield, Mass,
Republican of October 5, appeared In the
New York Times under the heading, "A
r.itrio, In Need.
"A correspondent writes that Col. Will
liam A. silloway, an old soldier OF two
wars and probably the most learned printer
Of the da he having set up the Bible entire
in the original Greek and the New Testa-
ment in German, French, Spanish. and He
brew-iS now living in the city in destitute
circumstances, without work. This is the
Ia Rar .,-ly f,, ss,,- Oh
dent Lincoln from being killed or captured
when the dispatch boat was attacked IN re-
turning from City Point to Washington.
CD. SillOwa V has an autograph letter from
Lincoln in reference TO the matter. Some
thing should he done for this old soldier.
especially by giving him employment, and
q letter addressed To the Springfield post
office Will reach him"
1t may he noticed that in neither Albany
nor Hartford nor Springfield had the able
colonel or major any definite address.
Col. William A. Silloway, OF Springfield,
huwevcr. had more languages than Col.
William A Cilluway. of Hartford. But how
like their war records We're!
Silloway, ,Cilloway. Sillowayeand HUntley,
having all united in one as the years rolled
on there remained only for Sigourncy to
merge himself with their joint identity.
The last merger was accOmp plishcd in what
is probably the last letter the scamp has
written the forged Mckinley letter that the
PopoCrats We're prepared TO hnrl, but which
proved a boomerang. ITO secure a pension
for Siguurney, Col. Sillowaye, who was "A
brave officer, as YOU may well say, '.is the
phraseology Of the letter.
A. b. F. Hildredth referred in a volume
which he published, giving the history of
his life to the Major Huntley'' letter.
printed in the Albany Evening Journal in
l S67 and said:
The author of the above false statements
is undoubtedly one Bill Silloway,' who
was ut one time in my employ and was dis
charged for dishonesty and meanness'
The Charity rganiZation Society says
that Silloway is one OF the most persistent
and abominahle frauds that ever worked
New York and New Workers.