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Arrest of tire Macon Post-Master.Fro:n the Chronicle and Sentinel of the 6*4.]On the nineteenth of last month a mulatto { woman from Hanoook county, named Marian Harris, stopped in this city on her way from Washington, and succeeded in passing about $450 on the merchants of Augusta, in bills on t the First National Bank of Jersy City, which , had been stolen from the Treasury in Washington while unsigned, and the President’s and , * Cashier’s signatures forged. On the Wednesday succeeding, Mr. Mollrky found that the . bills were worthless, and, punning the woman to Atlanta, had her arrested. At the time of , ? her arrest there were found on her person $950 * of the bad bills, and $467 of good currency. J The proof against her, we suppose, not being t sufficiently strong, she was discharged, after restoring nearly all the money of which she had ! • robbed the merchants here. lt;On Thursday Mr. Morphy, of the Atlanta Po- ; lt;lice, arrived here and returned on the night of , that day, taking with him Lieut Purcell, of the , Augusta force, to assist him in unravelling the I * plot, as heretofore it had been found impossible ' ’ to get anything out of her, and it was thought i that by bringing her to this city, where the , crime was committed, that operations could be , conducted with a better hope of success. On ' Friday morning Lieut. Purcell reached Atlanta 1 and immediately re-arrested the woman on a warrant issued by United States Commissioner . Smith. On Friday night he took the cars with ; her andsiartedhoxne,bui when the train reached ; Union Point he received a dispatch from United j States Marshal Smyth directing him to return with his prisoner to Atlanta. On receiving this message Lieut. Purcell transferred the woman to the up-night train and went back to that city. On the cars, we are informed, the woman's courage gave way and she made a clean breast! of the whole transaction. !
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Macon Weekly Georgia Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Fri, Jul 09, 1869
Page 4
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