Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-05-28
Wholesale Larceny Of Government
Stores and Supplies Sent by Aid So.
cieties and Sanitary Commissions
I From the Gin. Eag. AprR %, 1862.

From the Gin. Eag. april %, 1862.
The Government authorities Of this city
on yesterday received the developments
of wholesale larceny operation the par
allcl OF which surpasses in atroc,ty and wis
lainy any other that has come to light for
many months. exhibiting, as they do, that
an organized gang of plunderers arc at
work appropriating supplies and Govern
ment stores sent by willing and benevolent
hands 10 comfort and aid the sick and
wounded soldiers in the hospitals, and
the volunteer who on the battlefield is
exposed 10 privation and suffering and
fighting for his country, the Union and
Constitution. The particulars of this la
test villainy are in Substance rs follows
For many weeks, detectives and the police
have been advised that an unusual number
of packages of different kinds have passed
through this city en- route !or Sundry towns
in the North, and, taken in connection
with other information that supplies sent
forward had never reached their destina
tiOn the utmost viglence was at once lr~
stitute and the cooperation Of the Off
GERS in various parts of the State was So
licited in unrayeling the apparent myste.
ry.
Within a day or two the officers have
succeeded in unraveling a series Of most
/ outrageous frauds. Their suspicious were
aroused at Toledo on Wednesday last by
a large quantity Of boxes coming through
the express office from Lebanon, Ky. which
was believed to be property unlawiuIlY,
obtained. The person to whom the boxes,
trunks and parcels were directed and who
had previously received large consgn-
ments, was permitted to take one OF these
from the express office to his store house
in another portion of the city. There the
police seized this box and other packages,
and found them to contain clothing, hos
pital stores, provisions, &C., plainly indi.
Gated to have been obtained in the hosr
pital OF the army. At the Express office
the remaining boxes and packages were
opened and found to contain blankets,
drawers, stockings, &c.
Upon pursuing the investigation fur
ther four boxes and two trunks directed
to certain parties in Toledo were found in
the Dayton and Michigan freight depot.
All the boxes ana trunks were examined
and found to contain large quantity of
. Suspicious articles. Ono LoS woo hllod
with fine WOODEN shirts and drawers con-
trbuted by the Ladies' Aid Society and
sent to Lebanon. Another was filled with
saddles and harness. In others were
clothing such as only the sick and wound
ed in the hospitals could need, while in
several were luxuTics and hospital stores
which were furnished by the Government,
Sanitary Commission and tne Ladies' Aid
Society. Teas, coffee sugar, surgical in
struments, common table dcIcaCes and 4
heterogeneous mass of articles, which
must have been stolen at random, were
recovered. The Captors who constitute
an organized gang,are connected with the
army in various capacities and had for
warded their prizes to their friends in
this State. 4 man named Alfred w.
! Kinds, who went from Toledo to Lebanon
as a nurse and hospital steward, aud soor
after returned with largely accumulated
quantity of extras has been arrested
Kinds alleges that he purchased his prop
erty of DR.. Daniels, Surgeon of the l4th
Ohio Regiment, and on this statement
and other evidence dispatch has beer
forwarded and Daniels was arrested al
PiLtsburg yesterday. Kinds is in Jail in
Toledo in default of 1000. He will have
an examination before the Mayor oil Tole.
do on Monday.
At Lima about sixty-fve miles from
Toledo, the officers have secured ten tuns
of similar kind of property, upon which
there are railroad charges Of $500. The
authorities in this city are also in posses
sion of similar packages, but as the arrest
based upon the discoveries here have not
yet transpred we forbear going into par
tiCulars, except 20 say that the evidence
is positive that grand thieving combl'
nation has been in successful operation
for many months, and it is very evident
that the country and the soldiers have
been defrauded out Of vast amount, and
that large portion of the contributions
of the benevolent societies throughout
the country have served no other purpose
than to fill the pockets of certain individ-
uals, without ever reaching The soldiers
tor whom they were intended.
These discoveries indicate that it has
been customary for certain persons in
some way connected with the hospitals, to
steal whatever property they desired, both
from among the Government stores and
the contributions of the aid societies of
d Niit I'uhNi 'ohu hlN lOoS VI "a ho tICJ Nloh-
ed. The facts thus brought to light are
evidences Of the general system in which
matters are conducted IN connection with
the Government stores. The officers of
the Government will take immediate cog.
nizanco Of the matter, and warrants will
be issued for the arrest of any person hay
ing any and every connection with the af-
fair. Further developments of persons
in high position may be Immediately ex'
pected.
nsn. Lieutenant Governor Edward Sol.
omon who succeeded to :he gubernator-
ial chair of Wisconsin, on the death of
Governor Harvey, is the first German who
has occupied the guberpatoriai chair Of
any State in the Union.
reAp When the Federal army arrived at
Nashville, a Indy remarked. with much
acerbity, There goes the Northern cir
Gus" "Yes," exclaimed an aristocratic
mule driver, land our last performance
was at Fort Doneson.'