The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1870-05-18

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Country Gentleman.
Forgery-Head Clerk Treas
ury Department in Limbo.
The Columbia Phoenix says that
one Of the most cunningly de-
viscd, villiauous and daring
schemes of rascality was recently
disclosed in Columbia W. W.
Sampson, head clerk of the State
Treasury Department, and one
Captain Metcalf, late Of the Uni
ted States army, and who figured
extensively in South Carolina at
the close Of the war as command
ant Of the Post at Abbcville, Beau
fort, and other parts Of the State,
arc the guilty parties, so far as
discovered. The facts Of the case,
as VIC learn them, are as follows {:
The State, in 1859, issued bonds
payable in five years, 10 the a.
mount of $4,000, in aid of the
Blue Ridge Railroad. The bonds
were taken by the Blue Ridge
Railroad Company at par, to be
used by them in the construction
Of their road. 4 number Of these
bonds, which had not been used,
were stolen by raiding party of
Federal soldiers, which passed
through Pendleton, S. c., about
the close Of the war. In 1866,
two years after said bonds became
due, the Legislature passed an act
authorizing the funding Of past
due bonds and the coupons thereon.
Under this act it was ascertained,
in 1867, by the present President
Of the Blue Ridge Railroad, Gen.
J. W. Harrison, that the identical
bonds stolen in Pcndleton had
been funded, having probably
been sold to some innocent parties
at the North ; but large amount
of the coupons were not presented
to be funded. living free access
to the books, Sampson was ena-
blcd to find ont precisely what
coupons were missing and, pro-
cecding upon this knowledge, he
and Metcalf concoctcd sweet
little plan of approoriating some
s42, 900 and if successful, there is
no telling to what extent they
may have carried their thicvish
propcnsitics.
Sampson, as clerk OF the Treas
ury, sends On genuine coupon to
printing house in Auburn, \. Y,
where Mctcalf now lives, and Or
ders fac smiles struck of, TO the
amount of $4,000. The genuine
coupon being merely stereotyped
was easily counterfelted; but the
printing house in Auburn suspect
ing something to be amiss, repor-
ted the matter to the detectives
in New York city, and they to
Constable Hubbard here. Plans
for their detection were at once
set on foot, letters were intercept
ted, a large batch Of the forged
coupons seized while in transltlu
between Sampson and Metcalf,
and yesterday, having obtained
such unquestionable evidence Of
the guilt of the parties, Hubbard
arrested Sampson here, and at the
same time Metcalf Was arrested
in Auburn. Sampson is now in
iail, and bail to the amount Of
$4,000 being required for his re-
lease, will probably remain there
till the time of trial. We have it
from good authority that the init
aations arc that more persons in
and about the capital than W. W.
Sampson arc implicated in his
crimo.
"God save the State r'
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