Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-11-22
LOCAL AEF AIN -,

ATTENrT TO DEFRAUD THE GOVERNMENT.
Yesterday afternoon at three U'clncE Bar;hH. j.
Dregeen, clerk in the Second Auditors ONCE,
William Rabe, a claim agent Of this city, and
llarman GOssman, of Philadelphia. were brought
before Ju. tice r. q. Clayton, where they had
hearing on the charge Of fcloniouHiy 'onsiirlns
to defIand tho United States out OF n large amount
uf money From all the facts in the case It Ap-
pears thut Dreseen, who Is employed as c.'ik
In the Second Auditors office, had charge OF the
papers known in the Treasury Department as the
I'd. X. - papers, which are the copies ot tie
claims Of deceased soldier, and which have been
fOund correct aud waiting uutl the relatives or
friends shall file their claims and receive the
money.
nrgsecn was to take from the office these papers
and send them to Go.smau, in Philadciphiai hy
" hom the dG plicates aud elaine would be made
out he forging the name Of somn ralRtlSe ana
swearing to the papers, aud then send me talSs
papers sworn to to this city to Iabe, who was 10
have them presented at the Pay ma Ncr General
Offcc fOr payment Tho orig'nSi paper ""h'u
be again rept to DTeEecu, and hy him replaced on
lle Ia the Treasury Department, so ihat when the
claim was presented the papers would appear to
be all ght.
The Ar,t Information that the officer. received
Of tho fraud was a few days ago, wE"n hahc
called Mt the office Of MeE.rs Lowenthal, LsIhury
& Go. with papers In cases "f doc~n-~d s"'d'er-,
and "ferGd thom 81 per ccut. I" collect the
amount This offer aroused tue su~p.ciODs Hf
Messrs Lowenthal Ca, and they stated Il 9
facts to the Hon. J. n, BTodhecd, Secoud Comp
tr1llcr Uf the Treasury ai'or which they got
possession OF the papers by advancing uh' hum
drCd dollars to hgb" Tho papers We're iiiru
taken to Mr. Brodhead, sGl afl,r eXaniuatlOn
it was evident that somc'l!ng was wrong,
Mr.. WIN. ?. Wood, chief vt t'u detective force
Of tho Treasury Department, Immediately began
to investigate the case, and II wHs sUun aACer-
taihcd that DrcpCeu wa one Of the parties. Let
ters were found which had passed brtwCon GOss-
man aud the parties here, stating that he must
have some money to get the claims after the
papers were T. c"ived.
On Friday last, DreScen and Rabe wee ar.
rested In this city; after which Nj Wood pro-
ceeded to Philadelphia, where he succeeded in
finding Gossman On Monday.
Yesterday pfteTlOOn the examination was held
before Justice Clayton, whom Hon. Z. u. FrOncE
Identified the papers rs having been stolen from
the Treasury department, aud stated, II they
had succeeded IN their undertaking, they would
have defIaudGd the Government out Of more
than milnbn Of dollars
Mr. Wood testified to arresiing tho parties
and finding letters which had passed bctW ecu
GOssnan and Rabe as to the stolen papers.
Before leaving the uGiGe Of JUsti, OtCiayton,
Gnssman, Rabe and Drese0n each made IL wit,
ton confession to Mr.. French, hoping thereby to
get of. Dressecn was to steal the paperS from
the Department, GOssman was to forge names
aud prepare claims. while Rabe was 10 attend to
having them collected, Drcssen Is said to have
beon iu tho army, aud has beeu employed in the
S,cOad AUDITORS office about two months
About eleven cases had boon taken out of tho
Department aud sent to GOssman TO commence
with. Mr.. Wood succeeded in recovering AL the
stolen papers.
Justice Clayton, after hearing all the evidence,
committed DrCgCen to jail for court in default Of
Si6,000 bail Gossman and Rabo in default Of
$40, 900 bail.
Nathaniel Wilson, Esq, Assistant District At.
torney, appeared for The Government.
NATIONAL EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
The association met last evening al 2S3 street,
A. NJ. Oaugewer iu the chair, and D. NJ kel'ey
secretary pro. tenn. Mr.. Kelsey, for the Com.
mlttee on Correspondence, reported the follow
ing resolutions, which were adopted
RrSOirsd, That the core pondiug secretary be
directed to forward to one citizen Of each State
known to him a. favorable to the policy which
this usspclali0n Is formed to support, cory Ut
| our constitution, aud to request the gentlemen
| whom he may address to apply thAmselTos pnr-
sonAlY to the work Of organizing unX'liary as
soGiations In their several States, or to procure
that work to be done by some other suitable
person.
| ReSoirsd, That the executive committee Of this
| Association be instructed to tako snch measures
as may be necessary to secure II possible, It
hNa ring before II committee Of Congress- upon the
| various petitions which shall be presented TO It
In behalf Of equal suffrage in the District Of Co.
lumbu.
| J. s Brown. from the Committee on Plan Of
| Operations recommended tho appuin Im"nt of q
! committee Of three to raise funds for the OK
pcuses Of the campaign.
II was further resolved that a petition he pro-
| pared aud calculated for general signatures in
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| tue right Of suffrage, aud II committee was ar.
pointed to procure the publication and general
| CirCu alton of the speech Of Governor Hahn, OF
| Louisiana.
FIRE-Ths afternoon about two o'clock
Are was di,cuyered In the drug HtDr" "r MI Ino.
| l. Kidwell, near the corner Of Fourteenth street
and Pennsylvania avrnUc, The alarm was
sounded from box Al, ut Wllards' Hotel, ADD
the engines were promptly cut. Tho i!anes wero
extinguished before much damage was done.
The damage was whally by water aud is ctu
mated at from 81, 900 to $1,000,
CHARGE OF ROBBERY. morning n llan
named John seymour was arr0alod at the sixth
/ street wharf, IN board the htra meg Vanderbilt
which had lust arrived from Aqu!a creek, on tho
| charge Of being concerned IN = robbery in Ech-
| moud. when arrested by tho officer Seymour
threw something overheard, but II was fshrd mp,
when It was found tU be valuable gold watch
and chain, in glove where he had placed it be