The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-31

IMPORTANT ARREST OF A DEALER IN
COUNTERPART MoNEY.-Ca Captain Stephen d. Frank
lin, connected with the secret service of the
Treasury Department has Just made a very i'm
portant arrest in this city of a notorious and
well-known dealer in counterfeit United States
currency. The prisoner Is named Joseph Cook,
is about thirty years of age, and the son of the
publisher of paper in one of the counties OF
this State. Captain Franklin has been on the
trail after Cook since last Friday week, when he
was first detected IN circulating counterfeit OF
the new issue OF the long green twenty-five cent
notes. He has been watched from day to day
by Officer Franklin, who deferred making the
arrest until the prisoner could be caught
with the evidence of his own guilt in
his possession. Finally he was observed to
enter the Post Office, aud made his
appearance at the desk of the registry clerk,
where lie handed package to be forwarded by
mail to certain party In New York. Captain
Franklin watched his chance, jumped into the
Office, and with one hand seized Cook by the
throat, and with the other grabbed the package.
Quite CONSERVATION was created In the Post
Office, but the willy officer explained the whole
mystery by breaking oQen the package and
exposing 10 the clerks and others no less than
two hundredfcounterfeit fifty cent notes. THIS
bogus money Cook was sending t. New York,
where il would be sold at the rate of one dollar
for half that amount The good money would
be forwarded to Cook under the name of Webb,
he being known to the Post. .Oflice,clerks by this
name. The prisoner had hearing before United
States Commissioner Smith yesterday, and was
Captain Franklin, after arresting hls prisoner,
took him TO the Central Police Station, and
divested him of his personal effects. Among
other things found on him was a diary In which
he kept minute account of his expenses. A list
of all the names of the Philadelphia detectives,
or "hy cops" as he had written, was inscribed
on one leaf. He had also a number OF blank
checks, and several "dead-headn posses over
railroads, which had been obtained on account
of the paper of which he was proprietor. He
had also two heavily loaded pistols, which he no
doubt would have used had he not been so sud-
denly surprised.
From kind o. will written in lead pencil in
the last few leaves of the diary, the prisoner
must have been engaged in the ten cent show
business. The will for such it was intended to
be, is quite novel, and we give it verbatim to
our readers:-
To Whom 6 may COncern:-As expect to die
suddenly. away from home and as 1 may not be
known light away, therefore annex few remarks.
II i should die in Philadelphia / want my Miss
Helen r. c., who lives at No. 1913 -
street, TO be informed Immediately after my DEATH
She will have my corpse sent my parents Allen
town, Pa. My money and effects will be gwen to
her condition that she returns home to her
and leads better life otherwise they to be given
to my parents. Inform Helen that L want her to
lead better life than she has else cannot rest
in my grave will haunt her, # IN my power,
until she leads decent life, and quits living lie of
iDlamy. My love and q. !ong farewell TO her, my
JOE Cook,
Circus Agent and Snowman
Between the leaves of the diary on the next
page to where was scrubbed the above, was a
small package OF corrosive sublimate a poison.
The prisoner no doubt intended to destroy him
self If ever he got into tight place with the
authorities, and this is probably his explanation
OF expecting to die suddenly" He was how
ever frustrated in carrying out his design, if
such it was, as Captain Franklin is too shrewd
to allow his prisoners to be locked up without
first relieving them of all their effects.