New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-17
|0CAL INTELLIGENCE.

hi THAT GLITTERS Is NOT GOLD lars
aaoaa Gold made Of Bross.-Friday
n a search warrant was issued and
lin the hands of Messrs. Pecora and
who not long after proceeded to No.
hams street where, the learned search
nj supposed, were hidden eighty-three
drecious gold. The premises were
i by the specials, who made known
lelicato but immense business, and
slgbty.three bars Of solid gold gently
,5aed-worth only 100000. Of course
kslEd, Manuel Romero, protested that
o:s.aed no gold, no wealth, no nothing;
no Hkee you no rakee me. But the
rotFo officers, well backed, was not
stayed by the persuasive lingo of g
Ne spaniard. Pounds on pounds Of
nuggets were under that roof and
i be secured, for a few months ago a
trta in Mexico had been robbed Of
1ahing like million of dollars, and
steward of $4,000 had been offered.
ai1l offer, open to all experts, and
not New Orleans officials get agreasing
Manuel was made prisoner in his
castle, while the search warrant was
hunting up these eighty-three bars Of
hing metal Of course the search war
Owed its nose into an old trunk, where
sanctively smelled the precious stuff,
amopening the box a scene of daz.
slender was spread before them.
h IN the recesses of that trunk lay
sands and thousands of dollars in native
and with the indubitable stamp which
NJ the detectives that the rich Mexican
vas at last within their grasp ana
gold is good, good enough for the
ne. Step by step they advanced il
hbor of justice; link after link in tbs
devidence against the criminals wai
"a until secure of their prize, they
bed out their hands and grappled it,
saeh grapple nothing but a lot o
bars Of metal not worth its weight in
We, like Camp street paper
plng ahead Of transactions. The off
having secured the lucre under the
aHt6elief that they possessed the simol
made great haste to their chiefs office
hen Ia the consciousness that a hug
81 business had been transacted tina
brewer immortalize them, they SET
inwn to drinks Office water all around
criminal Romero saw his wealth, pre-
through brigandage in the Montezu
country, in the hands of law.oficer;
then himself locked up as a felon-o
sss.:!!..!!ss-:, . The light Of yesterday blaste
As golden visions, for, after many doubt
queries it leaked out that the Mexics
xss only poor composition, and nc
d tie cab hire that it cost. The last "
ei the charmless bars they were lyin
around the floor of Reoorder Neville
How are you, gold bars?
ont these nuggets: Sharpers in certai
Manufactured a few hundred of thel
had one genuine bar. This good OF
salea in their pockets while half
q Of the spurious mysteriously covere
box they took to a rich old fence
ing him the real, and asking fair a
on the lot-supposed to have bee
a-smplore utter secrecy, brit no soon
he greenbacks in the sharpers' fnge
hey ohuckle, laugh, and grow vel
ia the ''fence' thinking of his iii
"a oil the thieves, grows fat too, uni
ia miser's joy inspects his purchas
than he grows very lean and thin, b.
e 10 remedy.
Is ON Imposition that this same lit
e vas tried here, and that is probab
way which our detectives became
Fe to secure so huge prize as was
ed-tor the memory of that Mexic
aery still cents the air with a reward
90. Manuel Romero was in the pari
On yesterday, and that perhaps was I
esheF wrong; for if not guilty of havi
bars, probably he would soon ha
pOssessor Of several had he be
b his financial calculations.