New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-23
Arrest of Gountcrfeffers --Exfra0r,ifnary
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From the Chicago Press Of the 10th we extract
the following:
On Monday night posse Of officers, United States
Deputy Marshals and others, reached this city hav-
ing 10 charge three men arrested and largely dent-
flied with the manufacture of bogus money chiefly
silver coin
These men constituted nest Of counterfeiters
broken mp at Cordova, in Rock Island county. on
ia,sn Mdissssppl river. eighteen miles above Rock
.siahd on Saturday night last, and brought thence
! Sabbath. $50 WY p'''eo INC
ns They Fyy. we're tracked ont BY C. smith and Whit
ny frank, q Bradley's Detective Police Chicago.
together with Jacob Rehm, City Marshal Of Iii.
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The officers having go. things in proper trim,
to Cordova and that night after some sharn man.
| agement succeeded by sharp fight. founa their
birds busy at their bogus work, and caught them
IN the act taking possession of their entire outfit
Of TOOLS ETC., etc. The persons arrested are az fol
lows:
Timothy L. Bigelow, a man Sc years old who
has family, consisting Of wife and several
county for the last five years. He lived about a
mile and a half this side of Cordova. on the bank
of the river, and has sometimes lived the island
in the river.
have come from Michigan, and had been with Big
Glow two or three years.
James Smith, aged % or % years, formerly an
employe on the NJ. & NJ. Railroad, and lately the
d. Is
said that Smith came from New Hampshire, lived
awhile in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and had kept the
"crib'' in Cordova only short time.
The old man Bigelow and Clark are said to be
accomplished engravers and expert counterfeit
ers. Bigelow has served a term or two in the
penitentiary.
The kit Of tools we examined yesterday after
noon at Captain Bradley's Office on Randolph
street. and it would appear that they had most
complete and perfect set of dies tools, presses,
ETC.. and everything necessary for the manufac-
ture of every kind of American coin, of gold and
silver, from five cents to $40. They had on hand
in an unfinished state, some five hundred dollars of
their gold coins, and bag Of their fifty and TWEEN
ty-five cent pieces.
The clue to these operators was gained we learn.
by means of some of the arrests at Galesburp in
Knox county, last year, and since that time Mr.
Bradley has been on the scent It will be readily
believed in these times that it was no easy lob TO
find q man in this region who was making money,
but these Cordoya operators have been found very
busy filling an order for one thousand dollars in
coin. given by one of the detectives. The men
fought like lions, but were overpowered.
to think he has been poisoned by some of his
confederates. He is in poor health and seems
quite detected. "Ah, says he, /" / thought was
smart enough for 'em, but they have got me at
last
The story told by this old man of this attempt
upon his life, is one of the most remarkable in the
annals of crime. Of the truth Of the same, he
bears in his person unmistakable tokens that go to
nlseSt SoHc. liz ulat idSt ne started
to go down the river to New Orleans; that he
stopped on an island with of his confederates.
He had then on his person 81 900 in gold in belt,
and gold watch and chain valued at 5000. They
mixed his liquor with something that stupefed him.
or probably as they believed, killed him. What
next he knew was when he recovered his faculties
and found himself in darkness, pressed downward
with heavy weight. With long and severe labor
he released himself and found himself alone on the
island, well nigh naked and robbed of all his valu-
ables. The cowardly wretches, his would-be muir
derers, had actually buried him alive, beneath a
heap of logs and brush-wood The old man is q
perfect wreck, and can scarcely walk rod with
out support.
| The whole party, with their tools and the case
| against them, will go before the United States
Court for the speedy and inevitable result that
| awaits it.