| Show from thursday daily jan 13 our readers will remember that a hort time since an individual who lord mareua peer Bercs fb rd charles pelham clinton etc was arrested in new york and brought on a charge of forgery on ii london bank of fellow who vr r pt b hern i llie son dennl walts perpetrated sev arl ini in dilt frant carls of panl affrica now hafely loil il in ho utah tb A arf wa hat captain hurt of aliat any his ii a belr from mr Fifi tick J of new l by letter lion ui H of which throw light un aeres ford s career and will be of interest to the public Follo mii n a copy of mr stokes communication linnet building ISO fulton street city january atti 1881 re chas clinton arrest for alleged forgery i to tho inspector in chief of police salt lake city utah DEAH sir when cliftons Clin tons ex plaits were made public through the newspapers printed and circulated in tins city I attended on one occasion at the enon market police court thero to ascertain by questioning him what knowledge be biad of the earl of devons family son ho represented himself to be and I must that his an accord so closely with the real facts and I sought that I suspected him to be an off sprout ocomo member eirls family thereupon I wrote to the eirl of devon s steward england inquiring if ho could hed any light on this mysterious beitia his stature ond complexion as well as wiil I diio mail from the old conn ry inu me two lettero in rolv li inand in and I have made copied af thru ii they are so interesting and them to you when clinton has been tried and the case disposed of I shall esteem it a favor will send me a copy of the paper which publishes an account of hs trial as I would like exceedingly to cimpl with mr drews request very respectfully J ti roKEs the exploit a referred to in the above relate to cliftons Clin tons practices while here in new york and other places where ha pursued his fraudulent vocation the public are abaro that the defendant was brought from new york right to salt like aej give below the letter of the steward of the earl of devon in ro to mr blokes letter of inquiry to hiim CASTLE near exeter december 1880 I Dear Sir your letter of the ath dinst viivi came safe to band and I must thank you very much for taking lucli an interest in your old countryman and endeavoring to sift out who is that represents hirn sell to be a eon of the eirl of devon the aasten however that he ia able to give with ro arence to the family and the people of the neighborhood to any person know ing them like yourself would no quito enough to mislead ancone that was not exactly acquainted with his person we have no conception who I he can b but he must be some one who has resided not very far from thi there can be no doubt it is not I believe the first time we have beard of him in a manner lie has been all over the world you may say practicing practising the ame kind of deception cep tion about four years since he waa coming from india where he was introduced and dined with the viceroy and met at brindisi john perry bear whose faher was a tenant of s when came to powderham Pow derham 40 eara tince but left a year after fter for australia did ve leaving the son I have just named in high position lie was returning from england to melbourne meeting this man or his counterpart on board ship also bound for melbourne and he then introduced himself as the son of the honorable rable ami alev U 11 couite hay lord devons brother and from bia knowledge of the family and the people of the neighborhood who bear of cauna knew to bo all correct he upon landing at melbourne invited him to hw own introduced hijii at the government house and I all the first awil in tho place it wua not however any ing I ng think above ten days or a fortnight gerore an appeared in the md for nich a person and I believe he was ted to give an account of himself which he aid ha could do but in stead took himself oil from the colony bear then wrote mo as you have done now to ask if could give any idea vhf tha man was but I was ali much at a lua then as I am now but have very little doubt he is the taino imn john perry bear iain england now and yel the paper and your letter thought by the account he was iho same man add I eccli his answer in which you will beo he it is I bo uncommonly glad to know who the fallow hi no fool for certain by tho way lie is able to extract money upon whick bo has daubl been living for years I should be very glad if yen will kindly send I mo a paper warra it shows what baa been I am dear sir youra faithfully JOHN coffit december dear sir I return the new york paper and mr stokes lotter about courtenay the description mr stoke given of him quite agrees with my recollection of him excepting perhaps tatt I hardly call his complexion liilie lii lit but when I knew him he hod been traveling a good deal in india and ceylon and was no doubt I feel perfectly however that he u tho imo man I wrote you about from melbourne and who was then ol 01 e a BOO of the and leverend Keve rend II 11 courtenay iiii on and people puzzle J mo na much M H seems to have mr stoke I want osee your brother and chopo to be at your otlien on monday before ho leaves for yours jons Di dinv tv efi it will readily be teen after por jiing the above correspondence how C clinton a h ia called in bome way ww acquainted himself with matters pertaining to titled families whose representative ho has claimed to be and thus practice anew his game of fraud and ducep i |
