Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-08-08
Arrested for Counteifeiting.

Arrested for Counteifeiting.
On Thursday of last week, a Deputy U. S.
Marshal for the Northern District, arrested
Dwight Faulkner, Milo Thornton and Mira
Woodwork, of Dorset and Cherry Valley, and
Mason Baker, William G, Sharp, and Geo. w.
Lockwood, of Ashtabula, on charge of pass
ing counterfeit money of various kinds. They
were taken to Cleveland, and the cases are now
being examined. AS far as reported, Dwight
Faulkner had been arrested upon the assertion
of Sharp, that he showed more of that kind
of money than any man in the county" This
seems to be the amount of evidence against
him and it appears not TO have produced
much affect for the officer permitted him to
proceed to Cleveland alone !; and after exami-
nation, he was held in his ownreeogniZance in
81, 900. Thornton was required to give bail
for 100000 which he failed to produce. Ba-
kcr is held on 5000 ball. for his appearance
Lockwood, who is Thornton's son.in-law, is
do not know any of the particulars of this
case, beyond what We have given; nor is there
any reliable information beyond this The be-
lief with his neighbors seems pretty well set
tled that Faulkner is free from any connection
with this set, and that there is nothing against
him beyond the implication involved in what
Sharp said of him. He was in a much more
profitable business than passing spurious
money.
CLEVELAND, August Sd, 1868
DWIGHT FAULKNER, ESQ.
Deitr Sir Il took your own re-
oogniZance to appear before me next Saturday
The evidence in the other cases of counterfeit
ing from your county is all substantially be-
fore me, and take great pleasure in saying,
that you need not appear again.
There is not tie letst ~aGOo,o Of erideace a.
gaiist yoU, nor the slightest suspicion u. mn
mind, or in that of any United States Officer,
that You have had anything to do with coun-
terfeiting or counterieiters. Your arrest was
caused by false information, or rather 1 should
say, by misunderstanding of information.
Yours, etc. !B. WHITE, s.i=gg !
s;s la9i. us. Comm. North. Dist
most chccrfully add to the statements a.
bOye made by the U. S. Commissioner, that
had the facts and circumstances which are now
konwn, been brought to the knowledge of the
Z. s. Officers, before the arrest of Mr.. Faulb-
ner, no warrant would have been issued as a.
gainst him. WM. n BUNTs,
Asst L. S. Dist. Attorney.
Baker and Sharp have each been put under
bonds-thc first of $3,500, and the last of 81
500 to appear before the next coart for trial
Raker fonnd honds,,ini, ip bic br,fI,nr n NJ
Andrews and VIM. Humphrey, and is at large
Sharp, we believe, is in durancc.
Milo Thornton has been held to bail in the
sum of $1,000, in default of which he was sent
to jaiL Myra Woodwork was discharged.
,
The station agent at Conneaut, S. E. Bough-
ton, has retired from a position that he mas
held for some sixteen years. His successor is
A. E. Reynolds
SMASH UP.--The Jefferson overland hack
was standing before the express office on Fri
day afternoon receiving its traps and calami-
tics preparatory to a start for the centre, when
by the dropping of a package at the heels of
the team, Jehu! the old plugs started with all
the friskincss and velocity of colts and made
directly for the open door of the Farmers
National Bank, but the entrance was found to
be TOO straight for two-horse establishment,
so dumping the bodyo of the hack, they turned
and made suniry gymnastics down bank alley,
round Hall place. and the old brewery, until
they strewed things generally, found their bot
tom, without hurting anybody or themselves.