The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-08-18
A Gang Of Counterfeiters broken up-----
Seizure of Plates, Dies and Spurious
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A Gang Of Counterfeiters broken up-----
Seizure of Plates, Dies and Spurious
Currency amounting to $4,000.
Sergeant Dickson and Officers Farley
and Eustace, of the Detective force,
have for about two weeks been engaged
in ferretiDg out suudry geiters-up and
passers Of counterfeit bank notes, and
within day or two their efforts have
been crowned with success, and two men,
PANIED Thos. Potter and Daniel Clark,
have been arrested. These men had been
suspected for some time, and the officers
had watched them 60 into house IN
Forty fifth street. They made q descent
upon this house and found Potter, Clark
and some others there, but were able to
secure only these two. On Tuesday eve
ming the officers received inform alton
which led them to search house in For
ty. f fth street, near Eleventh avenue, and
there they found two presses and thirty.
six different plates for printing and alter
ing bank notes, aud large carpet bag
concea aed in lumber yard near by,
which. they discovered, contained 3d.
600 in spurious bank bills, some signed
aud ready for circulation, others wet from
the press, and others unsigued. Numer-
Gus letters received from persons in va
rious parts of the country, asking for
packages Of money to circulate, and touch
ing upon various matters pertaining to
the uefarious business Were also found,
aud some answers to these letters, prepaid
for mailing. Among the bills siezed were
the following:
SIOs on the Farmers and Drovers
Bank, at Petersburg, Ind, Nathl. Ro
berts, President, l.. Wells, Cashier. 5 Il
of the same name and appearance
Way uesburgh, Pa; Sis on the Thames
Bank at Norwich, Conn, and also of The
Thames Bank at Laurel. Ind; SIS OF
the Thames Bank Of Indiana; Sis, ST.
and S3s on the Bank of Lower Canada
$20s on the New Eng land Blk. at Boston
SIS on the New England Bank at Fair
mount; Sis and 2s on the Quebec Bank
S5s on the Waubeek Bank, Nebraska
S5s on the Government Stock Bank a
Ann Arbor, Michigan; S5s on the Airing
ton Bank, District of Columbia; plates fol
altering S5s on the Stissing Bank o
Peunsy ylvania to somo New York Bank
plates for changing the denomination o
Quebec Bank bills, also of the bills o
the Thames Bank, Conn, plates for i'm
pressing the words ''Boston. Mass" tb'
words "ProvideDce, Z l., "Philadelphia
Pa, "Middletowp, Ct;" for impressinl
the figure "s5s, "sl0," 'X;" for ma
king the head of Washington on bills
plates for $50 bills on the Rocklaud coun
ty Bank, and S20's on the Boston Bank
twelve plates for altering bills in their de
nomin nations and Banks, &c. All thcs
were taken to the Police Headquarters
Broome street, corner of Crosby, where
they can be seen by Bankers and other
who may take the trouble of calling =
The prisoner Clark is locked up in tb
Tombs, and Potter has been taken +
Cooperstown, New York, where he stand
iudicted for forgery. Complaints of tn
circulation of numbers Of counterfeit bill
had been made to the Superintendent o
Police, and he placed the matter in. th
hands of the above officers. who, it ap
pears, have performed their duty 10
busiuess-like manner.--Nea0 York Ifa
buue. Auoua lltk.