Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1858-07-03
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poctoring Counterfeiter with Emetics

Doctoring Counterfeiter with Emetics.
About week or more ago mah nam
eG Frederick w. Kohler went into the
jewelry store OF Tiffany q Co, Broad
way, and making some small purchases
rendered in payment therefor a So bill
purporling 10 be Of the John Hancock
Bsuk. Boslcn. The bill, appearing gen.
uine,was accepted. and The proper change
returned; but only liule time espsed be
fore il was discovered that The bill was
counterfeit. Nothing more WAS seen of
Kohler until Saturday last, when he again
entered the slore, and. making another
small purchase, offered bill similar 10
tie one mentioned. He was q, once
recognized, and an officer sent for, who
took him into custody. While in the
slsre one Of the clerks noticed tina, he
swulowed something, and communicated
the fac, 10 the officer. On being taken to
the Police station house, Capt Walling or
deFed the fellow TO be searched, " whch re-
suited in finding nothing OF suspicious
character on his person. The prisoner
submitted gracefully to the search. A
ils close the following brief dialogue ell
sued:
PIisoner-WelI, / hope now. Sir, you
are satisfied that don't carry any bad
sluf with me. trust can nov GO
home about my business.
tCap,ain-..My officer tells me that he
has reason TO believe that you have swal'
lowed some counterfeit bills.
Prisoner--Not |, Sir, do oil my bus
mess SQUARE and above board--it is some
of The nonsense Of that pusiIlanimous
clerk. =,
Captaiu--A slight emetic would tell
the story. Ii will take but moment to
clear yourself. Laughter among the
"shadows," as though The serious Cap
lain intended joke.
Prisoner--CIear myself! do You snp'
pose tha, am going TO degrade myself
by taking any d,--d emeiic
Captain--Degrsde or Otherwise, | con-
slider i. my duty 10 Try the thing on.
PIisoner--(waxing wroih AMI putting
himself in an indignsn, allilude)--id like
30 see you try j, on! If man touches
me III be id if ] don't ihrpss my hs'
down his throat and give him an emeilc
that will throw bis boots and big toes Out
Of his mouth.
Capt. Waling gave the prisoner TO un-
ders,and that he mus, submit, 10 the ope-
ration, and that he had better do j, quiet
ly, at the same time instructing one oil
his men 10 get an emeiic.. As the emeiic
was handed TO the prisoner he made
some very wrv faces, but seeing he was
in for u he gulped down the dose. saying
as he swallowed it," have just taken
dinner at upper Taylor's saloon, and !
don'i like 10 unses'le nv dinner right sf'
Ter having settled for it, o
Several minutes elapsed. bu: mo indi.
csaon Of The recent dinner showed itself.
Cspiain Walling being determined TO
make thorough job of it. ordered anoih-
er emeiic, which the young man swal,
lowed, even more reluctantly Than the first
il was found lha, this was also likely TO
fail. and the 3spiain insisted on his Ia
king tumbler of warm salt water, as a
sort of ,op.of. The latter had 'hs desi-
red effect. Amid the chunks OF meat.
Jumps of potato. segmen's Of asparagus
and undipes,sd strawberries. four coun'
tsrfeit bills wers found. They bad been
compressed into such small compass
thafa pretty rigid search was made D. be-
fore they were di<coveIed. The piiis
were uhrolled, and proved 10 be coun,
,el!eit,hres on the Hsncocs, Bank.a OF
Ellsworth. Maine, cOur'eiftlt bill o'