The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1858-11-05
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coCSrERFIrIHG EXTRAORDINARY NJ A
TURKISH LADY

Ihur,'iay morning, ! ilusfprd Smith,
the Turks Consul called ut the Mayor.
ollie and informed bis Honor that 10
had received u despatch from the Oitv.
man Government through the Turkish
Minister at LONDON stating that a Mrs.
~cvasti had Just been arrested at Con.
staniiu7ple for passing counterfeit NOR
cy She was discovered through the I'M
usual quantity Of hrr baggage. on at.
tempting - have the city lur other quar-
tiers IN order a. satisfy their suspi.
cious, the Government officials opened
her trunks. whereupon large quantity
f Caime-7 fpieces If paper money.
valued at 20 piastcrs each were found
underneath false bottoms She was iu-
mrdatciy taken before the Minister Of
Police and examined -he confessed
that she had bad GOO 0p0 Caime,," print.
ga IN New York. and had paused % =
great number of them in tonstantiuuplr.
The Intelligence was transmitted hv tel.
cgraph to New York hy way Of London.
aud 1t was desirable that the matter
should be investigated The Consul
made an affidavit Of these facts
o. the receipt Of this information,
Mayor Tieman despatched Sergenn, Der.
ncy with a search warrant for the arrest
Of William /. : Harrison. printer.
whose establishment, il AZ - pamn.
sire. where Mr. SevaSti said her print.
ing was dome. The Sergeant. accompa.
uicl by severed members of the Mayors
squad. proceeded = the premises at ;
p ". and arrested Harrison and his work.
men. They were engaged a, the time
ID ordinary printing but piles of the
Turkish counterfeit money were found
on the shelves Mr. IT, was a, first
greatly astouisled at the apparition II
the police. aud was al a loss u under.
stand what the whole thing meant. until
the -erneaHf reai - lis' -. 's"i -.
From h.s explanations it became evident
that he was entirely unaware of the
true character If the job be- had done for
the Turkish lady H. said that he re.
collected her calling on him about the
first of July under the name Of Madame
Iaifnan. and engaging him to print n
large quantity IT what appeared to o
labels ~ auu dollar per ono thousand.
exclusive Of the cost Of dyes and cngra-
wing She called several times e scr
the proofs, and at last became satisfied
with the paper and impression, and or
derel 5000 00o 60 be printed She eva
dcd his queries a. 10 the nature of what
he was printing. bat finally said they
were labels She paid him 100 in
cash and note for $500 in payment for
the iab On the 9ai ei July. she had
the labels transferred 10 the Astor
llonse and thar ssaS the last he saw #
her he had nat The slightest suspicion
that what She called labels were pieces
&c Turkish money 1he Mayor held Mr.
Harrison to bail IN the sum of - 900
Mr. u -naling and John II Moore he
cumjug his hunlsmcn His workmcn
wcro detained a. Witnesses The
Gaines" fruni on the premises Of the
printer were ihe refuse sheets which
Mr. ~nvasil rejected The 600 goo
Gaines which she carried % CONSTANT
noplc were worth % piastrcs each and
the piastrc being valued at 80 cents, the
eutirc quantity oi paper aney was
worth $, 500 400 An examination viii
hc held to day before the Mayor