THE EXTENSIVE FORGERIES BY AN AMERICAN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4446, 19 May 1876, Page 3

THE EXTENSIVE FORGERIES BY AN AMERICAN.

Tho following extraordinary case came be- ; fore Sir Teomas Henry at lio.v street Police O-.urt, London, on Tuosdiy :--Israel Dyer ; AViuslow, an American, was charged, under the Extaiditi'ii Acts, with forgeries cornmil ted in America, Colonel Chcsseboiough j attended on bt-half of the Unite I StaUs - Legation, and produced sevi.T.d tcl.igrami j authorising him to obtain a wai rant for the j arrest of tho prisoner. o:,c of these telej grama stated that the Grand Jury of Boston had found a true bill against the prisoner for forgery upon several persons to the amount of 35.6i!0d<-.U. Detective Ssrgearii Dowdull, Scotland Yard, i>rrci>ted (he prisoner on Wednesday. Ifo found on iiim a quantity of ctiiis of various nations, amounting to X 8 Detective- Sergeant Oi'f.uiiham, Scotland Yard, said he searched tho prisoner's aparttncnk at the hotel, but cmilJ lind nothing relating to the charge. Tho prisoner asked wfudli r, if ho admitted the authenticity of the telegrams produced, ho 0.-uld be com mit.ted for trial and sent to America at once. Sir Thomas Henry explained to him that telegrams were tu'licient to arrest and detain, but not to commit a prisoner up-.m. He would have to wait until a dir.loma'Jc application had been made by the American Government for his surrender, and the necessary documents hud been forwarded. Ho would then be siut to America, but after that would still hive lo wait 14 days, tho law insisting upon that delay in f-rdcr to givo pthonors opportunity of appeal. Tiio prisoner said ho should like to bo sent back as soon r.s possible, and Colonel Ghcesoborough sail ho had already tele-"i-nphod infoimationof his arrest to America. Tho Mr Israel Dyer VVinslow mentioned above is none other than the " Hon. and I lev. Dyer VVinslow," of Massachusetts, a gentleman widely known and hithert) greatly respected in New England. Ho is till a young man, but his career has been a varied and icmaikable ono. He is a native of New York; and having studied for the ministry, he was ordained as a Mithodist minister, and placed in charge of a congregation at Brookl) v, Massachusetts, where he soon became popular by reason of his eloquence. When the war with tho South broke out, he threw aside the Gospel for tho sword, and raised a company of volunteers ; but the Governor of Massachusetts, who was very fond of him, obtained a commission as chaplain for him from President Lincoln, and in this capacity, partly in the army and partly in the navy, he served through the war. .Returning to Boston, he turned his attention to politics, journalism, and finance, and was elee'eel to the State Senate and to tho State Legislature. He formed two stock companies with a largo capital, and purchased the Boston Post and the Boston Evening News, two of the best newspaper proptrti s in Boston. The utmost confidence was reposed in him by the principal bankers and business men of Boston, and it is charged that he took f.dvantage of this to carry on an elaborate system of forgeries, amounting in the wholo to £00,000. 'there is said to be scarcely a bank or an insurance company in Boston which ha 3 not discounted his paper, and it is added that some time bJ.iio his flight from Bjston a number of his forgeries were discovered, and tS.ab he paid the money, which he obtained by the negotiation of freshly forged bills. Mr Window, accompanied by his wife and his sister, left Boston about the middle of January, and, as has since been ascertained, took passage under an assumed name in a vessel sailing under tho Dutch flag, bound for Rotterdam. There is no Extradition Treaty between Holland aud the United States, and had he remained in Holland he would have been safe. The Governor of Massachusetts requested the Dutch Minister at Washington ti> ask his Government to arrest the fugitive upon his arrival at Rotterdam, but the request was declined. By what fatality Winslowltft his place of safety and came to London, where he was almost certain of being arrested, has not been explained.—London Correspondent of the Scotsman. Leeds Amphitheatre was destroyed by fire on the 2ud March, leaving the town without any theatre, the other one having been burned last summer. The damage caused by tho present lire is botweeu £25,000 and £30,000. The amount voted for the maintenance of the British Volunteer Force during the ensuing financial year is £4-58,030. Strahukhs paying a isit to Duneoin are often at a loas to knew which is the best Kwulisiment to visit for the purclrao of drapery and clothing. Herbert, Haynes, and Co. offer special Btt7furUgCß to the public that can be met with nowhere cl&3 til" the eir.y. 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