New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-12
BOGUS MINT BROKEN UP.

Some three months more ago, the Detective
Police fell upon the track of an individual called
rpecie peddler whose business is to go from place
20 another abont the city aud furnish brokers' shop
keepers and others with specie, either gold silver,
in lsrge or small quar- titles, as might be required.
This person. il said, engaged in vending brass
eoin and linked with gang of countereters who
had their mint in NewY0rk or vicinity. Day aforday
this specie pedder was followed and inquiries instituted
by the police in every direction in order TO ascertain
TO certainty whether he eogaged in legitimate
or llegtma'e business. Many brokers and merchants
into whose offices the specie man was followed were
visited by the police, but nothing to crmnate hlm
ooald be elected from them. On the contrar' they
throw every obstacle in the way OF the detectives.
Captain Walliug, assisted by Detectives Sampson,
Elder and McCord took charge of the case event
pally tracked the specie vender to flne-l'oklog
Gothic house in Myrtle avenue near Division aveuuc,
Brooklyn Since then this place has been under police
surveillance and fresh facts gained from time TO time
strength. ned the suspicious Of the officers that the
house wa, used bogus mint, ard prepare
tons were made to ascertain the truth of the
suspicioDs by akipg decent upon the place. 90
several occasions officers in disguise had applied Mt the
house on one pretext and another bu, of them
succeeded in gaining further a1mitance than foot
beyond the door-sil). The man always answered
the ring at the docr-bell, aud seemingly manifested
great hurry to get rid of strangers.
The house which hiss elegant exterior, is sur
roupded by about quarter of an of ground laid
ont in gardens and grass-plas, the whole being in
closed by wall.
At II O'Clock yesterday morning. Capt. Walling,
with Officers Elder, Sampson and McCord, met near
the place, and after arranging their plans, the two
first named scaled the wall and gained the rear dor
without observation. Officer Sampson entered the
gateway, and, approaching the door, rang the bell
very gently. The same old answered the sam
moue, and the officers edroitly succeeded in gain
ing admission to the house. The door had no
sooner elo-ed than, at given signal, Capt.
Walpg, with Elder and NcCord, mounted the
stoop and rang the bell. Officer Sampson pushed the
man aside and opening the door, admitted his COM
rades. The inma of the house were seized and
placed under arrest. They were Mr. and Mrs. Ed
wsrds, Edward Cook aud Samuel Jaues
The prisoners h,vipg been secured, the officers
searched the house from bottom TO top. Upon bprst-
ing open door in the basement, they found model
mint for the manufacture of bogus coin
In one corner was splenddly tioished lathe; in
another press for making impressions, and scattered
around were the various implements of the coiners
gold dollars, two dollar and half gol pieces, quarter
dollars five and ten cent pieces. la crucib.es over
the furnace, was q quaatity of molten stuff used in
making the coin. Iu other places were found bogus
coin in flushed and unfinished state, to the amount
of about $500. Under the workbenches were bundles
of thin metal, having The appearance OF oreide.
From these strips, which four inches broad and
two feet in length had been punched pieces exactly
the sze of gold dollar and cut to be ready to
receive the impression. The gold dollars finished we're
dated 1854: the g. 80 gold pieces 1856; the quarter
dollars IS5s and the ten-ceot pieces the same date.
With the lathe the countereiters manufactured their
own die, as pieces of steel used for such purposes
were found in the apparatus 10 halt foished
state. The dies for the coins above mentioned
were all well cu', and of the coins,
gold ard silver so perfectly made TO battle detec-
ton. The weights of the respective gold and silver
bogus coresponded with genuiCe coin. Every article
found on the premises pertaining to this business con-
sitI Of lathe press sedge hammers, anvi's, cruel
bles chemicals, dies, metal finished aud uniolshet
coin collected aud carted TO police headquarters
In one the officers in the course of their search,
found counterfe bank bills TO the amount OF SJ5 as
follows:
Two 81 hills upon the Bank Of Cayuga Lake, State
Of Nsw-iOIk.
One hundred and ten dollars in bills Oh the Hart
ford Bauk of Hartford, Conn.
Eiglty.nne dollars in g bills on the Mechanics
Bank Of New-Haven.
Two hundred aud seventy dollars IN $lO bills on the
Bank of Charlotte &.
And $500 in g. bills on the Delaware Bank, at Delhi.
Some Of these bids supposed & be new counter
kits. They are poorly executed and printed on poor
paper Search was made for the plates from which
they were printed, but they could pot be found Moth
ing further being foupd the he was locked up aud
placed uuder charge OF the Brooklyn Police. The
four prisoners were brought TO this city aud locked 40
in the cells at Police Headquarters, where they were
detained last night. To-dsy they will be taken before
the proper authorities for examination The evdences
Of the guilt of the parties found in the house
are also Mt Police Headquarters, where they mSy be
seen by the canors.