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Boon's Lick Times
Fayette, Howard County, Missouri
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John M. Breedlove, a Custom House clerk in New Orleans, confessed to stealing treasury notes, implicating Halliday who removed cancellation ink to make them passable. He detailed taking the notes and receiving processed ones back over several days.
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CONFESSION OF BREEDLOVE-
HALLIDAY IMPLICATED
The New Orleans Picayune of the 16th says:
John M. Breedlove, one of the persons engaged in the robbery of the Treasury Notes from the Custom House in this city and now in the jail of the Second Municipality, yesterday made a full and unsolicited confession of the whole affair. He implicates Halliday, directly, but says nothing of any other of the individuals charged with being accomplices.
In his confession, Breedlove states that he took the notes, but was first induced to think of the robbery and make the attempt by Halliday, who said that he could extract the ink of the cancelling from the notes,--so that they would pass without suspicion on the closest inspection. He first took two $500 notes and gave them to Halliday, as an experiment. On the next day Halliday returned him one of the notes with the ink entirely extracted, keeping the other as his share in the business. These two notes were exchanged without difficulty, and it was then agreed that Breedlove should take the others. Accordingly he watched for some days to see when the packet should be made up, and when it was made up, with other bundles to be mailed for Washington, he took occasion, when the book keeper left his desk for a moment, to pocket the package, and immediately sought for Halliday, to whom he gave it, meeting him in the bar room of the merchants' Exchange. After this some time passed before Halliday gave him any of the notes with the extraction made. Halliday said, when he gave Breedlove the second note, that he had spoiled several of them in the process of extraction. From time to time, during the lapse of several days, sundry of the notes, numbering about ten altogether, were thus received by Breedlove, Halliday always remarking that he had ruined several in trying to take out the ink.
Breedlove was what is known as the Duty Bond clerk in the Custom House, and was the only one of the persons said to be concerned in this base transaction who was employed there.
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New Orleans
Event Date
The 16th
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breedlove confessed and implicated halliday; about ten notes processed and shared; breedlove in jail.
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John M. Breedlove, Duty Bond clerk at the Custom House, confessed to stealing a package of treasury notes intended for Washington. Induced by Halliday, who could remove cancellation ink, Breedlove took the notes, gave them to Halliday for processing, and received back about ten usable notes over several days after Halliday spoiled some.