The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-02-16
From the NJ Y. Tribune, FEB s.
STARTLING DISCLOSURES OF FRAUD.

Hoe our Quotas hare been FHlcd-Boua
ty ,Swindling on Grand Scale Th,
soork Of United States Detectire-
Gen.Fy's Change OF. figures Justified
A large haul Of Bounty Brokers ana
Jumpers.
The silent, and until last night, almost
unheard OF operations of Col Baker, the
United States detective, who has for sew
eral weeks engaged in the business Of
bringing to light the vast machinery Of
bounty swindling and forged enlistments
which have furnished our City and State
as we'll as other localities in smaller de.
gree, with large proportion of their mil
itary quotas for many months, have al
last eliminated in educing indubitable
evidence of probably one Of the most stu
pendous and heretofore successful swim
dies that has ever disgraced the annals of
this or any other country.
Col. Baker (who will be remembered
as having acted so prominent and efficient
part in the recent exposure of enlist
ment frauds in Harrisburg, Pa.) }, arrived
in this city three weeks ago, under the
immediate orders of Provost Marshal
General Fry, in order to make the neces-
sary arrests and procure such evidence as
would convict the principal ringleaders
in the wholesale system of bounty SWIM
ding and forging in ouAmidst.
The fact that there has been something
wrong in this enlistment business has
been known to the authorities for a long
time, and several Intellectual attempts have
been made to ferret out the chief actors
No longer ago than last Summer General
Dix, it will be remembered, made an un-
successful raid upon them. He succeed
ed in arresting some men, and confning
them to Governors Island, but the Sc
crcsy Of his detectives was not great. the
alarm of the investigation was speedily
telegraphed from gang to gang of those
engaged in the frauds, which prevented
the procuring of the requisite proofs, and
the honest intentions Of our Commandant
we're foiled in the discharge of the few
rascals who had been secured.
The Provost Marshal General, conf
dent that enormous frauds had been and
were constantly being committed, resolved
to follow up the hunt till the baffied game
should drop in their tracks at last, and
accordingly sent Col. Baker to New Y ork
as before stated.
After three weeks Of indefatigable re-
search and almost incredible secrecy, the
Colonel has secured 81 of the most prom.
inent bounty brokers, bounty-jumpers and
unfaithful officials, who are now either in
the Old Capitol prison at Washington, Oh
their way thither, or in his immediate
custody with the same destination in store
for them.
NAMES OF THE ERREsTED PARTIES.
The following are the names of somC
of the parties arrested.
William TURNER, Assistant Chief CLERK
at the Naval Rendezvous in Brooklyn, (;
friend of John Doylin, in whose company
| he was when arrested.
John Devlin, substitute broker, In
ternal Revenue Assessor in Brooklyn, ant
Notary Public; plumber by trade, VIII
has made sixty thousand dollars in tn
forging of enlistment papers during las
Summer.
James Devlin, a substitute broker, bu
rather runner for his brother, Joh
Deylin. They are both married men, an
reside at No. l2S Hudson-avenue, Brook
lyn.
James Cahil, also married man, i
the brokerage business with James DeN
lin as a guiding star.
/ Richard Carron of No. sc White-st.,
French CANADIAN, an enlisted man, an
deserter himself; has been in the bus
ness here for about eighteen months, an
) is, to quote the language of Col. Bake
'without exception, the most preciou
rascal | ever had any knowledge Of"
Sergeants Keeckan, Mulborn and Brow
all in the United States service, and #
! long time lueratively employed in &c
ting bounty jumpers off Governors an
Hart's Islands for consideration fro
the hands of brokers operating in IL
city.
THE MODE OF sWINDLING.
The most important swindler thus f
arrested is the Chief Clerk of the Broo
lyn Naval Rendezvous, which is locate
v near the entrance to the Navy Yard
s Upon being secretly arrested, and broug
v into the presence of Col. Baker, at }
: -ooms in the Astor House, the prison
assumed an air of injured innocence, b