Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-06-25
Drie sbac In the Great Horse Tam.
er--HOW he got killed..HiS
Connection with a gang of
COuuterfeifers --.---s

Two men were recently killed by being
run over by railroad train at High Spire,
near Harrisburg, in Pennsylvania. 1t was
ascertained that they resided in Harrisburg,
and were just returning from the Commis-
sion of burglary. 1t appears that they
we're the leaders Of a gang of counterfeiters,
and that one of them was the horse tanner,
Herr Driesbach. 5--ss
The Harrisburg Herald of the 1st inst.
says:
On Friday afternoon female called at
the office of the Coroner and asked him il
he knew the men who had been killed on
the railroad. She seemed to be in great
distress, shed tears freely, and said that
she feared that one of them was her hus-
band, and the moment she saw their clothes
she became excessively agitated, and ex-
claimed, 'that is poor Georges and that is
poor Charley's?" and Immediately sank into
chair and tainted.
She stated that one of the men was her
husband, and his name is Williams-that
she was from Turbetville, Northumberland
county, p Pennsylvania, and that she had been
living with her husband and his compan-
ion in North-strect, opposite the cotton mill.
Coroner Barr determined to search the
house, and found quantity of mills and
metal drills and files, punches and ladies, a
variety of acids, saws and chisels, augers,
and a variety of other implements used for
conterfeiting and burglarious purposes; also
1o| of IL ha
discoveries made fully established the fact
that the business of counterfeiting had been
carried on extensively in the house.
Whilst he was engaged in searching the
upper rooms, the woman carried out o
quantity of metal of some kind and other
articles, and threw them into the privy-
Numerous interesting documents were dis
covered, containing the names of individ-
uals evidently members Of a regular organ
lied gang Of counterfeiters, burglars and
horse-thieves, extending from the city Of
Philadelphia all over our State, and to Ne
braska and California. 1t was also discov-
cred by an examination of the documents
that the man known here as Vickroy was
no less distinguished a parsonage than the
widely-known horse-tamer and trainer, G.
w. Driesbach, of Cherokee county, Texas,
alias Geo. Vickroy, Douglas, DC. This
fellow it is supposed, was one of the ring
leaders of the gang above alluded to. The
other man, the woman claimed as her hus-
band she said his name was Williams, and
that he had never assumed any other
But papers found during the search showed
that his name Tor one of his names was
George Russell.
Various other papers and letters are in
possession Of the Coroner, which will no
doubt soon lead to further and more start
ling developments, and the implication of
certain parties in this county and the coun-
ties of Lycoming, Northumberland, Colum-
bia and Montour. The woman MRS. Will
Jams as she called herselG left very sud
denly and unexpectedly on Friday evening
in the train for Philadelphia. Just before
getting into the omnibus, she was seen to
raise one of the stair steps, take out guam
tity of something resembling coin, and hur-
riedly thrust it into her trunk. When in
formed of this fact the Coroner hastened in
pursuit of the woman, but the cars were
gone and the bird had flown!