The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-19
NCH MINT BROKEN UP-AN OLD MAN POIS
ROBBED AND BURIKD ALIVE.

n onANVn AINT bHOkEN UP-AN OLD MAN POISONED
ROBBED AND BURIKD ALIVE.
From the Chicago Tribune, Nov. 1871
IN Monday night posse OF officers, United States Dcpu
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facture OF bogus money-chefy silver coin.
These men constituted nest of counterfeers broken
up ut Cordova, in Rock Island county the Mississippi
river eighteen miles above Rock Island Saturday night
and brought thence 10 the city OF Rock sand where
they passed the Sabbath.
The officers having got things In proper TRIM went up
rom Rock Island Saturday afternoon TO Cordova and
that night after sharp management succeeded by
sharp fght found their birds busy at their bogus work
md caught them in the act taking possession Of their
tire outfit Of tools, &c. &C. The persons arrested are as
Timothy /. Bgclow, a man 60 years old, who has a
family consisting Of wife and several Children and who
has been resident Of the county for the last Ave years
He lived about mile and half this side OF Cordova,
the bank Of the river, and has sometimes lived on the
island in the river.
Chester G. Clark aged rs or %, who is said TO have
come from Michigan, and had been with Bgeow two or
three years.
James Smith, aged 20 or % years, formerly an en-
ploye the NJ N. Railroad and lately the keeper Of a
house Of Ill fame in Cordova 1t is said that Smith
from New Hampshire, lived while in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
and had kept the serb" in Cordova only short time
The old man B9elow and Clark said to be accom-
plished engravcrs, and expert countereiters Bgeow
has served term or two in the penitenuary
The kit OF tools We examined yesterday afternoon at
Captain Bradleys Office on Randolph street and it would
appear that they had most complete and perfect set of
dies TOOLS presses &C., and everything necessary for the
silver from five cents 70 500 They had on hand in an
unfinished state some $500 Of their gold COINS and bag
Of their fifty and twenty five cent pieces.
The clue 10 these operators gained, learn, by
means Of some Of the at Galesburg, Knox
y last year, and since that time Mr. Bradley has been
on the scent II will be readily believed in these times
that it was no easy job to lind in this region who
was making money, but these Cordova operators have
been found very busy filling order for thousand
dollars In CON- given by Of the detectives The men
fought like lions, but were overpowered.
Bgelow, now in Jail here, of this party think
he has been poisoned by Of his confederaes. He
In poor health and seems quxe detected "Ahn says he,
q" thought was smart enough for em, but they have got
me at last"
The story told by this old Of the attempt upon his
life is OF the most remarkable in the annals OF crime
OF the truth Of the same he bears his person unms
takeabe tokens that go to attest the He that in
May last he started to down the river to New Orleans
that he stopped on an island with of his confedc
rates He then had his person 81 900 gold in belt
and gold watch and chain valued ut $780, They mixed
his liquor with something that stupeted him. probably,
as they believed killed him. What next he knew was
when he recovered his faculties and found himself in
darkness pressed down with heavy weight. With long
and labor he released himself and found himself
alone the island well nigh Naked and robbed of all his
vauabes. The cowardy wretches, his would be murder
ers had actually buried him alive beneath heap OF logs
and brushwood. The old man is q perfect wreck, and
can scarcely walk rod without support.
The whole party with their tools, and the against
hem will before the United States Court for the speedy
and inevitable result that awaits it.