New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-12-06
Arrest of Gang of Western counterfe,ters.


Ihe Cincinnati Commercial of the Ist gives the
following interesting account Of The arrsst ~ :
gang OF cottnterfeiters, some of whom it will be
seen, had in their possession spuriouz hills ON a
oank Of this city.
and ssny, whose acuteness in detecting
h1 appLehendln9 rascals has made him Yayoons %
nesecHYe oihcerr returned yesterdayr frn,o on
olnef successful journey into Egypt. Soma trae
ne ~ nea[a Of projected meeting Of counter
~ isltGfs m dt oaifo, and went down to see abont i
On Thursday last, returning via The n al a9oat ~ m T.
he recognized four and two women va ~, ~, ~, ~,
cars travelling in this direction Tbev aIst ~ - e
zcd nm and before arriving at Salem two ef tfe
men and the TWO women made a plea fo The oa, ~
ductor that they were on the wrong train and a :. .
cordingly they were dropped by the roadside. i
third man got off shortly afterwards, while Reany
was watching the fourth, who was in the forward
car ana whom he was most desirous to arrest
When the conductor passed through. collecting
fare, the remaining chap--Lewi5 Deaary-raye
him ten dollar bill on the Canal Bank Of New
oFleahs. me conductor examined it closely, and
seemed sa lsied with it, and drawing il through his
nand was about to change it when Reany took IL
out Of his hand and informed him that it was couu.
ier1elt. Degary professed Indignation but Reanv
INSISTED upon taking seat with him until he rot to
5aiem, where ne gave his prisoner into the custody
o. the authorities of that place. After examina-
ton he was committed for trial in default Of $1,000
pan. Meantime, Reany derived useful information
tioi t MN, ana took from him the followidg note
j. Peter -, recommend a friend on the X
lefess) roads, who you may depend on is a good
man man Tor what he says, true and faithful. know
him well. Yonr friend NM"
heany subsequently used this /" recommend, ad
valstsgeousiy. lie went from Salem to Sandoyal,
anu teleGraphed TO st. Louis authorities to inter.
cept the remainder of the gang who had sliDped of
lhe Tram, Reany presuming from the circumstances
tnat they had gone that way. His telegram ar
rneu ~ gooo tine and two of the men and the two
into
however the third man, who had the counteyfe;t
money (abont $4,000 escaped, the officers presum-
ing MN to be pumpkin, as he was roughly al
tired, and carried his duds-wbich was tba Z sitf,,
in an old handkerchief
we nave related thus much to preserve the con-
necuoh. we return now to the Cairo meeting.
Iteany learned that on the day he arrested Deoarv
eeyeh sconharels with Sl25 900 in counterfeit Sos
nau meeting AT that place, to consider upon fu-
ture operations.
The party who met R. had also met the former
gang upon the same business. The former marty
agreed that there should be no distr;hut;on af AZ
spurious fumes for Western and Northwestern dis
trlbution until the following Thursday (to-dayl in
order to afford them an opportunity to get well
South AT the appointed time the Western gang
was to be well supplied, something like 500, 900
haVlng Deen prepared for use. The Western fel-
lows, however, being greedy could not bide their
time, and took advantage of an opportunity and
stole :" two books. or $1,000 of the southern stock.
ana departed into the bowels of Egypt just in time
to be disconnected by Reany. He got from them
the first and only bill any Of the party succeeded
in passing, but found other stuff'' Of the same
sort on his prisoner. Finding the Jig mp by the
arrest Of the parties at st. Louis, Reany tee-
graphed to Southern cities to look out for the
eleven who went down the river, and last night he
received dispatch from ST. Louis to visit that eity
Immediately, and he will leave this morning.
The issue upon the Canal Bank of New Orleans
Is well executed, and is calculated to deceive any
not familiar with the genuine notes, but banker
would easily detect it. There is one too many
curves in the scroll at the left Of the name Of the
bank-Canal Bank-and none between Canal and
Bank, a. fhere is in the genuine. The two LIS in
dollar are united in the spurious and they are
not in the genuine Otherwise the lettering and
all other features of the bill are unexceptionaby
good.
Reany says the organization of this gang is per-
feet, exceeding any with which he has had to CON
tend hitherto and it is numerous that it will be
extremely difficult to disorganize. He gave us
much information upon this subject, but it would
be impotic to publish it. His keenness and per-
severance in ferreting out the scoundrels is worthy
of cOmmendation.