New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-25
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FLOOD OF NEW COUNTERFEITS

AN EXTRAORDINARY "SHoTE' BY THE STUF-
FERs. ."--7 Thousands of Dollars of The Coesntefelts
shoved off, and Sere's of the Suffers Arrested
The best organized and most audacous attempt
to flood this community with counterfeit paper
money that we ever heard Of, was perpetrated
on Saturday evening, between the hours OF and
0 O'clock
All our information shows that a regularly
organized gang, with their pockets filled with
counterfeit bills Ctwentics, on the Bank of New
OrIcans,) scattered themselves about town, and at
or about the hour of T. began the operation of
"shovng," or "stui1ing," as the police call it
that is, making small purchases, and getting good
change for the counterfeit $40 bills offered
We were on St. Charles street on Saturday night,
when the news of the counterfeiters wholesale at
tack began to be known The panic was great.
Some had received the bills, others had refused
them and the news of the thing, though spread
only by word of mouth riVaed the telegraph IN the
| speed with which it generally became known. The
bills offered at hotels, restaurants, coffee
houses theaters Cor at least the Academy of Music)
confectoners, clothing stores shoe stores and all
other places where at the hour, it was legitimate to
| make small purchase and offer $40 bill in pay
| ment. A great many persons were victimized
| number escaped because they had not change to
| give; and few refused the notes because they
suspected them from the manner in which they
were offered whilst still smaller few detected the
| bills as counterfeits, and spread the alarm among
their friends and to the police.
| The police got after the Suffers" and up to
| yesterday afternoon had succeeded in capturing
seven of them. Yesterday morning, at the First
District lookup (the Sunday papers having re-
ported the arrest Of two of the suffers the hold
| ers of the bad bills amounted almost to a mob
each man with his bad bill, anxious to see the
prisoners, and if possible to identify which prisoner
| had victimized him. The Chief of Police and his
officers accommodated all these visitors. few
| recognized the other of the prisoners as his
| encmy the great mass failed to identify either.
About fifty gentlemen, including men in different
lines of business from the lessee of the ST. Charles
Hotel down to poor Dutch shoemaker, visited
the lookup with counterfeits in their pockets,
and eyes anxious to see the two prisoners whose
arrest had been published.
The counterfeits are well initiated in the en-
craving, and the signatures as well initiated with
the pen. But the tneness and shade of the en-
craving and the quality of the paper, show that
the bills are from the same manufactory as that
grist of tens on the Citizens Bank which deceived
the town SO badly some time ago. The ink of the
signatures SHOWS through Oh lue udCh Vi tile GpuL
terfeits, whilst on the genuine bills it does not.
Seven of the ''stuterso have so far been arrested
by the police fact showing how great was the
panic on Saturday night and how well the police
| eXerted themselves then and since
Capt. j. T. Morton, formerly captain of the
steamer DR.. Burlington; arrested on Saturday
night by Chief McClelland and special officer
Howard He confessed his guilt in passing the
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found large sum in the counterfeit twenties. To
officer Smith Isard he subsequently stated where
his carpet,bag could be found. 1sard went after
the bag as directed, and found it. 1t contained a
pound of sperm candles wrapped in paper, pa
per of gum-drops, neck-tie pair Of gloves, hand.
kerchief and other articles, all fresh and bran
new each plainly telling the story of bad bill
showed off for trfle. and good change received
Morton is said to be respectfully connected in this
city : has wife and children here and was ar.
rested last year on the charge of passing coun-
tereit bill, but got of because it could not be
proven that he passed the counterfeit knowingly.
Ross Shepherd, arrested the same night, by the
same officer, as accessory to the stuling by
; Capt Morton. Shepherd has for six or seven
years been suspected by the police here as boss
counterfciter, or wholesale dealer in counterfeit
money. The police tell US that several of hiS
stupid assistants in the retail way have done ant
are now doing TIE State some service at Bator
= Rouge.
S. NJ. Doane, arrested the same night, on Gravie
t. street, by Lieut., Boylan and his special officer
Miller, for attempting to pass one of the bills a
> Hollis cofaehouse.
Andrew Harrington, arrested the same night b,
y Officer Smith, on Cont street, for passing one Q
the bills. This man is said to be an old and noto
: rous rogue and dealer in counterfeit money.
IL Joseph Massey, arrested the same night on Oh
Levee street, by Officers Cheyalier and Farley, 70
| passing one of the bills.
e Joseph Miller, arrested yesterday on Rampal
> street. First District by Officer Dixon, for passin
IL one of the bills This man was released on bail.
e Henry Shuthers, arrested yesterday noon, in tn
o. Second District, by Chief McClelland, for attemp
e ing to pass one of the bills. This man brought u
% his employer to prove that he had received the bi
id in the way of wages, and the employer elaine
n. equal innocence
a We hear of the counterfeits having been oifere
re and in many Instances accepted, all the wa
,e from the Stock Landing down to the Third Di
"a trct and all between the hours of and on Sa
Is urday night; facr showing that the villainy WI
"a thoroughly organized, and that those arrested al
,e but small part of the gang who engaged in tt
business What will the counterGeiters try next?
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