The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-06
a Daring Financial OperatIon...A
FOrger' OF s5O,OOO Overhauled.-.A

A Daring Financial OperatIOn...A
Forger' OF S5O;OOO OVerhauled.-.A
Bridal Tour Broken Up.
From Gte Philadelphia InQtaireT of St1ttiydEav.
Last Monday our reporters were in
possession of Information RELATING. TO a
daring fraud perpetrated upon the
United States Treasury, which, at the
request of Government officials, for the
turtherance of the ends of Justice, was
silently suppressed, in accordance with
the general policy of the Inquirer. As
no further Necessity for secresy re-
MAINS the fqll facts are now presented.
Some days ago a sharper, by repre-
senting himself as A. r. Allen, pur-
ser In the navy, succeeded in obtaining
a draft on the Treasury for the amount
of fifty thousand dollars, to which the
genuine signatures of the Secretary of
the Navy, and all the officers Of the
Treasury Department., through whose
hands such matters generally pass,
were attached. The rogue then had the
dratt made payable at the sub-treasury
at atRhtladelphia, and deposited it. to-
gether with s. 900 i'm currency, in the
First National Bank of Philadelphia,
and on the next day checked out the
whole amount and left for parts mn
known. The swindle was first dis
covered In the office OF the Fourth Au-
ditorg where Purser "A. r. Allen was
known, and lit being matter. of suf-
prise that he should require SO much
money, he was written 20, whereupon
the fraud was discovered. The draft
was obtained from the Navy Depart
msnt by means of forged regulations,
and SO well were all the minute details
arranged, that the officials We're unable
toundetstand how the peFpetratorob
tained his knowledge of the requisite
mindtim. sqd -sfifs 2 = 7.lGI7l 49,
For several days the detectives were
AZ tault on the scent, but yesterday De-
tsctiye Slemm ''hagged the game. !"
The offender, VIM. Rtnggold Cooper,
alias A. r. Allen, was arrested in the
afternoon train rom Baltimore, at the
Baltimore depot, sat Broad and Prime
streets, under circumstance peculiarly
delicate and distressing. He had mar
ried that morning in Baltimore, a
IL, residing in that city. lThev were ON
their bridal tour, attended by q CAV
and happy escort OF bridesmaids and
groomsmenS TO New York CITY. from
whence the newly welded pair were to
san 5! 20. EngQpe. The startling shock to
tine Joyous hopes OF the bride may be
Imagined, but not described. She was
4 upper sec ton OF our city, while her nm
worthy husband was removed by the
officers of the law. p
tiNeafly all the stolen funds were re-
eoYeren from his person in the form OF
Qntted 81 tstes i've twenty bonds.
After Q private hearing before United
states Commissioner Sergeant; in Che
mayors otice, he was allowed a short
visit to his atfiieted wife. -He has been
held for adnrther hearing on Saturday
4 Meanwhile, he Is Imprisoned within the
p9nderous walls of 1Ioyamensinh
prison s-5;illsis Il s =
LoNeRyIrY. The morality returns
OF England for 1884 show tlSat in fl,,t
year g OF the men who leiieT and n ~
the women bad reached one hundred
YelfasOt age or upwards, one woman
dying at Hos aud one man at IO9. OF
these very aged people London haf5f "a