Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-11-17
Bogus Hint Broken ND.


tive Police fell upon the track of an individual
called specie pedlar. whose business it is to
90 from one place to another about the city
apd furnish brokers'. shopkeepers and others
with specie, either gold Or silver; in large or
small quantities, ;as might be required. This
person.. il was said, was engaged in vending
brass coin, and was linked with o. gang of
counserfeiters, who had their mint in New
York or vicinity. Day after day this specie
pedler was followed, aud inquiries instituted
by the police in every direction in order
certain TO certainty, whether be was engaged
in legitimate, or illcgitimate business
Many brokers and merchants into whose Off
ces, the specie man was followed were visited
by the police, but nothing to criminate him
could be elected from them. On the contra
ry, they threw every obstacle in the way of
the detectives. Captain Walling, assisted by
Detective Sampson, Elder and MCord, took
charge Of the case, and eventually tracked
the specie vender to fine looking Gothic
house in Myrtle avenue, near Division avenue
Brooklyn. Siuce then this place bas been
under police surveillance, aud fresh facts gained
from time to time strengthened the suspicious
of the officers that the house was used as a
bogus miut, and preparations were made to
ascertain the truth of the suspicious by ma
king descent upon the place. On several
occasions officers IN disguise had applied at
the house. on one pretcxt and another, but
none of them succeeded in gaining further
admittance than foot beyond the door sill
| The same man always answered the ring at
the door bell, and seemingly manifested
great hurry to get rid Of strangers,
| The house which has an elegant exterior, is
surrounded by about quarter of an acre of
Il l., 1
the whole being enclosed by wall.
| At IL O'clock yesterday morning, Capt.
Walling, with officers Elder. Sampson aud
M'Cord, met near the place, and after srrang-
ing their plans, the two first named scaled the
wall, and gained the rear door without obser-
vation. Officer Sampson entered the gate
way, and, approaching the door, rang the
| bell very gently. The same old man answered
the SUMMONS, and the officers adroitly sue
ceeded in gaining admission to the house.
! The door had no sooner closed than, at given
| signal Captain Walling, with Elder and NJ
Cord, mounted tue stoop aud rang the bell.
! Officer Sampson pushed the man aside. and
| opening the door, admitted his comrades.
| The inmates of the house were seized and
placed uuder arrest They Mr.. anu
Mrs. Edwards, Edward Cook and Samuel
! James
| The prisoner, having been secured. the Of
| icers searched the house from bottom TO top.
| Upon bursting open door IN the basement,
| they found model mlpt for the manufacture
OF bogus coin.
! In one corner was a splsndidly finished
! lathe; Ia another press for making impres
sions, and scattered around were the various
| implements of the coiners craft In the clos
| cts were found finely cut dies for gold dollars,
two dollar aud half gold pieces, quarter dol
lars. five and ten cent pieces In crucibles
over the furnace, was quantity of molten
stuff used in making the coin. In other pla-
ces were found bogus coin in finished and
! unfinished state, to the amount CT about $500.
Under the work benches were bundles of thin
metal, having the appearance OF orelde.
From these strips, which were four inche.
broad and two feet in length, had been punched
pieces exactly the size Of gold dollar, ami SO
cut as to be ready to receive the impression
The gold dollars finished were dated 1854;
theS2 90 gold pieces 1850; ths quarter dol
lara 1858, and the ten cent pieces the same
date With the lathe, the counterfeiters
manufactured their own dies, as pieces of
steel, used for such purposes, were found III
the apparatus in half flushed state. The
dies for the coins above mentioned, were all
cut, and some of the coins, gold and silver, SC
perfectly made as to battle detection The
weights of the respective gold and silver bo-
gus corresponded with genuine coin. Every
article found on the premises pertaining tc
this business, consisting of lathe sledse ham
mers, press, anvils crucibles, chemicals, dies
metal, finished and unfinished coin was col
lectec and cafted to police headquarters LII
one room the police officers, in ths course 0
their search, found counterfeit bank bills tc
the amount of S952 as follows:
; Two 81 bills upon the Bauk of Cayug
Lake, State of New York
One hundred aud ten dollars, in $40 bill
on the Hartford Bank, of Hartford, Conn.
Eighty one dollars 10 S3 bills on the Me
chanios' Bank of New Haven.
Two hundred aud seventy dollars in 5 i
bills on the Bauk of Charlotte n. G.
And $500 in s. bills on the Delaware
: Bnuk at Delhi.
ONE of these bills are supposed to be ne
counterfets. They are poorly executed an
printed on poor paper. Search was made fc
the plates from which they were printed, bl
they could not be found Nothing furth.
being found, the house was locked up an
"a placed under the charge of the Brooklyn PC
lice. The four prisoners were brought
thi. city aud locked up in the cells at Polio
> Headquarters, where they were detained la
} night To-day they will be taken before tt
proper authorities for examination. The e
! licences of the guilt Of the parties found
y :, the house sre also at Police Headquarter
u y where they may be seen by the curious.
L ". T. Tribune
FABRICATION OF DIAMoSps-One Of q
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