New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-02
Crime in New York state.


The twenty-frst annual report Of the New York
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'oh'ail9 sunni eAHaofalnary accounts Oh la"le5s
ness and crime. After showing that, through the
negligence of the officers Of the law. criminals
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collected SO that only twenty-five per cent. of
those who were indicted were triad. eiobteen ner
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cent confessed theH gult f0rty-Ope per cent.
forfeited their recognizances, amounting in the ag-
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LeHV'9Ieu -tue IepoIt PIoCteu5 W give sOHIe
tart!ing facts:
Last fall there was a robbery every nirbt in
Lewis county for month a universal sense of
danger and insecurity settled. like heavy cloud.
over the whole community, AT length. four men
were arrested two of whom, being in iall at the
time Of our visit we recognized as exnart New
York thieves. whom we had seen before in the
Tombs aEd on Blackwel's Island. From the
moment of the arrest of the depredatOrs the
robberies ceased and the pe0ple felt secure once
more.
a treasury note of the government was conn
terfeied with consummate skill, and it became "a
matter of vital importance to obtain the plate
from which the counterfeit was printed, One of
the most successful detectives was EMPLOYED 10
work up the case who soon found that the cost
! of securing it would be so great that there was
accounts.
He therefore told the government that the
| cost would be so great that he declined to under
take it; but the possession of the plate and the
| information that its capture would give were So
exceedingly important that the detective was au-
thorized to 90 on with it, He did so. the plate
| was obtained, all the information sought for was
procured and the couute,teters and their abet-
| tors were captured But it cost the government
| one hundred and twenty thousand dollars to ac-
| complish the result. There were regular vouchers
for every payment, and each was carefully scru
tini1ed and verified. There was no doubt what
ever that all the expenditures had been made in
good faith and with the utmost economy. Doubt
less the government felt that the possession of
that plate and the knowledge gained were worth
all they had cost.
While we were inspecting the jail at Orleans
county, gentleman left a horse and buggy worth
eight hundred dollars tied to post in the village of
Albion. When he came ont of the bank they were
gone, and no one could tell him where they were.
He sent off messengers in several directions but
their search was made without any theory to guide
them, and was, of course unsuccessful. After tae
lapse of week farmer in the country called an.
on the loser and advised him to offer large reward
for the recovery of the property. He acCeded to
the proposal, and as soon as the handbis could be
printed, they were dispersed in all directions offer.
ing the reward. The next day the farmer who had
given him the advice brought the horse and buggy
and claimed the reward. He said that stranger
had left it with him to keep promising TO call for
it in few days. The feelings of the losep when
the demand was made and this story was tolA We're
such that, though imagination may conceive Ian.
guage cannot give them utteranee.
During the fall of the present year several very
daring burglares and rohberi9s.were committed
in Poughkeepse and other parts of Dutchess
county, The policemen OF PoGghkeepsie bestired
} themselves vigorously to find the guilty parties