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Show FORRISTER AGAIN. Memphis, 15. Jim Kinney, a thief now contined in the Tennessee penitentiary, peni-tentiary, has made a full confession of beinn implicated in tho celebrated diamond dia-mond robbery of Mr. Scooby, at New Orleans in 1 SOI. According to his statement Billy Forrester put up the job, and about half a dtzen we'll known thieves were concerned in iu lu order to attract the attention of the police and citizens they hired men to set the steam boats at the levee on fire and burned up six steamers. During the excitement they con-ummated the robbery, rob-bery, and secured over fluO.000 worth of diamonds. Through KinDy's revelations re-velations a number of the finest stones have already beeu dWcovered. In his conversation ivitmey declares his belief that Fomsier murdered Nathan, but that nobody knows all about it except Billy's wife now iu Memphis, and she is too sly to give htm away. |