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my,lay.the roa-far-yet the thia l6 anekdeni;thestratheare:les.leant,•hislabJUS.daywayofies-uenheyvho•oes3 tObntngsLmeofpoint ne was to start tnat evening. a saw no more of him until Tuesday the 6th. Hut in the mean* time I had thought maturely on the matter, and fully realized the perilous position in which Turner had placed me, and determined that I would not allow the infamy of such a transaction attach itself, in good faith, to myself and my family; so, upon the return of Mr. Turner on Tuesday morning, I told him frankly that I could not keep his secret, and that I meant to divulge it to the proper authorities.Upon this announcement Mr. Turner appealed to me in the strongest terms—offered me any price in his power to give, any influence he could command politically; he begged of me, for God’s sake, to keep his secret I told him I did pot dare to do it—that I was not disposed to do it—that I would not do it, when he very abruptly left my office.That day I went to Gol. Morrill’s office and disclosed to him what Turner had confessed, and asked him to send a detective that I might, beyond doubt, commit him. Col. Morrill was just then very bu3y with cases of seizures of goods upon which the .Revenue had not been paid, and told me he could not attend to the matter until Mr. Neil, the detective, returned from Atlanta, which would be on Friday, the 9th.On Wednesday, the 7th, Mr. Turner again came to my office, and after closing the door, began a sort of defence of his crime by saying that he did not give the counterfeit money in question to Marian Harris, but that he laid the package down in the car-seat on their way from Washington to Georgia, and that she had taken it up from the seat. This was offered as a technical evasion, which he seemed to suppose would defeat the law. He further stated that he told the woman that it would not be safe for her to try to pass any of this money. She examined it and said that she thought she could pass it easy enough. He further stated that he suspected that she had been passing it to prove to him that
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Macon Weekly Georgia Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Fri, Jul 30, 1869
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