Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-02-16
orF1o1AL BoNrrRE-Sanuday was a

OFFICIAL BoEFIRE.-SatuRday was a
bitter cold day without, but the Coun-
ty Commissioners managed to create an
excitement and conhagration within
doors. At 10 O'Clock in the morning,
John Hawkins had prepared in the ro-
funds of the new Court House, bon
fire in one of the large Iron Sand Heat
ers used by the Patent Roofers, when
shortly afterwards a procession reached
the second story, headed by Jesse
Timanus and John Patton, County
Commissioners, attended by Judge
Finn and Prosecuting Attorney Pru-
den, with half dozen laborers, bearing
trunks and carpet bags of counterfeit
money, implements of burglars, mur
derers, DC, with captured spoils of
gambling table, kino, DC. A crowd OF
observers drew round, and the tall chief
Timanus, of commanding form and
mien, announced that, according to law,
he would proceed to commit to the
flames, an accumulation Of effects taken
from transgressors of the law.
The contents of basket of tools,
gravers, dies, &C., taken from Towner,
at whose house, below the city, the
great haul of eounterfeiters was made,
were first consigned to the blazing fires.
The Chief then, with ponderous
hammer, shivered to pieces kino ap-
paratus, committed the fragments to the
flames. Soon then followed a highly
ornamented copper one, taken from the
establishment of Dan Smith, on Fifth
street.
A basket full of bogus money and
materials, taken from German woman
arrested over the canal and admitted to
bail, was added to the glowing furnace.
The prosecutor announced, as the
articles one by one were passed by him
to Timanus, the murderous or fraudu-
lent history and circumstances connected
Herewith. These new bills are counter
felt ones on the Fairfield County Bank,
taken in great quantities from the Milt.
Parker gang, arrested by the Police at
Touners-this butcher-knife is the one
with which Hardy Perkins killed fel-
low laborer at the slaughter house
these are outsiders-this, handing a
dirk knife with long blade, is an insider
perhaps; these are the two boulders
with which Lecompte, who was the last
person capitally executed in this county,
killed his victim-this is the club taken
from the rioters who attacked and broke
open the doors of Pryo Garden on
Mount Adams-this was Godfrey New
ner's knife-this is the knife with which
John H. Ackrey stabbed Garnet Smith,
the old colored man-these five Dodd
pieces were used as twenty dollar gold
pieces in defrauding green one by the
DROP game,-this slung shot, a heavy
piece of lead swung by string, killed
a man on Mt. Adams some seven years
since-wIth this two pound weight
young Mcdonald killed an Italian on
Fifth street, Governor Wood some time
since pardoned out the convict-here's
a dangerous article, a pistol pretty
nearly without lock, stock or barrel
and here followed a succession of pack
ages of counterfeit money, in small par
cells, taken from Zeager, Jones, Kelly,
Bolta, Donnally, Scott, Stevens, Brown,
Robinson, Lewis Sleight, Oh Thompson,
Milton Parker, Barney White, Boyd,
Dolman, and host of others, which
were severally burnt to ashes-whole
reams,, signed and unsigned, Of the
Wetumpka and Coosa Bank Bills to the
amount of near 100000, taken from a
person selling them on the Wharf at
five cents on the dollar, were passed into
the consuming .fames-jimmies, colts,
slung-shots, outsiders, insiders, skeleton
keys, BURGERS tools of various kinds in
great quantities, met with the same fate.
The contents of trunk taken from
Mary Ann Hollister were consumed,
and on it the trunk was placed, and ad-
ditional fires Endled with a kino ma
chine split to pieces. The inYoice of
Miss HOLSTERS was one of great va
riety-dimes, quarters, half dollars,
and bars of the metal from which they
were made; sheets of 81 Kentucky
bills, some filed and signed, others un-
touched. A lot of temperance medals
Jesse threw in, as he said, to see if they
would stand the fiery test-they LIeUI-
DATED very soon, but emitted no blue
flames, like the globe of the kino board.
The carpet bag of Jones, who was sent
to the penitentiary for filling up the
State Stock notes, with his rod, on which
he practised writing the name of Demas
Adams, with vials of various colored
inks, also gravers' tools, and a various
medley of counterfeiters' kit, and
bundles of clothing that belonged to
men wounded in ARRAYS, were piled up
together, and the county officials, digni-
taries and curious spectators soon van
ished from the smoke thus thrown out.
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