Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-01-05

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On Friday the. arrests were to be made
and 10 bring Drury easily 10 our hands,
meeting was. projected between him ant
Thompson at nine O'clock in the morning
of that day, on the heights. At eight O..
clock we crossed the Catherine Ferry, ac
companied by officer A. M. C. Smith, Jen.
kins and Crassous. We did moi intend tc
take any action personally, but now tha,
matters were drawing to a close, we wish.
ed to see the climax Of our work. slf ,ol q
bsireq THEsRAT CAUGHT. gs
At nine O'Clock Thompson and Drury
were seen to meet at Fulton Ferry. They
did not speak, but Thompson walked up the
heights, and ,Drury followed wariy in the
rear, inspecting the street ON all Sides
Crassous, and Mr.. Smith and ourself held a
post Of observation in the extreme rear
By and by Thompson turned into an open
lot upon the heights, and 'Drury followed
him. They remained in the enclosure
some twenty minutes and then came out
and separated. Shortly after the separa-
tion jenkins and Crassous closed on him,
aud the former seized him by his one arm
and while the latter took him by the collar
on the other side. Drury made no resist
ance, but with the indignant remark that
she was gentleman" demanded to be re-
leased. Jenkins at this only held him the
tighter, whereupon Mr.. Drury asked him
"why he squeezed his hand - Jenkins,
who had his eyes about him, thought it
we'll to give his hand another squeeze, if
only for good measures when 10, from the
opening fingers of the prisoner dropped
four OF the altered tens of the description
he had furnished TO M,rgaret O'Conner.-
"That's what l wanted" said Jenkins,
picking up the notes. "Those were not
mine," said Drury. "lf they were not
yours, how came you TO drop them!" said
Jenkins. ''These pennies" SAID Drury, ex-
posing two coppers in his palm, hur, my
hand" "Then you should have dropped
the pennies, not the bills" said Crassous,
1t had doubtless been the intention of the
willy prisoner, when he saw The officers
upon his heels, to wrap the altered notes
around the coppers, and throw the whole
away; but having no helping hand for his
one arm, he was unable to accomplish his
object, and was Obliged to detain them, be-
cause he did not dare to drop them in view
of his pursuers. -r. e. 1.
Drury was then conveyed to prison and
privately locked up in the female depart
Inent, in order to conceal his situation from
the spies about the Tombs, until we could
arrest little Sam and have an opportunity
TO search Drury's house.
THE Sc.pCrI
This latter was matter of great respon-
sibility. We had no search warrant to
back us, and if we failed in finding nefa-
rious property, Drury would prosecute us
10 the utmost. We rrcollected, however,
The responsibility which We had been obi
yed TO assume in the search for the CO.
Vernment Jewels, which We found in the
house Of the thieving Ann street Joneses,
who had been suing US for libel, and de-
ermined to ''go ahead" again, as in that
case. We therefore added, to jenkins and
Crassous, officers Joseph bowling, Dennis
Dowdican and Jeremiah Barker, all of the
Sixth Ward police, and set out in pair Of
coaches for Astoria. We arrived about
'ne O'Clock in the day at Drury's residence,
which was an elegant two story frame
house surrounded by out houses and cnltiva-
ed fields. The place abounded with dogs
md domestic animals, and several young
were playing about the grounds
lust as We We're ready to enter the house,
Young Sam was seen driving up TO it in a
wagon, whereupon jenkins went forward
md arrested him before he reached the
,ouse, and turning him Back, conveyed him
o the city at once, in one of the coaches
The search was then conducted under
he direction of officer Smith, and lasted
our hours. Its results consisted Of two
arge boxes Of gold watches, two boxes OF
watch works, a box of watch crystals, two
boxes ofjewelers oil, small caskrt OF .dia-
nonds, emeralds and rubies, a box of watch
springs, several promiscuous watchrs in
various parts Of the house, watch seals and
chains, gold breast-pins, some Of diamond,
/ variety Of splendid NECKLACES and other
ewelry, and five dollar altered note on
he Eagle Bank of Bristol. These things
were found in the house. In small out
building called '.the office" in which doubt
less the torpedo box was charged, we found
idr5t lever press lot countrrietinS coin,
, small transfer press for bank n aes,
number Of steel dies for Spanish doubloons
and dollars, some OF which haa marks oI
the gold impression on them, Haytien and
other coins, squares of glass for altering
bank notes, acids for the extraction of inks,
punches for making dies, fancy type for
the insertion Of letters, and all the materials
for countrrieiting and making spurious coin.
1t was our impression at first that the
watchrs and other jewelry were, the pro-
ceeds of various burgaries which Drury
had purchased at different times, but it has
been asceriained that the largest part of it
consists of the jewelry which he swore was
destroyed at the time when he fired his
house and OIL which be recovered the insu.
rance. What is not accounted for 10 this
way, is probably stolen property.
Following up our work, We on Monday
morning produced our witnesses before the
Grand Jury and obtained two bills of indict-
ment against father and son. On the fol.
lowing day the Grand Jury found, as we
are told, another bill of perjury against the