New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-17
An IMPORTANT ARREST or MANUPAC-
TURERS AND DEALERS IN COUNTER
FEIT COIN.
LARGE HAUL OF MOLDs, ACIDS. DIES AND
PRESSES

Deputy United States Marshal Shat.uck Of Syracuse
end Omsted OF Rochester, with Deputy Sheriff Stat
ford of Capojohare, arrested this morning. in this city,
Auos l. Haight Caroline bis wife, and DALLAS his con
Il their residence No. 1872 Third street. on charge of
manufacturing and utteripg counterfeit coin and
Frederick M. Gsniz and Polly his wife, at their house
% Ida ILL., double charges OF counterfeiting aud
forgery. They found in possesson Of the parties at
10th places large quantity Of finished and unfinished
coiu en-cent pieces, quarters and halves together
nth the plaster Of Pans molds, acds presses plstes
snd dies for altering bank notes. large quantity Of
.lsered bills on different bsnks-$70, 600 or $4,000
roth in fact, the complete apparatus of counter.
s;spe establishment, with all is appurtenances and
hsionsngs. They Left with their prisoners this morn.
20 Al N O'Clock for Auburn, where the United States
ent Il nov in session. There ia no doubt whatever
Il tbsr indictment at this term and their conviction
h a moral certainty.
The circumstances under which the arrest was made
arr very singular, as exhibiting the faulty Of crime
Isnd tie certainty Of It's eventual detection Hsight
RS leading member Of mystic circle of counterfeit
IN whose operations extend through all the cities be-
Itveep Troy and Buffalo. Recently another member
vho had operated with him in his rsscsly transactions
gss arrested IN Western city. He informed 80 officer
the existence Of the gang the nature OF its trsnsac-
tOas its headquarters its by words, and everything
peceeesry TO facitste investigations and insure the
srfest Of the guilty.
On Thursdsy last Marshals Shattuck and Olmstead
~ officer Stafford, down from the West and in
futed eeries of Inquiries that put them in possession
q Information a. to the whereabouts of the Hsghts
hoy copce led themselves during the day. At even
o. Stafford, who is Deputy Sheriff OF Montgomery
County and can on occasion be as cool % cucumber
"a solemn QuaB meeting, went TO the house
Ge. ls2 Third street inquired for the elder Haight
ryytic sign Of the rascslly gang ard putting himself
o good terms with the wary scoundrel, Stafford an
younced that be in the countereitipg business,
ed that his object was the purchase Of quantity of
eud for circulation at the West. There did not seem
70 b any disposition to disbeleve him. but the Haghts
evidently considered it best TO move cautiously and
the officer was subjected 10 scorching examination
BY s,her, wife and son. The information given by the
Testern prisoner, bo~ever, stood him good, and he
wa enabled to satisfy them on every point. The re.
suit was that he was told to come again, and he would
be accommodated.
Stafford was frequently at the house Of the Haights
xer that and through them introduced to Gsntz.
lie Ida Hill counterfeiter. On Saturday night, Amos
Haght invited him to take part with them making
fhe CON. He exhibited to him ali the apparatus, and
him as to its use. lump of base metal
weighing several pounds was melted, run into mods
ten, twenty-five and fifty cent pieces,
and galvanized. The woman and son took part In the
operations and were quite "a expert az the father aud
his Ida Hill sccomphce. The COINS after coming from
the molds were rough upon the edges and imperfect.
There was machice for smoothing them and bringing
out their fesures and this the womaus business.
SsAford-or Baker a. he represented himself TO be-
bought quantity Of the bogus stuff paid for it, and
took it to his official comrades Yesterday he was IN
company with the counterfeters most Of the tie and
with them visited Ids Hill and ascertaned where some
apparatus was he had lot before seen.
AL things being ready this morning, at o'clock,
the officers proceeded 10 make the arrests. They
found the Hsights in bed and msy well be supposed
that they were considerably aston shed T. learn their
quandom accomphce stood to them as the stern agent
Of the laws they had violated. Their rags on account
of the deception practised on them, ana their shame
because they had been 80 shrewdy tricked, un-
bounded. complete search Of the premises resulted
In the seizure of finished and unfinished coin than
strong could lift, and Of the apparatus we have
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house on Ida Hill. In the pocket of her dress, the
won an had several hundred dollars 10 bogus and
altered bills and some base coin.
HAight was helper clerk IN the store OF FRANCIS A.
Fses River street, and has heretofore borne pass
ably good character CAN'T and his wife have long
been known as engaged in the counterfeit business.
They mixed up in the Morgan l.. brown affair,
and at that time letter written by him to an
accomplce in New York, informing him OF the danger
Of arrest and advising him to destroy all the queer
in his possession One Of the presses belonged Syl
vanus III. Reynolds, the West Troy couueTeiter, who
escaped some time siLce from the Coopefstowh jan,
and was arrested in NewYoik last week and returned
to his old quarters
1t Is easy 10 zee that this arrest is one Of very great
importance, az IL closes up one source IRON which
vast amount of bogus currency has issued 10 flood the
The officers worked their game exceed
ingy we'll and have TO be proud OF their sue
cess Orly great shrewdbess could have entrapped
rascas 70 expert and ia nar with all the dangers OF
their shameful vocation and the modes of escape from
them. Officer Stafford especially played dangerous
game In all probability his lie would have bsen tue
penalty at the hands OF the desperate men, had his
auphcty been discovered The whole community will
rejoice that a portion of the scoundrelly gang with
which this section of coantry has long been infested
are in far way Of receiving their deserts and 1t is TO
be hoped that many others Of that lk OF whose guilt
here is moral certainty, may soon be similarly en-
trapped We can very readily and uncompsiningly
meet the loss of score two of such characters.
It's well to remark that, while others have supposed
him honest the fact that the Haghts inside counter
fei, coin has not been nokpown 10 officers II was
revealed by man arrested LAST Winter, who had a
quantity in his boots purchased from them. But IN
hat case Judge Hall held that the mere possession OF
coin was not sufficient TO warrant CONVICTION. FOR
hat reason il was deemed beet TO postpone the arrest
lptil come further facts had been brought Ia light II
would have been accomplished in a few days, in any
event