Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-19
Important Arrest of Countsrfsiters.
| From The 1iuY Duiig Times.

TIO" '"c i'J buHJ i"eS-
Deputy United States Marshal Shattuck of
Syracuse, and O:mstrad. Of Rochester, with
Depu-y Sheriff Stafford. Of Cannoharc ar
re>;ci this morning. IN this city. Amos |.
lIaight, Caroline his wife, and Dallas his
spn, at their residence, NJ. Is, Third street
on the charge of manufacturing and utter
rlis counterfeit coin, and Frederick VI. GantZ
aud Polly has wife, ut their house on Ida
Hill, on double charges Of counterinItlnS
and forgery. They found III possession Of
the parties, ut both places, il large quantity
OF finished and unfinished coin ten cent
pieces. quarters, aud halves, together with
the plaster ut Paris III ,ulds, acids, presses,
plates and dies for altering bank n'Ies II
large quantity Of altered bills on different
banks SIu,U,O or $50, 900 worth; III fact. the
complete apparatus Of ronnterieItinS e'tab-
llshmrnt. with all its appuri"nanre' and be
lnngngS. They left with their prisoners t!'i,
morning M il o'clock for Auburn. where the
United Safes Court l. HOW III SESSION. There
Is no doubt whatever ot their indictment ut
thus term, aud their conviction Is Il moral GER
lainty.
The circumstances under which the arrest
was made, are very singular. Us exhibiting
the faulty OF crime, and the certainty ot lis
eventual detection. llaight was leading
! member of u mystic circle OF counterieiters,
whose operations extend through all the
cities between Troy and Buffalo. Recently
another member, who had operated with hlm
in has rasrally transactions, was arrested IN
Wrs:eru city. lie informed an officer ol
the existence ot the gang, the nature ot It's
transactions. its headquarters. its by-wordS
and everything necessary to facilitate lnyes-
legations, and insure the arrest vi the guilty.
On Thursday last, Marshals Shattuck and
OlnlStrad. and officer Stafford, came down
from the West, and instituted Il series OF in
quiries that put them in possession OF intor.
nation aS To the whereabouts of the liaIghts.
| They concealed themselves during the day.
At evening, Stafford, who is u Deputy Sher-
II of Montgomery county, and can on ncra-
sion be as cool Us Il cucumber and as solemn
as II Quaker meeting, went to the house.
No. lS2 Third street, inquired for the elder
, Ilaight, and was admitted to the presence.
After making the mystic 81 gu OF the rascally
gang. and putting himself TN good terms
with the wary scoundrel, Stafford announced
thut he Was in the counter!elt'ng business
and that his object was the purchase Of Il
quantity OF stuff tor circulation at the West.
There did not seem to he any disposition 10
disbeieve him. but the llaights evidently
considered it best to move cautiously, and
the officer was subjected to a scorchng ex-
animation Ivy father, wife and son. The i'll
formation gwen Ivy the Western prisoner.
however, stoud him good, and he was ena-
Died to satisfy them TN every point The re-
suit was, that he WAS told 10 come again,
and he would be accommodated.
Stafford WAS frequently AT the house OF
the llaights after that, and was through
them introduced to Gnntz, the Ida Hall
| crunterfctcr On Saturday night, Amos J..
| llaight invited him to take par; with them
III making the coin. He exhibited to him all
the apparatus, and instructed him as to it,
use. A lump Of base metal weighing several
pounds was melted run into m"lds repre-
scnting ten, twenty-five. and fifty cent pieces
and galvanized. The woman and son took
part IN the operations aud were quite as ca
pert as the father and his Ida Hill ac-
cJunplice. The coins, after coming from
the molds, were rough upon the ed ges and
imperfect. There was Il machine for smooth
my them and bringing out their features.
aud, this was the wunans business. Stat
iurd-or Baker, u, he Represented HIM
self to be-bouyht quantity vi the bogus
stuff, paid for it, and took it to his official
comrades. Yesterday he was in company
with the couniuriei,crs most OF tho time. and
with them visited Ida Hill, and ascertaned
where some apparatus WAS he had not before
! seen.
All things being ready this morning at
| o'clock. the officers proceeded to make the
arrest. They found the llaightS III bed. and
It may well be SUPPOSED that they were con
siderably astonishcd u learn their qunndam
acc"lnpllcc stood to them a- the stern agent
If the Laws they had violated. Their rage
III account of the deception prartlrrd on
| them. and their shame because they had
/ been 80 shrewdiy lricked, were unbounded.
| \ complete search Of the premises resulted
III the SEIZURE of more finished COIN than Il
strong man could liit and al the aplrt-
! ratus We have mentioned. CAN'T ami his
w,ic were arrested at their house on Ida
! Hall. In the pocket Of her dress The woman
had several hundred dollars III bogus AMI
altered bulls and some base com.