The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-11-15

IMPORTANT ARREST OF CoUNTERFEITFRS.-
About two years ago, batch Of cOunterfeited bill
on. the New Haven Bank, Conn, Items, Ewes, an,
twos,) made their appearance which created Inucl
| establishment by the accuracy with which they
were engraved and the skill with which the names
etc. were filed in with the pen. No trace, how.
ever could be obtained Of the eounterfeiters, and
the affair at length passed off, and was partially for
gotten. Only about $500 of this emission was
ever discovered by the Bank.
About one year ago, the five and ten dollar bills
OF the New Haven County Bank, at New Haven,
were counterieited, with the same mystery as to
the engraving, and the extraordinary skill in
the signatures OF this emission some $4,000 or
$1,000 were discovered by the Bank.
The two Banks, thereupon, made the most vigor-
Gus and persevering efforts to detect the villains
but without success. They also warned the pub
lie to beware of said eOunterfeits and Immediately
took measures to procure entirely new plates and
new paper, calling in their old emissions as fast as
possible This at length nearly accomplished
when, in August last, the officers Of the New Ha-
ven Bank were astounded by the. discovery that
their neO I'VE dollar plate had been copnteTfsited
with the same exact imitation as the old, and with
even more perfection in the tmanuscript signatures
Ofthis emission only $500 or $500 has been dis
covered by the Bank
Since the appearance Of this third counterfeit,
the two Banks have been unceasing in their efforts
to solve the mystery, and bring the offenders to JUS
tice. We rejoice to say that their efforts have at
length been crowned with success. Within the
last few days Henry knickerbacker William E.
Brockway, and by the name of Synder, have
been arrested at Hudson, the charge Of being
concerned in getting up or passing these counter
feits, or both, and having been subjected to long
and rigid examination, facts were elected which
leave no reasonable doubt that ssme If not all Of
them, are guilty Brockway, in particular, was
shown TO have had an active agency in getting up
the cOunteriets, and probably at the bottom Of
the whole affair. Besides the above three persons
have been arrested at Brooklyn, one in this city,
and one elsewhere, making eight in all, supposed
to have been concerned in the Villainy. The Off
GERS Of justice in pursui; Of still others Of the
same gang. Altogether, it was Of the most
dangerous combinations to deraud the public, that
ever existed in this eouRtry, and we may well CON
graduate the public if it is at length broken up
The prominent part taken in the counterfeiting
by BrOckway, made known by knekeFbacker,
(Nxho first arrested but not till many ineiiec-
tua efforts had been made to induce him to confess
Among other things, knekerbacker states that he
received $4,000 Of the counterfeits from BroekwRy,
for the purpose Of getting them exchanged for other
bills but that finding some difficulty in so doing
he returned $500 Of them to Brockwsy.
II was conclusively shown that the three eoun-
terfeits were perpetTated by the same gang. 1t is
admitted, we understand, by both Banks, that the
first counterfoils on those institutions must have
been printed from the genuine plates. As TO the
recent counterfeit on the New Haven Bank, the
case is not clear, but there would seem to be a
strong presumption in favor Of the supPosion, from
the fact that BrOckway was formerly jouTReyman
in the Office at New Haven, where the genuine
bills Of both Banks were, at that time, printed,
Il farther appeared that the villains had not con-
fined their operations to the New Haven Banks,
but had got up and issued counterfeit twos the
North River Bank in this city, and also eOunterfsits
on two other banks,
These facts we have obtained from undoubied
sources and 6ey cannot faito be Interesting 10 the
publicly. Z. JoHrHai Of Commerce, Noe. s.