Ft. Worth (TX) Daily Gazette, January 30, 1888, p. 3. Available online at
www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/. NOTE: Read more about Horace Bell in "The
Fugitive Slave Law in Indiana," by Charles H. Money, published in the
Indiana Magazine of History, September 1921, pp. 287-297, available online
at
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STORY OF THE REBELLION
$3,000 Awaiting an Owner Who Had Left It with a Friend for Safekeeping.
Corydon, Ind., Jan. 26-A few days ago the postmaster here received a letter
from Jordan Giles of Henderson, Ky., who is secretary and treasurer of the
Ohio Valley Railway Company, stating that he had a certain sum of money in
his possession that belonged to a gentleman named Bell who was at one time a
resident of Corydon. Mr. Giles said that while he was in business at
Paducah, Ky., during the war, Mr. Bell came to him and left some money with
him saying that he was going on a dangerous expedition in the Confederate
States and did not care to take the money with him. Mr. Bell requested him
to send the money to his sister at Corydon if he did not call for it within
a certain time, but says that he never thought of the matter again from that
day until the day he wrote the letter to the postmaster at this place.
Friends of Major Horace Bell wrote to him at Los Angeles Cal., about the
matter, and received an answer yesterday. Bell says that he left $3,000
with Giles and has ever since been endeavoring to learn his whereabouts. He
says that when Judge Walter Q. Gresham was in Los Angeles some time ago he
asked him about Giles, knowing that he was acquainted with him. The judge
told him that he had not seen Giles since the war but that he made
$1,000,000 in cotton during the rebellion. Giles is a native of this
place and left here a penniless boy.